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by zeroname 8y ago
> The closer your field's demographics are to your society's, the lower the risk of (unconscious) bias is. That's only true if all biases cancel each other out perfectly.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> The future of agricultural work has arrived here in Florida, promising to ease labor shortages and reduce the cost of food There is no labor shortage . There's a bunch of growers whining about having to raise wages to attract wor
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by zeroname 8y ago
> I don't know what the real impact is, but if your site shows me blank page without javascript(I have it off by default) I am closing the tab. I can show you "this site requires Javascript" instead, but let's just sa
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Bother for human rights. Which human right, specifically? Humans have the "right" to install a modern browser and enable Javascript. > "Javascript" is costly too - but maybe not your concern since it's not a
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by zeroname 8y ago
This is a requirement that most sites can simply dismiss these days. The distinction between an app and a website is blurry, a lot of interaction simply works far better with Javascript. Supporting "no Javascript" can be costly. I
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by zeroname 8y ago
Thank you for the explanation, that makes a lot more sense.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> "We lost the ability to mend" No we haven't. If you need to sew on a button and you can't figure out how to do it from looking at a piece of thread, a needle, and the other buttons, then go spend fifteen minutes on
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by zeroname 8y ago
I don't have training to make a formal argument, but this has got to be bullshit. They take the few people that had some form of heart disease (37 out of 1104 over ten years) and noted that none of them except one could do 40 pushups
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by zeroname 8y ago
On the upside, you get to spend time outdoors and you get to kill your payload.
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by zeroname 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yruQM1ggc
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by zeroname 8y ago
> This devistation is a societal choice made by having a non-existent social safety net in the US. In other countries it's less devastating due to government programs and universal healthcare that protect people while still incentiv
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by zeroname 8y ago
It's a bullshit calculation. It's putting federal minimum wage against the latest rents in urban areas, while maintaining the "you should only spend 30% of your income on rent" mantra. In reality, people in urban areas e
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by zeroname 8y ago
The alternative to automation is to just eliminate jobs and shut down shop. For instance, if it's unprofitable to pay someone to bag customer's items, you're not going to invest into building some advanced bagging machine. Yo
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by zeroname 8y ago
The main problem with regulation is zoning and NIMBY-driven development. Building codes drive up costs but zoning makes building impossible. I agree that interest rates have a huge impact on overpriced houses, but it's not such a direc
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Supply and demand are not linearly correlated even if you do subscribe to this "law", so increasing the minimum wage may have a disproportionately small impact on overall job numbers, meaning greater total wealth held by mini
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by zeroname 8y ago
Is this just your "reasonable sounding opinion" or have you yourself had any success in doing what the OP is asking about? Or are you yourself sitting in a comfortable office job in "business and industry"? > The busi
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by zeroname 8y ago
http://womanofsteele.blogspot.com/2007/11/hater-mikeeusa.htm... Wow. Some of the stuff this guy has supposedly written sounds like an Anders Breivik in the making. Certainly pushing free speech to the limits (and
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by zeroname 8y ago
"Absurdity" is not a legal term, to my knowledge. Don't assume that because a contract is absurd, exploitative or even satirical that it won't hold up in court.
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by zeroname 8y ago
Finishing that quote for you: > ...Since men are now being assaulted as thanks for their ceaseless decades-long work on opensource by people who did not put in the time, men should /support sexism/ by revoking license to thei
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by zeroname 8y ago
It also makes the entire article worthless. Somebody who pushes an agenda isn't going to provide an unbiased assessment of the actual legal arguments. I clicked on the article expecting to hear both sides. Instead, I get all the usual
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by zeroname 8y ago
> It's already been discussed in this thread how old OpenSSL is... That's completely irrelevant to the point I am making. I'm using it as a counterexample to your reasoning that if code for (your) critical infrastructure w
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by zeroname 8y ago
> If the service in question was directly accessible from a public network and its source code known and published, it would be attacked in less than 5 minutes. You just keep going with the non-sequitur, but now you're also moving
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by zeroname 8y ago
> The questions you're asking here are all answered in article, so maybe read it again? I've only asked a single question: What is wrong with what Bill Gates actually said ? Hickel doesn't deal with what Bill Gates actual
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by zeroname 8y ago
We're looking into the question of whether poverty is going up or down. We're not figuring out the solution to poverty. Let's say I point to improved cancer mortality ( on average , of course) as a result of human progress, a
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by zeroname 8y ago
> This simply isn't true. Between 1900 and 1905, Sweden's infant mortality rate was merely 2.3 per 1,000 live births [1] which is basically the same as they currently report (2.6 per 1,000 [2]) You're mixing up maternal
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by zeroname 8y ago
> You lost all credibility right here. I suppose people living in their economically-alright bubbles will never be able to look objectively at how awful things are in so many places in the world. The point isn't that things aren&#x
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by zeroname 8y ago
This is Bill Gates' infographic: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxSZ58_XQAAoxM8.jpg:large It does show a 75% in extreme poverty. That happens to be a straight down trend. Nobody even disputes this. It also shows a
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Sorry where is the non-sequitur? It is in your original statement (abbreviated): If there were easily exploited buffer overflow in <our program>, ambulances and fire engines <for our customers> would never be called to the
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by zeroname 8y ago
Even the data that Hickel picked (excluding China) shows is that the trend is down . I'm not sure Pinker is right in that the it's true for every single social stratum everywhere across the world , I would think that certain mid
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by zeroname 8y ago
I didn't say anyone is doctoring data. The data may well be true, but it may not fit your narrative. If your narrative is "people are getting poorer" you need to set the bar high, if your narrative is "people are getting

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