I think part of the problem here is that immigration is being considered in the same breath as “ensuring the safety of US citizens,” when the two don’t really have much of a relationship. Before we can even really consider what’s fair immigration policy, we should probably move it away from the DHS, since they don’t…

The students doing the protesting are exercising their freedom of expression, too. The universities are their space, where many of them literally eat and sleep, so their voices seem pretty relevant. A state government passing laws punishing students for protesting a speaker is a straight up violation of that freedom,…

The argument could be pretty easily made that having a more diverse playable cast, especially in a franchise that leans so heavily on its multiplayer, is also a conceit of gameplay, as it allows a wider range of players to enjoy the experience of their WW2-themed gun game through a better facsimile of themselves.…

We already pay based on bandwidth—that’s the current accepted model pretty much everywhere. For logistic and technical reasons, this is pretty sensible. The concern is that ISPs will start to charge content providers for special treatment as well.

Several of these autopilot crashes have been fatal, though, so clearly it isn’t doing a great job of mitigating damage, either.

As another Virginia resident, this state makes it pretty clear they aren’t all that interested in ensuring everyone can vote. There aren’t enough offices to register at, they’re all understaffed, and they’re all conveniently difficult to get to without owning a vehicle in my area. You can register online, though,…

The nazi party didn’t propose rounding people up to execute them at first, either. They stared with rounding people up to deport them or hold them indefinitely. The executions didn’t start until they had too many people in confinement, and by that point they were soundly in power and any semblance of them as just…

There are other reasons beyond cost to not get a power supply too high for your needs. The efficiency of your PSU varies greatly with the amount of power your computer is drawing from it—they tend to be most efficient at between 70-80% of their maximum rating, meaning if you’re capping out at 50% capacity you’re…

It isn’t, but it is their responsibility as a platform to decide what they do and don’t want to support. They can say all they want that they don’t agree with content on their platform, but the fact remains that they provide the platform and take revenue from problematic developers just as they do for any other…

In fairness, Cage has been openly accused of maintaining a toxic working environment for his staff, particularly by turning a blind eye to sexist behavior, in his previous projects, and Ellen Paige has stated he was terrible to work for during the development of Beyond Two Souls. It’s probably not that much of a…

A quick search says the top 5% starts closer to 215,000/year, not 100k. While it’s possible some of these earners are paid by hours worked, I’d make the argument they’re probably entrepreneurs or successful contractors (like most plumbers, for example), not common wage employees who work for a single employer.

A quick search says the top 5% starts closer to 215,000/year, not 100k. While it’s possible some of these earners are paid by hours worked, I’d make the argument they’re probably entrepreneurs or successful contractors (like most plumbers, for example), not common wage employees who work for a single employer.

On larger scales and cases where you’re trying to measure data with a large range, median is preferred to mean as the point of reference for a “middle of the road” measurement. Over thousands of employees ranging from minimum wage to the CEO’s millions, average alone doesn’t mean a whole lot—it’s always going to look…

If you don’t recognize how the two are correlated, or what the point of income tax is as opposed to other forms of federal tax revenue, I’d argue it’s above yours.

Elections are in many ways just resource battles in the States, where most elections can be predicted with alarming accuracy based solely on who spent more on their campaign (on a district-level, at least. There’s obviously more that goes into who wins an election than raw money spent, such as why a party might not…

Firstly, the top 5% of Americans currently hold more than 60% of the nation’s wealth, so 60% is the minimum income tax burden they should be held to.

I mean, the point of the experiment isn’t to test the cost of the program—that part is just basic math—it’s to quantify the effects on a population, which is data that scales easily.

I mean, to use your own example, your father’s PI almost certainly published even without the doctorate, since that’s pretty much what PIs are supposed to do. That’s plenty worthy of a title even without hte acronym on his signature. As far as I know, most research-oriented fields don’t have hard certifying bodies,…

The difference is that, to really be considered a scientist, you need to have published (or been a major, credited contributor to) something in a peer-reviewed journal, or at the very least currently be in a PhD program in your field and therefore on your way to publishing something. Having a Bachelor’s in something…

I’d argue the administrative staff in immigration aren’t really the focus of this conversation—they’ve always been there before ICE was a thing, and they’ll continue to be there whether ICE continues to exist as it does today or not. The point is that ICE, as an enforcement-centric immigration organization, is…