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by flopto 9y ago
I couldn't find the story I was looking for but here are a few. Both TSA and CBP represented here; the CBP stories are closer to what the grandparent post describes. These stories describe sexual assault graphically (to various degrees
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by flopto 10y ago
China throttles lots of foreign websites that it doesn't block. It wouldn't be surprising if they target all foreign ssl traffic for throttling too.
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by flopto 10y ago
See the write up here: http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2016-4484/CVE-2016-4484_cryptsetu...
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by flopto 10y ago
Do you have a website? Factr is hard to find on google.
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by flopto 10y ago
> So far, between Oct 10 and Oct 14, 631 stores have been fixed. [0] So it sounds like does a pretty good job of fixing things [0] https://gwillem.gitlab.io/2016/10/14/github-censored-researc...
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by flopto 10y ago
Well, there are the famous ones. I'd bet facebook would have been treated differently if Mark Zuckerberg were black. You also probably automatically make guesses about people's race online. Race is a bit trickier, but it's no
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by flopto 10y ago
1. Able. Not that skin color itself affects any sort of intellectual ability, but race--including, importantly, the experiences people have because of their skin color--definitely impacts who you are and what you are good at. 2. White softw
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by flopto 10y ago
I would argue that it is not just bias. Indeed, not all people of color in the U.S. are experts on racism, but the vast majority of people with a good understanding of racism are people of color.
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by flopto 10y ago
Just a supposition, but from an American (I'm white). I don't think it's a stretch to say that people who have experienced e.g. anti-black racism will be better able to make technology that addresses it.
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by flopto 10y ago
In the U.S., a black software engineer is more likely to be able to design technology that helps keep people safe from police regardless of geekery and socioeconomic status.
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by flopto 10y ago
Planet money's coverage is great; I think a bunch of the posts below would be answered by listening to the podcast. One of the main things I remember taking away from the podcast was that the soloists in the study were not the most fam
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by flopto 10y ago
This is cute. How could you pick e.g. Google-esque adjectives? Is there a corpus of press releases, etc. from lots of big (tech) companies? If so, has anyone done basic comparative word/n-gram frequency analysis of it?
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by flopto 10y ago
I thought you were joking, but apparently I haven't been following this. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is an LLC with no association to any 501c3.
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by flopto 10y ago
TL;DR: 5 qubits as a service. Interact with them on your tablet. From the press release: "The quantum processor is composed of five superconducting qubits and is housed at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. The five-qubit
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by flopto 10y ago
My opinion on this is totally uninformed. A quick search for 'global aquifer depletion' yields "Scientists had long suspected that humans were taxing the world’s underground water supply, but... major aquifers [are] indeed st
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by flopto 11y ago
Those statistics are just false. More reliable numbers are: Blacks killed by blacks: 90% Blacks killed by whites: 8% Whites killed by whites: 82% Whites killed by blacks: 15% Ratio of whites killed by police to blacks killed by
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by flopto 11y ago
Well some people have to work much harder to avoid incarceration.
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by flopto 11y ago
Do you mean the premise that the patriarchy exists?
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by flopto 11y ago
Well, if racism and sexism are real (they are) and person A believes that these are bad, then if person B disagrees with person A, that means person B believes racism and/or sexism are not bad. Language like "racist/sexist&qu
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by flopto 11y ago
Policing perpetuates poverty and thus crime by forcing poor, black men to deal with the criminal justice system from an early age. Court fees, court appearances, civil asset forfeiture, jail time, and property damage from police searches ar
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by flopto 11y ago
> Poor whites and poor blacks are both subject to mass incarceration; though poor blacks are incarcerated at even higher rates. Yes, good to point that out. My argument (implicitly) was that this is a really huge factor which gives poo
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by flopto 11y ago
> Their argument is demonstrative rather than persuasive (although there is a persuasive component, but they expect interlocutors to be familiar with structuralist theory, which is not unreasonable in an academic setting). I think this
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by flopto 11y ago
Poor blacks, unlike poor whites, are subject to mass incarceration. Edit: this is technically incorrect, see dragonwriter below.
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by flopto 11y ago
If people are angry about X and you go up to them and try to tell them how much you like/support X, isn't that what you'd expect? To make people want to engage you in a thoughtful discussion, it's important to demonstrat
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by flopto 11y ago
The school (teachers and students together) recognizes an ideology (patriarchy) that they see as a problem and responds by creating a culture that opposes that ideology, in order to reduce the power of that ideology. I don't see any wa
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by flopto 11y ago
This is a fantastic question, and have been asking myself for a while. It turns out that there a quite a few technology projects that are tackling exactly these problems, addressing these issues technologically is an active area of research
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by flopto 11y ago
As I understand it, another important part of New Zealand's anti-nuclear position is the French bombing of the Rainbow Warrior--a Greenpeace boat en route to protest French nuclear tests--in a New Zealand port. The lack of internationa
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by flopto 12y ago
They're supposed to look hastily-made to reflect the imprecision in the estimates. https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/why_xkcd_style_graph...