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However if a rockstar were to protest peacefully and shout “Black Lives Matters” then throw a rock through a police car window.. …I’d assume that would be judged differently than a…

The funny thing is… You’re stating the problem with that whole sector. I really wish product owners, researchers and tool creators had more actual real world experience on the reme…

So what’s… been the impact of OpenAI and meta glasses / headsets on the blind community at large? Based on your statements it seems that the real value of AI is increasing the part…

I’m not sure it matters. Many will say Bill is attempting to reshape his legacy and narrative post-Epstein. The most important thing is that money is being returned to society on a…

Yeah. The ignorance comes from lack of experience and it happens often on both sides. Engineers think they deserve a big equity package for writing CRUD apps. “Businesspeople” with…

I agree. The story of Anwar Al-Awlaki and his American US-born son who was killed in the attack authorized by the Obama administration must not be forgotten. The issue of president…

In the past, you had to practically be on a Wheaties box or major magazine cover to be considered a celebrity. Now everyone is a “celebrity”and hubris is at an all time high. I’ve …

Agreed. Upper and middle class white women have benefitted richly from these policies for far too long. There’s too many of them in college and corporate America. Fairness is the g…

Maybe I’m missing something… I get it that Oracle is in the wrong but I’m still not sure why get in this trademark fight anyhow. I would personally leave it to someone with much la…

Again another example of billion dollar firms taking advantage of small businesses and consumers.

Exactly. Unfortunately, it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of destruction that Jeff and other billionaires have wreaked on US small businesses and the poor. EXAMPLES:…

Cmon man. There’s a thing called facts. Billionaires exploit the poor. Why do they fight unionization and workers rights? https://www.jwj.org/emboldened-billionaires-take-aim-at-ne…

As stated in the book “Lessons of History,” this is what billionaires should be doing with the wealth that they’ve snatched from the poor, marginalized and unlucky. When we started…

Could this be also used to model wealth inequality? Or more directly predict the win/loss probability of university admissions rates by ethnicity and class? Example: US university …

I was wondering why cities in my state started sending out notices for replacement service lines.

The people could vote the same person or party in representing the interests of the king and his family. Dictators can be democratically elected. The real question is how do you pr…

Indeed. I thought to say the same but you’ve phrased the problem with most in academia very nicely.

Give or take a few hundred years. Advertising (4000 BCE) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_advertising Fact-checking is literally just a Google search away. Irony intended…

For other heavy reading: Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) As I became a teen my reading became varied thankfully and I came across this book at a time when nothing felt important. When all f…

Sheesh. What do we do? Are we so apathetic that we don’t care? I guess we all just feel that caring requires too much effort and lack of a personal return on investment. My activis…

Agreed. A targeted strike against enemy combatants (with minimal civilian deaths) is LEGAL WAR. Indiscriminate booby traps into a civilian population (regardless of the original bu…

You’re wrong. I’m in infosec as well. Kids (12+) know how to use Tor because we’ve made the “dark web” a cool place at this point. And the Rhysida ransomware onion can be found wit…

What a great write up! The EdX brand was amazing. It’s sad what it’s become. I don’t know too much about classcentral but I hope that the blog post was written in the interest of s…