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To quote Drawn Together's Foxxy Love: "This whole test is racially biased! Question one: 'What SPF lotion would you use if your were going down to the polo grounds, fellow Klan member?'"

Well, I'm not American...

You get a lot of weird stuff from overseas resumes: photos, religion, gender, marital status, father's name, etc...

I mean... other than the obvious ones? (i.e. the same reasons which are why North American companies usually don't or can't request a photo...)

The people who "select the best product" basically only have visuals to go on, therefore they actually select for the prettiest product, not the best tasting product.

Similarly my parents live in a rural community and practically everyone grows garlic, but farm-stands have trouble competing with grocery store (read: Chinese) garlic.

Well, I don't know about dinosaurs, but horses have small blood pumps in their hooves. So each step helps circulate blood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_(horse_anatomy)

Agreed, the rider would be less likely to fall off, and would have better visibility.

Blood vessels can expand and contract. That's why fighter pilots without legs can actually withstand higher-g maneuvers. That's also why compression socks can improve circulation and reduce swelling in your ankles if you have to stand all day.

By getting publicity he builds social capital, which he (presumably) can turn into real capital through his work.

From his bio "...leading the evolution of startups and enterprises to achieve the highest level of security and compliance."

I guess it's hard to say, because we don't know what we don't know. The famous example is Newtonian physics which seemed to perfectly explain everything.... until new tools and methods came out that were capable of showing it break down under extreme circumstances. That's how we ended up with Einsteinian physics, where it accounted for the old model and the new observed discrepancies.

So... how do we know that we will not find some bizarre scenario in the future the throws the Standard Model into a similar existential crisis?

I say keep your mind open.

I think this is the point:

>There is a popular and persistent image of college admissions in which diversity-obsessed universities are using affirmative action to deny spaces to academically talented affluent students while admitting low-income students with lower ability in their place. Boeckenstedt says the opposite is closer to the truth.

(Related: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/e-cigarette-vaping-lung-damag...)

Anecdotally, I know people who started vaping without ever having touched cigarettes before.

>Your post seems to say

I think it clearly does not. It was descriptive, not prescriptive.

I love fake-Agile, it's such a hilarious concept.

The number of ingredients something has is not a good proxy for its difficulty.

For example, tapioca only contains Cassava root, but here is how that is made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4qTxKdjagg

Maybe provide more substantive comments in the future if you don't want down-votes?

I think that we can safely assume that if something directly comparable but much worse, both ethically and legally, has occurred (e.g. doctors being bribed by pharma companies to over-prescribe their drug), then it's not a stretch to give this claim the benefit of the doubt.

Anecdotally, I once had a professor who had personally remixed an existing textbook and forced us to buy his version for the class, because he would reference page numbers and chapter headings from his version. Admittedly, this is essentially what most "nth edition" textbooks do anyways, but it was a little jarring to see him personally emulate this so directly and unscrupulously.

According to KeePass2, the password: "12" contains 7 bits of entropy, but "1234" only contains 5 bits of entropy.

Is that right?

Ah, darn, I was hoping for a whole bevy of cool links. Thanks! :)

Don't suppose you saved a link to that comment?

Probably forgot his password.

Sooner than you think: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-plastic-munching-bacteria-c...

Someone who hasn't heard of USB Switches.

The nature of the book necessitates gross generalizations. It literally could not be anything else.

It's like saying you don't like Expanse because you don't like sci-fi... Okay, but why did you read it if you know you hate sci-fi?

Thanks! This comment was exactly what I was asking for, and it inspired some good follow-up comments!

I mean, that's obviously a "gross generalization".

Gross generalizations aside, do you have any examples of things he gets really wrong?

I've thought a lot about that option, but the problem is that wealth provides a disproportionate amount of influence in politics.

If all the people who didn't want to give any of it up hoarded it and spent it lobbying to keep inequality at a maximum and the people who wanted equality gave the majority of their wealth away then we would very quickly find ourselves in a dystopian nightmare.

It has to be everyone, equally. It has to by a systemic change.

Except one person has no rights and is literally the equivalent to a nice laptop in the eyes of the law.