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Re:The case against human rights law on Friday December 12, 2014 @05:36AM (#8739396)
What you call human rights is just using force(violence) to make people behave the way you want them to. A democracy is a tyranny of the majority.
Perhaps ADHD is mostly nonsense, but what I do know is that adderall made me go from a lazy bum failing all my classes to the top student in the department. So it is worth measuring the opportunity cost of under performing. If it works it works.
Re:Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @05:17PM (#8229615)
hopefully never. The more of these frivolous regulations the more hard it becomes to compete with existing businesses.
Re:Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @05:14PM (#8229596)
laws should be based on logic and not emotion. unfortunately I doubt anyone will campaign against this and if they do they will be portrayed as pro-cronyism or that they are somehow for the things that this measure aims to prevent.

the UK seems fond of things like this though. As I recall you must be 18 years old to buy a plastic knife, as it is considered a deadly weapon.

Re:Getting to work on diversity at Google on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @08:24PM (#7813891)
why is diversity good? forced diversity seems very contrived. why should the percentage of women hired be higher than the number that graduate from school with a CS degree?
Re:'discovery' of Bitcoin creator on Thursday March 06, 2014 @09:15PM (#7358097)