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by mhuffman 10y ago
This is such an absurd fucking argument for people to have. BTW, Apple is based in Cupertino, which has 0.6% Black population, 63.1% Asian, and 29.3% White -- even if you take a huge surrounding area, it is about the same. Shouldn't th
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by mhuffman 10y ago
I believe that this is being brushed over. Cats have 90% DNA matches with modern humans as well as the overlap with chimps you mentioned. It is clear that just a couple of percent different is a HUGE difference in animals (I am including hu
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by mhuffman 10y ago
More dangerous still are garbage collectors.[1] What is your point exactly? My point is that being a police officer is not as deadly of a job as they insinuate (note that most police officers die of heart attacks and car accidents). [1] ht
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by mhuffman 10y ago
There are nearly 1 million police officers -- these are not high numbers! Certainly every individual one is a tragedy, and I wouldn't want it to be me, but overall these are not alarming numbers, taken in context.
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by mhuffman 10y ago
I am not pro-police. I believe they all need civilian oversight and review, and a thorough de-materialization. The problem is that with the above the "Black Lives Matter" not "All Lives Matter" is that it leaves an unmen
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Evidently from, "... news reports, public records, Internet databases, and original reporting"[1] Going by their data, of the 258 Black people shot by police in 2015, 188 were armed with a deadly weapon, 20 with a vehicle, 5 wth a
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by mhuffman 10y ago
This is true, but a very, very small sub-set of people being shot. IIRC, greater than 80% of people shot by police have a weapon and are actively resisting.
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by mhuffman 10y ago
It might surprise you then that nearly every homeless guy you see "has a place to sleep", they choose (not in the "choose to be homeless sense") to sleep outside. The main reason is that homeless shelters have restrictio
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by mhuffman 10y ago
1) It is very important as it has been found to directly relate to educational achievement and later SES. The fact that "polite" society turns a blind eye does not make have less of an impact. 2) Yes, but the comment you were repl
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Sure, there are two points: 1) Your point is based on ignoring often repeated and consistent (over decades) science; and 2) I think your argument generalizes something (to skin color) that is very specific (I.Q.) I will go further and say t
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by mhuffman 10y ago
You realize there is not a small amount of data regarding racial IQ differences right? It is (was) one of the most studied social science fields before it fell out of fashion. You also seem to want to reduce something to skin-color that has
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by mhuffman 10y ago
I can't tell if you are being serious or not, but there is no mystery and this should not be confusing to you. Baltimore was far from the first "ethnic" riot[1] in this country and none of them have ever caused a lasting chan
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by mhuffman 10y ago
And to be more clear, yes, if penalties came out of their pensions instead of taxpayers pockets, they would change their behavior long-term.
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Of course for a short time they will, because they do not want to be fired for bringing unwanted attention. But yes, I believe that will be short lived. There are no real consequences to their actions, and the riot did not change that. So i
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by mhuffman 10y ago
> I think his point is that the idea that knowing you will be retaliated against, even if it's a "net loss" in some ways for those retaliating against you, is an extremely powerful force for good in our society. Do you dis
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by mhuffman 10y ago
I just followed your advice and read Steve Randy Waldmann's analysis of the Baltimore riots and altruistic punishment. It is very clear that he is biased in his analysis. He is also wrong about the Baltimore riots being "altruisti
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Some of these "pirate boxes" have a google logo on them (chrom ebox) and it makes non-techies think that it is legit.
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by mhuffman 10y ago
> I don't see why people are thinking businesses would move. Because of all the fear-mongering and threats from the EU. Think about it, the UK could keep all policies exactly as they are right now, but the EU has threatened to &quot
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Why can't the UK have open borders to skilled immigrants and not so open to unskilled immigrants? I do not believe the UK is going to crack down on tech engineers and phds that want to work in their country.
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Median wages up, economic inequality down, investments in social stability programs (retirement, healthcare, education) up. In the US, those are all going the opposite directions.
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Your economy can boom with all the citizens suffering. For example, if average wages go down, and the rich get richer, the overall economy grows, but is of little consequence to most people. When countries grow powerful, they begin to forge
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Right, they have no incentive other than to make themselves better off. And it shows[1]. [1] http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPPS%2FPPS...
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by mhuffman 10y ago
This seems to objectively be the case in the US, right?[1] [1] http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPPS%2FPPS...
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by mhuffman 10y ago
You do under stand that those 3/4 and 2/3 representatives can all be elected with 51% of the vote right? So if a hot upstart party filled both houses of the Congress with 51% win margins per representative, they can then easily pa
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Wow! It is amazing that we do not consider this a human rights violation. Oh well, gotta keep them prices low at Walmart!
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Yeah, I was gonna say, this seems like a pre-req to being friend-zoned and "just like a brother" to lots of girls. Not that there is anything wrong with that!
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Too bad the threats from their religious leaders do not seem to be, right? This is like saying that nuclear weapons for individuals shouldn't be illegal because killing people is already illegal -- the punishment is too late! Stifling
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by mhuffman 10y ago
If everyone is rational (ie., won't purposely screw themselves.) and does not change their maximum amount according to what other bidders do, then it kind of doesn't matter in the end. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by mhuffman 10y ago
This is the point! These are the actions that people go to prison for, and some people are like "stop picking on her". If this were an middle-aged white man of privilege, the same people wouldn't rest until he was sharing a c
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Market segmentation data at the risk of offending an imperceptibly small amount of people.

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