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by nhchris 4y ago
Unpaywalled: https://archive.fo/OSLQN Excerpt: Readers who bought electronic versions of the writer’s books, such as Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, before the controversial updates have discovered their copi
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I think only good thoughts so I'm not worried. Plus anyone with control of this technology is sure to have our best interests in mind.
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> why they can even exist in the first place They're legally required by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its consequences. Let me explain: The act prohibits discrimination on several protected characteristics, and the Supreme Court
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"We let some in so we should let all in."
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> there is problems around the act of performing science, like suppression of results, P hacking, poor sample sizes, poor sampling... The policy the article talks about addresses none of these issues.
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UK countryside feels like white middle-class club. We can –and will– change this(theguardian.com)
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People high in hierarchical world belief see the world as full of differences that matter [..] You might imagine that, to them, the world looks full of big, bold black lines. The opposite view—held by people low in this belief—tends to per
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> No, sorry, you’re just wrong here. I believe I described PCA accurately, so could you elaborate which part of my statement is wrong? > extracting features to artificially cluster points along the most characteristic axes is what P
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Countries that had recent significant immigration are an exception, and their population will reflect the genetics of their geographic origins. I.e. African-Americans are closer related to Africans than to Italian-Americans. I thought this
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I was speaking off the top of my head, hence the ~ preceding the 5. That said, more clusters may be visible on a 3D graph. The data itself has many more dimensions, and we see only a projection.
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> it exaggerates the density and distinctness of clusters It does the opposite - the PCA graph shown is 2D, meaning points in the N-dimensional space are projected onto a single plane. In this projection, information is lost - i.e. point
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If my statement wasn't true, there would be no way to distinguish admixture from indigenous in the first place.
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> I'm surprised that anyone would really think otherwise Usually they disprove a much stronger, extreme claim (e.g. some sort of racial purity, or the idea of entirely discontinuous, clearly-delimited races), then imply this means p
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> there are africans and europeans who share more dna than with others of their own ancestry You're probably referring to the "greater variation within than between races" argument. But it's only true when looking at
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> As we gather more data our understanding of human migration inevitably clashes with identity politics/nationalism and previous simplistic pre-scientific classifications based on skin color and facial features Does it? Because most
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Three randomly chosen districts out of tens of thousands prove little. Looking at wider statistics instead of small anecdote, we see that in addition to lagging behind countries the US outspends on education, greatly increased spending has
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This is a common but false claim. Property tax funding is supplemented by state and federal taxes to compensate disparities: https://www.heritage.org/education/report/the-myth-racial-di... on average, both Black
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> If there were more Republicans working as professors, we’d probably balance out this line of inquiry with papers asking whether rising levels of shootings and homicides also contribute to racial disparities in mental health. But there
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> There were no federal student loans. [..] Almost nobody went to college. How much did college cost? How necessary was a college degree for success?
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But remember, Malthusianism was proven wrong, because we're not starving. Nature is driven to the brink, but we're not starving, so go ahead and make yet more people.
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> What is wrong with that? It's associated with the enemy in the culture war.
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If it wasn't for Google, it would be someone else delivering ads online. Gratitude for their near-complete takeover of that market is severely misplaced.
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Is there someone else broadcasting a message equivalent to "it's OK to be white"?
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Birth Control Pill Side Effect Doctors Don't Tell You(youtube.com)
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> We will (barely) survive That a single company, in an unrelated market (ads), merely refusing to do business with you, can almost bankrupt you, means it's time for trust-busting. No single company should have such power.
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> is offensive You mean someone decided to take offense. It's literally equivalent to "Asian" in that it describes a geographic origin. And negro, as pointed out, was preferred by MLK himself, yet we're just supposed
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So what the ADL is saying is, the only ones telling whites not to hate themselves are neo-Nazis.
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> Before using the voter application, it is recommended to check if the latest security updates have been installed on the computer. I was worried for a moment about the security implications of using un-auditable black boxes running sta
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> I am just interested in what they want and how effective the process is at getting it... What they want and what union leadership wants may not be the same.
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> In that video, Adams expressed outrage at a Rasmussen poll that found 26 percent of Black Americans disagreed with the statement “It’s okay to be white,” compared with 12 percent of the general population. Another 21 percent of Black r

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