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Race variable is often correlated with other data.

Look at red lining in real estate/banking. They marked black neighbourhoods with red boxes, white neighbourhoods with green. The bank would approve business and home loans depending on if you were in a red or green area. Algorithmically the banks did not engage in a racist practice but systemically they are.

Re:The Hobo Ethical Code of 1889 on Thursday May 03, 2018 @08:30PM (#16991224)
It's easy to be incorruptible when you have no power.
Firefox and Edge don't send Origin headers with POST requests[0] while all send Referer.[1]

0: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Or...

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...

Re:The four motivators (2016) on Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:48PM (#16286700)
Sounds like you were motivated by your vision of what good software looks like.