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by xenocyon 7y ago
It's not just governments. Large corporations too frequently use McKinsey to make recommendations for things they want to do anyway (e.g. layoffs or restructuring). From the client executive's point of view, the money spent on a M
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I do agree that there is indeed a pipeline problem; however there is still much scope for improvement at workplaces. Notably, gender balance is not only skewed at the point of hiring; in fact, the skew gets worse and worse as one goes up th
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En masse actions don't usually happen unless laborers are organized (aka unionized), which isn't the case here. Note that the other side - the corporation - is organized. Your comment makes a good case for unionization, though I
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https://wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandum
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As is so often true, the headline is not substantiated by the body of the article.
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You're getting downvoted, but it's true: the most conventional path for corporations to make money at large scales is to privatize profit while socializing externalities. This has been true for at least a half millenium and contin
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You make reference to protecting mass transit as well as to the cost to consumers. These arguments make sense if there are zero externalities, but unfortunately there are: carbon footprint, both directly as well as second order effects from
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I would say math is the exception, rather than biology. In most fields - even ones that don't require physical experiments - research is aided quite a bit by infrastructure, interaction, and environment.
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I don't understand why people always discount suicides among gun deaths, as if suicides only happen to "other people". It's true that you can limit your gun risk by being white/urban/middle-class/mentally
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This is true for newspapers, pro YouTube channels, etc. But even today, the majority of internet content is created by people for free - this includes comments on HN, Reddit discussion, original Facebook posts, amateur YouTube content, and
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by xenocyon 7y ago
Another fun story: Chicago-based poke company goes after Hawaiian restaurants over the word 'Aloha': https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/native-hawaiian-a...
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Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now(onebusaway.org)
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Brace yourself Delhi, it may only be the beginning of the toxic air season(qz.com)
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But the burden of proof should be the other way around. The agency should have to be the one to go to court for a denial, rather than the burden lying on the citizen to sue to get the request granted.
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Kind of a sidenote, but I'm continually surprised that agencies that get hit with an FOIA request are allowed to be the arbiters of whether the request should be granted or not.
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The goal of the red light is to keep folks out of an intersection so that cross-traffic and pedestrians can proceed. Furthermore, in congested traffic, blocking the intersection can lead to massive gridlock.
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T-Mobile and Sprint get FCC approval to merge in 3-2 party-line vote(arstechnica.com)
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Counterpoint: many tech workers want some agency over what they are building and don't want to be forced to work on nefarious applications. I don't seek an outsized claim on society but I do reserve the right to decide what my han
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The Fragility of American Citizenship(theatlantic.com)
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I touch-type, but unlike many tech folks, I'm a really bad typist and make a huge amount of errors. Many of these errors concern symbols rather than letters: - instead of =, or (a particularly frustrating one) <ENTER> instead of
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Way to eradicate poverty in America is to focus on children(economist.com)
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As others have commented, their very choice of the top 1% when talking about the super-rich is a disingenuous one.
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Your source is a controversial one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Foundation
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Of course it's true that the effective rate was less than 70% (that was the top _marginal_ rate, just like 37% is the top marginal rate today); however I am curious to hear about the exemptions etc for rich people - my understanding is
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by xenocyon 7y ago
> If the government banned this kind of lending and didn't provide an alternative, poor people would have no lending options. IIRC poor women's self-run savings groups enable microcredit for poor people, and these loans general
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Can you represent “strong beliefs loosely held” using Bayesian representation?
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Saying that most people don't agree with extreme positions is a bit of a tautology, since positions are defined as "extreme" if few people agree with them. There is therefore nothing universal or fundamentally meaningful abou
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Here is one particularly egregious example: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/610k-settlement-in-school-webca...
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Even in the best cases (i.e. where there isn't intentional voter suppression and gerrymandering), this is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. In my Seattle, for instance, city candidates will usually spend most of their canvassing effo
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Re the last sentence in your comment: the New York DOT performed an analysis that "found little concrete evidence that device-induced distracted walking contributes significantly to pedestrian fatalities and injuries": https:&#x2

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