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If you choose to switch the track to kill 1 innocent to save 5, you open the door to things like a society where 1 innocent healthy person is killed to harvest the organs and save …

The Knife Media usually does analysis about how much spin different newspapers add to current news stories: https://www.theknifemedia.com/world-news/pompeo-kim-jong-un-...

I am sure scientists creating a half-chimp half-human monster will make the general population trust them more and stop doubting their sanity and just put all other decision in the…

But the point of the original "manifesto" was that google makes the claim that uneven distribution of men and women is due to discrimination, and the "manifesto" explains how a 100…

As far as I understood the original manifesto was about the average population characteristics of currently existing men and women, so those studies shouldn't have anything to do w…

That's because she was dead and posthumous Nobel Prizes are not awarded. Not because she was a woman.

Women aren't a minority.

>Are there any countries that could serve as an counter-example? That is, has numerical parity between men and women in tech ever been achieved without implementing targeted divers…

People deserve politeness, not respect.

Yes, women are in average higher in trait agreeableness[1][2]. This is well studied cross-culturally. There's still a huge overlap between men and women in most traits so it's not …

I have to say, I am impressed at how journalists are able to find new ingenious ways to write whole articles about the attacks without mentioning Islam or why it was perpetrated ev…

I don't think there is. I've been trying to move from vim to Emacs for a few weeks unsuccessfully, mostly for org-mode and all the agenda stuff. I still use emacs for org-mode but …

Reddit doesn't really work like a traditional forum. In a traditional forum everybody has the same visibility, in reddit it's very easy to create like-minded communities because an…

Well that depends, are you a singer? Then it's probably a good idea to communicate with other singers beyond the local bar where you sing now and then. Not saying that everybody sh…

After all, communists are the best managers of capitalism.

Nice article but parts of it can be misleading. The article mentions the "fake news" polemic but the example presented are targeted ads with no fake information.

Was it the problem calling wolf? Or was the problem calling wolf and then devouring all the hens as soon as you got in power? People are just confused with of all the rhetoric agai…

> - The decline of trades unions. That's directly linked to globalization. When you can easily move your factory to Mexico or China trade unions lost all power.

I think those kinds of plots only make sense when you lay more or less in the middle. A political position is not just how you position yourself in an objective predeterminate poli…

I guess once we have thrown away universal empathy we may as well throw away the natural numbers, the concept of a line or using categories to designate things we have never seen. …

The middle ground doesn't exist in itself. To have a middle ground you need to have a previous political position from which you can measure it, the illusion is believing that you …

Everything is possible, except any small change in capitalism. [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0vRYWtcOU

Is this really relevant in any way? If celebrities want to play the internet game where everybody can answer they should get used to people complaining about insubstantial stuff. A…