AinderS

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by AinderS 4y ago
Not really censorship, but it is fishy.
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The last thing you want is for a nuclear armed country to think "we can launch a few nukes - our missile defense will shield us from retaliation".
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> working to improve the legislation You mean like what the Pirate Parties, FSF, EFF, Mozilla, and countless others are trying to and failing? I never thought I'd see "well we have no political power to change things, but as di
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by AinderS 4y ago
Suppose some had. Almost every paper has some shortcomings on which it can be validly criticized. But how much criticism those shortcomings generate, and if that criticism results in a retraction or academic censure, depends on if the paper
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> If you went to a campus and captured 2 such pictures of people at random Yes. But if a Washington Post photographer went (or chose the pictures), it's vanishingly uncommon. A duckduckgo image search, limited to washingtonpost.com,
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A search for "uk phd graduate" or "uk university students" likewise yields exceedingly diverse results.
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> While this has zero bearing on the reality of human evolution It does have bearing. It is proof by example that biology and evolution does not rule out such a possibility. For the actual paper in question, it is proof that such an ou
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Interesting. Although US graduate students are only 53% white [1] (while the US is 57.8% white [2]) and women account for 53% of doctoral degrees [3], all 5 of the people in the generic stock photos in the article are white males, despite m
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Everything is a chuckle if you replace phrases like "plausible evolutionary mechanism" with "pachinko machine".
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You're looking at it with the benefit of filtered hindsight. How many other things were they also told? They had to distribute their investigative efforts to what they reasonably thought were the most likely culprits. Once those didn
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If a platform is big enough, it will write one-sided contracts permitting their abuse.
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> EVERY ONE OF THE 12 [editors] is a scholar of gender or race. [..] Of the 12, only 1 of them has actually published an article in the APSR prior to actually running APSR. I'd prefer the article's prose was more moderated, but
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> Because people want to know why they were considered to be spamming. You're arguing against a suggestion no-one has made. I'm proposing to tell them what they did wrong, not how they were caught.
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The article makes it seem like this is relegated to the past, but changing names to ones that sound less Jewish is still common. Some examples: Steven Jay Ross (born Steven Jay Rechnitz), CEO of Time-Warner Sumner Murray Redstone
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> "Transparently" has major issues for dealing with bad actors So I've been told. What I haven't been told is how telling a spammer that they were banned for spamming (instead of the opaque "breaking terms of s
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Or just prevent driving entirely after curfew/to areas where illegal protests are being held/if there is a warrant out for your arrest. Once your car taking orders from someone else is normalized, anything can happen.
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> This isn't a problem of talent or creativity. It's a matter of how we define "art." That definition both can and should change, as it has done over centuries. The problem in 2022 is that there is no definition at al
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Answer: everyone and everything except the designers and art and architecture schools pushing this modernist minimalism. But don't dare go against them. Even just giving voters a say in what tax dollars are spent on (ignoring that even
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It's time to legally compel platforms above a certain (modest) size to treat their customers and users "fairly", transparently, and without discrimination. Because giving a competitive advantage (from economies of scale) to a
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> It's why I work at the intersection of the two fields. Sounds fascinating. May I ask which field that is/what type of work you do?
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Energy charter treaty makes climate action nearly illegal in 52 countries(theconversation.com)
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by AinderS 5y ago
> A number of recent studies have shown the increasingly detrimental ways that porn affects young people, including that children as young as seven are unintentionally stumbling across it online. A PSHE (personal, social, health and