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Genetic Access Control Code Uses 23andMe DNA Data For Internet Racism 312

rjmarvin writes: A GitHub project is using the 23andMe API for genetic decoding to act as a way to bar users from entering websites based on their genetic data — race and ancestry. "Stumbling around GitHub, I came across this bit of code: Genetic Access Control. Now, budding young racist coders can check out your 23andMe page before they allow you into their website! Seriously, this code uses the 23andMe API to pull genetic info, then runs access control on the user based on the results. Just why you decide not to let someone into your site is up to you, but it can be based on any aspect of the 23andMe API. This is literally the code to automate racism."

Comment Make quitting easier to do w/o empl. retaliation (Score 1) 305

If you have people being forced to train under multiple financial threats (unemployment eligibility, severance), that is enough evidence of a qualified person. The job is then handed to someone that has no qualifications prior to the involuntary knowledge transfer - aside from being a non-citizen.

How about removing the ability to do that to someone? That is, give the at-will provision some teeth for the employee side of things so that quitting can mean something.

Comment How about a regular W550 instead? (Score 1) 79

No thank you, but that's no W series. It might be a bridge between the T series and the full-fledged W series, but it is not the typical workstation-type laptop. The W series was meant to be a larger, traditional, no-compromise laptop limited only by technological progress - not as some cut-down box.

Comment Re:Except that they're right and you're not. (Score 1) 391

What is your snark free plan for dealing with the people displaced from the farms? Remember, the overwhelming majority of the labor force used to work on farms.

Speaking from the perspective of someone that descended from a farming/mining/manufacturing/computing family tree:

A bit of historical perspective would help.

  The transitions from agriculture and (early) mining to manufacturing left a wide margin of time to retrain. International threats largely DNE while plenty of work existed to receive and integrate such individuals over time.

  The transition from manufacturing to early computing represented a narrower escape. Early computing was an escape hatch that provided relative stability in a much shorter timespan. This point marks the beginning of the effort to reduce overall stability.

  Today, the emphasis is in removing any remaining stability as it also represents a higher cost. The Aspen Institute's invention of the "sharing economy" buzzword exists only to sugarcoat the effort to remove any large-scale stability in work arrangements.

Want to know what works? Stop trying to remove stability from work arrangements.

Comment Re:That's not the case. (Score 1) 432

From ~2007/2008 to present day, the rallying cry has been to kill off anything with stability and replace it with high instability.

When individuals have a stable form of employment, they are less controllable. Less stable forms of employment, such as mentioned in my reply, impart more control over the person.

Comment Re:I've said it before (Score 1) 391

The old nobility and the aristocracies damaged the economies of the old kingdoms by so controlling wealth and power and rights that there was no incentive or even possibility to innovate or build anything new. The nobles had everything locked down and it was there way or they'd literally kill you.

Yet you advocate a new aristocracy, based on business ownership and friendliness. That is, individuals and governments are obligated to bow before the interests of business owners - lest they threaten economic devastation.

What is critical is economic mobility. Not equality. That is... equal opportunity. NOT equal outcome.

Except that the current, human-eliminating, approach to robotics cuts off the ladder.

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