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'As many as', suggests there might have been one particular case where that happened, probably due to a complex situation, (small company, pandemic, company going out of business, …

I'm not sure if there's any history of financial association, but I do know that all of these people generally travel in the same circles. When I went to college in Berkeley I went…

This is a quite uncharitable view of things. EA utilitiarians aren't spending their life on optimizing numbers, they're trying to use numbers to guide decisions on how to better im…

People complaining about the fairness about legacies and donor children miss the point that these people are half the reasons people care about these top private schools. If you wa…

I don't know if I'd subscribe to the above person's ideas, but the simple business approach would probably work right? Treat it like any form of behavior that creates a hostile wor…

I think it's more mocking the oversimplification of complex problems. That though caste discrimination causes significant harm and problems in the Indian and Indian diaspora commun…

I think one thing to keep in mind is that Wyclef famously used his celebrity to raise money for Haiti after the earthquake and it was shown that much, if not most, of the money rai…

OP is probably talking about the legality of American hospitals using this software in an official capacity like some Chinese hospitals seem to be doing. I'm completely unfamiliar,…

Do you genuinely believe that laws that try to separate criticize versus insult can work? I can't see anything other than laws like that being abused by politicians and government …

Yeah, and for a father to take paternity leave suggests the father's job and family's financial situation are doing reasonably well. Financial stability plays a huge factor in keep…

It's very naive to assume it'll only ever be used for benevolent purposes. The situation the above commenter was bringing up was that in the near future your genetic information ha…

Discord has a huge userbase of pre-teen and teenage gamers, so your explanation makes sense here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_... Property tax is generally determined by the average price of housing in an area. California's prop 13 allowed people…

This is hacker news and so I'm trying to not just post a low effort reply, but reddit.com/r/menkampf is all about taking that premise and running with it. Before finding that subre…

So uh, who's going to be the arbiter of what exactly constitutes intolerant or harmful speech? You? Me? Facebook? The government? Twitter? Whoever gets the power to define what's a…

I mean this has happened with Instagram accounts historically. https://medium.com/@behoff/they-say-nothing-will-change-5c54...

A tangent about Cuties, but felt like airing my thoughts on this somewhere. The outrage over Cuties is some of the weirdest situations of political/cultural toxoplasma I've seen. T…

I'd wager that in twoish years we'll see articles talking about the Remote Office Trap. Over the years we've seen a huge surge of individuals talking about the benefits of remote w…

It's literally what one of the protestors called it. > “Telegram channels and websites that don’t belong to our government are the main source of information today as we cannot at …

For the same reason why people are against high level government officials anywhere getting pay raises. The public perceives it as a waste of money and believe that public servants…

Any view can be described as intolerant. Stamping out, “intolerant” views is one of the reasons many authoritarian regimes uses to stamp out dissent. The United States did this whe…

Anyone who was born in California after 1983, has had their DNA collected by the state. https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/05/08/california-biob...

This short story from Aaron Swartz' blog changed my life. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/handwritingwall It played a significant role in shaping my understanding of humanity, charit…