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I couldn't find the story I was looking for but here are a few. Both TSA and CBP represented here; the CBP stories are closer to what the grandparent post describes. These stories …

China throttles lots of foreign websites that it doesn't block. It wouldn't be surprising if they target all foreign ssl traffic for throttling too.

See the write up here: http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2016-4484/CVE-2016-4484_cryptsetu...

Do you have a website? Factr is hard to find on google.

> So far, between Oct 10 and Oct 14, 631 stores have been fixed. [0] So it sounds like does a pretty good job of fixing things [0] https://gwillem.gitlab.io/2016/10/14/github-censo…

Well, there are the famous ones. I'd bet facebook would have been treated differently if Mark Zuckerberg were black. You also probably automatically make guesses about people's rac…

1. Able. Not that skin color itself affects any sort of intellectual ability, but race--including, importantly, the experiences people have because of their skin color--definitely …

I would argue that it is not just bias. Indeed, not all people of color in the U.S. are experts on racism, but the vast majority of people with a good understanding of racism are p…

Just a supposition, but from an American (I'm white). I don't think it's a stretch to say that people who have experienced e.g. anti-black racism will be better able to make techno…

In the U.S., a black software engineer is more likely to be able to design technology that helps keep people safe from police regardless of geekery and socioeconomic status.

Planet money's coverage is great; I think a bunch of the posts below would be answered by listening to the podcast. One of the main things I remember taking away from the podcast w…

This is cute. How could you pick e.g. Google-esque adjectives? Is there a corpus of press releases, etc. from lots of big (tech) companies? If so, has anyone done basic comparative…

I thought you were joking, but apparently I haven't been following this. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is an LLC with no association to any 501c3.

TL;DR: 5 qubits as a service. Interact with them on your tablet. From the press release: "The quantum processor is composed of five superconducting qubits and is housed at the IBM …

My opinion on this is totally uninformed. A quick search for 'global aquifer depletion' yields "Scientists had long suspected that humans were taxing the world’s underground water …

Those statistics are just false. More reliable numbers are: Blacks killed by blacks: 90% Blacks killed by whites: 8% Whites killed by whites: 82% Whites killed by blacks: 15% Ratio…

Well some people have to work much harder to avoid incarceration.

Do you mean the premise that the patriarchy exists?

Well, if racism and sexism are real (they are) and person A believes that these are bad, then if person B disagrees with person A, that means person B believes racism and/or sexism…

Policing perpetuates poverty and thus crime by forcing poor, black men to deal with the criminal justice system from an early age. Court fees, court appearances, civil asset forfei…

> Poor whites and poor blacks are both subject to mass incarceration; though poor blacks are incarcerated at even higher rates. Yes, good to point that out. My argument (implicitly…

> Their argument is demonstrative rather than persuasive (although there is a persuasive component, but they expect interlocutors to be familiar with structuralist theory, which is…

Poor blacks, unlike poor whites, are subject to mass incarceration. Edit: this is technically incorrect, see dragonwriter below.

If people are angry about X and you go up to them and try to tell them how much you like/support X, isn't that what you'd expect? To make people want to engage you in a thoughtful …