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by Anechoic 12y ago
We know what top universities would look like if they selected purely for academics. They would look like CalTech. Again, this isn't true. Caltech considers race, legacies (this is recent), work experience and volunteer experience (a
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MLK said this in his famouse speech MLK also said: "Whenever the issue of compensatory treatment for the Negro is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree; but he should ask noth
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For example, the UC system in California is currently prohibited by law from discriminating by race in admissions. But we know they're doing it anyway by looking at the statistics of the students they keep admitting. Do "we know
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This is not true according to CalTech's Common Data Set filings [0] (see section C7) [0] http://finance.caltech.edu/Resources/cds
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and yes, I believe the default phrase for the voice login option was "my voice is my passport." It was actually "my voice is my password " not "passport."
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under the assumption that both teams inflated their balls to a similar psi, under the same inflation conditions There are zero reasons to believe those assumptions are true. or some reason the Pats balls (at a home game) reacted differen
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you have to wonder why they didn't correct the pressure. AFAIK, teams are not allowed to reinstall balls during the game, refs can, but they obviously didn't detect it until they measured the pressure at halftime. Quarterbacks
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You are certainly speculating quite a bit here, no? Speculation is all there is at this point. All we know is that the Pats balls were under the NFL regs when measured at halftime and the Colts balls were not. We have no detailed informat
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I was being self deprecating - you can see from my other post in this thread and from my gameday Twitter posts ([0] for example) that I'm an NFL/Patriots fan. [0] https://twitter.com/Anechoic/status/55838
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For those of you who aren't keeping up with the up to the minute minutae of the New England Patriots (American football team) scandal (presumably because you have lives), head coach Bill Belichick gave a press conference a few hours ag
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Danny Woodhead: 0 fumbles with NY Jets in 2009-2010 (didn't play much), 1 fumble with NE Pats from 2010-2012, 1 fumble with SD Chargers 2013-2014 (did not play full year with SD in 2014 due to injury, but had many more attempts in 2013
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it's probably the strongest evidence I've seen so far that there has likely been a persistent rules violation. That's only true if ball inflation tracks with fumbles. There have been lots of assertions that's the case,
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I might be wrong on this, but I recall a hearing specialist advising me not to use earbuds at all, or at least limit the use to max 1 hour at a time. The issue isn't necessarily about all "earbuds," the issue is that many e
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Piggybacking off bcRIPster (now down voted) post, I'd be curious to know the race of the teen author and if the preferences he observed are the same across others with different ethnic and racial background. Among my 30-something and
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No, the police do not report any shooting statistics. The numbers we have are based on press reports, but police are not required to report to any central authority (DOJ or FBI) about how or when their officers shoot someone.
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German police will often (successfully!) shoot to disable, not to kill, even when confronted by someone armed with a knife. Do you have a link or cite that German police shoot to disable? Five minutes of Googling didn't turn up anyth
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The money saved by shutting down the long haul routes could go a long way toward the maintenance and repair issues that hold back on-time performance in the northeast corridor. Amtrak agrees and they've been trying to shut down a lot
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Why not contoured more like a sound testing room What exactly to you mean by "contoured"? If you're referring to the large wedges you see in anechoic chambers or foam panels you might see in recording studios, those are abs
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Before this post gets flagged into oblivion, let me bring this back to a subject that may hold a little more for many of the tech types that read this site: Aaron Swartz. I'm reminded of a comment a made a couple of years ago [0] when
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We were talking about male-only conferences, Specifically you mentioned "male only conferences, universities or network groups", and I mentioned "support groups, outreach groups, and scholarship programs." You're
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Here's two. Sorry I don't have time to find more right now. In any event, you admit that outreach exists for female-dominated fields, that would appear to go against the notion that [support] groups for other female dominated fiel
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The idea to create male only conferences, universities or network groups for psychologists and veterinaries is seen as a bad joke that no one would ever take seriously, That is absolutely false. Yes, there are a number of professions domi
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It's a filing from a plaintiff that is not Caltech . That plaintiff ("Students For Fair Admissions, Inc") is making an assertion without a citation. Given that sentence contradicts a filing made by Caltech (their annual Co
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I don't know what to tell you - there is no cite for that claim in the filing, and Caltech's own CDS filings say that they do consider race. Is there any statement from Caltech that says they do not consider race in admissions?
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There is a difference, but it's not necessarily large for deep drilling. Once you start drilling large diameter holes deep into the ground, you have to shore up that hole to prevent it from collapsing in on itself. For wells or expia
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Yes, but that is true of Caltech as well.
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MIT and Stanford both use race as a significant factor in making admission decisions. What language in that brief makes you conclude that MIT and Stanford both use race as a "significant" factor (at least as compared with Caltec
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Not true according to CalTech's CDS filing (see my other post upthread).
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who were admitted to the California Institute of Technology, a school that doesn’t use racial preferences. FWIW, this line from the article is wrong, according to CalTech's CDS statements over the last decade or so: http:/&#x2F
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2nd Avenue subway [0] requires about 8.5 miles worth of tunnels (several hundred feet of which were already dug back in the 70's) and it's budget is $17 billion. Of course that whole cost isn't just for digging tunnels, but i

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