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by thisiszilff 6y ago
Yes, unfortunately black people are disproportionately poor, so they bear the brunt of issues associated with a lack of money in America. In the present day, I suspect most things people call systemic racism is rooted in and perpetuated by
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
To be perfectly upfront with my own beliefs, I believe economic disparities is the mother of all other disparities and that many of these statistics that show disparities in outcomes for whites vs blacks are just echos of that economic disp
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
It is important to note that this isn't just about police brutality. There are a number of racial disparities that result in more black deaths. From the letter: > lack people suffer from dramatic health disparities in life expectanc
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
Their letter has a paragraph addressing some of their concerns: > White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19. Black people are twice as likely to be killed by police compared to white people
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
It is important to not the latter did not mitigating police brutality as a public health interest, but racism in general. From the letter: > White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19. Black
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
Their letter makes it clear they are taking about racism, not necessarily just in police brutality. The letter to me reads as 100% political because it is suggesting that you can get rid of the protests by addressing their concerns. That op
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
> That's a shining example of weasel speak. They don't explicitly say it's not risky - because that would be plain lying, it is obviously risky - but they are saying they are not condemning it as risky. Another excerpt fro
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
It's also important to distinguish between the protests vs elements using the protests (and pandemic) as a cover for crime. In NYC it least, it seems that the protests & those looting are two separate groups.
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
> The taxes from these stores are less and less helping them with social programs etc and go more towards funding police departments that brutalize them. That sounds like an assumption whose truth is heavily dependent on being in a speci
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
Success in this case is spreading to more people. Mutating to cause less severe symptoms + be more contagious is evolutionary the way these things go.
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
It does seem logical: your in person interactions are mediated by your personal relationship with people. Online you can come across anything and everything. The in person equivalent would be walking by ten or twenty small protests set up w
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
I struggle to understand how those points are related to the substance of the post you're replying to. The situation OP describes is between bad & worse -- you can have empathy for people while recognizing the reality of the situat
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
A big part is anxiety about the future. You are not guaranteed economic opportunities in the future, so we make the most we have of the present to ensure we can provide for ourselves in the future. You also enjoy not subsisting. I enjoy not
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
UBI feels like a way of addressing the incoming loss of jobs due to automation. > No, people work more than they currently need to because they are exercising prudence, common sense, and planning for the future. Which every adult human b
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
If Bob is a machine, then yes!
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
To an extent that is what it ends up being 90% of the time given that a lot of the inheritance people use don't satisfy the LSP (Liskov Substitution Principle). We've been using mypy with our python codebase and it will complain i
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
Hey, do you have specific examples of the damage you're concerned about? I've been reading up about this a lot as it is something that concerns me, but so far most of what I've says that longterm damage is mitigated by taking
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
Thank you, I was genuinely curious as to what you had in mind -- I came up with a lot of possible examples, hence the question. I think it's going to come down to definitions unfortunately. For example, what do we mean when we say >
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
Do you have some specific examples of the latter?
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
In theory you would be trading hanging out with your coworkers for hanging out with your friends, you neighbors, others in your community + a lesser commute. You would definitely lose some and gain some, the question is whether that gain wo
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
Everytime someone posts something along these lines I am reminded how difficult it is to get a sense of exponential growth & how the gap between needing them, not needing them, being overwhelmed, having this blow over is a smaller than
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
I am puzzled by your comment. Are you saying that the person you're responding to mischaracterized Trump's statements? That there is nothing objectionable to Trump's statements? Or something else? Reading your comment the bes
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
My reading of the article was that it sought to point out that how "bad" it is today isn't unusual or an anomaly. Today's divisions are more par for course in America than a new development. That perspective is relevant
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
The loser is exploited. Imagine if the losing condition were that the loser is enslaved. Just because you can't tell at the start which party will be the loser (and so exploited) doesn't mean the contract itself isn't exploit
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Especially a test environment that accurately mirrors a production environment.
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I'm taking this comment as evidence that I've succeeded in figuring it out.
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by thisiszilff 7y ago
Not who you're replying to, but I imagine bad, immediate reactions will be easy to spot, but more subtle, chronic problems would be found only after analysis. A part of this work would be figuring out what is attributable to the vaccin
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by thisiszilff 7y ago
For your enjoyment: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/
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by thisiszilff 7y ago
You don't need to modify that data. The methods can produce other objects in which case OOP starts to look very functional, the main difference being that you lead with the data (a.to_foo() instead of food(a)). There's a lot of di
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by thisiszilff 8y ago
You want to learn more about both pure and applied mathematics. Pure math is very proof heavy which is excellent for self learning because you never have to take anything on faith. Proofs are meant to be very clear explanations. One of the

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