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Okay, can you answer what I asked?

A few million people died in Iraq as well under the super-egalitarian, meritocratic, no equality of outcomes democracy of the USofA, so why does choice matter so much?

I don't know how boards work, but can't they just expand the number of seats on the board?

This is why very progressive countries implement combined paternal and maternal leave. If one spouse doesn't take it, the couple loses that time. The pressure on men and women to t…

>It is repeatable and testable Except when it isn't and when it isn't. A vast majority of articles published right now will never even be reproduced and yet we take nearly all of t…

>That kid when he grows up might indeed feel weird about all the undeserved money... Are you serious? How is taking money from one person who never worked for it and giving it to a…

>Personally, I don't think striving for equality of outcome will do society any good. Well, isn't it just convenient that if we don't strive for equality of outcome then life will …

But according to HN people everyone is censoring them and they can't even go to work and write weird pseudoscientific rationales for why they hate diversity programs and expect the…

>What we, as a society need to do is to encourage men to be less sexist, for instance, a manger who can hire a male and a female who are both eligble should not hire a male because…

Imposter syndrome is real. But if you are literally on the board of a company, I doubt it matters as much. Also, lots of people inherited rather than earned their wealth. Should we…

Depends on where you are. Not all of these apply everywhere, but: - lack of maternity leave - being judged on personal appearance even in office settings because your appearance is…

>Even if you are a woman that really deserved to lead some company, people will think that you just got there because of the quota. That's their problem. They want to vocalize it, …

Yeah but most of the outright wrong and sexist things our societies allow seem to disadvantage women. This doesn't make it even, but it's a good step.

Makes zero sense

And what do you want to work on?

This is such a silly way of thinking. Everything in the world cannot be proven. Everything that cannot be proven sufficiently to you right now shouldn't be assumed to be untrue.

It just shouldn't go to Iran. And you just have to make sure that any charity you donate to doesn't eventually get revealed to have been a sham where the people running it were sec…

Few things I realized learning AI/ML in school and being around people who claimed to care about "social good" and "ethics": 1) As long as engineers chase after money and prestige …

It means it was heavily downvoted. Others don't agree with us. That's okay though. At least I'm not alone!

Meaning of life isn't going to be found by scientific knowledge. Sorry to burst your bubble.

May I ask why you want to own a house? I am kind of realizing that the majority of people in the world do not own a house.

Then why would he say things like: >What you see is two cultures separated by an almost unimaginable amount of time, distance, and history. The clash that occurred would have been …

>Personally, I think trade policy needs to be intimately connected to human rights and environmental and labor conditions. It's never ever ever going to happen. Be careful what you…

>I don't see AI/ML following the same pattern. AI/ML which can mine through sports footage to create highlight reels and funny clip collections, etc will create tons of consumer go…

So, does that mean that cultures currently engaged in war are less civilized than cultures currently disengaged from war?