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by darkroasted 10y ago
This is really neat, although it does not look slick enough to replace my own hacky word-around: What I have been doing is creating a separate Chrome application launcher for my different life contexts -- http://lifehacker.com&#x
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by darkroasted 11y ago
There is a problem with how parents are involved with their kids education. This is being too harsh on parents. My parents were very much involved with my own brother's education. They tutored him, got him extra help, set up incentiv
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by darkroasted 11y ago
The existence of people like Jessica is not just something the mainstream media needs to learn to acknowledge, but something feminists need to learn to acknowledge as well. There are successful women who don't like to fight. There is
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How College Works: A First Appreciation(blogs.swarthmore.edu)
1 points by darkroasted 11y ago|0 comments
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by darkroasted 11y ago
I didn't answer your question because it was not germane to the discussion. Whether or not there is are innate differences in tendency, behavior is quite malleable via the proper culture, institutions, and law enforcement. But if you r
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by darkroasted 11y ago
There is a saying that every generation is invaded by a horde of savages -- they're called children. Humans are savage by default, civilization is not natural. It took generations to build the institutions, the social mores, the web of
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by darkroasted 11y ago
Honest question: how familiar are you with the actual history of these problems, and the actual situation on the ground? Have you read anything beyond standard zeitgeist sources (sociology classes, NYTimes, Economist), etc? The dominant soc
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by darkroasted 11y ago
Um, from taking walks a few blocks from my apartment and doing volunteering in such communities. Also just reading the local news. Also reading lots of ethnographies. Go read American Millstone ( http://www.amazon.com/America
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by darkroasted 11y ago
Only .7% of those in prison are there for marijuana possession as their only crime - https://www.ncjrs.gov/ondcppubs/publications/pdf/whos_in_pri... And among those possession could mean as much as 100 pounds
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by darkroasted 11y ago
I don't understand how no one talks about the systemic, generational poverty that a large proportion of the US black population lives in. It's just incomprehensible to me how people can't see how this leads to crime. Becaus
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by darkroasted 11y ago
I feel like you're ignoring a whole host of variables with a reductionist statement like "they commit more crimes proportionally". First of all, how do you compare what "more crimes" is proportionally? Different co
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by darkroasted 11y ago
" Why is prison even considered for young people? " Here are some crimes I've seen in the news: * A man was shot and killed during a robbery while he was getting robbed. He begged for them to not shoot him and they put one mo
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by darkroasted 11y ago
I thought those movies were "sweet nerd girl gets the hot guy by being secretly hot"? There were those too, there were both types of movies. You seem to have some very absolute beliefs (eg. Women are attracted to strength and c
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by darkroasted 11y ago
Seriously. The amount of "2+2=5" type writing in the New York Times is truly incredible.
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by darkroasted 11y ago
should have never been a male/female differentiator. Sorry, you'll have to take up that one with the big guy upstairs. The truth is, if you cry, women will be less attracted to you. They will think you are nice and sweet and the
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by darkroasted 11y ago
As an American, I've sometimes been bothered by the use of thank you. It is fine as a pleasantry at a restaurant. But it always felt odd coming from a boss or from the company CEO. I think to myself, "I didn't do this piece o
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“Thank You” in Hindi and English Mean Very Different Things(theatlantic.com)
162 points by darkroasted 11y ago|153 comments
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by darkroasted 11y ago
What makes a white neighborhood more "nice" than black neighborhoods, outside of the crime rate or the people that live there? Why is Roxbury/Dorchester in Boston "less nice" than Saugus? Dorchester has great homes,
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by darkroasted 11y ago
Also Edwardian England is a compelling counter-example. Read "The Classic Slum" by Robert Roberts. British society around 1900 was massively unequal and lots of people were desperately poor. But their homicide rates were 100X lowe
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by darkroasted 11y ago
They used to have a lot more control, now barely any. Hence the rising illegitimacy rates across the board, for all races. Shared environment still matters a lot. One father has a limited impact on his own daughter. But if the community has
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by darkroasted 11y ago
"To argue that what culture they have is simply handed to them by the "blue tribe" liberals is shockingly ignorant and condescending." I will not deny the charges of being condescending and privileged, though personall
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by darkroasted 11y ago
It's a structural issue and is very hard to fix. Men, everywhere, do what is needed to get sex. If women and the institutions of society do not require a commitment from the man in order to have children, then men will not give such a
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by darkroasted 11y ago
" The family structure breakdown among the poor is directly, painfully correlated to the high incarceration rate. Absent fathers are absent because they're in jail, or expect they will be sooner or later, or because they're a
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by darkroasted 11y ago
Why is that? Is it because of externally imposed social structure issues (the consequences of racism), or is it because of internal nature (blacks are less intelligent and moral than whites)? Hypothesis #1: Blacks are the pawns in an ongo
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by darkroasted 11y ago
Well, in a "wealthy" community, generally the police are members of the community. They live nearby, go to the same schools, etc. So all policing in a sense is self-policing. There is much less of a sense of the police being the &
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Revelations about urban crime and policing in 'Ghettoside'(csmonitor.com)
1 points by darkroasted 11y ago|0 comments
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by darkroasted 11y ago
It's not just the Warren Court, the other big problem is witness intimidation and the "don't snitch" ethic makes it very hard to convict people for murder, so drug cases are used as a proxy. From "Ghettoside: A True
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by darkroasted 11y ago
Do you really think it's random happenstance that urban blacks get arrested for experimenting with drugs in a way that suburban whites do not? It's more complicated than that. Police are actually much more tolerant of open-air&#
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by darkroasted 11y ago
I posted this because it is an interesting view, and it was written in 1913 and so a lot the ideas here got picked up and included in ideas of economics since then. But I do have some major disagreements with the author: " Credit and d
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by darkroasted 11y ago
Heh. The funny thing is that in a way everything on that page makes a lot of sense. If you take mainstream feminist and egalitarian ideology at its face value, and then you look at how things actually play out in the real world, then someth

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