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by tarakat 4y ago
> In the blog post she references (but, tellingly, does not link) This is standard procedure for most journalists - they prefer to present only their interpretation (or spin) of events, rather than let their audience form their own opini
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A predictable result of allowing (even encouraging) all groups but one to organize and lobby for their ethnic self-interest.
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> You shouldn’t rely on these claims, because even 1 bit of bias on a 256 bit nonce value can be enough to attack certain cryptographic schemes! This seems like a very high bar for a random generator to clear. It also raises a question:
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Not even formally verified open-source compilers can be trusted (and for the record, in practice, voting machine software does not reach anywhere near such level of security): https://cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers
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> And humanity viewed *as a species* does not need saving because in the event of a major extinction, we are the most stubbornly adaptable species ever. That remains to be tested.
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I see a correlation, but no way to assess actual prevalence. E.g. is it 20% of Democrats that are into trans porn, vs. 30% of Republicans, or 0.2% vs 0.3%? I realize this may be difficult to determine from the data Google exposes, but one c
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> is this time telling the truth The 1st Amendment and various diversity pledges are all public - you can verify them yourself, you don't have to take Reason's word for it. Or do you mean that the hypothetical example given b
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And that is why this article is wrong, I see, yes, well put. In fact, all the countries and universities that don't require diversity pledges (i.e. the great majority of them) are in fact morally equivalent to apartheid.
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There's a second, usually unaddressed question: given these diversity pledge requirements, how should we recalibrate our view of universities? Suppose universities, as in Volokh's example, required candidates to show what they did
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> whatever voodoo the S&M team is up to Those teams rarely justify their cost, especially if you factor in all the sexual harassment lawsuits that they're a breeding ground for.
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I didn't mention accuracy because it's not about accuracy. E.g. casting whites as Mezoamerican or Indian deities wouldn't go over well, despite those deities not being real.
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Some argue that such race-swapped casting would be called cultural colonization if e.g. whites were cast into roles from Chinese, Indian, African, or Native American folk tales. In fact even media where whites wore make-up to try and pass a
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> Paper ballot design can tip elections -- most famously in 2000, and elsewhere. Voting machines also suffer from myriad issues - e.g. unresponsive touchscreens. And there are countless paper voting systems without the issues of the 2000
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If by "that" you mean gene transfer technology, then I agree. But they also want to patent the result - they do not want a different lab with access to that same technology to be allowed to take a naturally occurring gene and tran
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> just like any other _novel_ invention--plants are no different. They are. E.g. Monsanto didn't invent the glyphosate-resistance gene for their Roundup Ready GM crops. The gene was already present in nature, and Monsanto merely cop
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Being accurate and reliable on average is what makes the bias on select topics effective. And bias of omission is most effective. E.g. the complete absence of any demographics vs. time graph (and near-complete absence of demographic infor
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> The U.S. Election Assistance Commission says voting machines should be meticulously inventoried and kept under lock and key "in a tamper-proof location, preferably within the election office." A tacit admission that election
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Also covered by NPR, in case you don't trust Alphanews: https://www.npr.org/2022/09/02/1120798679/a-new-minneapolis-... Though NPR couched it in much more delicate, far less direct words (and a larg
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> Returning to culture-wars territory, the claim that “our public schools are full of … teachers who abuse their positions of trust to engage in political activism and political indoctrination,” as Kevin Williamson wrote earlier this yea
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Random twitter bans (not just post removals, but whole account bans) are nothing unusual, even for the most politely worded posts [1], so I don't understand why this particular instance merits the Intercept's attention. [1] https
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There is a little more information on its github page: https://github.com/tomahawkins/atom
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The conglomerate can do this even if the EU makes Netflix pay twice for bandwidth. And calling it unlimited vs. metered is deceptive. ISPs can (and do) offer lower bandwidths (usually called "unlimited") instead of metering.
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> Economic stagnation combined with plummeting tax revenue resulting from an exodus of wealthy (and largely white) residents left New York in an intractable financial crisis. For context, in the 1970s the US was ~83% white (57% today) [1
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"The price I am charging for my services is not enough to cover my costs! Government, help!" Or they could, you know, offer smaller speeds or higher prices.
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They're already charging both sides - the consumer streaming a movie has to pay for his bandwidth, and Netflix's server uploading the movie stream pays for its bandwidth. Now the ISPs want to be paid a 3rd time??
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> Like me, the majority of the campus was not here at the beginning of this matter in 2016. But they still benefit from the inherited privilege born of these systemic injustices that the bakery case exemplifies.
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She should remove testimony of what happened by the alleged victim's mother, because the accusation did not result in a conviction? It is also immediately followed by > David was afraid the incident would blow up, since the students
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ML systems are more difficult to tweak. E.g. if you want to adjust parameters such as growth speed, branching factor, sunlight attraction, etc., and see how the resulting plant changes.
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Registrars seek power to deny outgoing transfers of legal domains they dislike(freespeech.com)
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If being exposed to the "wrong" people for a few hours is all it takes to make the voting machines unsafe, isn't that an admission that they weren't remotely safe to begin with? I argue this holds for any black box that

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