The_Nybbler
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The_Nybbler
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8hr ago
The problem I have with the measures that don't include transfers is they're often used to justify more transfers. Which is a nice broken feedback loop since by definition more transfers won't reduce that measure of poverty.
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15hr ago
Maybe, though I have my doubts. Not before that particular bit of pravda become part of it, I'd wager.
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15hr ago
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16hr ago
To my knowledge most HBD theory proposes that IQ is fully general, and higher average IQ should correlate with more pro-social, civilized behaviour in general - I've seen no theory for a separate "criminality gene" being fleshed out.
No. Most HBD theories posit that 'g' is positively correlated with everything good including non-criminality, but not that it is the only factor.
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16hr ago
You don't see the monkey's paw in your proposal? You now have divided the country, 1984 style, into the criminals, the proles -- the people living on these reservations -- the Outer Party (the people living in the regular part of the country), and the Inner Party (the people who decide who goes where). Life in the regular part of country becomes extremely regimented, with everyone constantly in fear of being sent to the reservation for the most minor (or imagined) of offenses if they happen to get on the wrong side of the Inner Party.
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1d ago
I see what appears to be co-ordinated protests, I know protests have been co-ordinated in the past, I infer the existence of a co-ordinator. It's not rocket science.
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1d ago
By whom?
I don't know, I'm not on their mailing lists (or Discords as the case may be)
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1d ago
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1d ago
Except Columbia can't do that because they've got pressure from the pro-Israel left which would result in the ouster of Columbia's Muslim female president, the Baroness (yes really) Nemat Shafik, if they did so. She doesn't want to be treated like Claudine Gay.
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1d ago
You can't really talk about protests like they're a unified group with a specific plan.
Of course they are. This is all planned.
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1d ago
The Clinton center-left voters are gone; they follow NPR and NPR has moved along with the progressive left even further leftward.
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1d ago
As far as I know, BLM always opposed body cams.
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1d ago
The term often used is "demonstration" rather than "protest". This is because by existing, these "demonstrations" demonstrate the power of those running them, and thereby convince all involved they'd better get in line.
If they don't actually have that power, sure, they get pushed out of the way and they lose. But anyone messing with these "protestors" will certainly receive the full force of the law, while the "protestors" will be handled with kid gloves, so it is clear they do have the power.
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1d ago
No. If the Republicans ran an empty suit, the white working class remains Democratic, the rest of Trump's base largely stays home, the "blue wall" is not broken and Hillary wins in a walkover. If the Democrats ran an empty suit, possibly opposition to Trump would put them over the top, but the Republicans didn't have that option.
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1d ago
As far as I know, it's actually Sociology 101.
Which does not make it "not pravda".
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1d ago
When the social status of a specific profession appears to be dropping, men start leaving it, and it starts attracting women instead, especially single women.
This is mere pravda.
If society starts attaching higher status to it, such as what happened to the IT sector as a whole after, say, 1980 or 1990, it then attracts more men than women.
The IT sector as a whole in the United States has, as long as such records have been kept, attracted more men than women.
Still, the 70% figure from 1986 is kind of crazy, but I guess another part of it is that it became more common to hire single women to such positions after reliable contraception became accessible.
That was 1950. It is more likely the increase in proportion of women was
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A general increase in women's employment and
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An increase in data-entry "operator" positions (typing, basically, for which women had been predominantly hired for decades) compared to the "console operator" type positions (which we know in 1974 leaned slightly male)
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2d ago
Google actually has a separate SWE-Front End position with different interviews. This is not because Google's interview process is good (it's not), but because the market puts some limits on corporate idiocy.
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2d ago
The past truly was a different country. The Marty McFly archetype didn't come into being for no reason.
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2d ago
It turns out that naming the forces and pointing out their actions and advocates does not actually convince anyone. No level of evidence is sufficient for those who would rather sneer.
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3d ago
A better analogy would be: "If a cop stops you unjustly, don't ignore them or resist, but comply politely and address the issue through the proper channels."
Which is a lie Americans tell themselves. Once you comply politely, if you're not arrested, the issue is over. There are no proper channels to go through that will impose any consequences on the cop.
Furthermore, if you do comply, and you are arrested and charged, and you complain, the courts may find that your compliance made the whole thing voluntary, and therefore you have no grounds for complaint.
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3d ago
Roberts won't do it. He'll "lay the groundwork" forever but never pull the trigger.
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3d ago
Kavanaugh was and is a milquetoast moderate. The Democrats just didn't want someone leaning right. That's why his hearings were about boofing and wild claims about decades-ago sexual misconduct rather than how he'd be as a justice.
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4d ago
Some were like that, some were more like typists. According to the 1974-1975 Occupational Outlook Handbook, there were keypunch operators and data typists, both of whom basically did data entry (but not directly to the computer -- to cards or to tape). There were also "console operators", who would switch the tapes and cards in and out. The handbook includes a picture of a console operator -- a woman -- loading a reel-to-reel tape.
The 1974-75 handbook breaks down the gender in a more detailed way than the summary statistics do -- 3/5 "console and auxiliary equipment operators" were men, 9/10 "keypunch operators" were women.
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4d ago
The legislature can't run back into session every time someone comes up with a new medical procedure to make sure that you need a license to do it.
Yes they can. Because "you may do nothing without a license unless we specifically say so" is not the law.
They aimed for Koop, but got Proposition 65
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