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This is an awful idea. The high crime rate in Chicago is due to lots of idle men, and handouts just encourage more people not to work. The unemployment rate is 4%, and it has rarel…

Good. The case of Brendan Eich, ousted from Mozilla over his $1,000 contribution to support of a 2008 gay-marriage ban in California, shows that SJWs wish to punish people for thei…

Driving a taxi is a last-resort job. It may flatter people with safer jobs to attribute racism to taxi drivers, but instead they should try to understand their decision-making. Fro…

Does the author never ride in a car or shop in a strip mall or box store? Life is much better than it was a hundred years ago, and the author should read some books by Julian Simon…

Interesting. I do think that any machine learning study of time series should present a statistical time series model such as ARIMA as a benchmark.

The leaders of Iran have called for the destruction of Israel many times, so of course Israel will do what it can to thwart the nuclear weapons program of Iran.

"In the U.S., Facebook is 3.5 percent black, compared to just 2 percent in 2014, and 4.9 percent Latinx compared to 4 percent in 2014. White people, unsurprisingly, still makes up …

Good for Kylie Jenner. Bruce Jenner has six children with three successive wives: Chrystie Crownover, Linda Thompson, and Kris Jenner (Wikipedia). There is what you you are suppose…

The $225 fee seems high, but nowadays it is easy to start a social media campaign encouraging people to complain, and I don't want the government to spend a lot of money responding…

Because there is a lot of political correctness in the tech world?

Then the quoted sentence in the article is off-topic. In general, the NYT is trying to build a case for discrimination based on flimsy evidence of discrimination, as I pointed out.…

I thought this part below was interesting. We know that the most selective schools weigh non-academic factors, and many well-off parents are not willing to pay $75/K for a "name" s…

I wonder why my comment was downvoted. If you start a thread, are you not supposed to make a comment saying why you think the linked article is important?

The paper can be downloaded from https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2018/preliminary/paper/ShD... . From the abstract: "We find robust evidence that exposure to teacher collective b…

According to the article, violent criminals, such as a "fugitive murder suspect", have been apprehended using facial recognition technology. It is not clearly dystopian to me to ha…

From the article: "Half a century after the introduction of blind auditions, in which candidates are heard from behind a screen, women make up just over 47 percent of players in Am…

Where does this basic income come from? If everyone is entitled to a basic income as a matter of right, that means others must be coerced into handing over the fruits of their labo…

Since lions kill to eat, their killing is not "wanton". By wanton I mean just for the fun of it.

I strongly disagree. I am atheist but have no doubt that wantonly killing people (or for that matter, animals) is morally wrong. Empirically, I don't think atheists are much more l…

According to many religions, there are many kinds of consensual sex that are morally wrong. Is every person who believes in the teachings of such a religion a bigot?

I think the discussion in the article of how to define perversion is interesting. Nowadays it is difficult to say that certain consensual sexual practices are morally wrong without…

The atrocities of the first nations against white settlers should also not be whitewashed.

Papers by Balkanski, one of the co-authors, including the one discussed, "An Exponential Speedup in Parallel Running Time for Submodular Maximization without Loss in Approximation"…