Comment Nice! (Score 1) 273
"... and are expected to approach controversial topics with a critical lens."
Wow! I guess they also have astrology and phrenology doctorates .
"... and are expected to approach controversial topics with a critical lens."
Wow! I guess they also have astrology and phrenology doctorates .
"As I have a daughter, I know better. Of course bias is a big part of it, expressed verbally and non-verbally. Parents and grand-parents who give their daughters princess dresses for christmas and act gleefully if the daughter wear it, express a bias."
Not only that. In Germany, they found out that teachers are unconscious biased against lower class pupils on the sole first-name the kids have. Because lower class parents often name their kids like celebrities or characters in TV-shows, while the more educated classes name their kids more traditionally.
If the kids are called Kevin, Bejoncé, Kanye or Ronny for example, they get lower grades for the same content.
The bias has even a name, it's called 'Kevinism'.
The study was financed by the Koch brothers.
"Here, we describe the first experimental demonstration of such a Brainet, built by interconnecting four adult rat brains."
And the description is: Creepy
My email provider forced me to use a minimum of 8 "characters" and at least 1 number as a password.
So as my password I chose: "Snow White and the 7 dwarves"
Nice but why do prostate biopsies at all?
If it's the aggressive cancer version, you're fucked anyway, if not, it doesn't matter since you'll be dead anyway long before it becomes a problem.
Just make your testament.
I guess the ominous fiber-cable cutters finally found the right cable to cut.
"Finally we have a reasonably sized SSD... now it's just got to come down in price 80-90%
'Reasonably sized? It's 5 times the size of all data on my system.'
Wot? You don't have an Oracle Server running on your laptop?
"News at 11."
Don't bother, the kids here are too young to get the joke.
"...the Matternet drone in question is mooted as a potential lifeline in post-disaster situations,..."
In post disaster situations, we need no post, keep the invoices until the disaster is over.
Finally! News for nerds! Wow!
I thought it would never happen again.
In my town, we communicate with the administration with modulated speech sent over copper cables, or e-mail or we just scribble ink on some dead tree and send it with a courier from the postal service.
Or we just fucking walk there.
Works great and not only one third but three thirds have all that.
Check your spam folder
There are tons of mails in there containing the secret of getting rich by working from home.
I can give you such a job myself, just send me your résumé and transfer the required hiring fee of 249.50$ to the following account
Sharks eat mammals with lots of blubber and North Carolinians are as tasty as a big seal.
"I rode on the back on an elephant in the san antonio zoo back in the 1970s...that elephant had long red hair on it...the hair is still there,..."
The hair still is there? What about the elephant?
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach
