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I don't see an issue with InfoWars having a platform or even to be on the same platform as me but I'd have serious reservations about having them as the platform manager, mainly be…

Yes? Or just get hired by one? Or change field? Or move? It's no fable. Some of us don't have what it takes to start their own company, that's true. Probably there is no hope for s…

I think the question you should be asking is why are people taking these "too low" wage jobs? Companies do close down all the time because expenses are higher than revenues. Restau…

One question that would be interesting to explore is: what is the predictive score of judges/juries/etc? Is it more or less variable than the COMPAS score? In other words, do judge…

Because it is a detail virtually nobody cares about. How insane would the password rules have to be for anyone to travel 1 hour more to go to a different university? How insane for…

> By the way, one reason people react strongly to objections like yours is that a very direct interpretation is that you believe the distribution of people in high status jobs actu…

I think you have to just assume that there is a lot of stupid in any system, so it can't be _all_ of those questions. The people out there who drive drunk or without insurance aren…

In the context of tests being biased, I'll just note that your idea amounts to (unbiasedly) testing the test designers. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

> the title implies that heritage impacts cognitive ability. In this case, the title was misleading, but genetic heritage does impact cognitive ability, otherwise we'd have no cogn…

Not-so-minor correction: the message scrawled on the asphalt in the last photo says "Faure doit partir", which is French for "Faure MUST leave", not "should".

> The practical difference is that I think there should be further research to design inherently safe approaches and processes to reduce the risk until it's orders of magnitude saf…

I know nothing about Visual Studio Code and very little about anything VS in fact, so I have no idea how much is VS's fault and how much is the user's, but seriously, how on Earth …

Preventing something from being done or said does not counter a claim. Passing a law against ICE cars does not prove electric cars superior, the same way passing a law against EVs …

> Historically, the biggest social changes happened by force. Like the civil rights movement. The threat of civil disobedience forced the government to enact laws. That's one point…

Out of curiosity, did you read the manifesto itself or just Zunger's take on it?

I find this topic pretty thought-provoking. On the one hand, I think there's a lack of understanding from people like the author that there are people who want sex. I wouldn't call…

I was a little bit annoyed (enough to comment) by the use of the wrong units. 'mb' is millibit, perhaps millibyte, but certainly not megabyte (MB or MiB). Similarly: > it pushes ab…

Well, yes, if you're asking are there more or less of those things we'd call "protests", then it's not clear at all that there are any more or less than at some other point in time…

I think one has to see populations as distributed along a normal distribution (a bell curve) or some other probability distribution rather than somehow coalescing to a single "repr…

I don't think there needs to be some central authority figure or a weekly meeting for what I'm describing to occur. Like, there is no concerted effort among suburban dwellers to cl…

Agreed. I am making a weaker claim than the one you are objecting to. My point is that it is not some irrelevant fringe. I've backed that up with other examples, but I can't show i…

What's your point? Are you really saying that anyone saying "there's something going on" is dog whistling? Man, that's Zionist-conspiracy level crazy.

> Of course I'm aware of the protests that make the main stream media, but it seems silly to just assume that those small numbers of protests are broadly representative. You have t…

I don't think the example you give is very poignant: the fact that the Democratic party (or rather its base) is not fully in line with its very progressive members, doesn't mean th…