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i have never understood the argument that "preferences in partners" isn't racist but preferences in ... employees, customers, contractors, movie stars, politicians, etc is. note: t…

can't speak german but just wondering if literally this translates to >committing you in the master or have you a new branch created? if so i'm interested to know why you translate…

Another case https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-po... >The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a pers…

I agree with your and there's a joke somewhere in here but I can't quite compose it. Something like: One SCJ says to another "I can't decide where to go this Sunday for brunch". Se…

Thanks for giving me the answer to a rhetorical question. My point was very simply that all of the black people that got denied loans don't care whether it was because of a law or …

>What the fuck is it with this site and shitty, specious analogies? This site is full of privileged people that have been told their entire lives that they're smart. So they assume…

>While not perfect free market/capitalism pulled up more people from poverty than any other system Nope not true - that award goes to communist China >China lifting more than 800 m…

False. I'm drawing attention to the amendment and what the will of the people was/is and efforts made to subvert that will. The amendment as on the ballot said nothing about requir…

How dare they indeed? It wasn't in the amendment. No one voted for that.

btw in florida the voters literally overwhelmingly voted for an amendment that re-enfranchised felons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Florida_Amendment_4 and republicans are sti…

what's the difference between a law and a policy? redlining explicitly excluded black neighborhoods from FHA loans.

Indeed. And note that black men are overrepresented in the prison population.

What do you think share cropping and Jim crow laws were? What do you think the several civil rights acts following the 14th amendment were addressing? What do you think separate bu…

>there's literally laws on the books making it a crime to commit an offense against protected classes of people because of their race alone. do you think the laws are literally bro…

really? wild interpretation? it's a weird construction that's widely known to have been used by the police chief during similar circumstances? how big does the donkey have to be be…

>AWS IoT Greengrass makes it easy to perform machine learning inference locally on devices

this is a strange question but is there somewhere you can "rent" access to a jetson? in particular AGX Xavier and Xavier NX. the reason i'm interested is i want to benchmark some c…

That's because we're conditioned to think of constructors as functions rather than as types. I think that's not that odd honestly but I do see how counterintuitive it is for people…

Hello there false equivalence. Being upset about money as speech leading to unlimited campaign spending and supporting a company's rights manipulate their own product isn't interna…

>and he will loose next election badly lol don't bet on it (i haven't!). you're greatly underestimating his base and greatly overestimating voter turnout.

sections 2b and 4c are the action items; new fcc and ftc regulations that prevent this kind (or broadly whatever kind they deem relevant) of behavior.

>I’m genuinely curious, what’s the last straw? i don't think it will be a final straw - i think it could be a confluence of things though >As anti-government protesters demonstrate…

a wikipedia cite that shows them to be on a liberal ticket in canada? how does that corroborate that welfare programs are efficient enough that we don't need savings? >I think I'll…

do you know what the number of people below the poverty line is in the US? https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759512938/u-s-census-bureau-r... 38 million. 12% of households don't relia…