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by eapressoandcats 1y ago
What they are actually doing is deliberately entrenching an authoritarian ethno-nationalist regime. I don’t think one can say that any of their decisions are rationally made for the benefit of anyone but themselves and their supporters. The
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
We don’t know if their detention is lawful. Whether their detention is lawful hasn’t been litigated yet, but the fact they there’s a preliminary injunction against them doing it more that was upheld by the DC circuit court indicates that it
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Except they literally just sent Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison without a judge being involved. The reason people are freaking out about this is because it actually happened already.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
For the most part none of the people deported or held have even been accused of one of those crimes. Most of the Venezuelans have been deported under the Alien Enemies Act, under an extremely tenuous reading of what an “invasion” is, by cla
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
So… people have literally already been deported to jails in El Salvador without due process, with the government claiming that they are from a Venezuelan gang. Others have had green cards revoked and been arrested for deportation for the cr
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
It doesn’t, but they’ve already disappeared a number of Venezuelans because they had tattoos, so if the officers are willing, they can make it happen.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
In principle as long as a state has legal hooks into a large enough part of the business it’s probably ok. Data centers are less tricky than phones because they don’t move. I’m also not sure there’s so much practical difference between a co
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Realistically most criminals probably don’t even turn on ADP, so it will probably move the needle not at all.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Looks like among other things this one is leaning on a lot of economic trends that started in the 80s and hoping if you draw an arrow to the 70s no one will notice. Most economists date the big breakdown in real gdp vs real median wages to
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Education is almost entirely labor and real estate. It’s a classic Baumol’s cost disease situation. Like I guess richer countries can purchase better computer labs? So yeah, it’s probably true that the US spends more per pupil because we ha
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
The genetic meaning is the most common usage of the word, which is evidenced by a Google search. It’s also the most obvious meaning when referring to racial minorities. If they didn’t mean genetic, then they really screwed up in their use o
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Anonymization is probably an under tried idea. Various orchestras switched to blind auditions and significantly increased the number of women they hired.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
They said heritability. They meant genetics.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Technically yes, but the poster also listed “parenting” practices not having an effect so I think we all know what he means.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
I don’t think that’s true. It looks like the US has pretty similar spending to European countries at least as a percentage of GDP: https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/report...
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
There isn’t really any evidence of a sex development disorder either other than the Russian led IBA
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
As far as I’ve heard, the only claim that there was an intersex condition was from the IBA and there’s a lot of reason to be suspicious of that.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Brett Devereaux talks about this in relation to the Mongols and other nomads. Yes they didn’t “own” land but if you trespassed on their grazing pastures they would absolutely use violence against you: https://acoup.blog/2020
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
The most famous example of that was, as far as I can tell, entirely fabricated. Algeria is famously known for being friendly to trans people. Also you’re really equating street violence, murders, and suicide to losing a boxing match?
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Right but part of that is asking why your workforce isn’t representative of the available workers. If you’re disproportionately hiring some types of people you probably are hiring on race and not skill. And yes, some of this is not solvable
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Maybe try talking to this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23669188 If you’re not witnessing it then that’s only because you’re not noticing it, unless you think a large chunk of the population is just a bunch of l
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
It simply hasn’t been long enough. I wouldn’t necessarily bet that it will, but X has lost net users and Bluesky is gaining them so if trends continue (they might not) Bluesky will overtake X, but Twitter also wasn’t built in a year.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Except you can’t say anyone is cisgender, so not that freely.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Are you serious that you’ve never witnessed any discrimination against women or minorities?
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
I saw that, but that was a tough one to land.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Except fields often aren’t open to people in different demographics. Sexism and racism are both very real and objectively quantified.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
To be clear, the thing that’s keeping them from being disadvantaged against Musk/X is cozying up to the Trump and the government. That’s going to make a much bigger difference in stock performance than any personnel impact of these cha
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
The way it’s calculated is just based on the net change, so it doesn’t really match overall hiring practices. At the end of it all high status jobs were still disproportionately held by White people and Asian people.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
I don’t think it’s actually true that people are “paying the same price for a worse product”. This is an area where one has to be extremely careful because it’s not the case that all the input costs are held steady so you’d see a decrease i
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Not sure, but the price discrimination between “main cabin” and basic economy is fascinating. Literally any imposition that will make things better for people in the tiers above basic economy makes sense, even if it doesn’t directly save th

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