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by home_boi 8y ago
Look up the income statistics. There are very few low income students at Harvard and similar "holistic" universities. It's a school for rich people. MIT cares more about scores and STEM and MIT actually has around the lowest
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by home_boi 8y ago
What "other goals" and "expectations"? It conveniently falls in line with racial diversity goals but it is unclear what other goals it accomplishes. The reasonable assumption is that any soft skill goals or measures will
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by home_boi 8y ago
Don't admission officers actually come from worse educational backgrounds than alumni? I think many AO never reach educational or career heights that would help them appreciate the accomplishments of applicants while alumni do.
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by home_boi 8y ago
Those admissions processes are actually seen as very fair processes in those countries. IIRC, there is very high economic diversity in the top colleges in China and India which can't be said about the Ivy League schools.
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by home_boi 8y ago
Uniqueness and well-roundedness are traits of privilege. The activities typically used to signal "uniqueness" for college admissions like philanthropy and political activism have roots in privilege. If you're not from a rich,
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by home_boi 8y ago
That part sounds like a literal race quota. I guess Harvard's defense is that they do most of the "work" at the subjective personality score stage where races are conveniently ranked in the same order as their desirability fo
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by home_boi 8y ago
It seems unlikely to be unintentional. Since Harvard is grading personality on a USA-centric scale, it would most likely accentuate the traits of the current USA leaders and executives who are overwhelmingly white. We would expect the white
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by home_boi 8y ago
> Clark had just turned 27 and left behind an estate valued at more than $4 million. He got to keep the money even though he got convicted for wire fraud?
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by home_boi 8y ago
> Spacex: we can go to Mars, but haven't even launched a Mars rocket. Google: AI is here, and the product? Waymo, logs millions of miles, is just sunny conditions? I don't think that is their literal message and goal. SpaceX&#x
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by home_boi 8y ago
> optional things people choose (having children) Note that having children is something that only women choose. Men and women choose to have sex. Women choose to abort or have a child.
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by home_boi 8y ago
Have you guys applied these more technical/scientific details of the brain to your life?
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by home_boi 8y ago
> A great school and teacher obviously can change the lives of children in poverty but it's astonishingly difficult and requires immense talent to achieve. Teaching children in poverty is a specialization. Teachers can excel at teac
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by home_boi 8y ago
The most important methodology of the school: > Like many charter schools in New York City, the Promise Academy has an extended school day and year, with coordinated after-school tutoring and additional classes on Saturdays for children
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by home_boi 8y ago
> mastering an arbitrary test If the test is based on the standard middle/high school curriculum (if there is one), then it can be a fairly good predictor. Otherwise, even if it is an arbitrary test, it takes study skills and discip
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by home_boi 8y ago
> it outcompetes payment systems from American tech companies Does it? I think American payment systems are winning outside of China/USA. Of course it won the Chinese market because China makes it extremely difficult for foreign tec
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by home_boi 8y ago
> The GDPR is about 68 to 90 pages depending on which language you're reading it in. It is trying to be futureproof by leaving measures defined in terms of 'current state of technology', 'reasonable security consideri
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by home_boi 8y ago
That's a solid 50 hours of engineering and QA. At a $75/hr contracting rate, that is $3,750 (50 * $75/hr). And that's just the engineering work. The website owner cannot know whether or not the engineering work and websi
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by home_boi 8y ago
> Most of these companies do what they can not to pay taxes This applies to all companies, everywhere. The problem is that the EU don't close their loopholes.
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by home_boi 8y ago
If the biased models replace human decision making, then it just has to be shown that the models are less biased than humans which may not be that high of a bar to pass.
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by home_boi 8y ago
The politicization of bias in this realm is unproductive. We know where it leads. There will be 'committees' of people who are not trained in statistical thinking, who haven't even taken a statistics class, who are not qualif
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by home_boi 8y ago
What's the chances of retroactively lowering pensions? 1. Progressively lower pensions. Skim off the top earners. 2. Create projects for the community and declare that the saved money will be used for those projects for better optics.
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by home_boi 8y ago
Technically users are entering their credit card information somewhere down the line after an ad click, many times on a website "shadier" than Facebook because sane advertisers make more money than they spend.
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by home_boi 8y ago
> In fact, I think the author is underestimating the impact, right here: "Of course, making this change will have a dramatic impact on your revenue for single-visit traffic, because you basically have to design your ad model to work
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by home_boi 8y ago
I don't read news but I'm sure that GDPR would hurt the smaller, independent news websites or aggregators that people find reputable more than CNN, Fox News and sinclair group. The latter at least have TV advertising. Their websit
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by home_boi 8y ago
I don't think the legislators understand the technical complexity it would take to comply with GDPR nor the benefits of tracking for the internet. Tracking makes markets more efficient. 1. Advertisers can tune their ads/targeting
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by home_boi 9y ago
Are there public numbers for this?
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by home_boi 9y ago
One last case, some manufacturers are the only sellers for their product (like Anker).
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by home_boi 9y ago
Also priorities and context/time. The benefits of doing well in school is different from the benefits of high pay and power positions and people have different goals in their teens/early 20s compared to their mid 20s-50s.
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by home_boi 9y ago
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId... Everything except for topical/consumable items and items with an expiration date can be conmingled.
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by home_boi 9y ago
But they are not disadvantaged. Almost everyone who gets into Stanford and Ivy league colleges, underrepresented minorities included, come from very privileged upbringings. The only disadvantaged population (overachieving children of poor i

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