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by wsy 8y ago
I don't know that. But even what I described disadvantages female teachers, and rightfully so.
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by wsy 8y ago
Which underpriviledged groups are never supported?
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by wsy 8y ago
Of course. If a man and a women apply for the same primary school teacher position with the same skill level, they will hire the man.
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by wsy 8y ago
> Let's start to tease them apart without merely stopping at the clichés. Yes, please do so. "They are not interested in computers" is a huge cliché. So which non-cliché reasons do you see?
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by wsy 8y ago
Society still has an immense effect on what children and teenagers prefer to do, via instilling role models. There is an amazing small experiment with primary school children. First, no girl in the class even has the idea she could become a
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by wsy 8y ago
Now you are discussing another topic.
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by wsy 8y ago
> "whenever one of an inherently-coupled pair of actions is morally allowed, the other of those actions is morally allowed". Why does that follow? I could understand it for actions you are morally obliged to do, but I fail to
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by wsy 8y ago
Let me try to repeat your argument: whenever something is morally allowed for an individual, the moral system must ensure that the individual actually can do it. This does not stand on its own, you need to provide a good argument why a mora
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by wsy 8y ago
I fully agree. But still it makes a difference from a moral analysis point of view, because my aim is to condemn the buyer, and don't judge the seller. So now you have to convince me that buying the right to beat someone to death is a
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by wsy 8y ago
The core idea is to limit the choices of the rich, not to limit the choices of the poor. You will be prosecuted if you buy a kidney, or if you kill a human, not if you sell a kidney or your life. With respect to your interpretation of the v
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by wsy 8y ago
That is a desirable outcome too, because copycats will then start in EU, and citizens of all countries will prefer to use their tracking-free services instead of the tracking ones.
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by wsy 8y ago
No, it doesn't tell anything about suicide. It is about the question: should one be allowed to buy everything, or are there limits? To emphasize: NOT should one be allowed to sell everything.
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by wsy 8y ago
Illegal simply because it is murder, regardless how much money the murderer pays in advance. Immoral because human life and dignity should not become a tradeable commodity. A society allowing this would quickly deteriorate into a system whe
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by wsy 8y ago
They are not compliant. The fining machinery is just being started, and it will take a while.
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by wsy 8y ago
Yes: it protects the poor and weak. Thought experiment: a multi-billionaire wants to beat a human to death, and offers $10 million for it. A grandfather decides he would like to take that offer, for his children and grandchildren. Would you
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by wsy 8y ago
I think a better example would be: you can only get food if you give us your address and consent that all other restaurants in the vicinity send marketing mail to you. You also consent that we and they exchange information about when and wh
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by wsy 8y ago
Cookies are allowed, tracking users without consent is now illegal in EU (regardless which technology is used).
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by wsy 8y ago
GDPR is the result of many lessons learned in prior attempts. The EU Commission put particular attention on not repeating the mistakes being made in the Cookies directive, which rendered it essentially useless and only annoying. Fines are t
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by wsy 8y ago
We are now in the middle game of GDPR. Companies whose business model depends on tracking users essentially have now an illegal business model, because practically no user will give informed consent when they are offered the same service wi
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by wsy 8y ago
The law should lay out principles, not techniques. The GDPR works for any kind of data processing, it is not specific to browsing on the Web. The core issue is that the ~150 companies of the Oath network will effectively go out of business
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by wsy 8y ago
In Germany, your privacy is protected in public places as well. A German court just recently ordered a German state to turn off an automated license plate reader: http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/b6-streckenradar
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by wsy 8y ago
This is not the end-result at all. It is an intermediate result. European data protection agencies will start handing out fines, then courts will start ruling, and in a few years we will see the end-result. My prediction is that these Cooki
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by wsy 8y ago
If they want photos or videos as part of an investigation, there is a legal procedure: subpoenas. What does it have to do with putting journalists on a customs control list for special treatment when re-entering the US?
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by wsy 8y ago
Please apply this to the case at hand. The case at hand is not about supporting or opposing the caravan, or its investigation. It is about how journalists reporting on it are marked for special treatment at the US border. I fail to see any
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by wsy 8y ago
I wrote this in the context of the article, where a Google developer with 33% more productivity would already have progressed to the next role level. At least, that is what I would assume for large companies.
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by wsy 8y ago
It is very true that one should try to find out why so many people share a different worldview. However, reading the 1000th climate change proponent or opponent won't help in this goal, "because they follow stereotypes". And
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by wsy 8y ago
Good questions. I think that compensation should mirror the value an employee provides to the company. However, in many cases, that is very hard or even impossible to measure. In large companies with many career levels, the role level indic
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by wsy 8y ago
If it indeed increases the health and safety of those around you, why is this not a valid argument?
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by wsy 8y ago
Not everybody is underpaid, but among the underpaid, they found men as well as women. As random illustration, they might pay 200k+-5% to 80% of all level X developers, and the other 20% might only earn 150k+-5%. I still agree that 'und
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by wsy 8y ago
I'm sorry, maybe this is arrogant, but I can't learn something from everyone who has a different worldview. There are topics like climate change where most people's stances follow stereotypes. If I encounter such a stereotype

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