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If you believe in gender equality, your goal should not be making hiring rates for both genders equal. Your goal should be making it so gender doesn't matter when it comes to hiring. The difference is subtle but important. If you're trying to make hiring rates for both genders equal, you're assuming unequal rates indicates discrimination. If you're trying to make it so gender doesn't matter, then unequal rates may or may not indicate discrimination.

The problem with the former approach becomes more apparent in the long-term. As your anti-discrimination campaign succeeds, fewer people discriminate. However, just by random chance alone, sometimes you'll have statistical blips of inequality. If you assume inequality is due to discrimination, you end up wrongly condemning innocent people associated with those random blips. Recent examples include the weatherman who said coon instead of king (I didn't even know "coon" was a racial slur until that story broke), and the sports writer who wrote "chink in the armor" not realizing an alternate meaning was a racial slur.

Likewise, I'm an immigrant so didn't know watermelon and friend chicken were considered racial stereotypes against blacks, until a black friend pointed them out to me. (I'm still unclear why these are considered derogatory, but I avoid them so as not to stir up a hornet's nest.) The important thing being that I didn't know they were stereotypes because the anti-discrimination campaign had succeeded. But ironically that very success leaves me, an innocent, more vulnerable to wrong-headed accusations of discrimination if I had happened to cluelessly mention one of them.

As your anti-discrimination campaign succeeds, the number of true discrimination incidents decreases. But this causes the percentage of incorrect discrimination accusations against innocents to increase. This slandering of innocents causes people to come to resent your anti-discrimination campaign. Do you seriously think the man you turned down for a job or promotion in favor of a woman is going to take it all in stride if he learns he had better credentials but lost the job/promotion because of his gender? Eventually there are enough of these people to start a counter-campaign. And public will ends up swinging the other way.

So over the long-term, trying to make the genders equal results in an oscillation between discrimination against women, to discrimination against men, back to discrimination against women, etc. OTOH, trying to make it so gender doesn't matter results in a trend always converging on gender not mattering.

A friend of mine who lives in Astoria posted a video and it looked like some real Ghostbuster shit.

There's a good roundup of videos of this event over on Deadspin.

https://theconcourse.deadspin....

By the way, if you go and search Twitter for #Qanon, you'll find that there are already NYC blue light truthers who are saying this is a message to patriots that the "hot war" is coming and that the acting attorney general (aka "117") is about to unleash holy hell on unbelievers and other liberals. Or, that it's a false flag. I'm not shitting you.

https://twitter.com/travis_vie...

Um, yeah, and the story says that oh so urbane NYC-izens thought it was aliens. I wouldn't get too smug over this, lol

A friend of mine who lives in Astoria posted a video and it looked like some real Ghostbuster shit.

There's a good roundup of videos of this event over on Deadspin.

https://theconcourse.deadspin....

By the way, if you go and search Twitter for #Qanon, you'll find that there are already NYC blue light truthers who are saying this is a message to patriots that the "hot war" is coming and that the acting attorney general (aka "117") is about to unleash holy hell on unbelievers and other liberals. Or, that it's a false flag. I'm not shitting you.

https://twitter.com/travis_vie...

I'm rather curious what would have been used as the next form of tie-breaking if rapid chess proved no better at establishing a victor.

If that happens, things start getting really interesting. They do play more rapid chess, but now one player gets 5 minutes on the clock and the other gets 4 minutes. If the one with 4 minutes can play to a draw, it's considered a win and that breaks the tie. This is known as "Armageddon". I'm not kidding.

Way back in the day before I lost my mind, I played competitive chess in ICF-sanctioned events, and those are still the rules.

Also, did you know that this was the first championship in history to have all the games in regulation-play drawn? By the way, the best coverage of this tournament was by Ben Tippett over at Deadspin.

https://deadspin.com/armageddo...

I'm not sure most people consider bridge, chess, Go, etc to be sports. poll

I mean, not for nothing, but the Google executives turned out to be exactly right about Trump.

https://theconcourse.deadspin....

And further, so fucking what if every Google executive later dropped their pants and took a giant shit into a MAGA hat? What's it to you? Go use fucking Bing and stop whining like little bitches just because the people running the most powerful corporations in the world were smart enough to realize that 304 racist electors had just installed the most corrupt president in modern history who would go on to bring shame on our nation and weaken us in the eyes of the entire world.

I'll be the first to day, I guess I'm not in these kinds of news cycles to know that bio-hacking was an actual thing taken seriously. This is just oozing epic levels glory-stunt bullshit. I honestly don't see this as any different than the Philadelphia Eagles fan eating horse shit other than this Josiah guy wearing a business casual suit, some shinny shoes he got polished in an airport, Skagen wrist watch and a $100 frat boi hair cut.

I think we have a new definition of silicon-valley-startup-investor-wrangling think tank triple-dog-dare you shit. What happened to all the simple attention getters in life wrapped in proven work, dedication and education? I guess I'm out of touch with what the new kids do these days.

Of course like so many of his tweets, this one was also wrong, that the NFL has no preferential status..

Actually they do, just one order removed in that it applies to all stadiums for all sports. In fact, multiple republicans have gone on the record that they wanted to repeal it because of the police brutality protests (democrats want to scrap it because its corporate welfare).

But, surprise, surprise, privately trump wanted to keep the subsidy and got it stripped from the final version of the gop taxscam. The fact that he's taken millions from NFL team owners probably has something to do with that. Stir up the racist base in public and then give handjobs to the rich in the backroom. Plutopopulism!

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The reason you won't see anything from Mike Cernovich linked here is because he is a goddamned laughing stock.

As if Vox isn't a laughingstock...

Notice any direction to the bias there?

It's nice that they've killed tens of thousands of accounts, now how about the advertisers? Like the ones that claim to be ESPN but aren't that I see constantly.

And there is a separate room and board charge for those dorms and cafeteria. This article is about tuition.

It's overhead that has risen the cost of education, not the cost of professors

It's primarily
1) Sports - the "famous" football and basketball teams have coaches and staff paid in the millions/year. Even with teams that are not "top tier", the coaches are paid extremely well. http://deadspin.com/infographi...

2) Administrators - University administrators are now being paid several times what top professors get. University President/Chancellor/whatever you want to call it is now a six-figure job, instead of a $250k/year job. Deans and other administrators are also getting paid much more than they used to be. Universities have also hired many more professional staff instead of hiring students to push paper around campus.

Both candidates have specific, well-laid-out proposals which anyone can find.

Yes, except Trump's proposals are all to women he's trying to feel up.

Do you know Trump's well-laid-out plan for international trade? Do you know his well-though-out plan for dealing with the deficit? Can you name a single bit of legislation that Trump said he would push besides term limits? The policy papers on his website read like one of those sample Powerpoint presentations written in Latin. And all he has to say for himself is that whatever he's going to do, it'll be, "tremendous". Since I've had four years of high school Latin, I happen to know the root of the word, "tremendous" and let me tell you, it's a disgrace, believe me. Sad!

Trump is a fraud of a fake of a fugazi. If you go to his website, not even that is real. He's got a ticker running across the top showing donations "in real time" and it turns out that it's just a loop that was put up weeks ago and if you look at the code for his site, it's a script that calls an XML file named, "Sample_donations". He's a fucking Potempkin village in a fright wig. He's a creation of the media and not one thing more.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.c...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

[Note: since the story broke, the Trump campaign has taken down the phony ticker widget.]

But they're definitely in the TOP HALF of "Your Team Sucks" discussions!

...will rape you whenever/however they can. Just ask Osa Masina...

By "prepared" he meant, "this is as good as it gets, this is Olympics third-world pandemic version."

In a normal year, I might share concerns about open sewers. But with zika? That's a minor concern.

Why so many people put so much stock into a corrupt proceedings as the Olympics, I don't know. I'd at least suggest that they take all of the athletes to some islan to quarantine them for a few months after it is over.

http://www.sportsonearth.com/a...

http://deadspin.com/5919183/a-...

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

A long time ago, I watched them, but darn it, it's sleaze greed and bribes from beginning to end.

I'm pretty certain that they'd hold it among the corium in the Chernobyl reactor if paid the right sum. And if I were a betting man, I'd wager Zika will be globally distributed after the games.

If you can't find Blazing Saddles funny, it's you who is broken.

Unless you're the guy who likes to repeat all the jokes from Blazing Saddles during an address at a professional fucking conference.

You don't tell a racist joke in a professional setting any more than you'd crap on the floor in church. Although maybe crapping on the floor is not such a good example, since a professional racist has been known to do exactly that.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.c...

While this may be an issue, I'm not sure it's a significant one.

I disagree. The restaurant lobby is immesely influential. We're all smart enough here at /. to know that the restaurant markup on liquor is huge, even bigger at concerts and sporting events. Given their unique success in flouting federal minimum wage laws, do you honestly think they wouldn't do everything in their power (including drafting bogus laws) to make sure that their cash cow liquor revenue isn't disrupted? Come to think of it, we're seeing this exact thing play out with Tesla as we speak.

Where I see an issue is minors, who can't buy the overpriced booze at the show/concert/game/whatever, wanting some way to sneak some alcohol in.

I'm just curious if that includes the entire swath of the adult population who is 18-21 years-old. Because they're doing beer bongs in the parking lot instead of buying in the stadium. And, what difference does it make to you if someone brings a packet of this "Palcohol", or an airplane bottle of Captain Morgan's, or even a packet of Koolaid into a show/concert/game/whatever? You can't legislate morality, friend.

That may not be what you have to worry about. In fact, if these problems come to pass, it would probably solve the obesity epidemic in a month.

"gets more awesome the more news I hear about him"

You mean like screaming about evolution being not true?
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/1...

Or giving Rhode Island taxpayers the shaft when his completely failed as a businessman, and left them holding the bag?
http://updates.deadspin.com/po...

I'm just really curious about your definition of awesome?

You can add "ranting evolution denier" to his list of accomplishments

thank goodness! can you imagine how bad it would be if they were good at it? i would strongly prefer that the cops are like this guy.

PGA Tour guys were training for #dufnering

I imagine Beats/Apple isn't too happy with Bose's shenanigans regarding telling NFL players they can't wear their Beats headphones until 90 minutes after the end of the game.

Of course the players do it anyway, and Beats apparently pays the fines for them... but still.

Incidentally, the NFL isn't doing very well with regards to their endorsement deals - first Microsoft, and now Bose.

The problem is you have a conflict of endorsements.

The NFL is being paid directly by Microsoft and Bose to promote their stuff - Microsoft and Bose can put "Official NFL Product" on those things.

The problem is, the teams and players don't really see much of that money because it goes straight into the league. Sure, they may get a few bucks in the way of stadium improvements and such, but you can bet most of that money isn't going into their paycheques.

So the players and teams often have their OWN endorsement deals. This money goes directly to the team and the players themselves. Sure some goes back to the NFL in terms of league fees and whatnot, but it's extra income for the team and player.

So what's a player to do? Be forced to wear Bose which nets them ZERO dollars in the end? Or wear their Beats which nets them millions in extra dollars in their pocket?

It's obvious why the players are defying the rule. And in fact, you have to admit, it's getting a LOT of marketing for Beats as well - I mean, they're being fined, in public, for wearing Beats. With photos. In the news. Now what is better marketing - the player wearing it on the field or a news conference, or having it plastered all over the news with closeups of the offense with news they're being fined for wearing Beats headphones (and barely a Bose mention!).

It's actually kind of brilliant marketing - Bose gets made out to be the bad guy, and Beats gets plastered all over the news section, so much so that the $10,000 fine is well worth it - marketing expense.

List of NFL Finable Offenses, with fines.

Heck, one wonders if they're going to get a bunch of stickers to stick over their Bose headphones with the iconic "b". I mean, it doesn't get more interesting than that - they wear Bose headphones, but they're sporting the "b" that clearly indicates Beats.

• Leigh Alexander's list of ethical concerns in video games.
• The very complete (including inflammatory title) The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate, which includes addressing the ethics concerns brought up by #GamerGate.

Those aren't the only instances I've seen, but they are the most well-reasoned ones.

I am of native descent. I do not find the name offensive in the slightest.

That's fine. There are some black people who call each other "nigger" too, but they'd certainly be up in arms if a white guy renamed his team the Philadelphia Niggers.

Also, I love the comment someone left on the Washington Redskins page on the brilliant "Why your team sucks" blog.

Alton wrote:
Did you know that the DC metro area, especially the garbage heaps known as Prince George's County, MD and Prince William County, VA, is home to the highest concentration of people with Native American heritage in the country!? It's true! Just listen to 106.7 The Fan any afternoon to hear their proud proclamations of "HEY WHADDUP LEVAR YOU THE MAN I JUS WANNA SAY I'M 1/32 CHEROKEE OR CHOCTAW OR SOMETHIN AND I AINT OFFENDED BY THAT NAME! IT'S JUST ALL ABOUT PRIDE, MAN, AND IF YOU CAN'T SEE THAT, THEN, UH...YOU'RE THE RACIST."

It's like the fanbase is 90% Fake Chiefs. The other 10% are dead-ender white military contractor and lawyer jackasses like the asshole that started a Redskins Pride Caucus in the Virginia legislature (during the middle of intense debate over MEDICAID they did this!).

I am of native descent. I do not find the name offensive in the slightest.

That's fine. There are some black people who call each other "nigger" too, but they'd certainly be up in arms if a white guy renamed his team the Philadelphia Niggers.

Also, I love the comment someone left on the Washington Redskins page on the brilliant "Why your team sucks" blog.

Alton wrote:
Did you know that the DC metro area, especially the garbage heaps known as Prince George's County, MD and Prince William County, VA, is home to the highest concentration of people with Native American heritage in the country!? It's true! Just listen to 106.7 The Fan any afternoon to hear their proud proclamations of "HEY WHADDUP LEVAR YOU THE MAN I JUS WANNA SAY I'M 1/32 CHEROKEE OR CHOCTAW OR SOMETHIN AND I AINT OFFENDED BY THAT NAME! IT'S JUST ALL ABOUT PRIDE, MAN, AND IF YOU CAN'T SEE THAT, THEN, UH...YOU'RE THE RACIST."

It's like the fanbase is 90% Fake Chiefs. The other 10% are dead-ender white military contractor and lawyer jackasses like the asshole that started a Redskins Pride Caucus in the Virginia legislature (during the middle of intense debate over MEDICAID they did this!).

Germany scores, mentions of "Nazi" go up

I have never in my life heard the word "thugs" used as a "code for black people". That's the honest truth.

You do know that a big part of something being "code" for something else is so that people who don't know the code don't realize it's being used that way, right?

Unless you've been living under a rock, it is probably not true that you have never heard the term used this way. I think it is true that you are fairly ignorant about racism/racial code words in present day America, which I would hope would lead you to do a cursory search about the topic instead of posting your ignorance as some kind of an anecdotal evidence, bafflingly rewarded with upvotes.

It's one thing to not be up to date on, say, who will be offended if you don't address them as "zhe", but you seem to be pro-actively denying the existence of a fairly widespread racial slur, which seems indefensible to me.

Here's the full Bundy statement, in context:

http://disinfo.com/2014/04/une...

Here's the extended Sterling transcript which shows his lady friend attempting to bait him into saying something out of bounds -- note the leading questions and that she brings up race first:

http://deadspin.com/exclusive-...

and this: http://deadspin.com/heres-a-gu...

#1--why watch NBC? CBC, BBC, and if you don't care about perfect English--the list gets a heck of a lot longer. But why even bother with streaming from a website--why not grab one of the usenet or torrent postings?

Winter.Olympics.2014.Team.Figure.Skating.Pairs.Short.Program.720p.HDTV .x264-2HD
Winter.Olympics.2014.Ladies.Moguls.Qualification.1.720p.HDTV.x264-2HD
Winter.Olympics.2014.Mens.Slopestyle.Qualification.HDTV.x264-2HD

You get the point--if you are going to cut the cord--I'd hope you know how to get content before you made the move...

One last link: Instructions on watching live: http://deadspin.com/how-to-wat...

Pot, no.

Rape, yes.

http://deadspin.com/tag/steubenville-ohio

Images of a big fireball and a lot of blood on the pavement: http://deadspin.com/explosions-reported-at-the-boston-marathon-473008941

Deadspin has been great about following this story (see the other links(, and this page from a few days ago is more in depth and has the video itself (and some choice quotes if you can't listen to this sort of thing):

http://deadspin.com/5972527/she-is-so-raped-right-now-former-student-jokes-about-the-steubenville-accuser-the-night-of-the-alleged-rape

Truly despicable.

This is the picture you want.

    And a few cases are...

    1848, Phienas Gage, iron bar through his skull.

    1987, Ahad Israfil (the photo in the first link)

    2009, Hou Guozhu, Surgery removed half his brain.
    http://minutest.com/6678/half-brain-boy/

    2010, Angelina Mills, "LITTLE Angelina Mills had the RIGHT half of her brain ravaged by a rare condition... but thanks to miracle surgery she's LEFT with a great chance of a normal life. "

    I can't find a name on this guy, but the removal of half a brain was from a car accident. He wasn't convicted for the arrests his mug shot was taken.
http://deadspin.com/5694479/half+headed-man-takes-worlds-most-bizarre-mugshot

I found this article immensely helpful in determining who this anonymous play may be..

http://deadspin.com/5804120/totally-anonymous-soccer-player-sues-twitter-for-saying-ryan-giggs-had-an-affair

does not mean that everyone else don't get drunk (and make some bad decisions while drunk) occasionally too.

When you say bad decisions, you mean like Karen F. Owens and her PowerPoint presentation?

If I were in charge of making hiring decisions, she would get the circular file. Not because she slept with a bunch of guys, not because she wrote about it, but because she was stupid and lacked common sense in thinking that said list wouldn't be all over the Net shortly after giving the list to some friends.

If that is the kind of judgment that person makes, I wouldn't want them in my company.

It's true:

not exactly.

A sports reporter tweeted on Monday (this week or last week, i'm getting this second hand) that a ballplayer's suspension would be 5 games instead of 4.

Numerous outlets picked it up and ran it as news.

Thing is, he made it up. Deliberately. To demonstrate how many news outlets do zero confirmatory investigation before running stories.

So what did his employer do?

Fired him.

I.e., it's going to get worse before it gets better.

The news outlets didn't run his rumor as factual news. They ran him tweeting it as news. That is, they reported that he reported it, which he did. The reason they deemed it more newsworthy than any random tweet is because, up until now, he was a credible source based on his past record. This is how journalism is supposed to work. Once the information is confirmed, then they report the actual content as fact, which they didn't. As a reader, you need to pay attention and notice the difference. He in fact, demonstrated nothing other than his relevancy as a journalist, which he has now lost. Here's a good synopsis: http://deadspin.com/5626506/mike-wise-twitter-and-the-art-of-breaking-news

I like my cell phone held this way

...what makes this disturbing is that you're a guy.

I like my cell phone held this way

Gladwell's article has been pretty thorougly debunked by people who actually know about sports.

http://deadspin.com/5239721/malcolm-gladwell-wants-to-know-why-your-team-doesnt-press-more

Think about the criminal mentality here... looking over someone's shoulder vs hacking into the teacher's computer... They are both means to the same end, and are both opportunities taken with similar intent. If we are to punish "evil" then these two are equal. The only difference is one kid was more efficient at it, thought outside the box, had a bigger vision, and accomplished a bigger goal.

He got caught, sure, but maybe he needs practice? He gets an A in my book.

Btw this reminds me of a great Southpark episode. Ya, how about think about how we can we help these childred!?

"Nintendo comes out and says they kick puppies, love Nazis, and wipe their ass with every nations flag in the world they are not likely to drop the ball. "

Is that a preview of the next Nintendogs game? Sounds like things have gotten much more exciting.

The new version of Nintendogs will include pitbulls and have Michael Vick as a trainer.

i'm used to all the "but this was on digg!!!!1!1! /. is teh SuX0r!1one"

but damn..... slashdot got scooped on a robot story by Deadspin. a sports website. over a week ago. AND had to wait until CNN picked it up.

y'all are slippin, i tells ya.

http://www.deadspin.com/sports/adam-knox-fund/intr oducing-the-adam-knox-fund-205453.php is the original story dated 10/05/2006. Suppose they tried to move the money from the PayPal account to the bank account on 10/15/2006. PayPal suspends account. That does make me question something tho.. why did it take them so long for their follow up article, http://www.deadspin.com/sports/adam-knox-fund/payp al-doesnt-want-slain-soldiers-families-to-receive- aid-227699.php 01/10/2007)

http://www.deadspin.com/sports/adam-knox-fund/intr oducing-the-adam-knox-fund-205453.php is the original story dated 10/05/2006. Suppose they tried to move the money from the PayPal account to the bank account on 10/15/2006. PayPal suspends account. That does make me question something tho.. why did it take them so long for their follow up article, http://www.deadspin.com/sports/adam-knox-fund/payp al-doesnt-want-slain-soldiers-families-to-receive- aid-227699.php 01/10/2007)

This page where the fund is mentioned: http://www.deadspin.com/sports/adam-knox-fund/intr oducing-the-adam-knox-fund-205453.php is six months from the April date.

The freeze then creates a 90 day delay from now, but 180 sounds more dramatic.