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by yes_really 4y ago
10 years ago, if someone said that "woke" people got control of institutions and are censoring science that goes against their ideology, I would think that person is crazy. Right now, they even publish manifestos explicitly statin
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IQ research is the one area in social sciences that does not suffer from reproducibility crisis. You're clearly not against it because of reproducibility; you are against it because it goes against your ideological worldview. > Seco
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> But the fact remains that women and minorities are at a significant disadvantage when it comes to just about all aspects of life. - 90% of homicide victims are male. - 80% of homeless people are male. - 90% of people in prison are male
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> What I haven't seen is people being passed over for not being diverse enough on a first hand basis. The people that claim it happened to them, are generally better at complaining than they are at their job. How do you have that in
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> Seems to me that about half your population no longer has an inalienable right to bodily autonomy. You are more than a century late. The government has prohibited people from putting drugs in their bodies for a long time. Alcohol, ille
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It does not sound like OP wants a parent at all.
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> Setting cost aside for a second, is there any reason not to do something like this? The cost would be so massive that, even if the answer to that question is "no", we shouldn't do it.
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> The theoretical complexities are: > - For list: O(n) > - For vector: O(n) > Surprisingly enough, the vector version is almost 90 times faster than the list version for 8K. How can we explain this big difference? That does not
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Note: I'm not saying there isn't caste bias. I'm saying that articles like these are shamelessly lying about what happened.
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The real reason why Google canceled the talk is because the speaker has a long history of anti-hindu rhetoric and multiple employees complained about the talk to HR. That Washington Post article is lying (or being extremely disingenuous) to
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A big part of that is because houses are seen as an investment rather than a utility. They are also hugely subsidized by the government.
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Honestly I'd rather have developers build 1,000,000 luxury houses than 100k luxury + 900k "affordable" houses. In the long term high-income people will live in the best houses, and if there aren't enough luxury houses, t
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It's honestly bizarre that there is such a thing as a "sex offender" register. It seems it comes much more from a desire to further punish people than to actually protect the population. I would be much more afraid of an ex-f
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The ironic thing is that James Damore was fired from Google for publishing a milquetoast memo on gender distribution in tech, yet the convicted felon (and registered level 2 sex offender) is being protected from "discrimination".
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The most revolting part of the US medical system IMO is the complete lack of transparency in prices. In the ideal case, people would know what they would pay in each hospital when they are still deciding where to go.
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> EDIT: I would just like to add, if you feel that the streets of NYC are a safe place at night for women, children, or whomever, then I really feel like your opinion is very dismissive of people who have been seriously injured or killed
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A big problem is a lot of companies make changes for changes' sake instead of a real business reason. It might be due to internal incentives too: it's easier for designers and managers to justify their existence by launching new d
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> The richest man in the world is a simple minded moron that acts like a 16yo in the middle of a sugar rush. Weird how that "simple minded moron that acts like a 16yo in the middle of a sugar rush" became the richest men in the
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Keep in mind most of that difference is probably not a consequence of the 4 year degree, but just a selection bias of people getting degrees generally also being the people that earn more.
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> Is this even a debate about whether or not it is a reasonable policy? Why would you allow uninspected products to feed your most vulnerable population? They are inspected products. They are inspected by an European country. > Any Am
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You need a threshold higher than 100k. With a threshold of 100k, the middle class is split in both groups earning <100k and >100k. The comment I replied to said "rich white socialite in New York". These people vote overwhelm
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> Why is that? How much of a connection does a rich white socialite in New York have with a poor custodian from an immigrant family? Sure, their representative may be trying to bring money into their district, but beyond that is it reall
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What about the "poor and marginalized" students that were falsely accused and expelled from university over Title IX kangaroo courts? > When the Trump administration proposed in 2018 a new regulatory scheme for schools to follo
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> Of course, the real solution here should just be free public college + clampdowns on cost overruns so that it's practical to fund. Less money on nice dorms and endless administrators and whichever sports lose money. We used to hav
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> Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups But what the article calls "equality" is discriminating against men, whites, asians and other groups. It's pretty obvious this discrimination har
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> The Office of Admission considers each student holistically within the context of their setting to build a dynamic University community. Given this, data points such as overall admission rates and average SAT scores shouldn’t influence
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If you cheat on your partner you are also a "shit person". Do you think employers should reject candidates if they know they cheated on a romantic relationship?
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> Which economy? Certainly not the ones that are getting destroyed by "biggest ever recorded" tropical cyclones. The literature is mixed on whether climate change is really the cause on these recent natural disasters and, if it
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For people that are lost on how climate change could be positive: it causes higher crop yields, and increases the temperature in cold regions (saving people from freezing to death and saving huge amounts of energy in heating). Economists ha
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I have a feeling that "contradict science on climate change" will only go one way. For example, economists agree that effects of climate change would be very small (compared to the world's economy) or even positive. David Fri

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