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by jacalata 9y ago
In practice, it seems to create a black hole where a school that serves a population that isn't good at tests (e.g disabled kids, non English speakers) gets low scores so everyone who could get a good score leaves and then the school d
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by jacalata 9y ago
Sounds like this mythical experiment - http://www.throwcase.com/2014/12/21/that-five-monkeys-and-a-...
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by jacalata 9y ago
Interesting, looks like it's not the highest, but the Japanese government stats say the rate is much higher than that (about 19) http://www.newsweek.com/japans-suicide-rate-finally-falling-...
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by jacalata 9y ago
Credit card charge backs are generally only possible within six months of the purchase date.
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by jacalata 9y ago
Cheap flights from Eastern Canada to Asia often stop in the US, which is a huge pain.
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by jacalata 9y ago
Japan has the highest suicide rate in the world and many heavily discussed social issues related to happiness, including salarymen, hikikomori, decreased rate of marriage and childbearing....I think you might just not be tuned in there yet.
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by jacalata 9y ago
Equal treatment is in no way the same thing as equal opportunity or a level playing field. So you care deeply about equal treatment and think that a level playing field/equal opportunity is unimportant. I disagree, but you might have m
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by jacalata 9y ago
Best I can guess that you are referring to is their articles referring to this gov study, which says 13% unemployment across all STEM grads: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
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by jacalata 9y ago
Some of them are - Ada's, for instance, and LaunchCode, both focus on internships as a big part of the program. But getting employers on board is a lot of work and I'd be surprised if it were possible to find enough places for all
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by jacalata 9y ago
If you don't think a fair playing field is achievable then why pretend you care more and are working harder to achieve it than others, instead of admitting that you're focusing your energy elsewhere?
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by jacalata 9y ago
If the analogy wasn't somehow different from the original case it wouldn't be an analogy, would it.
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by jacalata 9y ago
> Maybe I just hold the value of having an objectively fair playing field higher than some others here. ...People's upbringings are never going to be fair. Maybe you value it less than others, and that's why you're willin
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by jacalata 9y ago
the alternative is what OP is attacking - affirmative action.
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by jacalata 9y ago
No, it isn't. It would be hypocritical to say "slavery is bad and it was done to black people so we should make white people slaves now". It is not hypocritical to say "black people were mistreated because of their race
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by jacalata 9y ago
Now translate "chips" into "systemic and generational advantages" and include detail on how to give everyone the same number.
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by jacalata 9y ago
What other way? The one where some people have enormous structural disadvantages due to decades or more of discrimination? We agree it doesn't work, but many people get angry and defensive when we try and create systems that are fair e
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by jacalata 9y ago
Because there are people marching with swastikas? http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2017/08/inventor-...
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by jacalata 9y ago
So it's not that they are more isolated, just that hypothetically in a possible future they could be.
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by jacalata 9y ago
So, where is your evidence that people used to have more evidence based discussions? How does it reconcile the historic role of religion in guiding the average person's beliefs and politics? Hell, how does it reconcile the historic pre
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What the evidence says about Mr. Damore’s Google memo(medium.com)
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by jacalata 9y ago
I think of it as more important when email is being used as an announcement medium - I'm ok leaving a mistake/sending a correction to one or two people, but not 1100.
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by jacalata 9y ago
> Undo send" seems to me to be inherently inferior to having some self-discipline and patience I eagerly await your new email client which provides both self discipline and patience to users. Until it releases, I suspect the Undo Se
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by jacalata 9y ago
It's definitely for both. Like that scenario where you copy edit something for hours and as soon as it's sent you see a typo for the first time.
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by jacalata 9y ago
Well, if you want your complaining to achieve anything, you should do it to support.
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by jacalata 9y ago
Tons of things, like "my phone is two weeks old and the battery life has halved"
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by jacalata 9y ago
People have silenced dissidents for thousands of years too, why aren't you willing to be optimistic about that?
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by jacalata 9y ago
Trump is going to run Cloudflare? What?
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by jacalata 9y ago
I don't think the difference there is bakery v registrar, but protected classes v arbitrary groups. It's like at-will employment: you can be fired for any reason except these specific protected reasons (retaliation, age, race, p
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by jacalata 9y ago
Pretty sure the question was "why is this tech discussion board always focusing on women in tech and not some random other industry, and is this evidence that nobody really cares about equality and it is all just a horrible conspiracy
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by jacalata 9y ago
It's possible to swallow something indigestible that then comes out in poop - sometimes this could cause bleeding. If you have anything inserted in your anus for any reason this could also cause bleeding.

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