MikeUt

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by MikeUt 5y ago
More notable than how they use tangential evidence to debunk a claim (e.g. citing a drop in rape as evidence it's not the rape capital, and comparing the rate of rape in absolute terms, not per-capita), is which part of a claim they
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by MikeUt 5y ago
You mean the time they bought the company that solved protein folding.
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by MikeUt 5y ago
I pointed out (exaggerating only modestly) the absurd amount of benefit of the doubt you're giving the NY Times. If you believe that's an insult, I really can't help you.
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by MikeUt 5y ago
This level of skepticism would find even the Daily Mail as free of bias and agenda.
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by MikeUt 5y ago
And if their ToS are themselves political?
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by MikeUt 5y ago
Even if the algorithm was correct, the remaining staff will now focus on gaming the perceived productivity metrics. We all know what that means for actual productivity.
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by MikeUt 5y ago
Looking at only the college age 20-24 year age group [1], the numbers change as follows: Ivy League US Ratio Jewish* 17.2% 2.1% 8.21 Asian 19.6% 7.1% 2.75 White 33.1% 51.6% 0.64 Hispan
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by MikeUt 5y ago
Any advice on how I could present this data without it becoming a dogwhistle? The edit window is over, but I'll gladly make those changes next time.
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> They're the only small group being considered. Of course they're gonna be "by far" something. Many other small groups have above-average representation in academics. Maybe small in the US as a whole, but in the Ivy
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by MikeUt 5y ago
It's just a trivial excel table. The Hillel sources are a bit tricky to get to - their URLs are: https://hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/brown-universit... http://hillel.org/college-
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by MikeUt 5y ago
The presidents of Yale, Pennsylvania, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and Brown are Peter Salovey, Amy Gutmann, Lawrence Bacow, Lee C. Bollinger, Christopher Eisgruber, and Christina Paxson. They are all Jewish (don't take my word for it
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by MikeUt 5y ago
Maybe they don't believe the data? And it's very tedious to check. If that's the case, I suggest to check the data for a few individual universities. Cornell and Princeton are slight outliers, but otherwise individual univers
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by MikeUt 5y ago
US universities also had a history of trying to exclude Jewish people [1]. I say history, because the practice has by all accounts stopped, and the current situation in the Ivy League [2] is as follows (looking only at non-international stu
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> It’s possible the truth falls somewhere in the middle here. Only if you believe Facebook has authority to decide what users do with the data Facebook shows them on their own machines. I find this suggestion repellent, the same as if I
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14-year-old challenges UK police over secret “non-crime hate incident” lists(reclaimthenet.org)
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by MikeUt 5y ago
I thought one of the main ideals of free software is the user being in charge.
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by MikeUt 5y ago
People can complain about something, without believing it is illegal, and without already having a legislative or other solution for the problem ready. If nothing else, it informs others about Youtube censorship - even the most radical libe
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> What is stopping people from manufacturing a better ice cream machine? Absolutely nothing. I don't understand this ""right""-to-repair movement. Do you think that's a viable solution? When the market fails
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by MikeUt 5y ago
From organization. They can rely on the police to arrest you, you cannot rely that your arrest will be what sparks the revolution that overthrows them. Assuming many people even learn about your arrest - they might be able to find out in th
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by MikeUt 5y ago
How much is this promise worth? In flip-flop, Apple bans app used by Hong Kong protestors - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/apple-approves-t... Apple deliberately places itself in a position tha
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> Government can't just do whatever they want if they also being surveilled. No? Because it seems to me if you're the one with power, you have a lot less to fear from surveillance, than if you're without. Say there's
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by MikeUt 5y ago
Does surveillance make it easier, or harder, to change unjust law, or an unjust government? Or even learn there are injustices being carried out in the first place? Suppose the people of Hong Kong followed your advice, and had allowed surve
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by MikeUt 5y ago
I don't like those responses, because they fundamentally don't address the issue. What if the person is okay with a trustworthy government agent/system seeing them naked, or having a copy of their house key? This way they won
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by MikeUt 5y ago
I'm confused. Other than alerting to small sample size, how can this tool measure bias without knowing what the true distribution is? For example, given a database of violent crime convictions, would it be marked as biased because me
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by MikeUt 5y ago
Isn't it strange? Naively one might expect that as surveillance capabilities grow, laws that mandate cooperation with state surveillance would be relaxed or removed. "We have cameras on every street corner, location data on every
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by MikeUt 5y ago
On the other hand, just recently [1] was posted to HN, that analyzed the frequency of words such as racist, sexist, etc., in major US media, and found: > It is noteworthy that prejudice-denoting words are markedly increasing in prevalenc
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> It is noteworthy that prejudice-denoting words are markedly increasing in prevalence alongside long-term decreases in overt expression of prejudice [6]-[9] yet recent increases in the perceived prevalence of such prejudice among th
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> Gobineau’s hogwash is easily disproven by comparing the health and vitality of endogamic and exogamic communities, that is communities that only breed with their own versus communities that invite outsiders into their genetic pool. End
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by MikeUt 5y ago
Surely "she" should be changed to "they"? It was Hewish who designed the radio telescope that allowed the fine time-resolution needed to detect pulsars, they investigated the signals together, Bell herself uses "we&
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> the authors plagiarized my definition and explanation almost word for word (from my confidential review). Is there any way the authors could have kept your definition, and somehow credited you, even anonymously? Because rephrasing defi

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