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There is no evidence the average Chinese person is "much more capable" than the average American. And the Chinese were evidently not "diligent" enough to shut down wet markets desp…

The bottleneck is a lack of people to actually use ventilators an not just a lack of equipment though

You're not accounting for the fact that (so) many porn performers are victims of sex trafficking, coerced into doing porn when not even or barely 18, and/or unable to escape the pr…

Cardiac health is correlated with mental health/happiness

You're delusional

Use it as a reference

Jean Gallier (the author, and a CS prof at Penn) is quite the character. Also a very nice guy who cares a lot of about teaching. W Wish I'd read (some of) this book before I starte…

Me too, re:having children. my childhood abuse is the main reason I'm resistant to marrying and having kids.

"Objectification" can be used for any kind of dehumanization, and not only the sexual kind

Preposterous. Where exactly did I suggest this? What I'm saying this in no way will "fully solve" the climate crisis and I'm afraid that presenting this approach as a complete solu…

So where exactly does the article say this method will stop the climate crisis? It doesn't, because it's not true as the ETH reseachers are well aware and will readily tell you. As…

Half of the academic computer science community is autistic and not attractive, and the vast majority of them somehow manages to refrain from making female colleagues and students …

Trees help, but alone won't "stop" the climate crisis, and wont do anything to combat the worst greenhouse gases.

>Neurotypical people don’t like autistic people, Oh this is hilarious. Do you realize how many people -- not just men -- in CS, physics, mathematics are autistic, especially in pla…

Is this a joke? This is disgusting.

You don't have to work in the field to help. In fact, might be effective to go through established channels. I recommend giving money to proven nonprofits (do your research and rea…

Most of this is an outright fabrication. Marry their cousin????

I've never believed that will never actually happen. For all of turkeys public relations efforts pushing their euro identify, European countries don't care for the Turks, don't ide…

Uh, an engineering degree from a good school confers plenty of status in some of the countries we are duscussing, in which teens stop socializing their last year of high school to …

Iranian women have been historically been very well-educated, and this predates the Islamic republic. They've been churning out lots of female engineers and physicians for some tim…

Yep. Anti-usa sentiment (and posters here are seriously overestimating any such sentiment imo) was originally rooted in the reaction to the CIA-backed coup that overthrew a progres…

To me, the direction of the causal arrow is unclear. Was he able to throw money at MIT (and fulfill his fantasy of scientific/academic relevance) because he was a pimp, or did his …

Jesus. I do have to wonder why exactly Harvard is not getting lashed by the press too? They were even more entangled with Epstein from the sounds of it.

Many scientists make similar decisions every day, in the sense they spend much of their writing proposal after for proposal for research money from organizations whose missions the…

Apparently used electronic medical records from a hospital in England without proper permissions, which got DeepMind into hot water with the government.