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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Tried to Create a Diverse College Class Without Affirmative Action⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like this article. This was a good read.

  Strategy three (and therefore four) makes a lot of sense. Don’t compare all scores against the pool of every other score; but against other scores within the same context; to identify outliers within an environment. This controls for deviations between environments within the massive “took the sat” sample space.

  This seems like a good idea, even if just from a statistical perspective.

  If the demographics of the accepted population are different from the demographics of the sample space; then there must be something wrong / some bias within the acceptance process. Over-sampling the under-represented population never felt like the right solution to me. This seems much better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current account recovery best practices?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use a very simple “hashing” algorithm that I can do mentally. If I want to log into a service, I “hash” its name, and that’s my password.

  Every service I use has a different password, and I don’t have to remember any of them. I have no keyvault that can be stolen.

  MFA is still an issue. You’ll need your recovery codes to be accessible, but encrypted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and government of France⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the HN comments, R&D includes the infrastructure / datacenter costs to support AWS.

  Given the scale of AWS, even if only measured by how much of the internet breaks when us-east-1 goes down, I would say the numbers make sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Year Ahead in Movies⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This barely counts as an article, smells like an AI, and you can’t read more than a sentence at a time without closing an ad or a popup

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your typesetting will look professional, they said⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Make sure to use the “important” modifier, the “Yes Really” modifier, and adjust character by character until you realize you’re missing yet another modifier 🙃