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by richmarr 10y ago
> where do 99.9% of people get the information they use to make an educated vote? People use information to make an educated vote? I missed that memo
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by richmarr 10y ago
> Does anybody have a clear idea about what his administration policies will really be? Their policy direction is pretty strongly hinted at by the chosen transition team, no?
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by richmarr 10y ago
Personally I find Node easier to move fast with, so for me it can be a good fit in immature markets before product-market fit. On the other hand it can be a pain to deal with memory leaks & handling errors cleanly and in isolation, so m
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by richmarr 10y ago
I think there's a fair argument to say that the level of scale possible here makes this is a different situation
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by richmarr 10y ago
Sorry about that. My guess is that this is a poison chalice... someone lining the BBFC up to look bad, for some reason incidental to online porn.
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by richmarr 10y ago
A few commenters are already saying this is the thin end of the wedge, or that any sites that don't strongly identify UK users will be effected. Realistically this isn't going to happen. The UK government often come out with annou
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by richmarr 10y ago
> Yet the scientific culture of today is falling into that trap itself. You're probably being too kind here. The moment of actual falling was decades ago, or more.
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by richmarr 10y ago
> Instead, he says "people discriminate against both gender and race" and only backs up the "discriminate against gender" argument. First you (incorrectly) complain that the article is only about racial diversity. Now
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by richmarr 10y ago
Too kind, but thanks, and yeah this is a pretty hostile environment for this topic :/
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by richmarr 10y ago
> Every single one of your examples has to do with gender, not ethnic diversity like the original article was talking about. It's interesting that you interpreted it that way. The author states that "diversity discussion is utt
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by richmarr 10y ago
Article argues that diversity of ideas is what's important, rather than diversity of ethnicity/gender, describes trying to solve racial/gender diversity for its own sake as "utterly broken". There's plenty of e
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by richmarr 10y ago
Depends on the market though. For example if your market requires large capital investment, e.g. insurance, banking, you could expect to part with a good proportion of your equity at every raise. If you're a non-capital-intensive busin
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by richmarr 10y ago
1. Sure, okay. 2. Disagree. Even without the cultural references that cripple some IQ measures, IQ tests are susceptible to priming effects, stereotype threat, etc. 3. Maybe Feel free to highlight a specific part you feel justifies that. 4
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by richmarr 10y ago
> A reasonable standard to maintain IMHO, especially for topics that are "such loaded". Loaded perhaps. Disputed? Not with significant credibility in my opinion. > but whether this still applies generally today I think is co
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by richmarr 10y ago
> It is not over, what I pointed at IS racism. Not sure it's either accurate or useful to classify the Rotherham situation as racism.
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by richmarr 10y ago
I'm not convinced that a study that relies on IQ (which is itself a biased metric) and self-reported data (self-reported data is low quality) makes the picture "unclear". Fryer's "Use of Force" paper would be a
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by richmarr 10y ago
> ...there could be multiple explanations for the drop in complaints Uh huh, so, this particular study covered 1,429,868 officer hours across the six different police forces in the UK and the US, and found a 93% drop in complaints. Som
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by richmarr 10y ago
> If it takes a day... You misunderstand. hueving didn't ask me for a citation for this point, he asked me to provide citations in general . I don't intend to spend MY day (not "a" day) providing citations for every
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by richmarr 10y ago
I don't intend to spend my day providing citations for statements that aren't reasonably disputed, just in case some random guy on the internet disagrees. Police organisations (in the UK at least) accept they have a historical pro
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by richmarr 10y ago
What's your point? Are you claiming that a significant base of evidence is somehow disproven because of one incident?
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by richmarr 10y ago
Cameras were assigned randomly on a week by week basis and complaints also dropped when cameras weren't worn, so public perception is an unlikely explanation.
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by richmarr 10y ago
It's controlled for in the experiment. Cameras were worn randomly on different weeks. In weeks that no camera was worn complaints were still reduced.
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by richmarr 10y ago
> ...there's such a presumption of guilt There's a long catalogue of evidence that the police have been insitutionally racist (and other issues). Specifically in the UK, but I suspect the US has a similar catalogue of evidence.
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by richmarr 10y ago
Not sure what your point is. Are you contradicting the study? Trying to suggest a different explanation for the findings?
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by richmarr 10y ago
Yeah, if companies are homogenous then that's fair, but it's not a stretch to believe that certain types of companies require VC funds more than others... in which case losing VC as a funding option would mean up to 20% of new c
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cough enterprise software cough
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by richmarr 10y ago
> They want conductors back That's just faster horses though. Conductors aren't a solution to a problem in themselves, they're a means to solve a problem. So what's the actual problem? WHY do they want conductors back
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by richmarr 10y ago
Not sure many would believe in literal income equality... suspect where people use that term they mean a mixture of (a) a cooling of executive pay & similar, and (b) structural changes to reduce the cumulative advantage high levels of w
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by richmarr 10y ago
Absolutely agree. Markets are great when they meet the conditions for proper competition; and privatisations frequently occurs in sectors that don't meet those conditions; e.g railways.
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by richmarr 10y ago
> Usually... Generalisations aside, this report doesn't seem to be about wealth being created unevenly. This report claims 5 specific ways that privatisation of services has caused life to become worse for low income and/or min

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