zbyte64

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by zbyte64 7y ago
If you have colleagues that have children, would advancing paternity leave also represent the interests of the group? If you have colleagues that are diabetic, would advancing policies for cheaper insulin not represent the interests of the
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The USA built counterterroism surveillance tools for the UAE monarchy and in 2016 Emirati firm DarkMatter takes over. Yikes.
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The article mentions why simply excluding race isn't good enough: "Crucially, incorporating more proximal and predictive variables into models, rather than relying on race variables to act as proxies, will improve transportability
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Probably similar age group but the industry acts as a filter.
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Really? because the article called the singers blameless.
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Looks like they have been cranking on a pytorch implementation: https://github.com/numenta/nupic.torch
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Telemarketers who fake their phone number are just practicing free speech. /s
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Cost, specifically: $200 camera < Implicated billionaires
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Crazy to think that our justice system is so dysfunctional we can hardly distinguish between malice and incompetence. Conspiracies aside, such dysfunction provide opportunities to those who oversee to just "let it happen".
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I get that sounds "fair" but when you consider the family can suffer from any number of ailments that is rather cruel to say "your son requires special medicine, to afford that you must withdraw from public health care and yo
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Medicine is still a commodity even if another entity collectively bargains for it (ie NHS). Why doesn't the parent just by the medicine directly? Surely the NHS doesn't prevent that from happening. Oh, right, it is too expensive t
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Wake me when the tax code and justice system is blind to class.
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Also surprised by the lack of mention of reformulating existing drugs to extend their patents. The poster child of this practice is insulin, where Americans pay absurdly higher amounts for something where generics are abundant.
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You can show how X system is not sustainable but if the parent claims X system is the only "fair" system then the argument falls of deaf ears.
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And since they did the job for free their time is worthless.
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The same way we determine who gets on the ballot. Next question.
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Depends on the issue and whether they are actively pushing that issue. Should I be more inclusive to assholes in general? Maybe. Should I give comfort to those that threaten entire societies? You tell me.
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Good for some anyways: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/9/16860994/lif...
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The government literally puts its name on the money it prints.
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Can't help but think the only reason for that attitude (government power is bad) is that the government isn't representative of its people.
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Those are compelling reasons to take a larger look. I found charts tracking median household income by race, skip to part 3: https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/ Seems hispanic and black famil
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Maybe we should keep comparisons to language constructs?
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[2] With the exception of languages that have more then two expressed genders
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Weren't philosophers a decade a go lamenting of how reductionist science has become? Like I remember going to college and the professors held a forum where they insisted that science isn't the end-all be-all for human existence. W
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This succinct description when ever capitalism is bad-mouthed: > the concept threads through the k-punk collection; the idea that we live under the shadow of “there is no alternative,” unable to imagine a better way to organize society,
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by zbyte64 7y ago
One way to explore that question would be to make a game to expose people to these ethical questions. I am thinking like "Papers Please" but recasted as ICE gathering up illegals and their families.
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The tool tracks where you have been, your bank account, etc. So while it may not tell what guns were purchased, it can tell if they have visted a shooting range.
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Asking the real questions.
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Is that useful though? The following requires a moral code to say it is bad: Directly advocating for sexual violence against another group.
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I did a historical search of articles using: "uber on the promise of gig economy" and cutoff articles after 2017 First article has a paragraph that is fairly representative: https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-m

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