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by dandare 8y ago
If she did not overcome the adversity after her admission there is no reason to choose her, her outcome as a doctor is still affected by the adversity. If she did overcome the adversity after admission, we must ask what prevented her from o
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by dandare 8y ago
I didn't get the Newton's Third Law part.
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by dandare 8y ago
Do you assume the adverse conditions that affect black women (BW) will disappear once they are admitted to the school? If not, then it is still more rational to choose a white man (WM), who performed better in the exams and is not affected
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by dandare 8y ago
You talk about a bias and judgment, that may apply to a job interview but how would it apply to written school admission exams? Judging fairness by maximizing opportunity sounds a lot like the hypothetical counter-utilitarianism argument ab
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by dandare 8y ago
I have long argued that any act of positive discrimination results in an equal amount of negative discrimination. Be it sex, race, social background, income or any other attribute. Some argue that positive discrimination is the most efficie
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by dandare 8y ago
It would be nice to do this via ITTT or similar service.
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Ask HN: Why wireless laptop peripherals connect to dongle instead of Bluetooth?
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by dandare 8y ago
The shape of the income distribution is more important than the median number. The inequality is huge and growing, only a small fraction have the median income.
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by dandare 8y ago
> he collaborated (as far as it is understood) with another country, to undermine the governments that imposed sanctions on it for the crimes it has (still does) committed. Can I explain? Did I miss something?
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by dandare 8y ago
>because, I don't know, the UK is super corrupt and out to get Assange The UK attacked another country on a false pretense causing, directly and indirectly, hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths. Then turned a blind eye to the Ir
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by dandare 8y ago
I used to occasionally contribute to Google Maps with edits, images etc. That will no longer be the case. I understand it will not have almost any impact on Google, but the same is true for instance for elections, yet I make the trip to vot
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by dandare 8y ago
Can someone please explain? > Neutrinos are the lightest and least interacting of all known particles. They easily fly through planets, stars and whole galaxies, completely unaffected. Because of this, neutrinos can reach us from extreme
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by dandare 8y ago
The traditional financial model has dangerous incentives on its own. Non-profits need to show more accountability.
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by dandare 8y ago
They rebranded to Airbnb some time ago, just saying.
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by dandare 8y ago
Could you compare Malone Dies with Joseph Heller's Something Happened?
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by dandare 8y ago
I wish I know how to cut these shapes out of regular square tiles in large quantities. I would love to have Penrose tiling on other exotic patterns in my bathroom.
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by dandare 8y ago
Of course you are right, Apple is dominating the market, not behaving monopolistically in the negative sense of the word.
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by dandare 8y ago
I believe the price increase is purely based on the profit-maximizing strategy. If people will pay that much then Apple has no reason to ask for less. Unfortunately, I can not imagine myself switching to a Windows-based laptop. This is just
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by dandare 8y ago
You may be right but you missed the point. Amazon "could" start spying on you with a flip of a switch and there is no guarantee it will never happen. Even if their intentions were pure, they can be easily subpoenaed to do nasty st
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by dandare 8y ago
The de-facto limit for the number of URL characters is around 2000 but it greatly varies per browser. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/417184/487771
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by dandare 8y ago
So nowadays I should be sorry for working in IT? I thought I am guilty enough for being white and male.
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by dandare 8y ago
I was always wondering, why don't we have periscope windows? What I imagine is a "light intake" on a roof, from which the light is concentrated into a straight long NARROW tube that takes it to an underground flat where the l
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by dandare 8y ago
For me, the problem with thinking about time as just another dimension is that while we can move through the spatial dimensions, with time we are either locked in one place or flowing at an absolutely constant rate* (depending on the bird&#
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by dandare 8y ago
78T of how much? Is it 50% of worlds GDP or 0.005%? I hate titles like this.
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by dandare 8y ago
My Privacy Badger was blocking design.google.com
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by dandare 8y ago
and modals and drop downs.
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by dandare 8y ago
I don't know, I find it pretty irrelevant.
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by dandare 8y ago
I used to be addicted stoner. Does it count as non-recreational?
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by dandare 8y ago
Fluoxetine aka Prozac. Surely, a lot of people are afraid of medication and the stigma of mental illness that comes with it. Prozac made wonders for me, I am where I am thanks to this well researched and safe "selective serotonin reupt
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by dandare 8y ago
From a personal experience, the public health care in Czech Republic is way much better than NHS or what you can afford as a middle-income family in US. The equation changes when you can afford private care.

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