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These studies are nothing but troll bait.

1. What is 'income'. Do you mean taxable income that is received through an employer? Because if you do, most of the 1% at the top probably don't receive 'income'. For example John Kerry is worth about 600mil but received $60K in 'income' for the year he was running for president. The rest of the money gets funneled into off shore bank accounts 503B organizations, shell companies, etc. I think the only reason that he had any 'income' at all was because he sold a few paintings that year. Most of the super wealthy don't have any 'income' at all.

2. Globalization effects. I've lived in some of the wealthiest places in the US and many very wealthily people in the US are foreigners that happen to live here or have many their money overseas. So if Jack Ma decided to live in Washington D.C. would he be part of the top 1% of the US graph? Splitting a graph into US vs UK for instance may no longer be realistic in the modern world. Most 1%ers are globalized.

Couple of other ideas I had:

>> Technological change and globalization have widened the gap between skilled workers and less-educated workers.

Take a look at india. Tech workers do alot better than their peers. Is that bad? Isn't that raising the standard of living for indians? Should all indians all go back to poverty so that they can not have any 'income inequality' in their country?

I feel like these pieces are written to justify tax increases by getting people to believe that there is someone out their that can be 'squeezed' for money because 'it's just not fair'. The reality is that most Americans that make above 50K a year are probably in the top 1% of the global population. So maybe in that sense all americans are part of the super rich 1%ers.
Those are two separate events. I'm talking about the event n = 42, which makes sense for all [n]. You're talking about the event n >= 42, which is a very different event.
> A polite request is asking their respective managers about the dress code and whether it can be relaxed

Which, according to the original source, is exactly what they did with the supporting argument that at least one employee didn't follow dress code, resulting in them being shut down with no answer:

> I felt the dress code was overly strict but I wasn’t going to say anything, until I noticed one of the workers always wore flat shoes that were made from a fabric other than leather, or running shoes, even though both of these things were contrary to the dress code.

> I spoke with my manager about being allowed some leeway under the dress code and was told this was not possible, despite the other person being allowed to do it. I soon found out that many of the other interns felt the same way, and the ones who asked their managers about it were told the same thing as me.
The hardware is "best-in-class"? I keep hearing this, but the specs and personal experiences just don't match up with it. Their devices are, and have always been, way underspecced, and they pull stupid crap like abusing the case as a heatsink (because they're too cheap for fans?), soldering in RAM and gluing in batteries (seriously, WTF?), and using proprietary connectors for everything.

Their software is a trainwreck, their hardware is even worse. Why on earth do people give this company money?
I've never understood the mindset in which something as trivial as what you wear to work actually seems like a big deal.
Yep, this is spot on. Young people with no work experience made a mistake that got them fired, let's just flag this article and move on.
At work we have a bunch of Windows and Mac laptops. The Windows laptops are constantly needing something. Either hardware repair or having software issues of various types (for some reason, often the wifi drivers). The Macs... never once have we had a problem with any of them.

For me, I just got fed up with Windows and Windows laptops. The bloat. Windows itself (I dropped off at Windows 8, I just hated it). I had used every Windows version since 3.1. Both at home and work I use Linux for all my server needs, but for my home base, macOS is fine. I never upgrade it until it hits 10.x.4, and by that point, it's rock solid. I use a product called FastX for reconnectable SSH sessions to my home and work Linux machines, where I do everything in GNU Emacs, even email. I've been using nmh + MH-E + some filtering software I wrote myself. I've accumulated 30+ years of Emacs tweaks and that environment is as about as productive as I can make it, for what I do.

My son recently wanted to play Windows games (Steam) on his Mac, so we installed Windows 10 via bootcamp. I was impressed with how easy it was to install and how fast Windows was on his new 2016 Macbook.

Compared to all the Windows laptops out there, I think Macbooks are an incredible deal.
So does racial diversity. Is that a problem as well?

Or is this just a post-hoc justification that you don't really believe?
> which many employers simply cannot tolerate

They certainly can, they just don't want to.
here i will spell it out for you

1 money = power
2 return to 1

if a few people have most of the money, they have nearly all of the power because nobody else's share of power or money is greater than theirs, even collectively

honest question, do you have an ulterior motive in asking your question?
Maybe the other employee had a health issue that prevented them from wearing dress shoes, and management didn't want to share that private information?

It definitely sounds like management would prefer to force the lone employee to follow dress code than to allow everyone else to break it.
Then can we get the post to change the title? The whole thing could be properly summed up in the title.
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The key here is signaling. The interns showed that either they don't understand the game or that the have an 'union' like attitude towards employment. Either way not atractive for an employer.
Exactly. Honestly, this one really confuses me. At this point, I've decided that all the companies that make Windows laptops just don't get why people like Apple hardware. I really cannot believe Apple is the only one capable of making good laptops.
But the poor today all have fridges. Everything you describe is a problem of poverty, not inequality.

Inequality is when the poor get 2x richer, but the rich get 3x richer, in real terms (not nominal). Do you have any reason to believe this is a problem?
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For me it started a little bit in the middle. It stayed like that 6 months and then suddenly it spread all over the place...
> Is it really ethical to fire an entire group of people for merely questioning a rule?

Corporate America doesn't concern itself with ethics. Interns sending a common proposal (however polite) up the management chain is one step removed from unionisation, which is one thing Corporate America will shut down sites or states over.
This also implies that the Linux kernel TCP stack is never evolving which is an odd claim to make.
I would agree. All labor related problems are solvable given sufficient dollars and people.
The Wide Gamut is simply a selling point to have "vivid" colors. But most of the images including UI are still sRGB. Showing them on a 24-bit wide-gamut display means every color component is mapped to only a subset of 0-255 values.

Unless they're just being mapped directly, which would probably make everything automatically look much more vivid... and that would help sell those displays too.
You really enjoy race baiting don't you?
I would say it not just inequality. It's inequality combined with a job market that has been in a gridlock in Europe since the financial crisis causing people outside of the experienced urban population to be unemployed or underemployed.

Overly tight money from the ECB and too low inflation is destroying the young and the rural's career prospects (this will go on until the baby boom retires) and is forcing them to fund boomers' retirements even if they were excluded from good careers for so long.

Even though the UK doesn't use the Euro, it is close enough to be impacted by its mismanagement.

More thoughts here: http://bessiambre.tumblr.com/post/146561613022/the-euro-make...
> The interns were told that was a medical exemption… after they were mass-fired

That's nice. What business of it was theirs, that they should be told at all? It smacks of a third-grade classroom, where little Susie is upset because little Janey didn't bring enough comfortable shoes for everybody, so Teacher makes a rule that either you bring enough for everybody or you don't bring any at all.

Of course, in a third-grade classroom, this sort of thing makes some sense, because we don't expect children of such a young age to be fully in command of their emotions. I gather the interns we're talking about are in their early twenties. One would reasonably expect them to have learned something in the decades since they were in third grade themselves, but perhaps that's too much to ask.
You mean income inequality is not as bad as wealth inequality (typo?)? Your explanation seems to contradict your first sentence.
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Short sleeves and shorts have a positive impact on ecology and money savings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Biz_campaign

I mean concerned citizens are hammered between increasingly enforced orders of being a good citizens (that don't pollute or be honest), while companies may make them do stuff that makes them bad citizens (pollution or tax frauds).

And the more a citizen does not comply with either one or the other role he gets more and more hammered down.

This world is crazy.
Bali's quite good - good surfing, quite cheap and cosmopolitan enough you get some city type culture still.
> Maybe the other employee had a health issue

They did, they had lost a leg, which the interns didn't know beforehand.

> management didn't want to share that private information?

Except they shared that information… after firing all the interns:

> We were told to hand in our ID badges and to gather our things and leave the property ASAP. […] just before the meeting ended, one of the managers told us that the worker who was allowed to disobey the dress code was a former soldier who lost her leg and was therefore given permission to wear whatever kind of shoes she could walk in.
I don't think it is, it sounds like the company is rather tyrannical and will not tolerate employees expressing something they want as a group.

Ideally, since employers hold most of the power, it should be feasible for employees to band together to even the playing field. This company is one I wouldn't want to work for.

That said, this article is non-news and it's just trying to manufacture outrage. I've flagged it.
I think it's probably hard to cite "proof" for any economic principle, but it's extremely concerning to me because it's a feed-forward type of situation, and inherently unsustainable. Any time you have a feedforward situation, there is no equilibrium condition. You have a bubble, by definition, and the only thing that can happen is for it to pop.

This happens when you reach the limit of a fundamental input to the bubble. When this happens, you have dramatic, rapid changes in the economic structure of society, which have historically always been Bad.

From a software standpoint, it's a bit like writing a non-determinable program with an infinite loop in an unsafe language: it's just a matter of time.

The other thing is that it's a violation of the golden rule: all of the unborn individuals should have a chance at economic success. The wider the split gets, the less and less realistic that opportunity is. It's fine for all of us that won the ovarian lottery, but we can't say with a straight face that we would be successful if we were born in the fields of a third world country (or the alleys of detroit).
> demanding change at a place that was generous enough to hire them for a learning experience

Oh what a load of crap

Generous? Companies use interns for cheap labour (sometimes free). There's nothing generous from their part
you mean "simply will not tolerate"

if companies fear the actions of their employees, why hire them in the first place.

Sounds like an abusive relationship to me
The article mentions the other employee is a military veteran and amputee who is more comfortable outside the strict dress code.

An intern decided they were going to try and force a companies hand and was fired. Not much to see here.
Coding IS hard. But I don't think a modicum of programming literacy and logical thinking should be hard. The problem I see in all his examples is the idea of expectations for the person learning to code, because people who don't code don't have the ability to know how hard a given software endeavor is. Games are the canonical example of something that beginner programmers would want to jump into, but game programming is notoriously tricky and you'd be drowning quickly as someone just getting started. This is exacerbated by the "coding is easy!" marketing mentioned, because they're missing the first two words of the statement. It should read "Getting into coding is easy!".

I think people should be able to do basic data manipulation from reading files. I think people should be able read and write simple code in at least one language. I think people should be able to do simple database manipulation. And most importantly, II think people should be able to look at their own lives and recognize when there is something that seems like it should be automated, even if they themselves don't know how they would do it. I don't think that's unreasonable to ask.
"White men hate them!"
You've gotten downvoted because of the tone of your comment, but I think the argument you're making is sound. The US work culture is very much against employees' rights, and expressing yourself is a right. They didn't stop working, they didn't harm anything, they just sent a letter that said "hey, these 10 people want X" and they got fired over it.
Well, any statement can be proven under different axioms. Just take that statement itself as your only axiom.
And the employer made themselves unattractive to a socially-connected group.
Oh boy.

Asian Men in america are a anomaly. Its strong selective bias.

Open your borders to all of Asia an see what happens.
Can't remember if it's Seven Day Weekend or Peopleware were they talk about the furniture police. I don't understand it either. I think some people find it threatening that the employees are actually human, silly as it sounds.
> Some cheaper competitive products are as good or even better as MBPr for the basics of computing (raw CPU/GPU), and some people think "computer" and automatically assume that CPU/GPU is all that matters (whereas most people, gamers aside, totally underutilize them).

So what is it you're paying so much extra for then?

> mag-safe power adaptor

Can't say this has ever been an issue for me, and even they seem to be killing this off.

> multi-touch trackpad

Standard feature on any recent laptop.

> magnetic hinge

Huh?

> illuminated keyboard

Quickly becoming a standard feature, but if this is important to you then you probably shouldn't be spending that much on a laptop anyway.

> construction (sturdiness)

LOL.

> weight, thickness and battery life

Not an issue in the real world.
>The interns were told that was a medical exemption… after they were mass-fired, but not when they initially inquired about the possibility of relaxed dress code:

People do have a right to privacy. The person with a medical issue may have asked that details not be disclosed to his/her co-workers.

The questionable part of this story might not be that the interns were terminated but that the existence of the medical issue was disclosed to them at all.
> I'm curious - how would you be more productive in casual wear?

Usually by taking less time to dress up and having better thermal comfort (especially in places that don't have air conditioning - yes, these exist)
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by wearing dress clothes your are allowing yourself to kind of be branded by the company

Kind of like the Scouts, or priests, or soldiers? That's a good theory. All these groups do proper onboarding, though. You'd ask yourself what happened to the manager who let that batch of interns run loose. If it's East Coast finance you'd think he'd be up for culling next, in that line of work there is much indoctrination and elite-think, and the unit manager completely failed to impress on the interns just what a god-blessed lot they are to have gotten into the Company while still at school.
Wow, I thought "trickle down" had been exposed for the BS it was, what, 20+ years ago?
And, conversely, interns' labor has minimal value (sometimes none), so it's not as though the pay scale's unfair. You don't sign up for the college + internship track without expecting to give away some labor.
1.3.0 is tagged, yes. The actual release (docs, release notes, etc) will happen early next week.
Title is misleading. Globally inequality is falling. The reason for this is primarily that the poor are getting richer.

http://www.maxroser.com/economic-world-history-in-one-chart/

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPOVRES/Resources/47722...

Article means inequality within certain arbitrary borders.
No shame there, I'm sure you speak English far better than I do whichever language is native to you. Now, if you decided to publish a phrase book based on your current knowledge, then we'd be having a bit of a laugh.
> People do have a right to privacy.

Which management obviously didn't care about since they ended up telling the interns about it (apparently as a shaming tool since they specifically mentioned service).

> The person with a medical issue may have asked that the nature of the issue not be disclosed to his/her co-workers.

Which they did not have to at any point, management could just have answered the initial question with "they have a medical exemption".
I want to combine one of these chips with a magic mirror.

If this works, then it is one of Google's greatest projects, the number of applications are huge.
Bit late to this party, but I've been using WikidPad(http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/) for years. It's OneNote for geeks.

Less capable of rich multi-media than OneNote, altough it handles basics like images perfectly.

LaTeX plugin for math.

Python-based, and easily hackable or extendable with plugins.
Oh, and, open source (https://github.com/WikidPad/WikidPad/).

File format is based on SQLite with plain text files, so perfectly compatible with version control, and you'll never lose access to your content.
Unrelated, but Yahoo may be desperate for page views if they're auto-refreshing several times while I'm trying to read the article.
I think this was a joke
If we are going to throw out blame, what about the generation that feel entitled to treat interns like dirts, just because they can? If a company has a rule which does not benefit the company and is only there to humiliate interns, what is the moral argument for it?
Ah, right, I didn't read this article (I read the one that was on the front page again earlier today).

I think the interns were excessive in making a petition just for changing the dress code, because that can be interpreted as a hostile move, and the company was excessive in firing them, because that's tyrannical and destroys morale.

Pretty much everyone involved here was being a dick.
Not any more.

1. The market value of money available to invest is its price.

2. The price of money is the interest rate.

3. Interest rates have been extremely low for a very long time.

Conclusion: the value of additional money available to invest is extremely low. That same money in the hands of the working poor will be thrown right back into the economy.
Requiring people to adhere to a negotiation strategy that essentially means begging for goodwill doesn't sound reasonable to me. The power disparity between an individual and a large company is huge; so if you really want to effect change, you're going to need to address that - for example by banding together.

I don't think it's healthy for any social group (not just companies) to be as inflexible as today's companies have grown. A bit of friction and disagreement is a low price to pay for adaptability.

And of course, this kind of inflexibility is symptomatic of entrenched power imbalance which leads to wealth inequality which causes its own host of societal problems. To be clear, I don't think correlation is causation here: the company isn't at fault for creating wealth inequality, but I do worry that we're busy ignoring warning signals that might bite us all in the a if we're not careful.
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The formalized collective action in the form petition was the problem. That's a bat-signal.

Given the current legal and regulatory environment, any good corporate counsel or HR person sees that as a step towards organization, and will stamp it out.
No, I'm not talking about integrating the probability that n >= 42.

What's the chance that a random number in [n] is 42? It's 1/n, if n is at least 42. Sum that over all x in [n] and you get 1, i.e. the probability that there is a number in [n] that is 42.
As said in the comments above they where fired because they did naïvely what unions are doing : mutualizing workers' claims to heir hierarchy and make a front.

The article take the thesis of the "youth are worse than before" like Socrates was saying (so old story)

The real part of the story is due to experience, the older you are the more likely you are to be a manager or a boss.

Hence elder generations will always blame new generations for not knowing their place in this system.

And younger person will fall for the trick like their elder, because that what bullying is for: engraving a behavior as a collective norm.
I'm making an argument by contradiction.

Premise 1: X causes social tension is a reason for us to oppose X.

Fact: Racial diversity causes social tension.

Premise 2: The person I'm arguing against doesn't believe racial diversity should be opposed.

Conclusion: Maybe Premise 1 is wrong. But then using premise 1 as an argument against inequality is also wrong.
Wealth inequality is just income inequality over a long run. Because of the high savings rate, the top percentiles accumulate wealth at a quicker pace than the lower percentiles.
I've read the article twice now and am still not sure I can see any reference to the fact that witnesses on the scene have reported that a portable DVD player was showing Harry Potter immediately after the accident.

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/01/tesla-dri...

Every other article I read on Tesla's "self driving" feature is that this is an assistant to driving and not a replacement for driving.

How many auto fatalities happened worldwide yesterday in cars that were NOT a Tesla?

How many in the past week, month?

There is something that makes Tesla accidents news while other automakers go unnoticed for the same.
Spoiler: Asian males, who have higher IQs and commit less crime than white males, earn more than white males.

As no white male on HN has ever worked with an Asian male, this will of course be a total shock to all readers.
"I don't understand how sending queries/proposals up the chain is unprofessional behavior. Ignoring the dress code and coming in not following it would be unprofessional behavior."

I also think that the companies reaction may have been a bit extreme. That said, I can sort of understand their thinking.

1) the interns are thinking about their dress more than their assignments. Which shows questionable prioritization.

2) they think their ideas of what is acceptable or unacceptable should even be considered. Which shows a lack of understanding of their place in the pecking order (lowest of the low).

3) related to #1, THIS is one of the first they bring to the attention of management? really? Which shows an inability understand that first you have to build respect and trust before even asking for these sort of changes.

4) the fact that they organized to ask together smacks of making demands (even if not literally stated as such). This was not simply a query/proposal up the chain. At least it doesn't seem so to me.