SI units are now defined directly in terms of physical laws (no prototypes needed).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_ba...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_ba...
https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/fall-2019/modern-monetary-...
Are you aware of this thing called "inflation"? Do you understand that printing more dollars dilutes the real value of a dollar?
Personally, I don't consider forcing people to work for others who are able but unwilling to work "looking out for each other". I call that slavery.
What do you mean by that?
> A note that...
By that logic, I'll note that your link is to the CBPP, a left-wing think tank.
It's also true of the welfare state, contrary to what you're dishonestly insinuating.
> any shred of help for the poor, the uneducated, or the disabled
You're dishonestly implying that government programs are the only form of aid, whereas the empirical evidence shows that private charity is much more cost effective.
https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/article/fixin...
https://www.theadvocates.org/2013/06/effective-government-we...
Here are more examples:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/how-i-beca...
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2021/02/12/We-Actually-Mean-Aboli...
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2020/08/the-abolition-mov...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...
Your comment, as it stands, says nothing substantive.
How about buying food and paying bills?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25797143
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25889590
https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-adoption-venezuela-research
> By and large, this is true in Venezuela. Expats use bitcoin to send remittances back home, where locals convert it to bolivars to buy food and pay bills. With crypto remittances from expats plunging, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency transactions within the country have proven resilient. LocalBitcoins and Paxful trades using bolivars peaked in the first half of 2019, and have since hovered around $20 million.
> “People living in Venezuela are living under a very unstable and predatory government. They suffer from extreme inflation and general economic instability. And here’s a censorship-resistant, inflation-proof asset, so it’s very attractive to people who are looking for a way to maintain value,” said Andrea O’Sullivan, director of tech and innovation at James Madison Institute, a Washington think tank.
https://www.ft.com/content/d73b9541-f91c-4423-9353-1f6606f31...
But the consolidation, even expansion, of Mr Trump’s base rests on a more concrete achievement. For the first three years of his presidency, he produced steady growth (which a number of presidents have managed) in which a disproportionate share of the gains went to low-income workers (a rarer feat). Workers in the lowest quarter of incomes saw their wages rise almost 5 per cent. This was the first sustained downward redistribution of income and wealth since the last century, a vindication for voters in the forgotten parts of the country who voted for Mr Trump in 2016. It may account for the shock of this election: the gravitation of young Latinos and black men to Mr Trump’s candidacy.
Teachers are more lenient in their marking of girls' schoolwork, according to an international study.
An OECD report on gender in education, across more than 60 countries, found that girls receive higher marks compared with boys of the same ability.
When it comes to teachers' marking, the study says there is a consistent pattern of girls' work being "marked up".
we believe the essay does not align with Chicago Review’s editorial and political agenda
Is this some poor attempt at a joke? That's exactly what Twitter mobs do, right? Especially when the instigator calls the targets "fanboys" and "fanatics", and explicitly calls for them to be "cancelled"?
Yes, you are.
> Your other reply... Needs some citations
Done.
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https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.thecrimson.com/photos/2018/10...
https://www.scholarships.com/financial-aid/college-scholarsh...
Note that the handful of scholarships listed under "Caucasian" do not appear to be actually exclusive. For example, for Journalism Institute for Media Diversity Scholarships:
> Members of racial, ethnic and other underrepresented groups are particularly urged to apply as are those interested in studying the importance of diversity in the nation's media to this country's future well being.
From No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life by Espenshade and Radford:
> The black preference at public schools is equivalent on average to 3.8 ACT points. In other words, a black applicant who receives a score of 27 on the ACT test would have the same chance of admission to a public NSCE institution as a white candidate with an ACT score of 30.8, other things in model 2 the same... The second column of Table 3.5 indicates the size of admission preferences at private NSCE institutions. Once again, black applicants receive the largest admission bonus—equivalent to 310 SAT points. A black candidate with an SAT score of 1250 could be expected to have the same chance of being admitted as a white student whose SAT score is 1560, all other things equal in model 5.
> Crazy → Unexpected, surprising, puzzling
> Dummy value → Placeholder value, sample value
They're getting more and more ridiculous with this Newspeak nonsense.
Nonsense.
A white student is four times less likely to be admitted to a top university than a black student with the same grades and test scores.
A white student is significantly less likely to be admitted to medical school than a comparable black student.
There are literally hundreds of race-based scholarships exclusively for nonwhite students, and none exclusively for white students.
That's to say nothing of the thousands of special programs, events, job fairs, awards, and career opportunities that exist exclusively for nonwhite students and workers.
Of course they are. Why play this game of pretend?
And in what world is it "harmful" to "pretend" something true, namely that "white" is no shorthand (let alone an "effective" one) for "prejudice + institutional power"?
Are you merely pretending to not see the problem?
Are your comments meant to be some kind of elaborate satire?