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by MiroF 7y ago
Worth noting that white people are also underrepresented relative to share of population among elite colleges.
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by MiroF 7y ago
Part of the reason that those numbers aren't explicitly or obviously available is due to the tenuous legal nature - while it may technically be legal, quotas certainly aren't - so better to obfuscate a bit. I'm not sure the &
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by MiroF 7y ago
i think by dominant group s/he likely meant over-represented group
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by MiroF 7y ago
Harvard engages in this sort of "affirmative action" for many different axes, not just race. I think race gets such attention because it's such a charges issue, not because it is the only diversity promotion effort at play.
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by MiroF 7y ago
Yes, but many of those people choose to go to other prestigious schools. If Harvard admitted 50% of applicants, I don't see how you can claim quality wouldn't suffer.
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by MiroF 7y ago
Qualification is a continuum, there is no such thing as "equally as qualified." Regardless, if Harvard accepted 50% of applicants rather than 5%, the student body would not be equally as qualified.
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by MiroF 7y ago
Because there is potentially merit in having institutions that are concentrated with the most talented. Not that it necessarily works out that way in practice, but 10x would entail lowering admission standards.
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by MiroF 7y ago
a. That isn't a supreme court case b. This 1945 precedent is not the standard that most modern antitrust (post-Bell breakup) cases are held to.
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by MiroF 7y ago
Price's law is of questionable empirical validity, it's more like a useful guideline/urban legend. On the other hand, there is substantial economic research demonstrating the harms of monopolies, including vertical ones. I&#x
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by MiroF 7y ago
Likewise, there are probably few shareholders who have spent much time actively considering FBs role in Vietnam. Like it or not, FB has to deal with a tight labor market, and things harming their image mean that they have to pay more for th
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by MiroF 7y ago
Sure, you can examine moral and political philosophy. Nozick has some writing about it, Rawls does, Mill, etc. - it's a whole branch of thought. The benefit of shaping society in a way that you think is good is that you end up with a b
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by MiroF 7y ago
Maybe, although I believe that it's not too hard to have a basic argument about negative v. positive rights. Some people debate and feel passionately about the things they believe. As long as they're making arguments, I am not sur
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by MiroF 7y ago
> structured much more like a think tank and policy center Uh, I agree that the central bank isn't consumer facing - but this is a bit of a stretch. Think tanks don't loan trillions of dollars.
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by MiroF 7y ago
Even if it's small, this will hurt hiring at the margin. I make job/offer selection choices based on considerations like these especially if the pay is comparable, although I have some tolerance for behavior I don't agree wit
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by MiroF 7y ago
Most theories of the good hold that you are certainly entitled to things just for being born - take your life for instance. Your alternative conception is far outside the norm.
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by MiroF 7y ago
I don't follow, this seems like even less of an incentive to do due diligence.
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by MiroF 7y ago
My understanding was that GP was suggesting a change in the function of the central bank. Did you have a different interpretation?
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by MiroF 7y ago
> I doubt most shareholders care about that at all. Feeling good vs making money? You don't see a connection between Facebook's recruitment of engineering talent and Facebook making money? It's almost as if you didn't
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by MiroF 7y ago
This hurts their engineer recruitment in the US - which isn't in the shareholders best interest.
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by MiroF 7y ago
This is fair, and what you do is essentially the same as what I do and I am also mostly biking in urban cores. That said, I think that we can't just place the onus on bikers to both ignore the drawn on bike lane lines and also to bike
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by MiroF 7y ago
> My "solution" to this problem is to carefully but fully occupy the bike lane before making such a turn. Yeah, it's illegal, and draws lots of swearing (and worse) from bicyclists. But there's just no other good way
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by MiroF 7y ago
> it's extremely uncommon that you have to put yourself in a position that you can be right hooked I'm not so sure. I think there are definitely things to do that can make you avoid the vast majority of these incidents (don&#x2
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by MiroF 7y ago
Yes, this is very common in Cambridge. I think it is a good idea and generally makes me feel pretty safe.
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by MiroF 7y ago
> At least 1 person has died. Far more people have died from the right hook, it's biking's "most feared crash." You have to constantly watch out for oblivious drivers.
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by MiroF 7y ago
> even then it's effectively suicide to try and use certain bike lanes and everyone just has this communal knowledge. As a lifelong city biker, I am curious what exactly you are talking about. Certainly, there are some roads where y
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by MiroF 7y ago
Sure, just anecdotally this is my first time running into this so it might be that capacity issues are particularly acute right now. Even that article states that there hadn't been any service disruptions in the US up to now, but I am
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by MiroF 7y ago
Azure is also refusing to allocate me capacity - I'm wondering if this is a general MSFT outage?
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by MiroF 7y ago
I'm curious how all of these people claiming that Covid is at 0.1% or something close reconcile the fact that it has been the leading cause of death in the United States for multiple days ... and that's without most parts of the c
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by MiroF 7y ago
Yes, and the evidence isn't suggestive of anything close to 0.1%. If it's less than 1%, it is still quite high.
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by MiroF 7y ago
"only rational"? Based on what? It seems like there is always an intrinsic value judgement here because reopening for young people means more old people will die, even with isolation. That's maybe a necessary cost to pay, but

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