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by vivekd 10y ago
No snuff films are not legal and trying to scew that as crime scene evidence or documentary evidence to try and find the culprit is a logical leap so far fetched that I doubt your sincerity in having a rational discussion on this issue.
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by vivekd 10y ago
One of the points the article relies on is ego depletion which as a theory is coming into question because of issues with replication http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2016/07/31/en... The o
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by vivekd 10y ago
>(and within tech, I've noticed PR, marketing, other non STEM to be where the 'connected' get promoted). I think you hit on something important, this merit and skills based promotion is something unique to tech where there
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by vivekd 10y ago
So if someone were to go around kidnapping people's kids and torturing and murdering them, and film it, you think it should be totally legal and completely victimless for people to distribute those videos? I think you've lost tou
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by vivekd 10y ago
Who do you think consumes child porn? Pedophiles. Maybe you need evidence for that, but in the ordinary course of evaluation most people would agree that child porn is consumed by pedophiles. Gay pron is viewed largely by gay men to ful
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by vivekd 10y ago
That's ridiculous you can't demand citations for basic and obvious points. What you need research to tell you that child porn is made by pedophiles and encouraging pedophilic fantasies means more child porn?
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by vivekd 10y ago
>Distribution [of child porn] is a victimless crime that everyone stands up against due to copyright propaganda . That's foolish reasoning. The distribution network is what incentives the creation of child porn. People are making i
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by vivekd 10y ago
Yeah this is big in Zambia as well, in the form of privately owned vans. They had so many riders that the government built a big bus terminal for them and bus routes have become established just through free market mechanisms.
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by vivekd 10y ago
Well H1-b is for temporary foreign workers, so the restrictions would be on the companies hiring foreign workers rather than the immigrants themselves. Personally I think H1-b visas for lower end workers are just an excuse for companies wh
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by vivekd 10y ago
>In February, just two years shy of Mrs. Sato’s retirement, a manager had blunt news: “Your job no longer exists.” She refused to quit, and was dispatched to the chase-out room. Well of course there are going to be problems when you try
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by vivekd 10y ago
opinion columns might not be the best sources of news, here is another article by the NY times which gives a much more neutral review of its legality. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/us/politics/t
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by vivekd 10y ago
>An E.O. that conflicts with statute or the Constitution is not law, in fact, it a violation of the law. That's not up to the Attorney General to decide, that's up to the Supreme court to decide.
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by vivekd 10y ago
At the end of the day, it's their company and they can do whatever they like with it, including using it as a political soap box. It may turn away some investors and VCs but I don't think these founders really care. The only exce
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by vivekd 10y ago
Having the temporary immigration ban affect current temporary and permanent residents to the United States was pretty out of line with campaign promises. So was extending that ban if banned nations don't cooperate with United States (r
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by vivekd 10y ago
18 billion is the correct amount https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1C...
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by vivekd 10y ago
This is what I'm wondering about, can RNA meaningfully make proteins using an instruction manual that contains molecules that it doesn't recognize? The scientists created an organism with new DNA molecules but there is nothing in
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by vivekd 10y ago
I think a big part of it is anonymity encourages people to let out the worst aspects of their personality. I think if a forum required people to use their real identities you would see much less objectionable contact (but probably also a
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by vivekd 10y ago
Label it what you want, I'm glad that steps are taken to get rid of videos of girls being raped and murdered, there are limits to free speech, both legally speaking as well as philosophically speaking as well as in terms of values. Ne
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by vivekd 10y ago
So will this actually mean anything? Can adding extra letters to an organisms genetic code actually have the capacity to change it's attributes in any meaningful way. Every biological characteristic on the planet seems to have been a
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by vivekd 10y ago
well thank goodness we don't penalize innocent individuals for the abhorrent laws of their nation's governments - especially when many of those people come from nations in which the people have no say and no control over their gov
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by vivekd 10y ago
There is no final court order yet, there is a temporary stay and this order merely prohibits deportation, not the detention or turning away of immigrants coming in. This order is just one small step in what is going to be a long hard case.
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by vivekd 10y ago
The key phrases there are "until we can figure out what is going on" (suggesting temporary until congress can come up with a new immigration policy) and "entering the country" (not affecting current residents) also his
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by vivekd 10y ago
I was in favor of Trumps election campaign because I didn't think he would actually do anything like this. His position during the election was presented to me as a temporary moratorium on immigration from nations with ongoing conflic
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by vivekd 10y ago
Does this mean foreign students and foreign workers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen will have to leave America? That's really troubling. I wonder if Canada could step up and take the valuable human resource th
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by vivekd 10y ago
It can completely cure the cancer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotherapy#Efficacy
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by vivekd 10y ago
Yes, chemotherapy can and has cured cancer.
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by vivekd 10y ago
Just say yes you won't apply elsewhere and then apply elsewhere anyways. How are they going to know? Besides they can't enforce a contract like that in court because 1. there's no consideration 2. it's a contract in res
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by vivekd 10y ago
1. The bank was fined 1.9 billion dollars for that 2. The bank did not intentionally violate any laws, they just didn't properly monitor their wire transfers. . . That is very different from the intentional tax evasion being alleged in
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by vivekd 10y ago
> Well, some of it is payments on debt. Developing countries have forked out over $4.2tn in interest payments alone since 1980 Since 1980, that's over a period of 36 years, compaired to the 1.3 trillion we give them yearly. 1.3 * 36
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by vivekd 10y ago
>Although the patent system is good at producing new blood-pressure medications and cardiovascular drugs, it’s not the right fit for antibiotics. I don't know if I want to get into an arms race with microbes where we keep trying to

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