Sure, it's possible, but unlikely. And nobody ever notices or appreciates the efficient and effective goverment agencies.

Honestly the main problem is the fed gov has terrible pr.

I think once you join the workforce and are employed you'll start seeing some company inefficiencies.

I see it every day and it doesn't come close to the insanity of government

What on earth? Trump and other republicans are famous for increasing government spending while decreasing revenue, that's, like, their whole thing, isn't that why people vote for them?

That's true, and I expect Trump won't solve the problem either. He's a liar and a fraud, after all. But that doesn't mean the issue wasn't what got him in office.

> This doesn't explain why the used car market is full of very cheap cars like the Honda Fit for much less than a new SUV.

Is it really? Just to check I looked at carmax and found this kind of price:

2016 Honda Fit LX $16,998* 26K mi

You can get cheaper ones in the $11k range with like 110k+ miles on them, is this really a meaningul price difference?

I spent a couple of years working on this as a hobby and, yeah, book metadata is difficult to explain just how irregular it actually is. It might actually be worse than people names.

That being said, the reason I was working on this was because I wanted a simple and effective way to get alerted to new books published by authors I want to track, can this work for that?

As a feature within our app, probably Q2/Q3 this year; we want to finish backfilling historical books before turning actual notifications on

As an API for you to query yourself for free, not for a while (but on the long-term roadmap!)

There is absolutely not such an api. For one thing, nobody actually knows because nothing stops random people from publishing a book at any time.

For another, the major book publishers like amazon want to prevent anyone else from having their data.

Beyond that, book metadata is probably the least standardized thing I have ever seen in my entire life.

Titles, subtitles, editions, editors vs authors, series...

I thought ISBN numbers might be somewhat centralized. But I don't know anything about the ___domain.

The short answer is that isbns are sold more or less like ipv4 addrs. Companies buy a block and then some get assigned to books.

Any good recommendations for plugins to add commands to work on asts?

So the chart says:

> Acceptance rates for students with slightly higher and slightly lower than average GPAs and test scores are displayed in the other columns. In other words, the table above displays acceptance rates by race/ethnicity for students applying to US medical schools with average academic credentials, and just slightly above and slightly below average academic credentials.

So, uh, what? The argument is that it's now awful and horrible that average black students are accepted more frequently than average white students? Who cares.

> The argument is that it's now awful and horrible that average black students are accepted more frequently than average white students? Who cares.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 cares.

Presumably by your logic it would also care if black students weren't being accepted at an average rate? This is a silly conversation.

If they were being accepted at lower rates despite having the same index scores, then yes, that would be a huge civil rights act problem too!

> All else being equal, it’s not possible for a “racially diverse” team to function differently than a racially homogenous one.

And if all horses are perfectly spherical, they'd be awfully hard to ride.

The plain fact is that people are discriminated, for and against, based solely on their appearance. It happens today and it sure happened 100 years ago.

> The plain fact is that people are discriminated, for and against, based solely on their appearance. It happens today and it sure happened 100 years ago.

What does that have to do with how someone does their job?

The subject is preferential admission to harvard, what do you mean who does a job?

This thread is about diversity in the workplace. OP said: “Personally I fully agree that building a diverse workforce is more profitable…” I’m asking how that’s possible when race is a superficial and meaningless.

You know, and I know, and literally everybody in this thread knows, that race is a an imperfect proxy for other things. Why keep trotting this out like you're going to really get someone with it?