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Can anyone explain the findings? A quick google of 'excess burden' term didn't yield a clear definition, there is a similar term in taxation, but that seems unrelated.

I went that route on a school PC in 1998. There was no floppy drive, so I installed a Linux distro (also Slackware, iirc) onto the Windows partition, then resized the Windows parti…

I don't think you can reasonably conclude either that a) anti-vaxxer propaganda is effective insofar it attracts statistically significant number of new people under its bannder, o…

Take a step back. Why did Moderna founders invest in research and technology? Are they selfless idealists? Probably not, at least that is not the only driving motivator. And even i…

As far as I understand the term, white privilege means some kind of economical and political advantage of whites over other races. Meaning that the outcomes are different, dependin…

I think a important advance is being able to build neural networks in a modular fashion by constructing a toolkit of components and techniques one can reasonably expect, when combi…

Same for Kotlin.

Hmm, your link has an author_access_token in it. Are you sure it's not linked to your or someone else's (author's?) account?

The article is behind the paywall, but it can be accessed through Sci-Hub. Some of the most interesting findings: - 43% respondents did not agree with "Advocacy and research should…

I'm using FF 56, since that's the last version to support the old extensions. Sorry, should've mentioned it.

Neither in Firefox...

Unfortunately, I really cannot begin to understand what you're talking about. What country is it in? What city? What kind of people are involved? What kind of jobs are that low-pay…

Actually, the poverty level doesn't continue to rise, it's been stable around 13.5% for the last 30 years. The reason why it stays that way instead of shrinking is probably related…

I think JoeAltmaier is right on point. There are way more disadvantageous traits than skin color, and some of them are just as bad. E.g. having low IQ. It's just as unfixable as th…

> This is so ill-defined as to be useless. The article you linked provides some quotes from Marx and Engels which argue that full equality along all dimensions can never be achieve…

> I also think it's disingenuous to claim what "equity" is. The definition I gave is the one widely used in academic disciplines such as "black studies", "gender studies", "women s…

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Well, I was talking about jokes. I do agree that people were more careful about voicing serious dissent, but then who actually did that? A very small handful of political activists…

It sounds like you're trying to disprove an argument I never made. Let me be clear about this: there was no free speech in the USSR and you couldn't sound criticism publicly. But s…

Protesting publicly is one thing. Talking in your own kitchen is another. I guess some unlucky people got busted for that, but generally it was safe, as long as no one deliberately…

Well, I was born in the 80's, so I only witnessed that. However the famous Soviet "kitchen conversations" existed even before that.

Yeah, that is the only place where waves are mentioned. I don't know whether the author of the article even realized that was a reference to the wave-particle duality.

Are you talking out of experience or just theorizing? Because I was there. People were telling Gorbachov & Reagan jokes all the time in their kitchens, that was just a normal part …