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by finite_jest 5y ago
> This is the cheaper/easier option, and several schools have already opted to do so. Do you have a source reporting that schools are actually removing books in response to this particular inquiry? It seems that they shouldn't
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Not in the sense that they are being removed from the school libraries, but that might happen in the future. There are other instances of books being removed from libraries, or removed from the required reading lists, but this isn't on
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by finite_jest 5y ago
They are not removed from school shelves. This is not even a proposal for them to be removed from school shelves. The title is misleading. Please see my other comment above. Some State Rep has inquired about these, so is true that it's
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by finite_jest 5y ago
This is kinda misleading, and the title is very editorialized. I think the link should be changed to the original Texas Tribune article which provides some context: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/26/texa
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by finite_jest 5y ago
This is just pure speculation, but maybe it's because of same reason the Nigerian scammer emails have fishy wording and poor spelling. [1] It works as some kind of a filter, the scammers don't want to waste time on anyone but the
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The Kepler Problem (Part 4)(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
2 points by finite_jest 5y ago|0 comments
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A Washington school board votes to drop To Kill a Mockingbird from reading list(newsweek.com)
19 points by finite_jest 5y ago|3 comments
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by finite_jest 5y ago
I took the liberty of changing the original title a little bit. IMO, the original was slightly ambiguous and clickbaity: "Schools Drop 'To Kill A Mockingbird' From Reading List After Race Complaint"
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Sure, that's one solution and an interesting suggestion. In this particular case, however, we can also cheer for Spotify and JRE. I think Spotify is doing the right thing in this particular case (though probably not because of some pri
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by finite_jest 5y ago
:-) Yet again, I'm not sure why having rights should stop there, we also have a right to criticize him for what we might think is paternalistic or censorious behaviour.
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by finite_jest 5y ago
> that there's a lot of them, I kinda made the opposite of the that claim in my comment :-) I think a lot of people see the norms "virtue signallers" want to impose as Draconian. I don't think a guy having controversi
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by finite_jest 5y ago
I think it is more virtuous to send honest signals than to be a hypocrite. Also, "virtue" in these cases usually just means conforming to social pressure and the norms of particularly vociferous factions of society. Even if you ha
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by finite_jest 5y ago
That's not really a fruitful line of argument. The natural continuation is that, of course, we are also free to criticize someone for trying to shut others up. Censorship has many forms, and is not exclusive to the government. Corporat
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Neil Young deletes open letter calling for Joe Rogan censorship on Spotify(reclaimthenet.org)
5 points by finite_jest 5y ago|7 comments
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by finite_jest 5y ago
> This feels analogous to leaving a laptop unattended in the back seat of a parked car and blaming the government for not stopping it from being stolen. Many of us do want to leave in a society were you can indeed leave your laptop unatt
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Archived version (the link currently gives a 404 error): https://archive.is/FYtiV
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Why HTML table cells won’t fit into your CSS baseline grid(ctrl.blog)
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Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust(notes.eatonphil.com)
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Obviously no one should be harassed at their workplace. However, the wokeness here is manifested in the $130 million the California jury has awarded. Even the infamously excessive "hot coffee lawsuit" [1] looks unimpressive compar
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Not with the same PRRAR sequence of amino acids, right?
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Not many of us are strict utilitarians. Also, people generally don't like being lied to, and I think this kind of pandering will accelerate the erosion of trust in institutions. On pharma, they are obviously a business, and profits are
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Real World Divorce: Custody, Child Support, and Alimony in the 50 States(realworlddivorce.com)
1 points by finite_jest 5y ago|0 comments
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How do key Covid-19 metrics compare to previous waves?(ourworldindata.org)
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by finite_jest 5y ago
I think I found the article you are referring to. [1] I don't think that's a good example of misinformation. Here's a recent report by Reuters on the same topic. [2] I agree that The Telegraph is not the most reliable source
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by finite_jest 5y ago
I think you are being a tad too generous here. That wasn't the explicit messaging. Public health officials and experts did in fact lie and palter in that case. Part of the messaging was explicitly "masks are not effective in preve
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by finite_jest 5y ago
TBH, I think "Trust the science" is often used as a euphemism for "Trust authority", which isn't always good advice. Also, the science itself doesn't really work as advertised. There is this book titled "B
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by finite_jest 5y ago
> Is that the actual word for word text of the redacted email or is that just the congressional staffer's summary of a longer paragraph that refutes the point they are trying to make? I think your suspicion is correct, there are omi
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by finite_jest 5y ago
The emails are actually unredacted [1], and the fact that they are released by the opposition party shouldn't be surprising. I'm not sure they tell us anything new though. We already knew that they were scientists who had this sus
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by finite_jest 5y ago
That is extremely paternalistic. I think this is a good example of how the often dismissed "slippery slope" argument had a point.
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by finite_jest 5y ago
Results from the abstract: "Twenty-five seroprevalence surveys representing 14 countries were included. Across all countries, the median IFR in community-dwelling elderly and elderly overall was 2.9% (range 0.2%-6.9%) and 4.9% (range

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