It's ineffective, and we're being lied to about its supposed effectiveness.

1) "If you haven't personally experienced it, you aren't qualified to reason about it."
2) "Your introspective ability has hard limits which make it impossible for you to actually know what you think or feel about some topic."
3) "All people of ..." for all completions of that sentence ( Read more... )

A) Racism is a form of bigotry which involves treating people differently based on their perceived ethnicity (often via skin color or stereotypical facial features, accent/syntax/word choice, or other external evidence ( Read more... )

It's DINO-TASTIC!!!

Reading this, I cannot understand why I didn't do more over the past 8 years.

We were trying to get false confessions.

How to apologize.

What do you do when all of the black firefighters fail the promotion testIt's a real question. And, to me at least, it hinges on one particular question: does the fact that all of the black candidates failed the test indicate test bias, or an unfortunate difference, correlated with race, in the skills and attributes being measured by the test? [ed ( Read more... )

I'm looking for somewhere that I can market 10 to 20 hours a week of my time as a highly experienced programmer, architect, and Agile software development coach. I need a job where I can work from home (or on-site on weekends), that pays within 30% of market scale for someone with 20+ years of experience and a Master's degree (I'll take a hit to ( Read more... )

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