deogeo

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by deogeo 6y ago
And yet Black students are better represented than non-Jewish White students. Princeton vs US demographics (in %), from most to least represented: Princeton US ratio Asian 20.9 5.3 3.94 Jewish 8.0 2.15
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by deogeo 6y ago
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
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by deogeo 6y ago
Of course, when faced with a few loud complainers, you would never consider yourself to be right, and them wrong. You would recognize the folly of your ways, and the wisdom of the crowd that was right all along.
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by deogeo 6y ago
"Software Craftsmanship is Sexist and Must be Scrapped" -- https://medium.com/@alandevlin7/software-craftsmanship-is-se... It seems what he wrote was accurate. What problem do you have with it, specifically?
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by deogeo 6y ago
For the benefit of those less up to date, why don't you link them.
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by deogeo 6y ago
If one digs deeper, one sees that of the 25 university heads, 11 (44%) are Jewish (2% of the US). Meaning of the 25, only 12 (48%) are non-Jewish white (58% of the US) (NYT counted 13, but Jahanian is Iranian, which surely qualifies as a mi
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Racial bias may begin in babies at six months, U of T research reveals(utoronto.ca)
1 points by deogeo 6y ago|0 comments
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by deogeo 6y ago
> But what business does a foreign company have drawing precious resources from a US desert to offset a lack of resources halfway around the globe? Surprisingly nativist rhetoric coming from the Guardian.
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by deogeo 6y ago
> Few tears will be shed for the SAT and ACT exams, even though they were once infamous for causing Harvard to be overpopulated with high-scoring “undesirables” like Jews and Catholics, forcing the school to add letters of reference and
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by deogeo 6y ago
> Another person who signed, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in an effort to stay out of the growing storm, said she did not know who all the other signatories were when she agreed to participate, and if she had, she may not have
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by deogeo 6y ago
That is correct.
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by deogeo 6y ago
While still greatly over-represented ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23764422 ), Hillel tends to over-count Jewish students, according to https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/how-many-jewish-undergraduat...
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by deogeo 6y ago
Only 12% of Harvard students are international: https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics
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by deogeo 6y ago
It's illuminating to also compare Harvard demographics vs the US. Sorted by most to least represented: Jewish: 14.0% vs 2.6% (5.38x) Asian American: 25.3% vs 5.3% (4.77x) Native Hawaiian: 0.6% vs 0.2% (3.00x) Native A
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by deogeo 6y ago
You're correct regarding the law, but I wouldn't be so quick to claim it's not as bad. Suppose a business refused to serve union activists? Environmentalists? Feminists? Suppose many large businesses did so?
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by deogeo 6y ago
Yet the CIA-modern art connection has been confirmed: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_expressionism#Abstrac... https:&#
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by deogeo 6y ago
> Well, first they'd need to be over-represented ;) Not at all - behold, an entire article complaining about too many whites on Harvard [1], despite being the most under-represented group [2]. [1] https://slate.com/b
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by deogeo 6y ago
Claiming Asians in the US have never benefited from privilege implies exactly that, unless you tweak the definition of privilege depending on what group you're judging.
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by deogeo 6y ago
> I didn't say anything about whites. When you say "odds are stacked against" someone, you have to compare to some other group to see what the "default" odds are. And privilege is not limited to the law. If a whi
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Kashmir’s new status could bring West Bank-like demographic change (2019)(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by deogeo 6y ago|1 comments
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by deogeo 6y ago
Slavery is not exclusive to black people either.
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by deogeo 6y ago
Would it also be okay to suggest Asians are over-represented because of unearned Asian privilege? What about suggesting whites are (hypothetically) over-represented because they've made attaining education a priority? Forgive me for no
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by deogeo 6y ago
> Research has pointed out that students are more likely to regard teachers of the same race and ethnicity as role models, and due to proximity to them, put more effort into education and have higher college ambitions. Is this claiming t
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by deogeo 6y ago
Not just STEM - in Harvard too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21130080
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by deogeo 6y ago
> the US’s “holistic” college admissions system, with its baffling-to-foreigners emphasis on “character,” “leadership,” “well-roundedness,” etc. rather than test scores, originated in a successful push a century ago by the presidents of
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by deogeo 6y ago
> in line with the present administration's immigration policies outside of COVID. According to [1], the immigration rate under Trump has slightly increased compared to under Obama, and is at 3x what it was during 1960-1975. So th
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by deogeo 6y ago
No expectation of privacy (arguable, but okay) doesn't imply it's OK to build mass surveillance infrastructure there.
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by deogeo 6y ago
Yes, mass surveillance is A-OK as long as it's not racist .
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by deogeo 7y ago
> John Deere and other manufacturers have made it impossible to perform "unauthorized" repair on farm equipment, which farmers see as an attack on their sovereignty I think this is the key point. All other harms of DRM are just
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by deogeo 7y ago
"Willingly" might be overstating things - Google is expert at misleading privacy notifications, and just like they wouldn't expect the local baker to keep logs of what they buy and when, and sell them to data collectors, mayb

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