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by rayiner 4mo ago
Your initial assessment was correct and this part of the post above is incorrect: “when their qualifications were identical.” The paper doesn’t control for identical qualifications.
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The problem with the term “systemic bias” is that it takes a word that’s about differential treatment and changes the subject to disparate outcomes. For example, the article here shows disparate impact: that different percentages of applica
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by rayiner 4mo ago
That’s an earlier paper. This one involves 3 million real applicants, with no control for applicant quality.
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by rayiner 4mo ago
That’s not the data set used for this paper: https://algorithmichiring.github.io/ If you click through, the paper says the race is self-reported. “Our data tracks 4,197,168 applications. It includes applicant gameplay featu
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by rayiner 4mo ago
> It's just been over a month since black people lost the right to a fair vote. Literally the opposite happened. The Supreme Court ruled that there was VRA §2 liability when there was evidence of racially-motivated gerrymandering:
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by rayiner 4mo ago
Your summary of the EEOC guidance is correct. The problem is that the study here is using the four-fifths rule as a measurement of discrimination, instead of as a flag that triggers further investigation. It's in section 3.1 of the pap
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Thank you, I hadn't even considered that smartphone use may differ between drivers in developed countries.
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Yes, but on the whole we got much heavier trucks from 1980 to 2009 while pedestrian deaths went down. There’s also the issue that heavier vehicles are inevitable due to EVs. Our bz4x won’t get tagged as a “big evil truck,” but it’s about th
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by rayiner 4mo ago
Data shows that introduction of iPhones in 2007 is a better explanation for the increase in pedestrian deaths than heavier trucks and SUVs: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1ubbfrv/oc...
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It discourages potential lawsuits. If companies retaliate by banning entire law firms from accessing popular venues, that's going to discourage people from filing otherwise meritorious lawsuits against the venues. The difference betwee
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> We created laws, that I agree with, saying you can't ban whole protected classes like races from 'public accommodations' (private businesses that are generally open to the public) The Supreme Court found these laws to be
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by rayiner 4mo ago
I suspect these AI-displaced workers in the long run will suffer the same fate as workers affected by deindustrialization. They won’t die of starvation, obviously. But they will never be “retrained” to roles that offer them similar income,
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by rayiner 4mo ago
What you’re describing is the culture of credentialism. You can’t change it by yourself and it’s hard to fight against. But that’s my point. The problem with credentialism is that the credential becomes the end, not a means to an end. There
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by rayiner 4mo ago
Apart from a COVID blip, O1 visa petitions have been steadily growing. They’re up 57% since 2013. Long-term, I suspect skilled immigration will trend down. But for positive reasons: as India and China develop, more people will make the choi
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by rayiner 4mo ago
> Sorry, I'm not in the business of responding thoughtfully to low effort questions slung rapid-fire over the fence How is it “low-effort” to ask you to address a point raised in the article itself? The article talks about “decades”
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Yeah they’re much easier now.
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> I wonder how much of this shift in culture is influenced by the Korean, Chinese and Indian immigrants I think there’s an influence, but it’s amplifying a pre-existing trend. Bureaucratic societies favor formal credentials. The U.S. has
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by rayiner 4mo ago
Yes: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/monroe . That’s a central fissure between new right conservatives and the neocons that embrace liberal internationalism.
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I’m pretty sure we can maintain technological dominance with the O-visa and E-visa programs.
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This is funding science. Literally just reallocating funding from one part of the pipeline to another.
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by rayiner 4mo ago
> Why is government research doing what the industry should be The government does plenty of applied research in conjunction with industry. E.g. DARPA.
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by rayiner 4mo ago
> hurting people they don’t like > genuine desire to improve America We think these are related, just like you do. The difference is that you assume that hurting billionaires will improve America while we assume that hurting NGOs and
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The assumption is that the people in the universities who can build missiles can pretty easily be distinguished from those who can’t.
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> Not sure why the article decided to compare cargo capacity of a airplane with the length of a container ship, but alas. Because journalism is plagued by innumeracy. Same reason the author is talking about the length of cargo ships inst
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This makes no sense. People want to commute to the best job they can get, not the one that happens to be in their neighborhood. And people aren't going to move neighborhoods when they move jobs, especially with spouses and kids who hav
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by rayiner 4mo ago
I suspect the answer is two-fold: 1) Pass legislation to ban the fed from pulling interest rates below 2%. The unprecedented ZIRP completely fucked up asset values and it will take decades to unwind it. 2) In cities, the government should o
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What makes you think you can change the facility that's in the ERCOT queue while keeping your place in line?
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With a margin that small, there's a good chance that Bush won the election because his name came before Gore's. I bet there's more than 500 people in the electorate who simply pick the first name on the list. What's hila
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Soon it will be: "keep your dirty government hands off my Obamacare."
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Public-private partnerships work very well in Asia. But the government has more oversight over the private entity and a heavier hand with policing results. A big problem in the Anglosphere in particular is that the government is too focused

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