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by poster123 8y ago
This is an awful idea. The high crime rate in Chicago is due to lots of idle men, and handouts just encourage more people not to work. The unemployment rate is 4%, and it has rarely been easier to get a job.
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by poster123 8y ago
Driving a taxi is a last-resort job. It may flatter people with safer jobs to attribute racism to taxi drivers, but instead they should try to understand their decision-making. From a 1997 column by black economist Thomas Sowell: https:&#x
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by poster123 8y ago
Does the author never ride in a car or shop in a strip mall or box store? Life is much better than it was a hundred years ago, and the author should read some books by Julian Simon. "looking out the window with her at the rows of cars
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by poster123 8y ago
Interesting. I do think that any machine learning study of time series should present a statistical time series model such as ARIMA as a benchmark.
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by poster123 8y ago
The leaders of Iran have called for the destruction of Israel many times, so of course Israel will do what it can to thwart the nuclear weapons program of Iran.
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by poster123 8y ago
"In the U.S., Facebook is 3.5 percent black, compared to just 2 percent in 2014, and 4.9 percent Latinx compared to 4 percent in 2014. White people, unsurprisingly, still makes up the single largest population of employees (46.4 percen
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by poster123 8y ago
Good for Kylie Jenner. Bruce Jenner has six children with three successive wives: Chrystie Crownover, Linda Thompson, and Kris Jenner (Wikipedia). There is what you you are supposed to believe and say about the transgendered, and there is p
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by poster123 8y ago
The $225 fee seems high, but nowadays it is easy to start a social media campaign encouraging people to complain, and I don't want the government to spend a lot of money responding to every single complaint. Ultimately the most effecti
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by poster123 8y ago
Because there is a lot of political correctness in the tech world?
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by poster123 8y ago
Then the quoted sentence in the article is off-topic. In general, the NYT is trying to build a case for discrimination based on flimsy evidence of discrimination, as I pointed out.
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by poster123 8y ago
I thought this part below was interesting. We know that the most selective schools weigh non-academic factors, and many well-off parents are not willing to pay $75/K for a "name" school, so it's reasonable to replace a s
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by poster123 8y ago
I wonder why my comment was downvoted. If you start a thread, are you not supposed to make a comment saying why you think the linked article is important?
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by poster123 8y ago
The paper can be downloaded from https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2018/preliminary/paper/ShD... . From the abstract: "We find robust evidence that exposure to teacher collective bargaining laws wor
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The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining(nber.org)
1 points by poster123 8y ago|3 comments
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by poster123 8y ago
According to the article, violent criminals, such as a "fugitive murder suspect", have been apprehended using facial recognition technology. It is not clearly dystopian to me to have a society where criminals are always caught --
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by poster123 8y ago
Where does this basic income come from? If everyone is entitled to a basic income as a matter of right, that means others must be coerced into handing over the fruits of their labor. When the government no longer serves to defend people and
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by poster123 8y ago
Since lions kill to eat, their killing is not "wanton". By wanton I mean just for the fun of it.
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by poster123 8y ago
I strongly disagree. I am atheist but have no doubt that wantonly killing people (or for that matter, animals) is morally wrong. Empirically, I don't think atheists are much more likely than theists to commit crimes.
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by poster123 8y ago
According to many religions, there are many kinds of consensual sex that are morally wrong. Is every person who believes in the teachings of such a religion a bigot?
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by poster123 8y ago
I think the discussion in the article of how to define perversion is interesting. Nowadays it is difficult to say that certain consensual sexual practices are morally wrong without being condemned as a bigot.
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by poster123 8y ago
The atrocities of the first nations against white settlers should also not be whitewashed.
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by poster123 8y ago
Papers by Balkanski, one of the co-authors, including the one discussed, "An Exponential Speedup in Parallel Running Time for Submodular Maximization without Loss in Approximation", are at http://ericbalkanski.com/
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by poster123 8y ago
White Americans progressively pushed the American Indians off of their land, and in reaction, there were many cases where the American Indians responded by slaughtering the families of white American settlers -- not just the men but non-c
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Silicon Valley’s Giants Take Their Talent Hunt to Cambridge(nytimes.com)
4 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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by poster123 8y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17440931 .
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by poster123 8y ago
I agree that Matlab has a right to be paid for its product, but it is still nice to have a free alternative.
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by poster123 8y ago
A C++ that broke backward compatibility would force many developers to go through the "weird mess" of their code base making corrections. I think that C++ standards committee should not break working code and that people who value
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by poster123 8y ago
There are a lot of engineers and financial quants using Matlab, and the Octave project makes a lot of that Matlab code usable without an expensive Matlab license.
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by poster123 8y ago
The vast majority of Americans oppose open borders, and there is nothing inherently wrong with providing services to the government agency that enforces our immigration laws.
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by poster123 8y ago
For each course on a transcript, the average grade earned should be shown, so that the reader can adjust grades earned for easy or harsh grading. It would be nice to see the average SAT or ACT score in the class too, to see if the "har

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