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by babesh 6y ago
Yup. You would get a higher percentage of high achieving poor Asian kids. These were the kids held up as model minorities 20 to 30 years ago.
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Standardized testing is not biased against underrepresented minorities. The study that UC commissioned found that performance in the tests correlated with college performance and was not biased. Underrepresented minorities are as a whole no
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It isn’t quite race blind. It is race blind if you pass the initial bar. After that they take subjective things into account like your essay.
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For certain fields, it isn’t possible to get the education without going through the credentialing system or impossible to get a job for it.
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The SAT correlates more to college performance than high school grades. Also the current SAT has been determined to be not racially biased.
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Free speech was protection against conspiracy theories and now the author wants to ban free speech to protect us from conspiracy theories. Sheer nonsense.
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This thesis is crap and is blind to much bigger conspiracy theories that have been going on for thousands of years and that still have much stronger holds on societies than anti mask conspiracy theories. Modern social media did not cause th
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by babesh 6y ago
Most anything you buy at Home Depot can be delivered. If you don’t believe me, just check out homedepot.com and see that most items can be delivered. It just costs money. I have had appliances (fridges, washing machines, dryers), lumber, et
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I was told about 10 years ago that management at Mozilla was a shitshow. They have had layoffs, project cancellations, and internal strife for a long time. Sounds like more of the same.
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Worst
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There is a reshuffling. It’s called death. Just have a reasonable inheritance tax. Artificial failure is nonsensical. It incentivizes failure. You spoke above with venom and hate instead of reason. That is the worse person to trust with pow
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy Not true. It has the highest capacity of any operational rocket.
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Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster begs to differ. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster#/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster
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If you don’t think that content on TikTok doesn’t spread organically then you must be blind to the follow and share mechanisms.
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The potential of short form video was widely recognized at that time. It wasn’t only Vine taking a stab at it. It’s just taken till TikTok to come up with the right formula/execution.
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Vine wasn’t designed right. TikTok is much better designed in terms of content surfacing and content creation.
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The concern is whether the elevated positive tests that we are seeing is due to false positives. This is probably the case if it is the antigen tests that were administered. Thus there was/is an emphasis on positive test rates rather t
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You are biased. Not all billionaires exclude competition. Being a CEO doesn’t mean that you should be thrown in jail. You also assume that the average person or group of average persons controlling a company would be better. There isn’t any
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There is also the realization that money is being devalued. Stocks in profitable and growing companies are more valuable than this money that is being printed. The companies are productive capacity. Not all companies and stocks are doing we
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Look at the root causes of increasing wealth inequality. Today’s global, connected world has allowed the winning of much larger markets than before. It is very similar to how industrialization allowed the accumulation of huge amounts of wea
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Universal healthcare.
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It is not snarky to poke holes. It is snarky to call someone snarky for pointing out issues. You don’t always have to come up with a solution immediately. That would be stupid. Basic income via the printing of money. What do you think those
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Amazon has advanced the efficient distribution of goods more than any company in the last 20 years. One day shipping, easy returns, subscribe and save, photos of the delivery, shipment tracking, etc... The reality is that it is just a lot b
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No it wouldn’t. Why would I prefer you controlling that company versus someone who grew it to its present size?
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Slavery is a competitive construct.
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If the scientist isn’t concerned with going splat and doesn’t do something about it then he or she may not reproduce.
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Many religions rely on the attraction of a truth to blind people to the robbery taking place. Looking solely at one truth blinds you to other truths.
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Black and white was a competitive construct of us and them. It is that simple. Human culture really isn’t more complex than that. It is just strategies and tactics layered atop the same goals animals have.
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Buddhism is a religion (along with many other religions) that allows a minority to brainwash a majority in order to exploit them. Those Buddhist temples don’t build themselves. You offer them afterlife or an end of suffering and in return t
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Airbus

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