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fIoat··on Minority voices ‘filtered’ out of Google Natural Language Processing models
"I don't have a problem with those people, but my grandma/the Chinese market/our stakeholders might, so it is a risk I cannot take."

Same old story, history repeats. We are just cementing the abstract into code.

fIoat··on America's billionaires pay an average income tax rate of just 8.2%
One thing to consider is how having a large amount of stocks allows you to borrow on margin and move other people's money around in ways the less wealthy cannot. I wonder if the aim here is to tax the power, not necessarily the wealth.