wfo

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by wfo 8y ago
Businesses are society, we are forced to spent the vast majority of our waking life under the thumb of one so we should absolutely decide how we want that life to go.
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by wfo 8y ago
Well yes, this is a good idea, democratization of the workplace and worker co-ops generally promote better quality of life for employees and the surrounding community, less exploitation, less corruption, more justice and similar or better e
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by wfo 8y ago
>They're not governments, they're companies. You're right, it's important to note they are more powerful and exercise more control over the lives of their employees than many governments, though employees often have t
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by wfo 9y ago
Did we even see the same movie? We're talking about the social network, right? The movie lauded nearly universally, winning and nominated for all sorts of awards (including best picture!) by every organization in every category? The mo
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by wfo 9y ago
The problem in both cases is a capricious and whimsical ultrapowerful organization with the ability to destroy a person's life for any reason with no repercussions. In China, it's the state, in the US it's in the private sect
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by wfo 9y ago
I think most opponents of stop and frisk disagree with you: it's both. Police routinely "predict" that black and brown people are criminals, and stop and frisk allows them to act on these predictions without evidence. I think
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by wfo 9y ago
>Edit: The exception, of course, is if the behavior that is at issue is actually encouraged by a foundational belief of the group. I'm glad you added this, I agree with you in general. I'm not interested in "other-ing&quot
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by wfo 9y ago
Spoken like someone who hasn't spent much time on reddit recently. Since the massive surge in white nationalist, alt-right, and other right-hate ideologies online (and particularly the creation of the_donald, a subreddit which has shoc
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by wfo 9y ago
>No good-faith participant in public policy debates aims to push whole generations into debt I agree, but I don't agree that even a majority of participants in public policy debates are acting in good faith. I think it's possib
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by wfo 9y ago
Well sure, it seems dubious if you frame it chronologically like that but that's not necessarily how it happened. "The idea that the solution to the core problem of X just happens to be the prescriptions of Y" is exactly the
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by wfo 9y ago
Technically it costs bandwidth and electricity I suppose to make information available... Not suing people for repairing or tinkering with your hardware is also a "cost" I suppose if you want to phrase it that way, because of the
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by wfo 9y ago
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio... His essay here is pretty blunt about how he is opposed to democracy. He outlines how to escape democracy (he calls it politics sometimes in
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by wfo 9y ago
Tech folks are incredibly smart on technical subjects. When it comes to politics, power dynamics, seeing through propaganda, empathy, we are not trained in or likely to be interested in any of these "softer" but very important is
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by wfo 9y ago
Interesting the authors cite unionization as an effective protection against this in the past but do not recommend it as a remedy for the future. The problem with simply passing laws as they suggest is that those laws once in place will be
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by wfo 9y ago
Perhaps there should, but these laws are generally toothless and unenforceable because of the power structure in a place of business: in the US employment is "at will" so even if on paper it says you can't be fired for this,
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by wfo 9y ago
>Why not give deference to the accused to set the date and time within a 120 day window? I definitely agree with this. >Lack of teaching empathy is an education issue. I disagree here: we live in a hypercapitalist system. Empathy is a
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by wfo 9y ago
It's certainly possible to require that if debt collectors demand the courts help them collect their debt, that they have to provide certain pieces of evidence to the court. This is already the case: in order to convince a court to gar
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by wfo 9y ago
Why do you assume this is informing police? Imagine police see your license plate and the Palantir app shows up and says "crime risk score: 83" and then the police manufacture a reason to pull you over. Are the police more informe
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by wfo 9y ago
Well first of all, any time a private corporation does secret private proprietary unreviewable analysis on members of the public which is then used by law enforcement -- this is a terrifying, horrible dystopian miscarriage of justice on its
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by wfo 9y ago
It is most of the time not an education issue. Showing up can be hard: skip work and be fired or show up in court? Abandon your kids to make your court date? Nearly all eviction hearings do not have a defendant present, and it's not be
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by wfo 9y ago
>is a better choice Well sure, the philanthropic model, which is in essence allowing the wealthy to control every part of society by determining what exists (i.e. is funded), who gets to live and die (by who they choose to give jobs to),
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by wfo 9y ago
Some episodes are much stronger than others. I think the eye camera episode was good, because it humanizes the dystopia: it moves past abstract moralizing and unrealistic "how things could be" like in e.g. Brave New World and give
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by wfo 9y ago
That's odd, when I learned about it a long time ago I was told it was intended to measure "inherent" intelligence, not the level of exposure/memorization of a massive set of (likely trivial) data points. Vocabulary very
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by wfo 9y ago
Agreed, there's a great formula editor which is very nice if you want to create math presentations in powerpoint instead of in beamer (and I wouldn't blame you, especially if you're in a hurry). But could you really imagine w
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by wfo 9y ago
Or, alternately, the company could do what every other company in existence does and what B&N has always done and have people work during what they know will be the busiest time of the year instead of sending everyone home, destroying t
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by wfo 9y ago
A large portion of the SAT is knowledge of English vocabulary which obviously has nothing to do with IQ. The mathematics questions nearly all use the same basic rules and are presented in the same format, and can easily be learned and train
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by wfo 9y ago
Sure this is true if we just let the market do as it wills. But we have many tools to deal with this problem in our historical toolbox that we have mostly left behind as we hard embrace neoliberal ideology: regulation with fines, regulatory
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by wfo 9y ago
Yes, BLM is pretty obviously a left organization and not a liberal one. Though hard-left of course has no meaning and is nothing but a smear phrase designed to suggest "extremist" when the positions we are discussing are not parti
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by wfo 9y ago
Walmart's profit primarily comes from abuse of monopoly (which is not efficiency) and from government subsidies (they are the biggest welfare recipients in the world, since their workers require government welfare to survive while work
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by wfo 9y ago
"It's okay if my vote counts for 100 and everyone else counts for 1, since 300 people are voting".

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