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by newnewnew 13y ago
My math and CS classes usually had a lot of non-white students and some female students, and they seemed to do just fine. Some even appeared to be in the top of the class. It didn't seem that Math was "harder for them". I thi
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by newnewnew 13y ago
How do mindless ad hominem attacks add to the discussion?
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Why climate change is good for the world(spectator.co.uk)
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What 'Lean In' Misunderstands About Gender Differences(theatlantic.com)
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by newnewnew 13y ago
How big is Harvey Mudd's CS program?
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Is it just me, or has there been a recent explosion in the number of east coast "tech journalists" who couldn't code a hello world website who earn paychecks and page views by attacking tech startups with social-justice warri
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Marxists get insulted when you call them Marxist. They prefer to operate by euphemism.
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Marxist analysis is even more often used in discussion of race than of sex. You will often see the claim that there is no such thing as racism against white people, because racism equals power + privilege and white people are privileged. A
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Taboo Genetics(nature.com)
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by newnewnew 13y ago
To understand conversations about gender bias in professions, you have to understand that the American academy (and by extension, America's educated class) operates from a Marxist ideology. This casts the world in light of class con
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by newnewnew 13y ago
A lot of statisticians tend to be so.
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by newnewnew 13y ago
The secret of Finland's stellar schools is Finns[1], combines with an immigration policy that borders on xenophobia. Why do Finnish students score better than Swedish students? [1] http://www.vdare.com/articles/pis
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Arctic summers ice-free by 2013 (2007)(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Their "prosperous kingdoms" didn't have written language or the wheel. There wasn't that much pre-existing structure to destroy.
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Securing messaging startup Glimpse to file FOIA request for NSA records(myfoia.com)
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Pax Dickinson announces sharing startup with NSA-proof encryption(medium.com)
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Feminism liberated women to become wage-slaves[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do5zrdTb-yI&feature=youtube_...
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Who can get who fired is a flawed measure of power, but a good first approximation. Which groups can say racist statements about which other groups and still keep their jobs? Also a good question for measuring relative power. We'll ask
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Hmm, I remember that author from somewhere. Yep, she's a shock troop in the battle to impose cultural Marxism[1]. [1] http://valleywag.gawker.com/dear-paul-graham-your-priorities...
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Respectable == toeing the Marxist/feminist line. You can have political opinions in public, as long as its left. Meanwhile, this guy is still employed: https://twitter.com/anildash/status/370362753451827200 A
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Let's be honest, the decision to fire Pax isn't about hiring female engineers so much as appeasing the lynch mob. I disagree with your definitions of misogyny, objectification, and all that. But you seem like a reasonable person a
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by newnewnew 13y ago
The politically correct and their defenders engage in Crocodile Humor , the laughter of the powerful at the powerless[1]. It is an ugly thing to behold. "Many UR readers have had the priceless educational privilege of growing up behin
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Poor guy. For what it's worth I agree with the tweets that got him fired, including this one[1] and the ones immediately around it. The "controversial" apps from the techcrunch disrupt hackathon weren't really "miso
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Isn't the biology that makes a person gay or not set at birth or in the early years? If so, treatments that provide a one-time change to gay or straight would probably come first. The social implications of that would be interesting. H
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by newnewnew 13y ago
We know that subpopulations of humans vary drastically by phenotypes relevant to athletic performance. The Dutch average adult male height is the highest on the planet at 6'1". African pygmies separated from their Bantu relatives
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by newnewnew 13y ago
This Atlantic article suggests that you will never win an Olympic medal in sprinting unless you come from West Africa[1]. This same population is bad at distance running, where Kenyans dominate. There appears to be strong genetic components
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Agreed. Your warm squishy egalitarian philosophy has nothing to do with what it takes to build software or launch a startup. Unforgiving reality is the rock upon which ideology founders
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by newnewnew 13y ago
Bad luck just seems to follow some people for centuries. It occurs to me that you could write a similar story of woe for the Chinese who have gone through a rough century or three, and they are the highest earning ethnic group in the USA. I
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by newnewnew 13y ago
It looks to me like race matters more than class. Poor whites and hispanics don't commit nearly as much crime as black citizens, even though they are numerically greater. 6% of the US population (black males) commits 53% of the murder,
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by newnewnew 13y ago
You hypothesize that the American black population is suffering because their African culture has been taken away from them. I'm merely pointing out that African culture doesn't seem to have built many thriving populations anywher

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