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No hard feelings. Keep up the good work.

More notable than how they use tangential evidence to debunk a claim (e.g. citing a drop in rape as evidence it's not the rape capital, and comparing the rate of rape in absolute t…

You mean the time they bought the company that solved protein folding.

I pointed out (exaggerating only modestly) the absurd amount of benefit of the doubt you're giving the NY Times. If you believe that's an insult, I really can't help you.

This level of skepticism would find even the Daily Mail as free of bias and agenda.

> In the NY Times, for example, I haven't seen it, Try now: NY Times title when a "story" (schoolyard scuffle) broke: A Black Virginia Girl Says White Classmates Cut Her Dreadlocks…

And if their ToS are themselves political?

Even if the algorithm was correct, the remaining staff will now focus on gaming the perceived productivity metrics. We all know what that means for actual productivity.

Looking at only the college age 20-24 year age group [1], the numbers change as follows: Ivy League US Ratio Jewish* 17.2% 2.1% 8.21 Asian 19.6% 7.1% 2.75 White 33.1% 51.6% 0.64 Hi…

Any advice on how I could present this data without it becoming a dogwhistle? The edit window is over, but I'll gladly make those changes next time.

> They're the only small group being considered. Of course they're gonna be "by far" something. Many other small groups have above-average representation in academics. Maybe small …

It's just a trivial excel table. The Hillel sources are a bit tricky to get to - their URLs are: https://hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/brown-universit... http://hillel.org/c…

The presidents of Yale, Pennsylvania, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and Brown are Peter Salovey, Amy Gutmann, Lawrence Bacow, Lee C. Bollinger, Christopher Eisgruber, and Christina…

Maybe they don't believe the data? And it's very tedious to check. If that's the case, I suggest to check the data for a few individual universities. Cornell and Princeton are slig…

US universities also had a history of trying to exclude Jewish people [1]. I say history, because the practice has by all accounts stopped, and the current situation in the Ivy Lea…

> It’s possible the truth falls somewhere in the middle here. Only if you believe Facebook has authority to decide what users do with the data Facebook shows them on their own mach…

I thought one of the main ideals of free software is the user being in charge.

People can complain about something, without believing it is illegal, and without already having a legislative or other solution for the problem ready. If nothing else, it informs …

> What is stopping people from manufacturing a better ice cream machine? Absolutely nothing. I don't understand this ""right""-to-repair movement. Do you think that's a viable solu…

From organization. They can rely on the police to arrest you, you cannot rely that your arrest will be what sparks the revolution that overthrows them. Assuming many people even le…

How much is this promise worth? In flip-flop, Apple bans app used by Hong Kong protestors - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/apple-approves-t... Apple deliberately place…

> Government can't just do whatever they want if they also being surveilled. No? Because it seems to me if you're the one with power, you have a lot less to fear from surveillance,…

Does surveillance make it easier, or harder, to change unjust law, or an unjust government? Or even learn there are injustices being carried out in the first place? Suppose the peo…

I don't like those responses, because they fundamentally don't address the issue. What if the person is okay with a trustworthy government agent/system seeing them naked, or having…