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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by ur-whale on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:19PM (#25293261)
Not systematically. Whereas the unions ...
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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by chungus_khan on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:48PM (#25293703)
Do you have a similar problem with cash-only businesses?
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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by ur-whale on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:08PM (#25293994)
Not sure I follow how these two relate.
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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by chungus_khan on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:36PM (#25294428)
Cash-only and cash-intensive businesses are an incredibly easy and common vehicle for money laundering. The less customer information involved, the more effective. Such businesses are incredibly widespread and vital to organized crime, and their ease of operation in this manner is baked into their DNA.

Despite this, they too serve a useful function.

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