deogeo

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by deogeo 7y ago
> I think it's insane a private company is even allowed to do this stuff I wonder if this private enforcement of law goes both ways - can a car owner barricade Walmart's entrance to force Walmart to pay them what they've
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by deogeo 7y ago
> not just computer experts. Which is itself misleading - no living expert understands a computer system end to end, from silicon to microcode to code and compiler, not to mention the massive chain that went into making the code running
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by deogeo 7y ago
2 year lifespan, seriously? My phone's standard mini-USB cable is at least 5 years old by now, and shows zero signs of wear. What the hell is Apple doing to make such awful cables? Edit: Correction - it's a micro-USB cable.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> General Eisenhower witnessed this happening. I know he warned about it in his last speech, but do you have a source or more specifics on how he witnessed it?
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Ironically, that section itself contains an extremely misleading statement: > The data also showed that the Conservative Party received significantly more airtime than the Labour Party. In 2012 Conservative leader David Cameron outnumber
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by deogeo 7y ago
> DoorDash's "innovation" is the black box to obscure the fact. Classic information asymmetry exploitation, only in this case, they're the ones that created the asymmetry.
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by deogeo 7y ago
I don't know about Northrup Grumman, but General Electric, also a major defense contractor, could fire anti-Iraq-war hosts from MSNBC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Donahue#MSNBC_program
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by deogeo 7y ago
> I'm confused about how you got to your first point. You cited figures from the survey paper that show a spike at 0% genetic (meaning that a bunch of the people surveyed think there's a very low genetic influence on intelligen
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by deogeo 7y ago
> universal public education is a recent thing. Not that recent - it's been around since the 1750s: "The education reform was met with hostility particularly by peasants who wanted the children to work in the fields instead. Ma
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by deogeo 7y ago
> which is that an authoritarian regime is never a good thing. Yes, it is better for a superpower to fabricate evidence for a war [1] resulting in an estimated six hundred thousand dead [2] (and a few corporate-friendly laws [3]), than
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by deogeo 7y ago
On US bases* in Iraq, that are there (or are used by the US), because the US invaded Iraq.
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by deogeo 7y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted, because what you said is more or less correct: "But section 19 of that EU directive explicitly allows sellers of digital goods to ask users to waive that right before they make the pur
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Looking at the SD in the survey responses suggests that the position of the researchers polled in this survey wasn't accurately represented by the quote you posted. There's one or two charts in the article, showing how many e
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by deogeo 7y ago
> their task is to simply provide information Hilarious, when advertisements provide so incredibly little information, except how the product looks when held by attractive people, or driven by them along empty roads. And what little info
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Carrie Diaz Eaton, a computational scientist at Bates College, agrees. Building diversity, she says, requires “explicitly encouraging our junior colleagues and mentoring and cultivating their talents and enthusiasm for this work.” Acco
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by deogeo 7y ago
> those who want and can afford to move to X, but are prevented because of a non-reciprocal policy by X. It's easy to have open borders if hardly anyone takes advantage of it, so looking at reciprocity isn't very relevant. Face
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by deogeo 7y ago
Sure has a lot of immigration from outside the West for a gated community [1]. On the other hand, non-Western countries have near-zero Western immigration, or even inter-continental migration among themselves. So much so that, when viewed w
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by deogeo 7y ago
> If they do want scientists to be free to investigate the genetic and other bases of IQ further in order to find better answers It's quite obvious they don't want that, so they can continue to stretch the remaining gaps in k
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by deogeo 7y ago
So showing a correlation between environment and intelligence is clear proof that environment plays a role, but the same kind of correlation with ancestry tells us nothing? Even when economic [1] and environmental factors [2] are corrected
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by deogeo 7y ago
Apply principal component analysis to human DNA, and not only does race pop out, it even coincides with the 'socially constructed' categories [1,2,3]. A 2009 survey of physical anthropologists in Europe by Katarzyna Kaszycka found
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by deogeo 7y ago
Dr. Francis is either unfamiliar with, or being profoundly misleading of, expert opinion, as surveys show: "In the current study, EQCA experts wereasked what percentage of the US Black-White differences in IQ is, in their view, due to
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Every result ever has pointed that all races and genders are equally "intelligent" and well-suited to the same tasks. Really? The strongest rebuttals I ever saw boiled down to "it has not yet been conclusively proven imp
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by deogeo 7y ago
I can point to specific examples of requiring candidates to be politically vetted before hiring: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/19/mathematician... You don't have to block science, if y
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by deogeo 7y ago
Why couldn't you be the boss of someone more valuable than yourself? They're more valuable in their role - that doesn't mean they'd be better/more valuable than you in your role, of management. For example, it w
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by deogeo 7y ago
Writing textbooks is political, but the battle starts much earlier, already in hiring - University of California requires all new hires to submit a political litmus test [1]. A story which, I couldn't help but notice, the New York Time
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by deogeo 7y ago
To cut off anyone claiming this is a dichotomy - on LG phones, you already get both. They come locked, but if you root them, you get a warning saying it's rooted during every boot.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> The effect of making these loans exempt from bankruptcy just inflates their value which puts colleges into a position where they can inflate their fees - safe in the knowledge that banks will lend practically anything and students have
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by deogeo 7y ago
The very real threat of the legal system was used, backed up by the terrifying financial reality of a good legal defense. You can't honestly say that means the legal system wasn't involved. An easy test is - if the system were d
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by deogeo 7y ago
State funded schools are requiring new hires to be ideologically right-thinking. How is this not directly equivalent to the "Have you ever been a member of the Communist Party" question? And how is this getting so little attention
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by deogeo 7y ago
Abuse of the legal system is definitely a legislative problem - the law has to work reasonably in the real world, not in some idealized, frictionless vacuum. As for a solution - non-prejudicial defensive trials (I made that phrase up). Und

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