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Mr. Shkreli bought the only FDA-approved treatment for toxoplasmosis. There are many cheaper versions of the drug around the world, but they are not FDA-approved. As this article explains, the FDA currently has a backlog of about 4,000 applications, and the median approval time for new generic drugs is 27 months. Thankfully, in this case, Imprimis was able to do an end run around the FDA's incompetence by making a compounded drug with the same ingredients as daraprim.

What is needed here is some more competition; not in the drug manufacturing business, but in the drug review business. In other words, why aren't entrepreneurs allowed to compete with the FDA? Perhaps the free market could even find a way to review generic drugs in less than 27 months. What if some private reviewer does a poor job? Well, consumers can decide if they are willing to trust drug reviewer A or drug reviewer B, just as consumers currently decide if they trust the reviews in Consumer Reports.

Or we could go with price controls. It seems to be working for Venezuela. Sure, there are constant shortages, but, hey, prices are always low!

cry discrimination

So this little troll is as red-white-and-blue American as Balloon Boy. Got it.

If you didn't already know it, Walmart is planning to launch an Amazon Prime competitor: http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

I don't think Jeff Bezos is good to his workers and I know the Walton family makes its money by grinding its rank and file employees into powder. So there are no heroes here. I think the fact that they're competing is good, I don't want to see either one establish a monopoly.

[cops] rarely use their discretion any more.

Well, not for poor people. GW Bush, against AA, got into Yale based on who his father was, and his daughters Jenna and Barbara were given lots of discretion when drinking under age, and it took a private citizen who didn't like Bush to press the issue to get his daughters arrested. They lasted years using fake IDs (yes, the daughter of the Governor of Texas was drinking a few miles from the capitol with a fake ID, oh, and said daughters of the Governor were also granddaughters of the President). I have friends who were in school with them, and it was a joke to see the known celebrities bar hopping on fake IDs. And they did it for a long time, slightly caught many times, until a liberal bartender threatened a scandal if nothing was done, so they were arrested, and released. Though the national media focuses on the times they were caught http://usatoday30.usatoday.com... and not the times the police took them away "to be booked" and instead dropped them off home. Note in the story, neither was cited at the time of the offense (standard procedure). Because they generally cite and release, moving on to the next infringement, as there are so many. But they took them away and cited them later. Probably hoping that a call from the president would get the bar owner's story changed. When it didn't, they had to press the issue because the complete lack of rule of law for the 1% would be sufficiently obvious that it would have hurt the Bush politics more than the alcohol trouble.

If the cops gave the benefit of the doubt to everyone the way they do the priviledged, then there'd be almost no crime. I had more than one friend, back in the day, get a warning for a felony. Of course, all of them were white. A black friend spent the night in jail until a relative could show up the next day proving identity. He was arrested for lying about his identity, which is a crime. But he never lied about his identity. That's how walking while black is treated, and why the crime rate is so high. If you are going to jail simply for breathing, you might as well steal a TV while you are at it. It's jail either way.

And yes, the cops broke the law keeping an under-aged person in adult jail overnight. But someone too young to drive doesn't have a license/ID on them, so you presume them an adult and lock them up. When it's a destitute black child, nobody cares. Try that arrest with the Bush girls (as they were using fake ID, it wouldn't be unreasonable to presume all their ID was fake, until confirmed by a 3rd party), and you'd have seen a massive outcry from the whites, upset that their privilege wasn't respected.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/... :

Although traffic-related incidents have consistently been among the leading causes of officer deaths, law enforcement seat-belt compliance has hovered around 50%. The compliance rate among the general public has been estimated at 86%,

Hardly a research paper, and "most police officers" was an exaggeration, but it seems that the argument is:
    * Many police care so much about their safety that they should be (are) excused for using lethal force at the least sign or impression of danger.
    * Many police care so little about the (admittedly quite low) number of police shootings and traffic deaths that they choose to not wear vests and seat belts.

Both of these may be true; people are terribly illogical when it comes to risk assessment. But yes, it's amazing the shit that people toss out; glad I could inform you of the truth.

They can afford lawyers to protect their interests, and make sure none of that dirty fracking happens anywhere near where the CEO of Exxon lives-
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Can't have that.

Well, Obama does have the distinction of being the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to bomb another Nobel Peace Prize winner.

There is also the recent case where "butt dialing" using Siri actually saved a guys life: http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Wind and solar have minuscule costs over the long term (just maintenance on the machines and lines).

Please then explain the massive fields of dead turbines in California and the southern tip of Hawaii.

Long term history teaches us that wind power plants shut down after just a decade or two. Why is that? If the long term cost is minuscule why would they have been decommissioned?

Of course there's tremendous cost to birds also but fuck wildlife, right?

Wow. The Big Lie, big time. The explanation for those "massive fields of dead turbines" is that they do not exist, and everything you posted above is a work of fiction.

Possibly you have seen the turbine fields, in pictures or in person, when the wind was not blowing (a regular, expected occurrence) and then combined ignorance with fantasy to produce the above nonsense.

Did you forget to log out and post as AC?

Real data show the installed wind capacity, and actual annual wind production growing rapidly, year after year. I drive through one of the major California wind farm areas regularly and have watched the steady expansion of the windmills, and older designs being replaced by ever larger and more powerful models.

(This is the only occasion when right-whiners show much concern for the environment - those 300,000 or so annual wind turbine bird kills, which is 0.01% of the number of birds killed by domestic cats every year. Feer bird kills are better than more, but America's birds are not being endangered by wind turbines.)

You were lucky. Las Vegas taxis are considered corrupt across the board.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Sadly that isn't likely true either, other than the shooter might have not tried it at all if he knew there were armed people on campus.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...

Finland has guns, but little gun crime.

How many of these shootings have been done with hunting rifles or sport shooting guns? Because that's what most of the guns in those other countries with a large gun count like Finland or Sweden consist of. You are never going to get a license for a "self defense" gun in either of those countries, the concept doesn't even exist. There are also much more stringent rules on the storage of the guns when not in use. Gun and firing pin needs to be stored in separate locked compartments which are both rated for gun storage (so your bedside table does not count).

Comparing USA with Sweden or Finland because both as lots of guns is comparing apples with pears.

Anti gun lobbyists will say this is because of guns.

It isn't, it is because someone was a nutjob and decided to go out in a blaze of something-or-other...

Pro gun lobbyists will say this is because there weren't enough guns

Sadly that isn't likely true either, other than the shooter might have not tried it at all if he knew there were armed people on campus.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...

Finland has guns, but little gun crime. I suspect Finland has neither a melting pot of people that the US has and that it has a much better public health system for the poor and disadvantaged than the US does.

The United States doesn't lock up its crazy people and doesn't provide a reasonable option for their mental health treatment.

If a car falls short of power claims, the manufacturer should buy it back at full retail. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...

FYI, Kia got burned for doing that a couple of years back, especially on their 2012 Soul models.

They tried to play it off as "human error", but that 2-6 mpg 'error' cost Kia $300 million in fines (and in not-insubstantial checks written to a lot of Soul owners, my wife being the recipient of one of them).

Are you serious? Do you really think the bureaucracy is going to go away?

If it loses funding, it will.

And when was the last time you heard of any major tax or department in govt that was fully and successfully defunded or removed entirely?

Hell, it took almost 108 years to remove the Phone Excise Tax ....something as archaic as that took forever to fully remove.

Actually, crime is up dramatically.

False: Read your own article:
"The homicide toll across the country — which reached a grim nadir in 1993 when more than 2,200 murders were counted in New York City — has declined in ebbs and flows for much of the last 20 years, noted Alfred Blumstein, a professor of urban systems and operations research at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Several U.S. cities – including Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Diego and Indianapolis – have experienced a decrease in the number of murders so far this year.

Blumstein said the current surge in murders in some big cities could amount to no more than a blip.
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Actual violent crime (not music downloads :p ) is down about 70%

Actually, crime is up dramatically.

> Yeah? And my existing iTunes library? My tax software? The software to keep my GPS up to date? The home design software I used when I needed to file a building permit?

I'd be glad to answer those questions.

> My existing iTunes library
Seven years ago, iTunes started selling music without DRM, so you can just copy your music files to any device, running any operating system. If you bought DRM music, Apple will charge you $25 to liberate your library, or you can cheat.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

> Tax software

Since tax preparation software is only used once before it's replaced with the new version, I stopped downloading and installing it. Instead, I use TaxAct.com. It works well. For book keeping and accounting, I use Gnucash.

> The software to keep my GPS up to date?

Which GPS? For some, you simply copy the update to an SD card and put it in the GPS - the PC software doesn't really do anything. Some Garmin devices are easiest to update by using PC software. If you have one of those, you might want garminplugin:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:andreas-diesner/garminplugin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install garminplugin

> The home design software I used when I needed to file a building permit?

Looking for this?:
http://www.sweethome3d.com/

You didn't really say what exactly you mean by "home design software", so I guessed at what you might need.

the map link sucks.

would be fine if it outlined the area and placement or something.

I checked before submitting this article myself. I'd of posted http://www.usatoday.com/story/... as my link which shows the stones that have been uncovered.

If your car still has a steering wheel, you can regain control. However, the result will probably be that someone dies, since that's usually what happens in one of those high speed chases, which the police loves so much.

So you want someone unconnected with Hillary's crimes to be pardoned, sort of like your example? Done!

Obama's clemency grant largest since the 1960s

With that out of the way we can get on with the investigation of Hillary.

By the way, you should look into the penalty Libby was left with. Not exactly "light."

Actually, I would. Southern Florida is expected to be underwater by the end of the century.

NO its not. The Governor of Florida banned mention of Global warming, so now it won't happen.,p> http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Take that you whiny liberals. We control science with the stroke of a pen.

(and doesn't accidentally kill them).

Of the very very few CAS friendly-fire incidents, the A-10 holds the high score.

Per the article, it also doesn't "flat out work", either, being too slow and short-ranged to participate in forward missions. Sure, the grunts on the ground want the the A-10, because it's what they know and love. Whenever they see the A-10, it's doing its job. When it can't do the job, though, the grunts won't see it because they're too far out of range or in too urgent of a situation for the Warthog to help. Then, all the grunts know is that they didn't get help, and clearly it must be the brass's fault, because they're in charge. Now those commanders want different planes, but the grunts have still never directly seen the A-10 fail...

Right, and Germany is sunnier than the USA

Strawman. I never said anything of the sort.

You're right. I didn't see you anywhere in that video. It was just an interesting vdeo of what some folks on your side were talking about. We doing Oxford debate rules here?

Remind me again what portion of the INDUSTRIALIZED FIRST WORLD runs off of local wind turbines and/or local solar? Oh, that's right: not much. There's a perfectly good reason for that: it's not reliable power like grid power. Solar doesn't work when it's cloudy, at night, or when panels are covered by snow. Wind doesn't work unless it's windy.

And yet, looking at the Allegheny front near my place, there are a lot of wind turbines that seem to be running all the time. You occasionally see one in a turbine field that is stopped - I suspect that's for maintenance.

And as a small correction, the solar panels aren't charging at night. That's when we use the batteries tht the solar panels charge during the day. Works pretty well.

Grid power works all the time, every time.

Oh - bullshit. Here's a small sampling of your "works all the time, every time":

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/25/...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

http://www.foxnews.com/weather...

Living here in the Northeast, we've had a lot of major power interruptions, that put that "Grid power works all the time, every time." claim as utter bunkum. The interruptions are generally due to freak weather, but caused me to get first a generator, and I'm now working my way over towards solar. Some of the interruptions have been around a week, and it doesn't take too many freezerfulls of spoiled food to make you think about the need for alternative power.

Power that isn't there when you need it most is rather useless.

I agree wholeheartedly. However, your vaunted grid is not the uninterruptible power source that you claim it is. I really needed the power not available from the grid until I got those alternatives. I can't rely on your promises for power. Thos promises don't make power come out of the wall sockets. It gets too cold when we're out of it for a week.

Oh, and nice dig at Fox News, not that it's remotely relevant to the discussion. But it does show your bias.

I'm not a liberal, if that's your implication. I'm a pragmatist who likes to point out bullshit. And yes, the idea that Germany is successful in their attempts to use solar power because they are sunnier than we are is bullshit.

And the overall point of that post is that Fox News is not the only group spreading bullshit about alternative forms of power.

Especially when those folk write:

Grid power works all the time, every time

So really what was that? Was the quote bullshit? Or do you actually believe that :

Grid power works all the time, every time

Because it certainly doesn't.

Not even in Germany.

As if millions of birds suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly burned to a crisp.

Unfortunately most of them ran into windows and cats before they got there. A few managed to land on a live wire, get hit by a car or eat some poisoned plants first. One amazing bird managed to successfully fly through a wind turbine to reach its destination of concentrated solar power. http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

My reply to this would be that your eating habits changed without you realize it. This is very, very common, especially if you're spending several more hours a day asleep.

Except that there is evidence that sleep loss affects your metabolic rate. And while this Mayo Clinic article suggests that sleep deprivation can cause cravings, I can tell you right now that I was on the exact same diet before and after the treatment. But if you bother to Google you can find article after article that quote different studies that suggest that sleep deprivation leads to a slower metabolic rate. So you can go ahead and put your head in the sand and think whatever you want, but doctors and scientists pretty much all disagree with you.

Of course Israel is doing this. Openly: http://thehigherlearning.com/2... http://www.usatoday.com/story/... Anybody who pretends it is only 'bad guys' like Russia and not every major world power and also multinational corporations, are either deluded or shills themselves.

In Chicago, which has the country's second biggest fleet with roughly 7,000 taxis, the median sale price for a medallion hovered around $70,000 in 2007 before reaching a median sales peak of $357,000 in late 2013.

Since reaching that high point more than a year ago, the value of medallions in the Windy City have sharply declined and sales have ground to a near haltâ"with the city recording only seven medallion transfers in the first quarter of 2015â"as the median sale price fell to about $270,000.

[...]

Earlier this month, the Philadelphia Parking Authority, which regulates the city's taxi industry, had sold newly-created medallions for wheel-chair accessible taxis for $80,000 each. The bargain price came after the authority put the medallions on the market last fall, with an initial asking price of $475,000, but received no bids.

Note that the city of Philadelphia lost money due to taxi competition from Uber. There's a huge conflict of interest between the city government and customers of taxis.

In New York, taxi mogul Evgeny Friedman is locked in a court battle with Citibank, to whom he owes some $31 million after some medallion loans matured.

Citibank is looking to seize 87 of Freidman's 900 medallions in New York, which has seen medallion prices drop to about $870,000 last fall from a peak of about $1.2 million last spring. Freidman, the biggest medallion owner in the USA, also owns fleets in Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, and Philadelphia.

There's the money. There's the conflicts of interest. There's the conspiracy between taxi medallion holders and city governments neither who has an interest in providing enough ridership services for the general public.

What was most striking about this story was that Uber made $750 million in New York City during the first four years it provided its service there. That indicates to me huge pent up demand that is not being met by the taxi industry. It's time for change.

who bites the heads off doves

Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat
Alice Cooper did not decapitate a chicken, but was savvy enough to make sure nobody said otherwise.

There was not dove, though.

America spends over $200B/yr on manned military aviation. Next generation drones could eliminate most of that.

Yeah, not so much. When have you ever known military spending to go down in any meaningful way? Next-gen drones will doubtless be more expensive for the taxpayer than current-gen tech, just because. (Sure, we might need to buy a lot more of them to ensure we keep the bill growing, but you can be assured we'll do it.)

The only monetary advantage will be for the arms companies, lobbyists, and those taking their kickbacks, all of whom will have an even larger profit pool in which to swim. There's no way the average taxpayer won't continue to get shafted, though. The US leads the world in military spending (US$609.9 billion, or US$1,891 per capita) as of 2014, close to triple the nearest country (China, with US$216.4 billion) and there's no sign of that changing.

Sure, in the last decade our spending has decreased a tiny fraction, but only by a paltry 0.4%. Despite not being in any actual wars right now (the arm-waving "war on terror" doesn't count), we're spending more than we were pre-9/11 *or* during the Cold War.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

I'm not a particularly big fan of Obama, but he is definitely not the biggest user of executive orders

Well, SORT of true. He's been abusing Presidential Memorandums ...which carry basically the same weight, but allow him to say "I'm not using as many EO's as the previous guys have.".

Add the memos and the EO's together...and that changes the number a bit.

In common law, there's a principle whereby things are legal in the sense that the laws that cover them are deliberately unenforced. So yes, while there are state laws against it, the state government has chosen to not enforce these laws until new laws are written to accommodate these services, meaning that for the time being, it is legal.

Here's an article on the subject. Long story short, the governor wants to see the impact of these services before crafting new legislation that will govern their use, which IMO is a perfectly rational thing to do (knee-jerk banning of these services without consideration of their potential benefits is irrational.)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

...as seen here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... BUT they did this to us too, and the rest of the world... "A news report says Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant was so unprepared for the disaster that workers had to bring protective gear and instruction manuals from elsewhere and borrow equipment from a contractor. The report, released by operator Tokyo Electric Co, is based on interviews of workers and plant data. It portrays chaos in a desperate and ultimately unsuccessful battle to protect the Fukushima plant from meltdown, and shows that workers struggled with unfamiliar equipment." ap.org/ - "Scientists have found traces of radioactivity in fish off the California coast that migrated from the waters off of Japan, site of the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster of 2011, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The researchers say the evidence is unequivocal. The young tuna were found to be contaminated with two radioactive forms of the element cesium from Fukushima." http://content.usatoday.com/co... - "Japanese whalers caught 2 animals along the northern coast that had traces of radiation from leaks at a damaged nuclear power plant, officials said. 2 of 17 minke whales caught off the Pacific coast of Hokkaido showed traces of radioactive cesium, both about 1/20th of the legal limit, fisheries officials said. They are the first whales thought to have been affected by radiation leaked from the Fukushima nuclear plant since it was hit by a 3/11/11 earthquake and tsunami." nhjournal. com

In 2013, the average price for a new car was $32K. Many EVs available right now are below that even *before* any state or federal incentives, and many more hit that point after incentives.

Meanwhile, the average price for a used car was $16.8K. I don't know where you'd get a sub-$10K used vehicle from a reputable source (versus a cash transaction in someone's driveway...)
=Smidge=

Criminals, like everyone else, need light to see what they're doing. And using a flashlight calls attention to them if they're in someone's yard. This is the reason why burglary rates go up during gibbous and full moons.

Got any data to back that up?

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...

So, to find out, the study team looked at San Antonio, Tex., from 2001 to 2005, a city of more than a million people for which exhaustive crime data is available. The team crunched nightly crime data, noting rain, daylight, indoor vs. outdoor locations and other environmental effects unaccounted for in past efforts. Murder happens too rarely in San Antonio to give a statistical signal, so the team looked at assaults, burglary, theft, drugs and vice crimes, traffic crimes, and "other disturbances," totaling about 130,000 incidents a year.

"It is the very error of the moon," wrote Shakespeare in Othello. "She comes more near the earth than she was wont, And makes men mad."

Maybe in Venice, but not in San Antonio, the study concludes. "Substantive lunar effects on crime were not found in the data analyzed here," say the report. "Although popular culture, folk lore, and even certain occupational lore suggested the 'freaks' come out during full moons, this phenomenon was not reflected in San Antonio police data as used here."

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An anonymous Microsoft PR person writes.

Just another phase of a Microsoft grassroots campaign.

Which is especially funny given his recent moves to release 22 convicted drug offenders. Not that I disagree with this course of action (really no one should be going to prison over this in the first place) but it's also contradictory to previous actions by his administration in relation to drug enforcement.

We're probably better off under Obama than we would have been under McCain or Romney, but I don't think anyone can deny that President Obama is a lot different than candidate Obama. The funniest part is that we're seeing the same kind of swell around Sanders and how much change he'll bring. I never really followed politics much when I was younger, but has it always been like this? Townshend was wrong. It's seems like you can just keep fooling us over and over again.

This article gives some details:

Nevertheless, the automaker said it will offer to repurchase the trucks and SUVs that have not yet been fixed for a price equal to the original purchase price minus a reasonable allowance for depreciation plus ten percent.

So, essentially, the buyback amount in this case is roughly the market value plus ten percent. My understanding is that a buyback is not a trade-in, so there's no obligation to purchase the same make of vehicle.

Under typical lemon laws, for example, if the dealer can't fix serious problems with a new vehicle in three visits within the first 60 days, you're eligible for a buyback. In those cases, I believe the consumer is eligible for the full purchase price. In this particular case, it looks like the federal government is mandating the buyback because even of older vehicles of the seriousness and scope of the issue.

Disclaimer: I'm no expert on this subject matter, so I may have some details wrong.

As it is, we export much of our pollution production to China, since they provide the labor so much cheaper - because they don't bother much with pollution controls, workplace safety, or fair labor practices. They manufacture the goods and produce so much pollution that large cities have visibility reduced to only a few hundred meters. And we know that pollution on scales like that is not going to stay a local phenomenon, as winds blow, climates change, and wildlife dies.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

I guess MS still strongly feels this site gets so many eyeballs so it is worth relentless ads brazenly disguised as stories or Experiments...

It reminds me of Microsoft grass-roots astroturfing campaigns of yore.

He's got a T-Rex size carbon footprint as shown here:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...

Um, dateline 2006? I know this is slashdot and old new is good news, but do you have anything from this decade? IIRC, he's made a few serious changes to his house since then. Not that I'm a big fan of carbon offsets, but still, the world changes around you. And just because you don't like the messenger is no reason to ignore the message (which is pretty well documented.)

The current average retail price of a new car is now $33,560 or about 64% of U.S. Household income. In 1980, it was $7,200 or 44% of 1980 median household income. The further back you go, the more affordable cars were. Compound that with the fact that most households used to be single income, and now most households are dual income means that the real rate of increase of car prices is even more out of control than it looks.

And back in the good old days, we bought them more often. Last vehicle I bought was to replace a ten year old one. When I started driving, in ten years, you were on your third vehicle.

Due to all of the tech in cars now, they are too fucking expensive. That's why most people lease cars -- because they cannot hope to actually pay for one outright any more. This is only going to exacerbate that problem. Until auto-makers can make cars that will last generations of drivers can they expect us to pay for them over generations.

The current average retail price of a new car is now $33,560 or about 64% of U.S. Household income. In 1980, it was $7,200 or 44% of 1980 median household income. The further back you go, the more affordable cars were. Compound that with the fact that most households used to be single income, and now most households are dual income means that the real rate of increase of car prices is even more out of control than it looks.

He's got a T-Rex size carbon footprint as shown here: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...

...but make up 1% of most top SV hires.

Tech jobs: Minorities have degrees, but don't get hired

This article is comparing graduation rates today with a labor pool hired over the last 30 years. The fair comparison would be to look at only new hires directly from universities. But the author is likely more interested in pushing an agenda than in presenting the facts.

...but make up 1% of most top SV hires.

Tech jobs: Minorities have degrees, but don't get hired

I don't understand why so many are not willing to even consider that there is some bias against minorities in tech hiring.

Because when you're hiring, you don't want a "top" graduate who got to be a "top" graduate because of "affirmative action".

And every damn time someone like you screams "RAAAACIST!!!" you make it less likely a minority will be hired - because hiring is always risky, and because "RAAAAACIST!!!!" card-playing "victims" are almost impossible to fire - because they'll scream "RAAAAACIST!!!!".

But go ahead, keep beating that SJW drum.

But last year, 4.5% of all new recipients of bachelor's degrees in computer science or computer engineering from prestigious research universities were African American, and 6.5% were Hispanic, according to data from the Computing Research Association.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/12/silicon-valley-diversity-tech-hiring-computer-science-graduates-african-american-hispanic/14684211/

If you want measurements you don't have to go very far.

Blacks and hispanics make 4.5 and 6.5% of the CS graduates from TOP US universities. But they make 1 and 2% of employees. So it's really not just a supply-side issues as you mention. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/12/silicon-valley-diversity-tech-hiring-computer-science-graduates-african-american-hispanic/14684211/

Are they turning them out at the same level though? Big universities discriminate like crazy, and will let weaker candidates in their pipelines in computer science if they're female or black much more easily. Some of them will do fine, but a lot will only barely squeeze through, because they were not really qualified in the first place.

Do you have any proof to back that up? Citations? Recent published accounts? Or are we suppose to believe your racist banter as is.

Many of us went to top universities. Did you notice a conspiracy by professors to give minority students passing grades? Even anecdotal evidence would be something. It's like you're not evening trying.

But last year, 4.5% of all new recipients of bachelor's degrees in computer science or computer engineering from prestigious research universities were African American, and 6.5% were Hispanic, according to data from the Computing Research Association.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/12/silicon-valley-diversity-tech-hiring-computer-science-graduates-african-american-hispanic/14684211/