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I haven’t ignored any of that; I simply don’t believe that it is ethical to use the state’s monopoly on violence to punish individual actors (including said industry) without due p…

Is the prevailing goal of our justice system to convict this one particular defendant, or to ensure that trials are as fair as possible for all defendants?

> the balance of the evidence weighed against the alleged exculpatory evidence Surely you see the fundamental problem, here. This shifts the burden of proof onto the defendant. Dem…

> We’re referencing a case where a state senator was convicted despite a drive (of potentially exculpatory evidence) being wiped. So no. This senator was not powerful enough (or wa…

> Plenty of people in law enforcement would wipe a drive if their family and debts were taken care of, even in face of prison. This is beyond ridiculous: (1) Someone in law enforce…

I don’t think it would actually be nice if the burden of proof rested on the accused. This example isn’t a study of systemic bias, and is both individually and statistically meanin…

Home appraisal is arbitrary and subjective — ridiculously so. All this particular stunt shows is that two appraisers can and will appraise a home wildly differently — which anyone …

Or, I could refer to what actually occurs in practice. My original point stands.

I apologize for the insult, but perhaps this means there’s still more for you to learn, and even deeper and more interesting problems to explore? I’m about 25 years into my career,…

Switch teams to a different domain every six months ? In the domains I’ve worked in, it might take six months just to get the basic idea sketched out and working. The current proje…

> there is no learning after a certain amount of years of coding (I would argue at 4-5 years of good/varied experience mark). If you stopped learning after 4-5 years in the field, …

It makes it impossible to assign an individual identity — and evaluate individual behavior and status — as merely a function of their coarse-grained group membership.

That’s the theory, which, if you actually took to its logical conclusion, would result in treating and evaluating every individual as an individual, and the entire concept of group…

> Telling of what, precisely? The blind spot I posited and which you then summarily demonstrated.

It’s a blind spot in DEI and intersectionality; the idea that an oppressed class can also be an oppressor class, and that it’s not an attribute of the perpetrator’s class at all, b…

DEI is intersectional praxis, not a “rebranding of the struggle for equality”

The most charitable interpretation is that they are attempting to increase representation in the pipeline of candidates, such that their unbiased, neutral selection process will na…

“DEI” is both a very recent and a uniquely western ideological construction.