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Double check the link. The study clearly looked at resumes.

Nothing in this has any bias in it? Which words are you suggesting are biased? This study measured constructed resumes where only names were changed, and observed the rate each gro…

You are reading a paper without understanding the language of the paper. Adverse Impact has a specific meaning, and in this case it's specifically meaning that Black candidates wer…

Name. Other factors were controlled.

Please read the study or at least the comments here before jumping to the conclusion. Yes, they used constructed resumes, so the qualifications were exactly the same. And no, liter…

You are misreading this sentence. This sentence is saying: "Using a constructed dataset of resumes, whose only difference was a name change, we would anticipate a system evaluating…

Yes. You missed it. They are using a test dataset of 83k resumes generated in 2022 for this paper and comparing it as a baseline against their observational data: https://www.nber.…

It's not used to measure discrimination. It's used to identify outcomes that appear to be potentially discriminatory. You have to do the legwork afterwards. Like. If I am evaluatin…

Importantly, the rule is not used to resolve racial discrimination claims. It's purely meant as the first test to evaluate whether a deeper dive is warranted. Fast, first pass data…

Have you googled this? The EEOC is a federal agency, and they've published on this topic quite extensively. The four fifths rule is used to define if there is a "substantially diff…

Cops pulling someone over is never "fun and whimsy".

Nordics, Costa Rica, Australia and New Zealand.

Communism is not "when the government does stuff", and "the more the government does, the more communist it is".

I think it's plausible China and US invert in that calculus over the next 30 years. The median US person (anecdotally) feels to me like they are getting worse and worse stakes. $45…

Anarchism exists within socialism too-- the anti Francoist anarchists in Spain who were crushed by Soviets for doing the wrong kind of socialism, for example. Kropotkin's approach …

I ... actually agree with this. But I think we gotta deliberately select who that applies to. Is it everyone at Meta? Like, are we all culpable for our employers sins? Or are we al…

I think you can look at different lenses of success. Vietnam successfully defeated a much, much more powerful imperial force. They have fewer freedoms, and are still recovering fro…

I'll argue -- socialist is not the same as communist. Norway is not a communist country (despite arguably being a socialist one).

Workers are workers. We have so much more in common with one another than we do with the capital class. Turning against a worker because they are doing better than another worker i…

This is the end goal of one form of communism, but certainly not the end goal of communism. Many communists want a strong state and see a single party as desirable.

What is your rubric for successful? And does it shift if that state was the target of wars of aggression or embargoes?

People can't afford to live and food comes before paying your landlord? Economy is fucked right now. Income inequality pushes any gains into the hands of the wealthy. And frankly, …

Which assets? The textures, models, and animations are Creative Commons (various flavors, mostly non commercial). If the code is open source, one can always build a client that wor…

Yes they absolutely can? Anyone can. I can. The thing the GPL requires is that I also provide it for free. Now, why would anyone buy a free thing? To support the devs. To encourage…

This is nonsense. You absolutely can have both -- typically by building systems to eliminate poverty and reduce income inequality.