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by chmod600 3y ago
Why should all talents be treated equally? Surely a university might care more about some talents than others, and I don’t think that’s necessarily a problem. Money in sports distorts things, to be sure, but that doesn’t mean that everyone
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by chmod600 3y ago
If I were not concerned about fairness at all, I’d say that universities are a place to collect together a combination of people that are likely to succeed. Maybe that’s a combination of intellectuals and engineers and scientists and rich p
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by chmod600 3y ago
Did the recent Affirmative Action decision say how public/private factor in? At the extreme, if it’s a private club, I imagine they could use any criteria (fair or not, including race) but I suppose private universities aren’t the same
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by chmod600 3y ago
“…it's easier to discuss whether it will increase consumer choice, or make entering and competing in markets easier for new companies.“ But then you also need to discuss the government power structures you need to put in place to creat
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by chmod600 3y ago
That would be a great cartoon. For what it’s worth, I don’t like a lot of government meddling. Not because the free market is so great but because the meddling works out poorly and is subject to worse kinds of corruption and power games.
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by chmod600 3y ago
I am not quite sure what tipped me off, but I suspected something was off in the first paragraph or two and went to Wikipedia. I think it just seemed out of place, like someone bringing up a topic in a forced way. Kind of “trying too hard”.
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by chmod600 3y ago
What would we have done differently? All this stuff is really convenient. Would we have really said “no” to turn-by-turn navigation? Avoided online purchases? Used cash for most of our transactions? Printed things out so we don’t use the in
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by chmod600 3y ago
The water flowed under this bridge 20 years ago. This whole discussion seems like it’s happening in the wrong decade. The issue now is that it’s so easy to collect circumstantial information that is constantly leaked by GPS-enabled apps, se
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by chmod600 3y ago
“Even something as simple as a supportive family“ That’s a strange wording, isn’t a supportive family widely known to be an absolutely huge benefit?
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by chmod600 3y ago
I don’t see what “the game is rigged” adds to an otherwise positive message, let alone why it comes first. Why is it somehow bad that musicians need a day job? There are a lot of aspiring musicians out there compared to the audiences waitin
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by chmod600 3y ago
“This is the reality of scientific study; there are exceedingly few conclusions, only more questions, confusions, misunderstandings, etc.“ That goes too far. Some science really does follow the scientific method and documents the methodolog
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by chmod600 3y ago
“He asked that Rossi at least corroborate… she refused to do so saying that it didn't align with her memory” Maybe the whole scandal is an elaborate memory priming experiment?
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by chmod600 3y ago
The only thing that keeps a system functional is external pressure. Otherwise it will always turn into some weird messed up versions of itself that satisfies none of the original objectives but is somehow larger than ever. Universities us
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by chmod600 3y ago
“A lot of people reject political ideas (i.e., regulations) because they have an idealized love for our free markets.” No, it’s that regulation is often used as a political tool to wield power over the players in the market. Free markets ar
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by chmod600 3y ago
It’s hard for me to tell if that’s because our detection equipment is very sensitive or if there’s a real problem.
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by chmod600 3y ago
It’s not about being “absolved”, it’s about literally different sets of people on both sides. If you can find the individuals and draw a straight line, then you have a case. If not, well, not fair, but welcome to reality.
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by chmod600 3y ago
That’s a long-winded way of saying that things have causes. Yes, they do. But the people and laws that caused evilness in the past are largely gone. What we are talking about here are the effects. But the effects are not cleanly separated b
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by chmod600 3y ago
Yes, people get away, and it’s unfair. Affirmative Action is not a good solution. It may have made sense at one time, but that time is passed and it’s incompatible with our Constitution, so it needs to go. From now on, help individuals who
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by chmod600 3y ago
In one year, the people involved are basically the same. In 50 years, a lot of births, deaths, and immigration have changed the population dramatically. There could be a discussion about one year vs ten years or something, I don’t know. But
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by chmod600 3y ago
The Ukraine war is not 50 years ago and clearly affects the entire country. If Russia decides to pay reparations that could make sense but it’s a different issue by a long shot. 50 years later after a bunch of people have been born, died, a
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by chmod600 3y ago
“ I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” —- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. https://www.npr.org/
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by chmod600 3y ago
“you can't just stop doing a bad thing and pretend it didn't happen. You've got to try to make things right.” For individual humans, that works. Applying that opinion to society at large is at the core of the social justice p
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by chmod600 3y ago
There's a fine line between solving a problem and giving up. Your answer seems to cross into "giving up" territory.
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by chmod600 3y ago
Thr article lacks numerical context, or at least makes it more difficult to find than necessary. Is this a 1% increase over 10 years or a 10% increase over 1 year? Is it normalized by population or an absolute number?
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by chmod600 3y ago
You are implying that being an enemy of the US causes food shortages, rather than their own failed governmental policies. That implication is pretty dubious. I'm sure sanctions (and whatever else the US does to its enemies) don't
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by chmod600 3y ago
There's consistent use of Result and Option in std, community agreement to do things that way, and it's pretty easy to use them. Tons of stuff in std and many other crates don't use async. A lot of stuff is harder and more co
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by chmod600 3y ago
Gradual escalation could be good in the sense that there's no clear prompt for nuclear war.
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by chmod600 3y ago
That assumes that information is always good and that all actors are working towards a common goal. Neither of those is true.
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by chmod600 3y ago
"create negative feedback loop traps that they can't out of" Nit: you mean a positive feedback loop: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback
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by chmod600 3y ago
Can you think of policies that would help achieve a better balance between undertreatment and overtreatment? I could see how a lot of well-meaning people could individually decide that it's better to treat than to ignore, but when you

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