candybrie

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

When they're really little, high contrast is more clear and theoretically more interesting. There's a lot of black and white toys aimed at newborns for that reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

It saving billions isn't argument against it being good for employees/most people. If say the government introduced a bill that required every company to send 5% of their money to Russia, fighting the hell out of that bill would save them billions and would be in line with what most Americans want. There are more realistic ones like pretty much every iteration of the kids online safety act.

It might be a good rule of thumb, but it definitely isn't the only argument/proof needed.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Totaled just means repairs will cost as much as the car is worth. If the frame is bent, that would probably do it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This particular one has to be satire. That line. The "some dude" part. The "relentless debate machine."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

It's less turkey baster and more IVF. He has multiple multiples; I think it's 2 sets of twins and 1 set of triplets.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, I'm betting all of Musk's kids could pick better names for themselves than he did. Including his 4 year old, X Æ A-Xii.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

But it's the only reason we have the ACA. Which, while only ok, is so much better than not having the ACA.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Did things suddenly become worse for those types of things around 2014? If that was the cause, I feel like you'd see a bump up in 2008 with the great recession.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

In the US, it certainly isn't. It's viewed as a red flag for a US company to ask for a photo unless the job is something where appearance is an important quality like actor or model. I think the US grapples with this kind of discrimination more than many of the countries where it's the norm.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Which is really just a system you can use to discriminate with plausible deniability: We didn't not hire people because of X protected characteristic; the "scientific" computer program never selected them as a quality worker.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, not explicitly gate keeping access. But as a woman, you have experience that tells you, if you take any shortcut or easy way out, even if all the guys do it, you will be "confirmed" as less competent. It tends to be that women start from a perceived position of "not competent" whereas men start from a preceived position of "competent." A guy has to have some obvious mess ups to fall from that assessment whereas women have to do a lot to rebut the assumption that they're incompetent. So, as a woman, you are constantly trying to prove yourself, and you have to avoid anything that might undercut that. Using AI could easily be one of those things that undercut it.

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