charia

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by charia 3y ago
'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, lack of strong oversight, policies on returning eq
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by charia 3y ago
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 to a couple rationalism adjacent events in the ci
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by charia 3y ago
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 impact life. People can follow a value systems and s
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by charia 3y ago
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 want a meritocratic institution that is actually reasonably pr
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by charia 4y ago
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 work environment and thereby lowers overall wor
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by charia 4y ago
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 communities, not every, "bad thing", stem from cast
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by charia 4y ago
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 raised was used by Wyclef and his family/friends for perso
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by charia 4y ago
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, but it wouldn't surprise me if for diagnosing? so
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by charia 5y ago
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 officials to quell speech and create a chilling effect
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by charia 5y ago
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 keeping couples together.
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by charia 5y ago
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 has a good chance of being used by insurance compani
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by charia 5y ago
Discord has a huge userbase of pre-teen and teenage gamers, so your explanation makes sense here.
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by charia 5y ago
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 to lock in their property tax ba
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by charia 6y ago
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 subreddit, I didn't notice how just how commo
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by charia 6y ago
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 acceptable and not acceptable speech is given too m
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by charia 6y ago
I mean this has happened with Instagram accounts historically. https://medium.com/@behoff/they-say-nothing-will-change-5c54...
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by charia 6y ago
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. The movie has nothing that's considered abnorm
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by charia 6y ago
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 work and there are many. I'm not trying t
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by charia 6y ago
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 all rely on state media,” said Roman Semenov, who fo
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by charia 6y ago
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 should be solely motivated by the work and not the money. P
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by charia 6y ago
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 when it persecuted leftist sympathizing folks back in the 50&#x
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by charia 6y ago
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...
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by charia 6y ago
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, charity and what impact as a single hum
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by charia 6y ago
Taibbi's been on a roll with his writing recently. His breakdown of the current state of the American press is also quite illuminating. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-i...
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by charia 6y ago
This is a mistake in the understanding of the situation. The NYTimes and all major press outlets anonymize sources. For example for this article, the NYTimes journalist gave people who spoke with him about SSC the choice to remain anonymous
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by charia 6y ago
I'm fairly sure that #ghostnyt was a reaction to the NYTimes airing of the Tom Cotton op-ed. I don't doubt that some SSC fans latched onto it, but I'd be surprised if even a third of those using #ghostnyt were from SSC aligne
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by charia 6y ago
The hotels in any city would lobby to kill any sort of government intrusion into the private sector like that. On top of that cities prefer nice compartmentalized systems, short term rentals are hotels, long term rentals are apartments. Cit
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by charia 6y ago
I used to criticize the big tech companies for stockpiling dozens of billions of dollars instead of investing them into their businesses, but it's only now I can see why a move like that was wise. If at all possible, businesses, like p
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by charia 6y ago
You realize that the retail business can be quite difficult and that a monthlong shuttering can and will drive many into bankruptcy. Rent payments without income will put the nail in the coffin for many businesses. I do agree with your sen
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by charia 7y ago
This is very, very, very dependant on your experiences. My family is from India and they've told me some fascinating stories of the lengths some Catholic charities and churches are willing to go to convert people.

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