rovolo

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by rovolo 5y ago
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anatole_France
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In each of your responses, you're saying there needs to be a shared base of ethics. > you have no legitimate way to argue to them that they should > There's no shared basis I can legitimately use to argue with them > you
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Nations are sociological inventions. If I know where (& when) on Earth you were born, I can predict your nationality with extreme precision. Does this mean that nationality is a natural geographic categorization?
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You're picking a single definition of race from the OED, but there are multiple definitions. They somewhat overlap, but they aren't all the same concept. > A group of people sharing the same culture, history, language, etc.; an
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> large-scale population movements ... population genetics ... Those groups are racial categories. The tool that you're using to map population migrations isn't race , it's genetic similarity of geographically close popul
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> > I think that you're saying that other people are defining Black as a race wrongly because they aren't defining Black in terms of ancestry/genetics. > Correct. I don't think you're matching the "com
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> I thought you already had "Anglo-Saxons" and "African Americans" for these. Those are not the same things. For one, "Anglo-Saxon" is English ancestry. It doesn't include all White people. Second, I&
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> Blumenbach's craniometric categorization ... match the prehistoric reality better Blumenbach essentially tried to split people into: Europeans, Asians, Africans, Polynesians, and Americans. You can then choose features and make me
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> Black is the common term used to identify the look of a very dark skinned person. This defines Black without using genetics. I think that you're saying that other people are defining Black as a race wrongly because they aren'
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For East/West Berlin, that shows that geographic closeness doesn't determine national boundaries. The national boundary can be defined in terms of geography, but geography doesn't determine national boundaries. National bound
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> I can't know without a genetic test. How did people know someone was Black prior to genetic testing? It sounds like you'd answer that you'd trace their ancestry, but how would you know if their parents are Black? The ans
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It shows how ancestry and race are somewhat related, but it doesn't show that genetics determine race. You can pick groups within "Black" who are more closely related to a random "White" person than they are to a
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by rovolo 5y ago
Race is correlated with and impacted by ancestry/genetics, but it is not how race is defined. For example, there is far more genetic diversity within Africa than outside of Africa. All of that diversity is mostly collapsed into "B
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Expanding on this point, you have a choice of goals you want to model, and you have a choice of success criteria. Each model has outcomes which are factually neutral, but the choice of model and way you use the results reflect a value syste
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by rovolo 5y ago
Unsterile needles are included on this wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_HIV/AIDS#Emergence
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by rovolo 5y ago
> Colonial governments were mostly out of Africa after the 1960s. HIV was probably spreading in the Belgian Congo in the 1920s. It likely spread to the US in the 60s. It takes a decade for HIV to turn into AIDS, which is why we think of
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by rovolo 5y ago
The risk factor in the US is "man who has sex with men", not "gay man". Factors can combine: e.g. "gay virgin" is a lower risk factor than "straight + multiple partners".
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It's okay, everyone expresses an ignorant opinion at some point. We aren't born knowing everything and we have to keep learning as the world changes. What's important is that we recognize that we can put a foot in our mouth a
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by rovolo 5y ago
> Where did I even imply that? Granted, I did extrapolate from your first response. I said so because race (like class) is a social reality in the US, and being mixed race does mean that you experience the US differently. You replied to
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by rovolo 5y ago
You're saying a true thing (there is no genetic basis for human race), but you're using that to say no-one should talk about race (a social classification). As an exercise, should the Civil Rights movement of the 60s have avoided
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by rovolo 5y ago
2017 stats: https://www.bls.gov/regions/new-york-new-jersey/news-release... For context, Nassau and Suffolk are the highest paid area in New York at ~100k mean salary. That's below the median household inco
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Which district? What seniority? Can you link a pay schedule?
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IQ is highly impacted by schooling and wealth. The 1965 immigration reform act filters immigrants based on skills and wealth, increasing the average IQ of immigrants. 60% of Asian-Americans are first-generation immigrants, and the total pop
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He believes that the biggest impediment to black people in the modern day is other black people. > Marion Barry abuses the D.C. mayor's office and snorts crack on video and `movement' blacks march in the streets to get him acqu
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JFYI, you may be inferring "gang-caused" from "gang-related". > An additional concern is the varying methods by which homicides are classified as “gang-related.” The most commonly used is the “member-based” approach,
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They said "scientism", not "science". They're focusing on the social aspects of what you were saying: > "Classics and Religious texts ... I will take my chances with imperfect science" In fact, you dire
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Thanks for expanding more on your reasons for including each of the examples. > Though I don't think the reason you left these out is because you're trying to mislead: your focus was "why people were angry", and mine
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This is what I found with a quick search. * Simon Singh & BCA: appeals court changed Singh's "statement of fact" to "fair comment" (opinion) in 2010. The BCA then withdrew the libel lawsuit. The "Libel Refo
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I don't think you're giving a great summary of these stories. The first two are related to personal defamation: * Police horse and dog: people could be arrested for "threatening, abusive or insulting" speech in public at
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I checked through the source code for System 7.1 at https://www.macintoshrepository.org/1398-mac-os-7-1-source-c... . You look correct (A=assembly, H=header, C=c, P=pascal, R=resource) % find ~/Downloads/Sys

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