reader5000

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by reader5000 8y ago
"Consensus" particularly in complex empirical areas (e.g. are eggs healthy?) is observably in constant flux with various strategic actors exerting heavy influence. For any question more complex than pure math there is always uncer
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by reader5000 8y ago
Words cannot cause physical harm.
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by reader5000 8y ago
What if Amazon began censoring authors of color?
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by reader5000 8y ago
This simply opens up a place in the market for uncensored book sales. If I want an honest search of the web I don't go to Google because they heavily censor and bias their search results. If I want to peruse the true set of literature
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by reader5000 8y ago
Continuity existing between separate categories doesn't mean categories are arbitrary nor artifacts of language. For example adults and children really are separate categories for many important purposes yet there is never a single day
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by reader5000 8y ago
More in depth article from Reich: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/opinion/sunday/genetics-r... .
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by reader5000 8y ago
Most empirical data indicates that white people are arrested and convicted at a higher rate relative to basal offense rate than black people.
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by reader5000 8y ago
There is no convincing evidence that arrest rates "severely" overestimate offense rates; if anything it is just as likely arrest rates underestimate offense rates.
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by reader5000 8y ago
NKoS is definitely worth reading especially if you have "boolean" in your username. And it's mostly pictures anyway.
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by reader5000 8y ago
But I thought the more a degree costs the more it magically increases lifetime earnings?
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by reader5000 8y ago
I'm not sure that China is significantly more prone to censorship than Reddit, if at all.
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by reader5000 8y ago
A lot of these debates ignore that evolutionary success is simply defined as persistence. If population A has 90% infant mortality and lives on $1 day but has genetic descendants 1000 years from now, then they are evolutionarily "bette
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by reader5000 8y ago
Harvard was founded and held by WASPs in the 17th century, was conquered by Jews in the late 20th century, and will be conquered by Asians in the coming decades. There is the interesting question of whether the cultural relevancy of an Asia
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by reader5000 8y ago
Indeed.
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by reader5000 8y ago
Who gets to determine what is "hatred"? The natural upvote/downvote economy of the internet or a self-appointed anonymous class of bigtech mass-censors? When you go on the internet would you prefer to see reality or an artifi
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by reader5000 8y ago
The same reason we should allow modern day sjws a platform to call for the extermination of whites.
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by reader5000 8y ago
Maybe there's a reason a "bad idea" is clickbait.
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by reader5000 8y ago
The letter is encouraging in that it at least softly implies Microsoft applies a First Amendment analysis to take down issues. A First Amendment analysis is much superior and more just compared to the injustice applied to Alex Jones and any
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by reader5000 8y ago
I would disagree. I think selling a person a computer/electricity which they use to make a podcast is as "wildly direct" as selling server hosting (social media platform) for the podcast.
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by reader5000 8y ago
It is an odd situation where Asians are academically superior to Westerners, yet Western academic universities are globally considered more "prestigious" than any Asian university.
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by reader5000 8y ago
The tension between "all non-Anglo culture is unconditionally progressive" versus "we have to pretend linguistic gender is political" is amusing. The meme that the standard English "he", used in the context of
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by reader5000 8y ago
What works for me is purchasing and reading textbooks (look for online college syllabuses for good ones). Probably the best way to read maths texts is to work the problems, but what I do is read it through once or twice. Then switch to a di
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by reader5000 9y ago
Yes, when affirmative action becomes status quo, you get a stable population of whoever you are affirming into the profession. However, that is not removing an explicit form of discrimination but rather introducing one. Certainly, it is qui
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by reader5000 9y ago
I'm not sure about that, for instance the below link claims 91% of victims of sexual assault are female. https://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/publications_nsvrc...
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by reader5000 9y ago
There are more male programmers than female. Please explain how invoking genetic differences explanations is pseudo scientific, whereas invoking systematic discrimination explanations is not pseudo-scientific. Consider: There are more male
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by reader5000 9y ago
>The 'biological differences' argument falls flat because it implies that somehow women changed on a biological level between 1984 and today. Alternatively, that the nature of software work changed.
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by reader5000 9y ago
True but this is the first generation where the young people have to pay up front just for the opportunity to work to pay for the old.
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by reader5000 9y ago
And paying on a mortgage yields a house you can live in. Paying on a student loan yields an ongoing exploitation of older generations on younger generations.
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by reader5000 9y ago
The only poor decision made was for the taxpayer to offer student loans in the first place. This necessitated taking the loans in order to be competitive. Canceling existing student debt does not "reward" people who took the loans
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by reader5000 9y ago
All of this stuff is accessible in real life, and in a fuller way. I don't think missing out on 1000s of hours of Instagram consumption is a particular disadvantage, especially if those 1000s of hours were spent actually hanging out wi

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