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by bsanr 5y ago
You're the only person in this conversation who seems to get it, and I just want you to know how thankful I am that you haven't been afraid to express these thoughts. I think that you're right, that the person you've bee
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by bsanr 5y ago
>If you want a better internet, you might stop and think about the fact that it is built by people and people need to eat. De facto expecting slave labor from some people and then designing an internet where those people can hijack your
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by bsanr 5y ago
>Who aren’t Africans, but for the most part are of mixed background of Africans and Europeans in the last 500 years. Again, broad pronouncements like this square... strangely... with my skin color and facial features. I think you'll
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by bsanr 5y ago
I understood what you said. This post is simply a reiteration of statements I've already addressed. If you did not mean to make racially-charged statements, you should reassess how you talk about your views in the future, because - and
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by bsanr 5y ago
That's... quite the statement to make with a straight face.
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by bsanr 5y ago
>No, the trace levels of Neanderthal DNA in Africans is very unlikely to change by gathering more diverse range of cohorts. Black Americans? Broad pronouncements like this square... strangely... with the ginger whiskers I see every time
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by bsanr 5y ago
>Considering how much worse off African Americans are socio-economically, on average, than white Americans, it's a no-brainer that their kids end up worse off on average as well. It's worse than that. There's something abo
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by bsanr 5y ago
>The idea in education is that everyone is intellectually equal. Therefore the racial achievement gap in mathematics is due to racism. The solution is to change things. I'm at a loss as to how you might construe these statements, wh
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by bsanr 5y ago
It was not the fact that they were black. It was the fact that, as a black student, I was not subject to the same warped expectations that I found common while taking higher-level courses under some of my white teachers. Not every white tea
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by bsanr 5y ago
This contributed to my later success, but it generally would not - and, to my recollection, doesn't - explain the massive jump in grade. The main difference was a more conscientious teacher and an environment that facilitated better st
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by bsanr 5y ago
>I will admit that the solution is not so simple as my anecdote might suggest So, no. Please read carefully and avoid kneejerk responses.
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by bsanr 5y ago
I disagree that "too many" people are going to college. That's a canard which defends the artificial exclusivity of education. The vast majority of people are capable of learning algebra, and geometry, and calculus, and in a
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by bsanr 5y ago
>The idea in education is that everyone is intellectually equal. Therefore the racial achievement gap in mathematics is due to racism. The solution is to change things. If we're going to go there: I went from being a straight-A math
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by bsanr 5y ago
They're ads that aren't clearly identified as ads, and they've covered most of the frontpage. That's not journalism, and if any major newspaper did this, it would be outrageous.
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by bsanr 5y ago
The link is just to The Verge's home page because I think it speaks for itself, at least as of posting on the Saturday after Black Friday 2021.
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Affiliate marketing has destroyed tech journalism(theverge.com)
5 points by bsanr 5y ago|8 comments
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by bsanr 5y ago
At the end, the author muses that he is too close, temporally, to the end of the Bush administration to determine how Polybius' thoughts on the political role of religion held true for it. It's been 12 and a half years since this
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Polybius on State and Religion (2009)(harpers.org)
1 points by bsanr 5y ago|1 comments
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by bsanr 5y ago
I'm still not convinced of the wisdom of carrying water for these things which ultimately triggered catastrophe, through the backlash to their excesses. It's not a matter of there being no virtue in one side and no fault in the ot
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by bsanr 5y ago
$FOO is bad because $FOO's faults have tended to create anti-$FOO people. Further: these faults also tend to drive anti-$FOO people to violence - often not even simply as a matter of course, but as an explicit strategy. In almost every
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by bsanr 5y ago
There is a reason that my issue with the essay is presented as one that maps to rhetorical phenomena similar to the one specifically in question. It's because the central issue is the repetition - the ubiquity - of Capitalism and Weste
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by bsanr 5y ago
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by bsanr 5y ago
Much appreciated.
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by bsanr 5y ago
You have a curious definition of the words "vicious" and "radicalized". Would you agree or disagree that characterizing Communist regimes as such, within a Communist regime, would have gotten me killed?
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by bsanr 5y ago
If you can show me a passage which seems to indicate sightedness, perhaps it can serve as an antidote. I think I deserve an expansion of the accusation of willful zealotry on my part, at least.
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by bsanr 5y ago
It's frustrating to me that my potential enjoyment of this piece, lauded as it is by several of the comments that are already here, was poisoned by the introduction. I imagine that >I ran to visit my friend Yet, who lived in the vil
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by bsanr 5y ago
>In what sense is Japan "internationalist"? Japan has scarce natural resources. It's also situated on an archipelago. Without international (and, importantly, overseas) trade, it ceases to exist as an industrial civilizati
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by bsanr 5y ago
Could be both. I think it's both. What I don't understand is the vociferousness of the detraction. This community loves Capitalism; crypto is just Capitalism Capitalisming. We've had snake oil salesmen and door-to-door salesm
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by bsanr 5y ago
Nothing. This is a canard, though, because the fundamental nature of blockchain technology allows a potential buyer (or anyone, really) to verify the provenance of an NFT. It's then up to the buyer to verify that the NFT originated in
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by bsanr 5y ago
No, that's not correct. deviantArt and similar platforms have been around for years, and none of them have created the kind of income that NFT marketplaces have. Those older platforms were decent as communities, but their marketplaces

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