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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Indeed consistency is important. Likewise it is important to review these things without the influence of erroneous prejudice, such as the belief that women with the same skills and experience are being systemically paid less due to rampant
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The central variable that creates the "gender pay gap" is not sexist employer discrimination. The gap is primarily created by the fact that women, more typically than men, are the ones who raise children full time. https:/&#
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As a man, you're more likely to be murdered, killed in a war, commit suicide, die in a workplace accident, and be sentenced to prison disproportionately longer for the same crime as compared to women.
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This could be a great opportunity for the public, if only the questions could be asked by technically minded people. The average person "knows" that Facebook takes their data. What they don't know is the extremely powerful, s
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>Well-regulated advertising is important in helping consumers make informed purchasing decisions. Do you think the adtech industy is "well-regulated"?
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It's naive of technical minded people to think the average person could imagine the types of things you can do with big data sets and algorithms.
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We used sock puppets in /r/netsec last year (and are sorry we did) (2015)(reddit.com)
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How is it a strawman?
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I read your post, and am still trying to wrap my head around the content. The best metaphor I could come up with, given my potentially erroneous understanding of your thesis is thus: The purpose of life is a dance competition, the more nove
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>I share this same same sentiment with the parent comment where I feel like Google "has my back" and I know for certain there products do make my life easier. I've never understood how people can have such a religious-like
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>Why on earth would someone buy a subscription for content that has NO ads? Are you being satirical? Because ads are terribly annoying, a waste of my time, and I prefer not to be manipulated into buying things I don't need.
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>the purpose of life is to maximize the area under the complexity curve for our enclosing system. Can you put this in laymans terms?
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The need is implied by the conflicts of interest inherent in the investments portfolios of the founders of the PNAC. They "needed" it as much as a war profiteer needs war to make profits.
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Just the other day Reddit and Google/YT rolled out the censors on gun videos. Today it comes out that Facebook is being used to promote mass murder. What the hell is going on in SV?
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>Magically attributing significant qualities to people because of their race is racism. Magically attributing significant qualities to people because of highly salient surface characteristics is bigotry. It seems this type of racism and
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Indeed. The witch hunts of the Inquisition were in this same vein as well. A major driving force was that of censoring anyone who did not adhere to the official dogmas and doctrines of the state: heretics, blasphemers, etc.
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This may seem like a loaded question but I am genuinely curious and not sure how to ask it "properly": what is the "known difference" between someone who has lighter skin than someone who has darker skin? Or the known di
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>Of course not, but in 2018, without any diversity of race in a collection of people, you will not achieve a diversity of circumstances that is representative of America. Why does the population of every organization need to be a precise
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Youtube is not solely funded by advertisers, they have a paid ad-free subscription service.
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>Racism: the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It seems like your argument against hiring people with diverse mindsets is that it's not easy to do; so we should resort to just looking at their skin color, their genitals, or the year they were born?
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That's what communications and PR departments are for. It's silly to think they don't push specific topics that align with their goals, as directed by the people who pay their salaries, the board of directors.
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Do you really think corporate conglomerates have no interest in PR campaigns that benefit their bottom line? It doesn't take "huge amounts of people", just a handful of board members.
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Working extremely long hours is also demonstrably detrimental to quality
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Why is it "needlessly complex"? Aren't all corporations "manipulated from the top"?
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Could you cite some of this evidence?
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From what I've seen, 10 days vacation per year seems to be the norm in corporate US, though I know people who get even less than that.
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>At the same time I think we should be grateful that we live in the best life conditions ever seen by humanity. What metrics did you use to determine this, other than life expectancy? A zoo animal may have a longer life expectancy, but a
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The social dynamics of these types of laws can be traced back to the witch hunts of the Inquisition. It's more about perceived sin reduction and dogma, rather than harm reduction and logic.
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The people seemingly screaming "fake news" the most in recent times are the same people vanattab is referring to as being misleading. People have always been screaming something synonomous to "fake news" against the othe

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