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sadris··on AI-powered laundry-folding robot company has filed for bankruptcy
Yes. I believe they shifted to putting it in your car in driveway
sadris··on California has a new law: No more all-male boards (2018)
Clear violation of federal Civil Rights Act. Gender and race cannot be factors in employment. Why waste time with blatantly unlawful legislation?
sadris··on Why Does Hacker News Flag Many Scientific Articles Regarding Discrimination
The use policy explicitly states that they don't want this site to become a political message board.
sadris··on In Venezuela, life has gone from bad to worse. And the world has quit noticing
Scotland, maybe?
sadris··on In Venezuela, life has gone from bad to worse. And the world has quit noticing
We don't butcher sewer rats for food in the US...
sadris··on Microsoft staff are openly questioning the value of diversity
Makes sense. HR firms have known for decades it's a net negative. Note that this is generally within departments only, not within the entire organization.

> Williams and O’Reilly (1996) review dozens of studies showing that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on group performance. In the two decades since, more research has reinforced that result. Alesina and La Ferrara (2005) find that increasing ethnic diversity from 0 (only one ethnic group) to 1 (each individual is a different ethnicity) would reduce a country’s annual growth by 2 percent. Multiple studies (La Porta et al., 1999; Alesina et al., 2003; Habyarimana et al., 2007) have shown that ethnic diversity negatively affects public good provision. Stazyk et al. (2012) find that ethnic diversity reduces job satisfaction among government workers. Parrotta et al. (2014a) find that ethnic diversity is significantly and negatively correlated with firm productivity

https://economicsdetective.com/2016/07/costs-ethnic-diversit...

sadris··on EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content
The UK is doing much worse

https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1116005544236650496?s...

sadris··on EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content
There is an appellate court case pending involving Google and foreign court orders.

Depending on how is decided is the answer to your question.

Edit: no they do not need to remove content because a foreign entity asked them to https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/06/judge-rules-canada-de-in...

sadris··on EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content
> Yet Black Lives Matter was treated with far more disdain and had a considerably stronger and disproportionate response to their activism.

When was this?

sadris··on New Data Show H-1B Denial Rates Reaching Highest Levels
It's not?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3243945/

> We find substantial evidence that immigration by foreign-trained nurses increases the supply of nurses and that this increase in supply is associated with a decrease in annual earnings. Estimates suggest that a 10 percent increase in supply due to immigration is associated with a one to four percent decrease in annual earnings.

sadris··on Mozilla Removes Gab.com's Dissenter Plugin from addons.mozilla.org
Gab expected it too. They even instituted anti-hate-speech code into their Dissenter backend, but it was still banned by Mozilla.
sadris··on McConnell: Net neutrality bill 'dead on arrival' in Senate
It could get to the floor via a discharge petition. But Democrats are currently pro censorship so that sort of language would never get into the bill.
sadris··on McConnell: Net neutrality bill 'dead on arrival' in Senate
If it included anti censorship aspects they could get some GOP support from Cruz.
sadris··on Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Government Regulation of Political Speech on Facebook
That's it. If the government regulated Facebook, the rest of the world would have access to freedom of speech finally. The us govt cannot regulate speech.
sadris··on Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry
They could fire them? They're paid for their labor, not their opinions.
sadris··on Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry
Think their law applies to homosexuals, not transexuals.
sadris··on Australia Passes Law to Punish Social Media Companies for Violent Posts
Well that's one way to not have any Facebook servers or employees in your country.
sadris··on Mark Zuckerberg: The Internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas
> Require that service providers, regardless of size(1), keep hate speech off their platforms. This includes calls for the establishment of ethnostates

Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.

Now how can your proposed policy reconcile this?

sadris··on Mark Zuckerberg: The Internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas
If discrimination was disallowed for your personal opinions, then this might be a valid argument.
sadris··on Uber is dropping rates for drivers down from 80 cents/mile to 60 cents/mile
People sometimes take a loan to purchase a restaurant, only to have regulations change and make the business non-profitable.

Life is full of disappointment.

sadris··on Section 230 created the internet as we know it. Don’t mess with it
> because even unmoderated unreviewed content will carry far higher risk of liability than today

If it as OP says, the opposite would be true. Either moderate and risk liability. Or allow anything and get indemnity.

sadris··on [dead]
They should have done weight verification.
sadris··on Jail time, billions in fines under Australian crackdown on social media giants
If these companies had a spine, they would fire any employees under jurisdiction of Australia and move any hardware out of the country.
sadris··on Developing for Android is like being a demonetized YouTuber
Just only release for iPhone :)
sadris··on Developing for Android is like being a demonetized YouTuber
I had 90% piracy rate on Android when I did it years ago. Gave up and didn't look back.
sadris··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
What's wrong and what's right? Who defines it? When? And why?
sadris··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
Greece.

http://time.com/3956017/greece-bailout-selloff/

sadris··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
We as a society decided homosexual advocacy was dangerous speech just decades ago. We were so enlightened then, right?
sadris··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
They could just buy land from a country and it wouldn't require what you claim.
sadris··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
It is in at least seven states including California.
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