abusoufiyan

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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Okay, can you answer what I asked?
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
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?
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I don't know how boards work, but can't they just expand the number of seats on the board?
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
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 take time off after a baby diminishes the effect you spe
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>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 them as if they are gospel. >If the meaning o
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>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 another person who never worked for it going to make one f
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>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 just have to remain tilted in favor of whi
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>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 he 'doesn't want female', that needs to b
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
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 outlaw that to save them from imposter syndrome?
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
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 more tied to your worth than it is for men - when you are h
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>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, well you can fire them!
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
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.
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Makes zero sense
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
And what do you want to work on?
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
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.
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
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 secretly funneling the money to armed militants witho
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
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 first, there will be no ethical AI&
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
It means it was heavily downvoted. Others don't agree with us. That's okay though. At least I'm not alone!
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Meaning of life isn't going to be found by scientific knowledge. Sorry to burst your bubble.
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
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.
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
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 hard to prevent whenever it happened. Because surely ther
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>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 wish for. If what you wanted to happen happened, yo
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>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 goods (videos) which can all be monetized on
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
So, does that mean that cultures currently engaged in war are less civilized than cultures currently disengaged from war?
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>The Americas went from 50-100 million people to fewer than 5 million natives because of disease. Disease which was quite forcefully spread by Europeans as an act of warfare.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_A
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
>As Montaigne pointed out, early modern Europeans were at least as cruel toward enemies and captives, they just expressed it in different ways: i.e. via public executions of witches and heretics, or the tortures of the Inquisition and se
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I agree with everything except one minor detail. Not sure if outsourcing and offshoring are such bad things. I mean, if someone will work for less than you, you either need to do better work, do cheaper work, or find different work.
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
I worry that attempts to smooth it out can actually cause worse disruption. Like, let's say we know factory workers will be laid off, so we need to allocate resources to retrain them. Very likely the resources will not be enough for al
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
End game is to move back home and bring back the share of the first world which was stolen from my home and planted there.
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by abusoufiyan 9y ago
Exactly. Lots of people don't want to play in the Eastern European basketball league. They specifically want to play in the NBA. It's not about basketball, it's about the perks. Sidenote: Other than the height, the absurd ath

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