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Genuinely shocked to see something like this on the front page of HN. Framing your misinformation in the form of a debunking doesn't mean it's true.

It's hard to weigh the aggregate harm of doing something slightly bad at massive scale against the aggregate harm of doing something very bad to a small group. Both are pretty bad,…

The whole point is that it never is trained on a "Senegal" dataset, is it? Why do we always see these errors where white-centric datasets produce white-centric results? While it wo…

She didn't call him a racist. She pointed out that there's more to addressing bias than just acknowledging that it's there. If you are going to say "Well, garbage-in, garbage-out!"…

Open source has become yet another way for big tech companies to exploit laborers. If you are an independent developer working on an open source project without a copy-left license…

Fairness is a legitimate end unto itself, an essential part of what makes a justice system 'just'. If reducing crime is our only objective, we can do so trivially by indefinitely d…

One half solution that people don't tend to bring up: massively increase the number of members of congress. The formula for a states representation in the electoral college is {num…

It's still an issue in that this wouldn't afford equal representation. The way the number of electors is determined is {senators + members of congress + 3}. Since the senate afford…

I disagree. Consider our inability to coordinate a proper pandemic response, or the current smoke catastrophe spanning the west coast. The problems facing our country are increasin…

Unless you are entrepreneur with access to capital, I'm not sure how you can expect individuals to will a good employer into being if none is to be found. Using the government to c…

Capital has an immense amount of leverage in the market, and the only way for that power to be counteracted at scale is through government action and/or labor organizing. Individua…

> If someone can come up with a legal operational structure that gets around taxes then that the government didn't do its job. Right, they passed a law, AB5, to better do that job.…

Uber and Lyft are voluntarily suspending operations to make a political point; they are the ones kicking the little guy while they're down. The fact that these companies can spend …

I think it's reasonable for a government to crack down on businesses where the entire operational structure is designed to subvert that government's tax code and regulations.