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by the_lego 3y ago
Most damning in that lengthy post is that the paper omits some of the key data collected by the study, including suicidality: acute suicidality was an exclusion criterion for this study (see section 4.6.4). There were two deaths by suicide
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by the_lego 3y ago
"Yes we barricaded the only paved road to the plaintiff's business, but do they have evidence this harmed them, or mere speculation?"
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by the_lego 3y ago
> Judge Amit Mehta dismissed one of the more significant claims [...] that alleges that Google rigged search results to boost its own products over those of competitors like Amazon, OpenTable, Expedia, or eBay. Mehta said that these clai
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by the_lego 3y ago
The difference is this way, the price per working chip doesn't change as they improve the process.
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by the_lego 3y ago
Selective skepticism. No methodology is good enough if you don't like its conclusions.
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by the_lego 3y ago
> adobe goes to great technical and legal lengths to ensure it can't be Could you elaborate? It was my impression they simply didn't care, but I never looked into it.
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by the_lego 3y ago
The story they're trying to bury: Prosecutors want to confiscate the property in Hampstead, London, after Arif Patel's conviction on Tuesday for a £97million fraud. The 55-year-old and his gang imported and sold knock-off designe
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by the_lego 3y ago
Intel wants to provide the best computing experiences. To accomplish this, we would like your permission to collect, use, and combine information to understand: The categories of websites you visit, but not the URL itself Software usage: f
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by the_lego 3y ago
I commend your wife's and the parent poster's admirable scientific approach.
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by the_lego 3y ago
What user content does Zoom the company have access to? Connection metadata, call video, call audio..?
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by the_lego 3y ago
> using the same arguments SFFA made, it looks like Ivies discriminated against whites more than Asians. Could you elaborate on this? > whites are the least likely group to take test prep I'd love a source for this, if you still
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by the_lego 3y ago
> it's not scientific to guess a number because you proved guessing isn't a risk because it's such a non-factor. In general you just remove the non-factor. But then you don't have a reasonable lower bound, and someone
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by the_lego 3y ago
Furthermore, why use 1500 SAT score? Because it gives the distribution you like? Harvard's cutoffs are 1100 for Blacks, Native Americans and Hispanics, 1350 for Asian women and 1380 for Asian men, and 1310 for "white wannabe stude
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by the_lego 3y ago
We can debate the various subtleties of "white" till the cows come home, but that is irrelevant to how accurate those graphs are. Let's assume the graphic erroneously counted 100% of Jews as white, instead of 90%. That would
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by the_lego 3y ago
In 2013, the Pew Research Center's Portrait of Jewish Americans found that more than 90% of Jews who responded to its survey described themselves as being non-Hispanic whites, 2% described themselves as being black, 3% described thems
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by the_lego 3y ago
> While also insisting they're a small group so it doesn't matter? Doesn't matter for calculating the non-Jewish White SAT is how I interpreted that. Since white_SAT = (2.4*jewish_SAT + 55.4*non_jewish_white_SAT) /
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by the_lego 3y ago
If the mainstream discourse was "yes, whites are underrepresented, but they deserve it because they're dumb", that would be progress compared to the current "there are too many whites in the Ivies due to white supremacy
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Ivy League Demographics(archive.org)
95 points by the_lego 3y ago|86 comments
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by the_lego 3y ago
Does simple non-cooperation with law-enforcement count as "obstruction"?
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by the_lego 3y ago
The 'Methodology' section of that image (text on the bottom) states it only looks at the fraction of non-international students with a known race. I.e. it subtracts international students and students with race listed as 'unk
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by the_lego 3y ago
Presumably that is why mean SAT scores are included - to show that despite having higher SAT scores than Black and Hispanic undergraduates, non-Jewish White undergraduates have a significantly lower acceptance rate. But even ignoring SAT sc
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by the_lego 3y ago
They matter to show how selective and deceitful the reporting has been. Do the following stories give the impression that whites are over-, or under-represented in the Ivies? Are there any stories from illustrious papers such as the NYTimes
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by the_lego 3y ago
The conservative-majority court rejected policies used by many U.S. colleges and universities to use race as one of multiple factors in admissions in order to boost enrollment of Black, Hispanic and certain other minority students. Blum&#x
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by the_lego 3y ago
But the details aren't the issue. It's the entire idea of remote attestation that is repulsive and user-hostile. Otherwise I agree that examining the details doesn't move the Overton window - the broad idea already did that.
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by the_lego 3y ago
> Maybe I don't want my main phone to stop working? You are conflating the alleged benefit of locking down devices to assure users don't break them [1], with websites and services getting the ability to remotely verify your sof
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by the_lego 3y ago
> the two must be equally matched in power, else one side would just win You're confusing actual battle with mere rhetorical arguments, a shouting match. There is no victor, just noise that serves as a distraction. Besides, the thes
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by the_lego 3y ago
It's not at all obvious to me - could you explain?
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by the_lego 3y ago
Not central bankers - they are an arm of the government, charged with managing currency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank
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by the_lego 3y ago
I.e. home taping is killing music, VCRs should be illegal, etc.. Amazing how the same lie remains effective after being proven false so many times.
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by the_lego 3y ago
> Norway has recently changed our health software to Epic Why? I'm assuming corruption and lobbying by Epic.

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