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by Gabriel54 2y ago
My most charitable reading of your comment is that the DEI policies were simply grossly misunderstood by the department in this case. Therefore, it would seem that an unintended consequence of DEI policies has been to foster the scenarios
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
Unfortunately I think the problem is much deeper than something that can be fixed with a few memos. I was just Googling for examples and found this "inclusive language guide" from University of Washington [1]: > sanity check (
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
Is this also a lie? From psychology department at University of Washington [1]: > I advise deleting the statement below as it shows that URM [underrepresented minority] applications were singled out and evaluated differently than non-URM
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
If the sentiments expressed in those internal deliberations seem perfectly normal to you, we really do have irreconcilable moral and ethical viewpoints. > breadth of viewpoints gives richer coverage Breadth of viewpoint has nothing int
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
> The nonsense narrative that is being pushed is, without concern for the truth, entirely grounded in the assertion that certain groups are unqualified to do intellectual work (c.f.[3]). Also, I would like to say, I agree with you! Such
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
I'm not happy with what is going on, to be clear. But I am also not surprised that it is happening, and furthermore I don't believe there was any other alternative to this scorched earth war against DEI. If one had any reservati
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
> ...Faculty Diversity Action Plan, a special funding program for diversity-focused faculty hiring, which ran until 2023, when it was restructured and renamed. Created in 2020, the program played a significant role in dictating whom the
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
> Unethical race-based preferences is what those policies have been trying to fix. I understand that that is the stated intention. I also believe they are racist and discriminatory. > Not sure you’re aware of this, but academia used
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
> You think that [it] is based on giving some preference, but it isn't - its based on acknowledging and working to eliminate actual prejudice. I would like to understand your point here. I agree with you that the stated justificati
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
You are speaking on an intellectual level. The comment you replied to is speaking on a practical, political level. If voters do not like what is going on in universities, they will defund them. This is a political reality.
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
Despite all the hyperbole in this thread I will try to speak plainly. It has become tiring to see how DEI has affected all aspects of academia. Hiring people based on race, awarding grants to work exclusively with members of a particular
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
1. There are thousands of universities in the US that are neither R1/R2 nor "historically minority serving". What about those universities? 2. Where did you get the idea that outreach is not still an important priority? T
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
I'm genuinely puzzled by people's reaction to DEI measures. In my experience, they have in many cases been explicitly exclusionary (e.g. a conference only for certain minorities, specific support preferences). I have never heard
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
The SAT is not an IQ test.
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
As someone who once heard, in 11th grade pre-calculus, that pi is a rational number equal to 22/7, I cannot be so surprised that many parents would choose to homeschool their children. Most parents have no idea what is going on in the
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
As someone who (almost!) has a PhD in mathematics I'm going to have to call you out on this point. You are thinking like an engineer and talking about precision, but this is mathematics, not engineering. We make no distinction betwee
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
As someone with a background in mathematics I appreciate your point about cryptography. That said, there is no guarantee that any particular implementation of a secure theoretical algorithm is actually secure.
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
I do not have anything backed up on any cloud servers on any provider. If I had to buy a new phone I would start from a fresh installation and move all of my data locally. It's not that I'm a "luddite", I just couldn&#
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
In response your second question, opt in would look exactly like this: don't have the box checked by default, with an option to enable it: "use this to improve local search, we will create an encrypted index of your data to send s
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
In response to your question in the parent comment, no, I do not use iCloud. And I do not sync any of the things you mentioned here. If someone already consented to using iCloud to store their photos then I would not consider the service
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
I appreciate the explanation. However, I think you do not address the main problem, which is that my data is being sent off my device by default and without any (reasonable) notice. Many users may agree to such a feature (as you say, it m
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
I've flown on almost all of the major airlines in the US and Spirit was always pleasantly better than expected compared to the horrible experiences I've had on other airlines. I don't see why people are bashing on Spirit. F
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
> As Sartre warned, everything changes when you tell a story. Narratives limit our potential. Though we are complex beings, living in a chaotic universe, our stories create the illusion that our lives are ordered, logical and complete. O
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
Forgive me my ignorance, but if I write int foo(int *x) { *x = 0; // wait until another thread writes to *x return *x; } Can the C compiler really optimize foo to always return 0? That seems extremely unintu
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Electric vehicle safety via crash test(kbtx.com)
33 points by Gabriel54 2y ago|52 comments
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US couple blocked from suing Uber after crash say daughter agreed to Uber terms(theguardian.com)
8 points by Gabriel54 2y ago|2 comments
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
That is a perspective I had not thought of. I also suppose that if every rental management company starts behaving like this then it can be difficult for a landlord to find an alternative.
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
Now I see the source of confusion. I think $100 from the perspective of a tenant may be quite a lot (as mentioned a 12.5% increase). However as you said my thesis is from a landlord's perspective $100 is insignificant with all things
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
> Which one is it? Was the increase "substantial" or was it only 100 bucks? A 100 increase over 800 is a 12.5% increase, which is substantial relatively speaking. In my case they wanted 150 over 800 which is an 18.75% increase
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by Gabriel54 2y ago
It is completely anecdotal but in my local experience I've seen the following pattern happen: rent is increased substantially, present tenants move out, no one new applies, unit becomes empty, rent is decreased until someone new finall

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