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by f154hfds 3y ago
> 'majority group', 'cultural dominance', 'control of policies' This is fundamentally a race-based conception of the world, a conception that defines power along racial lines, which groups and analyzes peopl
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by f154hfds 3y ago
I think I agree with this entirely. The problem is these disadvantages don't justify a policy of race-based affirmative action. To do this, you'd need to do one of three things: 1. Say that the affirmative action policy is tempora
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by f154hfds 3y ago
These ad hominems don't help your point, they just alienate - probably time to take a break from affirmative action commenting for a moment :) I think we're equivocating with kajecounterhack on what 'disadvantage' means,
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by f154hfds 3y ago
One issue is there's infinite metrics to measure outcome, and any measurement you choose will have certain groups excel in compared to others. Once we achieve equality in a certain metric we will always have new ones to work on essenti
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by f154hfds 3y ago
> Some people just need more help to get where they're going, and some of us will be just fine using the legs we were born to walk with. This is exactly the issue at play. There's a fundamental difference between _unending_ aff
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by f154hfds 3y ago
I agree that opportunity is a spectrum but I disagree that it's inherited in our country because I disagree with your definition of opportunity. It's a spectrum in the sense that people can succeed regardless of societal prejudice
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by f154hfds 3y ago
You're changing the definition of opportunity here to still mean outcome I think. > <Outcome> is somewhat inherited, therefore there cannot be real equality of <outcome>. The US used to be a land of 'opportunity&#x2
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by f154hfds 3y ago
The story is much deeper than you give it credit: 1. God promises Abraham that his descendants will be numerous as 'stars in the sky' 2. Abraham and Sarah have 1 kid in their old age: Isaac, the only chance for God to fulfill the
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by f154hfds 3y ago
True - thanks for the clarification. As long as the ISS is rotating at a constant rate anything oriented to it inside of it will not perceive it to be rotating. It's rotating relative to a stationary perspective on the surface of the E
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by f154hfds 3y ago
You're bringing up the bizarre thing about gravity here. The only way we could be in 'free fall' undergoing 0 acceleration while still going in circles is if space itself were warped around an object.
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by f154hfds 3y ago
Religions are very different. Imagine Islam vs. Buddhism for example. The GP point is a valid one: fellowship alongside a shared set of core beliefs is invaluable. The problem is not all shared beliefs have equal merit. I could be a white s
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by f154hfds 3y ago
The ISS will do a 360 degree rotation every 90 minutes to maintain its orientation relative to the surface of the Earth. This will result in bodies inside the ISS slowly rotating in the opposite direction of that rotation. However, this is
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by f154hfds 3y ago
The 'feeling' of weightlessness is pretty much an indication of 0 (micro) gravity. Gravity always exerts a force, the problem is on Earth we have ground exerting an equal and opposite force contrary to gravity. When you feel weigh
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Chief of Russian mercenary force says his troops will withdraw from Bakhmut(youtube.com)
9 points by f154hfds 3y ago|2 comments
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GPT AI Enables Scientists to Passively Decode Thoughts(artisana.ai)
2 points by f154hfds 3y ago|0 comments
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by f154hfds 3y ago
I was surprised to learn the revenue per employee figure for big tech (2022): * Microsoft: $897,300 * Google: $1,470,000 * Amazon: $333,500 * Facebook: $1,348,000 * Apple: $2,404,000
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Educa Puzzle: 42,000 piece puzzle(amazon.com)
2 points by f154hfds 3y ago|1 comments
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by f154hfds 3y ago
The description of this live stream: --------------------------------- SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, took off from a launchpad in South Texas at 9:33 a.m. ET Thursday but exploded midair before stage separation. Th
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by f154hfds 4y ago
Another guess I should mention for the vast straight highways of the midwest is that drag increases as a square of the speed. Normal vehicles are more efficient at 60mph than 80mph so this _might_ be a factor in areas where a max safe drivi
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by f154hfds 4y ago
My dad is a highway engineer in the US, has been for 40 years. He has always told me that their plans' speed limit recommendations are based on 5 mph less than the max safe driving conditions for the particular road. There are a lot of
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by f154hfds 4y ago
This doesn't make sense. A fetus doesn't have the capacity for autonomy or freedom of movement _yet_. Denying it life is not the same as acknowledging that it's currently confined out of biological necessity! It's dishon
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by f154hfds 4y ago
Same here. Work for MSFT, use a Mac Pro for work. They did give me the option between surface and mac, and recommended me use the mac because we were working on unix OSes with some ability to build/test on Darwin directly. This was bef
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by f154hfds 4y ago
My statement above is asking how to test whether the treatments are contributing to a social contagion effect. If they are, we can't test treatment vs. no treatment at a snapshot in time because the very existence of the treatment adds
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by f154hfds 4y ago
What did transgender people do before the treatments and therapies? How did they live in their original state all their lives without our medical interventions? Do we know that the treatments help in the sense that treated people commit sui
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by f154hfds 4y ago
There are two possible goals. Affirmative action or color-blind meritocracy. Both will lead to diverse hiring practices (using the term diverse loosely - people who are not like those hiring them). Affirmative action makes sense to get mome
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Canadian citizen likely on a US no-fly list. How do they avoid US airspace?(travel.stackexchange.com)
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by f154hfds 4y ago
Thought I'd just say that I met my wife through my church. The above is absolutely the truth, though churches vary enormously in demographics. Get connected to a young church with a 'singles' group and you will meet lots of p
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by f154hfds 4y ago
After having kids when young and spending my twenties as a parent watching my peers and siblings have so much freedom it's kind of obvious that the desire to have kids is a community/cultural phenomenon. When your friends start ha
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by f154hfds 4y ago
I know that street! Small world.
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by f154hfds 4y ago
A few prompts I just tried on chatGPT that it got wrong (not sure which one is the easiest): Me: Hello chatGPT, I'm going to give you some prompts and you answer with a single word that seems to be the best fit, ok? ... Me: Five is to

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