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by 4bpp 11y ago
> i agree. and this goes both ways. some people start from the axiom that racism/sexism don't exist and modify their interpretation of the data to match that. "There's no pay difference". Yes, of course. Really,
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by 4bpp 11y ago
I think that a lot of people approach these sort of issues by constraint propagation from their political axioms - so for instance if they hold that the total work done by all men must be equally valuable to the total work done by all women
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by 4bpp 11y ago
The word "foist" does imply coercion to do something that is against the target's will or interest. Would you be equally okay with the statement being replaced with "self-sacrificial status climbing is more often foisted
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by 4bpp 11y ago
Everyone seems to be quick to reduce the gender disparity in seniority/paygrade of jobs occupied to a childcare/parental leave/homemaking question, but is there any data for the single, infertile or asexual segment of the pop
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by 4bpp 11y ago
Taking the circumstance that a half of STEM university graduates fail to find a job as evidence that there is no "STEM shortage" seems to be based on a misunderstanding about what it means to be qualified for a STEM job, or perhap
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by 4bpp 11y ago
The new keyboards are pretty good (perhaps even the best) relative to other modern laptop keyboards, but probably wouldn't even have earned a mention eight years ago before the great chiclet revolution... I still can't quite compr
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by 4bpp 11y ago
Well, if the law is set up in such a fashion that you can "keep receipts" and report retroactively to enjoy the full benefits, you would still have an incentive to dredge everything up the moment you retire (and put the extra 4x l
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by 4bpp 11y ago
It is fairly self-evident that we can't get purely self-interested and sufficiently coordinated with anyone who could displace them from their positions (in the sense that they value keeping their own bribes over denying their opponent
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by 4bpp 11y ago
Given that it seems like they analysed real-world data rather than producing synthetic experiments, I wouldn't put too much stock in the findings. For instance, in a hypothetical world where all businesses contributing to Github projec
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by 4bpp 11y ago
I remember seeing Ruby on Rails constantly burning something like 10% CPU even when it was ostensibly only waiting on the machine (though this might be an issue that has been fixed since, I am not particularly optimistic given the day and a
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by 4bpp 11y ago
The concept seems nice and even like something that would be useful for me, but given my past experience with Ruby-based web apps, I have serious doubts my old Athlon XP server box could do a particularly good job of running it... is there
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by 4bpp 11y ago
I wonder if this practice of arming citizens with easily procured long-distance weaponry that in a less stable country would be feared to become useful in a rebellion also could be considered one of the memetic ancestors of modern American
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by 4bpp 11y ago
Right in its headline, the article makes the powerful claim that there is no language instinct (which I assume is to be read as equivalent to "innate language knowledge"). Unless you use some very specific notion of knowledge that
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by 4bpp 11y ago
In addition, as far as I can see, all of its arguments seem to implicitly target some sort of weird strawman version of Chomskian theories. Anyone with more than a passing knowledge of linguistics would know that no syntacticist expects gra
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by 4bpp 11y ago
I don't think any of the research mathematicians I know exhibit a degree of ignorance like the one depicted in the article towards the philosophical underpinnings of their field - the implied attitude towards rigorous proof in particul
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by 4bpp 11y ago
This reminds me of a story I saw a while back about people apparently becoming obsessed with tunnel-digging for its own sake. I can't seem to be able to dig up the story itself, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bu
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by 4bpp 11y ago
What is the rationale behind removing the configuration switch, though? Is there supposed to be some contingent of users who are not sufficiently tech-savvy to be trusted with choosing their own add-ons, but sufficiently tech-savvy to go an
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by 4bpp 12y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the probability that you will become the victim of /any/ crime is that low - rather, I argue that the sort of emotion-arousing crime that almost invariably gets thrown around as an example t
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by 4bpp 12y ago
Yeah, there are good reason why we don't let crime victims organise the investigation or decide the perpetrator's punishment. Crime and law enforcement are not the only consideration in this case; if I'm a journalist or activ
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by 4bpp 12y ago
I think the answer people would be inclined to give to the last question depends a lot on how you formulate it. How about "Is the possibility that a court might decide that a cop should be allowed to see your data a reason to not allow
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by 4bpp 12y ago
Sure, but this is not being disputed. It's just such an obvious proposition that I'd argue making it adds nothing to the discussion, while taking attention away from the counterpoints that would (and slowly conditioning the reader
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by 4bpp 12y ago
I always found examples such as the one with the trucker, which keep getting brought up in this context, extremely disingenuous. The same sort of argument could easily be used for any tactic that ever resulted in anyone being convicted for
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by 4bpp 12y ago
I'd imagine that from the point of view of a Unicode consortium member, the question as to whether to include a particular Bengali glyph some argued to be obsolete looks more like "should we lower the threshold for what characters
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by 4bpp 12y ago
I see how this being a DHS endeavour would give rise to the observations, but why would the offense in question, assuming it is one, be a homeland security rather than FBI or military police matter?
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by 4bpp 12y ago
So why search her only at the border then, rather than obtain a warrant to search her domicile? (Please correct me if this in fact did occur as well.) If this was indeed an investigation passing usual legal requirements with the intent to b
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by 4bpp 12y ago
Is there a legal obligation for warzone journalists to disclose such information if they have it? That would seem like a very dangerous provision - for one, it would provide a strong incentive for the opposite party in an armed conflict to
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by 4bpp 12y ago
The response paper seems to harp a lot on how the circumstance that typically, N_1 and N >> k, precludes any realistic applicability of the original theorem -- but it admits a fairly self-consistent and altogether much more sinister i
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by 4bpp 12y ago
> Randomization improves algorithms. The better intuition is "randomisation fixes algorithms that get stuck for superficial reasons" - if you wrote that instead of the diversity thing as the intuitive conclusion of the Hong and
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by 4bpp 12y ago
Assuming by function you refer to the "agents'" \Phi, where do they make the assumption that it is injective? I see nothing to the effect in the text, and the functions in the counterexample on page 6 are not injective.
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by 4bpp 12y ago
The problem I see with your argument is that it presupposes that "rape culture" exists (and, at one point, that women are an "oppressed group"). Although especially the bracketed statement really does not square with my

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