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by chuckee 5y ago
Totally unrelated: Diversity statements required for one-fifth of academic jobs: https://freebeacon.com/campus/study-diversity-statements-req...
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by chuckee 5y ago
You seem awfully sure. I was able to find only one study that directly compared crime, race, and income group: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/23/poor-... Unfortunately the
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Which happens because black people are overrepresented when it comes to crime, which happens because they are overrepresented in being poor as dirt. Have you tried to confirm this hypothesis, by for example looking at studies that exam
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by chuckee 5y ago
Yes, Western journalism is famous for uncritically praising the West, holding it up as the realization of a perfect, flawless ideal, to which all other societies can only aspire to. But when it comes to those other societies, the headlines
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by chuckee 5y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29254468
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by chuckee 5y ago
What's most painful is that an email client would silently degrade files sent with it. A typical case of "we know better than the user". Which client did they use?
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by chuckee 5y ago
> A whopping 43% of white students weren’t admitted on merit. One might call it affirmative action for the rich and privileged [..] benefits that white people are now supposedly [emphasis mine] left out of Funny how the article is enti
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by chuckee 5y ago
> such authority Key word "such". Prescribing which certificates I am obligated to trust is many many steps beyond e.g. banning DRM circumvention (which is itself a step too far IMO).
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by chuckee 5y ago
> In a nutshell, the revised Article 45 would force browsers to suspend the ‘root store’ policies that are essential for maintaining trust and security online. [..] At the same time, the types of website certificates that browsers woul
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by chuckee 5y ago
Tying a financial product with a web browser? I see MS has been hard at work finding innovative new ways to respect user browser choice. Next step: Guaranteed skipping automated job application filters for CVs written using MS Word.
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by chuckee 5y ago
Also The Guardian: Immigrants needed to save west from crisis - Italy pays the price for a declining population, as the UN warns that worse is to come for developed world - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/ma
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by chuckee 5y ago
Do you think math education needs an overhaul so it sets up more students for success and is more useful for work and life? Or do you think the way math is taught should largely stay the same? "Do you think we should make things bett
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by chuckee 5y ago
It seems to me all it needs to assume is that genetic* ancestry/ethnicity matters - i.e. it has some effect beyond just appearance (if you think caring about appearance is illegitimate). Could you explain why all those other strict ass
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by chuckee 5y ago
> is a conspiracy theory about how You mean a conspiracy theory about why . Though the article does not dispute that demographic changes are taking place, or even that they are the result of deliberate changes of immigration policy, it
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Letter from a Reader: My New Therapist(freddiedeboer.substack.com)
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by chuckee 5y ago
> If you don't want to pay a million quid for a house in London, refuse the game. Move elsewhere. Find a different way to get by in life, perhaps even a different country. People did exactly what you suggest. And the country they mo
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by chuckee 5y ago
> In 2014, another internal report, titled “Feed ranking is good,” summarized the results of tests that found allowing users to turn off the algorithm led them to spend less time in their news feeds, post less often and interact less. Ul
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by chuckee 5y ago
And someone might "spy" on a whistleblower that leaked an incriminating video, by issuing a warrant for the media fingerprint [1], and finding which TV was used to view the leaked footage. Google doesn't "spy" on yo
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by chuckee 5y ago
> And a lot of people knows this. So for the past few years it turns out plenty of people are willing to sell their watching habits for a cheaper TV. Because every TV has all the ways it spies on you listed as prominently as the price? A
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by chuckee 5y ago
Is it user hostile to prevent the user from speeding? From parking in front of a fire hydrant? From driving to an illegal gathering? All of those can result in jail and death ( including the last one, as those protest epidemic studies can
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by chuckee 5y ago
> The discussion offers a glimpse into how criminal trials are affected by a judge's unfamiliarity with technology—even when that technology is a common consumer feature that's grasped intuitively by millions of people of all a
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by chuckee 5y ago
Is this the first legally mandated user-hostile feature? Will it be the last?
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by chuckee 5y ago
> to know what I am missing out on. You mean to know which stories they choose to fact check. Just like media (necessarily) choosing which stories to report and which to ignore or downplay, it's all too easy to turn fact checking it
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by chuckee 5y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29172979
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by chuckee 5y ago
Sorry for the miscommunication. Yes, you are technically correct. I did not mean to imply that the border is literally not being enforced at all. Only that the enforcement is deliberately undercut to make it ineffective. I believe the news
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by chuckee 5y ago
Directly addressing a claim made in the post I replied to (police manipulation/bias of statistics) is not "moving past" anything. You're welcome to continue onto ever more abstract or systemic claims of racism and bias,
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by chuckee 5y ago
New Guidance Bars Immigration Enforcement in ‘Protected Areas’ -- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/us/politics/biden-immigra... Migrants were encountered 1.7 million times in the last 12 months
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by chuckee 5y ago
Raytheon lobbyists find a safe space in NY Times foreign policy pages: https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/on-afghanistan-withdrawal-n... As for this article: His unfounded claim that electronic voting machines will be r
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by chuckee 5y ago
A moment ago the conversation was about violent crime and "over-policing creates racist bias in crime data". Now it's about laws treating corporate crimes more leniently. You raise good points, and use them to deftly move pas
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Basingstoke 'It’s okay to be white' posters spark investigation(bbc.com)
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