I could use $20. Hey, it's not stolen if I sell it myself, right?

I'd say cryptography is still secure if the time complexity is something like n^80.

Is this proven? Or is it one of those things that are assumed to be true (with good reason). I thought all of the time complexity classes are still essentially open questions.

Hasn't China become more free?

I was referring to H-2A, rather than H-1B.

We are better off with poor immigrants who come in and start businesses than poor guest workers who are barely more than slaves working on plantations.

Yeast. It is sold as nutritional yeast as yellow powdery flakes.

What is a real individual thing? In the end, if we can model it and we can measure it, it's about as real as anything in our world can be.

You're right, but you assume they have only good effects. They do not, they have negative effects as well.

True. It's perhaps easier to quantify the negative effects because they are measured in dollars. Diversity isn't really measurable in dollars so it takes some value function to compare the two, and that value function is different for everybody.

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Because it's elementary math?

Just because laws do not stop 100% of discrimination from going on doesn't mean that they don't do anything. If it stops 25% of discrimination, it's still doing a lot, and the effects are somewhat cumulative because people are going to become accustomed to seeing more diversity, and companies are having to make greater efforts at compliance to avoid appearing discriminatory. It's hard to prove that laws were a cause, but workplaces are a lot more diverse now than they were in the past. It used to be that flight attendants were just single young ladies, but I see a fair number of men now, and people of various ages.

You know, when people make these arguments ad human nature, I'm pretty sure they are talking about themselves. It's human nature to cheat and steal--I read as--I cheat and steal. It's human nature to only hire white people == I only hire white people. Human nature isn't some unchanging universal thing. Human nature in 1915 was quite a bit more bigoted than human nature in 2015. Laws certainly aren't responsible for the entire shift, or even the majority of the shift, but I do believe they played some part.

You talk about civil liabilities and brand damage to the car company, but actually what that means is that people will die, and the company will calculate how much brand damage is acceptable.

Imagine the face on the poor guy whose computer got owned when ze looks at their internet bill.

The story submitter and/or editors clearly had some agenda here in using a misleadingly suggestive title.