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Your first link is pretty terrible; it took forever to find the 2000 AAUW report it refers to. Here’s a more current version: https://www.aauw.org/app/uploads/2020/03/Crossing-the-Line-S... The 1-in-10 n
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Parents are merely exercising their First Amendment rights when they threaten violence against school teachers & staff? That’s an interesting position.
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Unfortunately, psychosomatic migraines are just as painful as ones with material causes.
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Worse than that, motivated editors often color their pet pages with specific nuance and context, and no casual editor has a hope of winning an edit war against such opposition. My favorite example of this is the debate between a faction tha
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> In March 2023, the FDA gave Vertex the greenlight to begin clinical trials of VX-264, an advanced version of the therapy in which the transplanted islets are encapsulated in a device that protects them from the recipient’s immune syste
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC and the penumbra of supporting decisions since then.
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A bon mot, to be sure, but whether or not they are labeled as such makes no difference. The behavior refuses to change in either situation. Plenty of pitiful fools are still trying to keep sod alive in the vicinity of the Mojave.
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What comparable creator platform takes less than 10%?
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It’s an old note. She died in 1943; it’s been eighty years.
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This text is definitely not in the public domain.
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http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/weil_simone/pesanteur_e... This seems to be the French text of “Gravity and Grace”. The English translation dates from 1997; her other works are even less known and less likely
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I’m confused, you’ve gone from the status quo being “plurality consent” to “consent of some vocal minority”. That seems even worse?
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When citizen initiatives (e.g., the Equal Rights Amendment [0]) can poll at >=70% for decades and still show no progress towards implementation, something is broken. [0] https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2022&#x2F
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The sticking point is that “consent of the governed” doesn’t even mean majority consent anymore.
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No, I’m personally against all forms of intellectual property but that’s far outside the mainstream. The position I describe above is consistent, though. And widely held.
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Software intellectual property is (for better or worse) primarily enshrined in patents, which have a limited exclusive lifetime. The content industry’s intellectual property is primarily enshrined in copyright, whose exclusive lifetime grea
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None of the subsections in that essay do much more than “point”; in classic Scott Alexander fashion he makes a lot of noise and gestures at. . . something. . . * Privilege > “One obvious answer would be “privilege”. It’s not completely w
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> You cannot argue on principle that diversity is a good thing while simultaneously arguing that it can be a bad thing. This is an obvious contradiction. Moderation (in the sense of temperance) as a meta-ethical principle has an exceedin
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If SCOTUS’ majority opinion says this particular form of information is okay to use, how is the legitimacy of the law being violated?
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Maybe I’m wrong, but it sounds a lot like you’re asking why they didn’t implement a court decision before the decision was made. The Ivies thought what they were doing was legal. It no longer is.
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If you truly believe that factoring race into college admissions is absolutely shameful, then you can’t also believe SCOTUS was effective in this decision. As Harvard’s response to the opinion demonstrates, there’s an obvious loophole—colle
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After Virtue is one of the books I read roughly once a year. It is an excellent antidote to the constant screaming match that is contemporary discourse on law and ethics.
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By itself, Remez is not usually helpful for these kinds of low-accuracy polynomial approximations, because getting the minmax error beneath the quantization threshold is too strong a constraint. Usually one ends up doing some brute force po
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> If you go back far enough, just about everyone's a descendant of someone who's been wronged by a government, and just about everyone's [3] a descendant of someone who has blood on their hands as a participant in those wr
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> You can have just as much fun at the TGI Friday's at your local strip mall as you can at the hippest restaurant no one else has ever heard of in Brooklyn. It's just a matter of who you spend that time with, and how you percei
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> learning to add numbers. What does it mean to learn to add numbers? LLMs in general are not good at accurately portraying their own processes, and humans are equally bad at interpreting what LLMs do “under the hood”. “To rationalize” m
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This is also why Shapiro has cultivated the fine art of speaking in such a rapid-fire, grating tone. He wants listening carefully to him to be as uncomfortable as possible.
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Okay, but how is that relevant to the claim that the GOP has been static for the past twenty years?
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Your citation is based on a sketchy statistical interpretation based only each party’s platform. National party platforms are mostly irrelevant documents in the US, e.g., state party platforms regularly contradict them. See for example the
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Murderers aren’t really representative of the homeless. Bear in mind mere homelessness is not unequivocally a crime in the states, see Martin v. Boise (2020 or so).

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