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Totally unrelated: Diversity statements required for one-fifth of academic jobs: https://freebeacon.com/campus/study-diversity-statements-req...

You seem awfully sure. I was able to find only one study that directly compared crime, race, and income group: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/23/poor-... Unfor…

> Which happens because black people are overrepresented when it comes to crime, which happens because they are overrepresented in being poor as dirt. Have you tried to confirm thi…

Yes, Western journalism is famous for uncritically praising the West, holding it up as the realization of a perfect, flawless ideal, to which all other societies can only aspire to…

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29254468

What's most painful is that an email client would silently degrade files sent with it. A typical case of "we know better than the user". Which client did they use?

> A whopping 43% of white students weren’t admitted on merit. One might call it affirmative action for the rich and privileged [..] benefits that white people are now supposedly [e…

> such authority Key word "such". Prescribing which certificates I am obligated to trust is many many steps beyond e.g. banning DRM circumvention (which is itself a step too far IM…

> In a nutshell, the revised Article 45 would force browsers to suspend the ‘root store’ policies that are essential for maintaining trust and security online. [..] At the same tim…

Tying a financial product with a web browser? I see MS has been hard at work finding innovative new ways to respect user browser choice. Next step: Guaranteed skipping automated jo…

Also The Guardian: Immigrants needed to save west from crisis - Italy pays the price for a declining population, as the UN warns that worse is to come for developed world - https:/…

Do you think math education needs an overhaul so it sets up more students for success and is more useful for work and life? Or do you think the way math is taught should largely st…

It seems to me all it needs to assume is that genetic* ancestry/ethnicity matters - i.e. it has some effect beyond just appearance (if you think caring about appearance is illegiti…

> is a conspiracy theory about how You mean a conspiracy theory about why . Though the article does not dispute that demographic changes are taking place, or even that they are the…

> If you don't want to pay a million quid for a house in London, refuse the game. Move elsewhere. Find a different way to get by in life, perhaps even a different country. People d…

> In 2014, another internal report, titled “Feed ranking is good,” summarized the results of tests that found allowing users to turn off the algorithm led them to spend less time i…

And someone might "spy" on a whistleblower that leaked an incriminating video, by issuing a warrant for the media fingerprint [1], and finding which TV was used to view the leaked …

> And a lot of people knows this. So for the past few years it turns out plenty of people are willing to sell their watching habits for a cheaper TV. Because every TV has all the w…

Is it user hostile to prevent the user from speeding? From parking in front of a fire hydrant? From driving to an illegal gathering? All of those can result in jail and death ( inc…

> The discussion offers a glimpse into how criminal trials are affected by a judge's unfamiliarity with technology—even when that technology is a common consumer feature that's gra…

Is this the first legally mandated user-hostile feature? Will it be the last?