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> No. That's a bizarre concept concocted by angry people on the Internet who have overdosed on Tumblr, attempted to derive a first-principles explanation for why people appear to believe strongly in the importance of otherkin rights, and arrived along the way at the notion that "privilege" means white people have done something intrinsically wrong just by being white.

You are making many assumptions on my beliefs, which are not true (Strawman!)

> Privilege as used in the real world (leaving out, perhaps, postmodern literature) is a simple, common-sense observation. Having privilege isn't wrong or evil; it's unavoidable.

Yet it's never used in the context of being grateful for the things one has going for them, but always used to discuss what others have received. "Privilege" is always tinged with negative connotations. It's always something that requires you to give away something else (going at the back of the BLM demonstration, for example, or "shutting up" and letting "less privileged" people speak). It's used to shame or guilt people into things. You could probably show scientifically in a lab setting that reminding men of their "privilege" would quickly lower their testosterone levels, make them more passive and submissive, and more self-effacing. This is a case of "raising waves where there is no wind". You're pretending that you're just making people "more aware" of themselves and the world, when it goes much beyond that, psychologically. Unfortunately, most people don't understand the psychology behind "privilege", and just focus on the fact that "privilege" superficially sounds "rational".

> where people experience benefits clearly attributable to some privilege

"Clear" is wrong. The world isn't black and white.

> and then claim that people who don't receive those benefits don't deserve them, when really they just lack the privilege.

"Privilege" is the mirror narrative of the "you only have what you deserve" crowd. It's another side to the same coin. Empathic listening is the solution to both. To the latter, I say: "not everything went their way, they're doing their best, always be generous to those in need" and to the former, I say: "don't assume that someone who has more than you didn't work to deserve it". That would be a psychologically-correct position.

> Knowingly and deliberately protecting some privilege, overtly denying benefits and recognition to those without it so that you can remain a member of an elite

You don't need this whole "privilege" narrative for that, only empathic listening to both sides (the one who feels wronged and the one who's accused) and reaching a conclusion yourself. Wanting to fit everything into a simpler ideology of "privilege" is dogmatic.

It's really mind-boggling how deeply the "privilege" narrative has been anchored in the minds of people who see themselves as rational, which is very insidious. A proper understanding of psychology can simply neutralize this "privilege" narrative, which is not based in empathy, or in a correct understanding of people, but in browbeating.
You are also missing the point.

If something exist "out there" as a separate concept then it can only do so because it exist as a discreet entity.

Yet QM shows us that the world isn't fundamentally discreet but rather non-local.

We can observe because there is a discreet universe to observe within, but that does not make the observable universe the foundation of reality.

And so if you want to claim that something exist out there without there being a designer or without our perspective of reality being what turn it into existence then you need to explain how it relates to the entire universe not just the classical one.
I haven't researched the rationales behind taxi protectionism laws, so I can only offer conjecture. Two two reasons I can imagine we have such laws are traffic congestion control and accident liability.

On the surface congestion control seems far easier to implement (especially in a pre-mobile phone context) via restriction of medallions. I don't have arguments one way or the other as to the necessity of congestion control because I've only rarely experienced large cities (NYC, Chicago, London). I believe they are popular for various reasons, but I am not familiar with the arguments for or against.

Determination of liability seems like another obvious reason for a medallion monopoly. Presumably taxis are a higher risk pool for insurance claims, due to the presence of multiple parties. It's unclear to me where the liability falls if an Uber driver is in an accident that mortally wounds a passenger; will their standard insurance (that presumes a certain risk profile) cover the claim? I'm simply not familiar enough to definitely comment, unfortunately.

The latter argument holds more weight with me, but I'm sympathetic to arguments against it.
We are a small information security consulting boutique. We are interviewing and hiring more than one person. For a small team making good hires is a big deal (most teams are small, even if the organization is large).

I don't know how else to do it, especially when it is really rare for someone to have the skills we need out of the gate. That means testing (we have a testing process) and time talking with candidates. On the other side, streamlining things, we have made hiring missteps in the past, which had measurable and high cost to the business. For us at least, it isn't hot air. Hiring is a hard problem. We spent a lot of time trying to optimize it to find an ideal way that costs less time.

Consider this: every hour a consultant is interviewing they arent doing research or billable work. So we believe strongly enough in how we do things to put our money where our practices are. Maybe the economics for the Googles of the world are different, but for us it is a real decision to be made.
Women who don't date men without a job are like men won't date a woman with a career. There's plenty of sexism on both sides.
>Like, how do you separate the effect of having Japanese as your primary language from the effect of growing up in a Japanese culture (whether actually in Japan or not)?

I guess by using people from bilingual societies, who speak one or the other language within the same culture.
The thing is I can see tremendous value in both Forth and Lisp in terms of the semantics, but in some cases we just have to accept that people favour different styles and cross-fertilise the ideas rather than try to make people use the same languages.

One of my old pet peeves that I wish I had time to pursue was to experiment with a language that tried to separate presentation from the semantic model - I know there has been other attempts. I wish that got more attention. It's a tremendously hard thing to get right without ending up hampering communication more than you enable it, but the need for high fidelity interchange of programs is one of the biggest barriers to more rapidly iterating on improvements to the presentation of code.
Banks can do it, they have your phone number to message you.
You could totally do that with IPFS today, but I think the problem is that social commentary occurs in a centralized location. If you play Rust, the analogy would be being able to talk to someone while within a given zone.
While that's how it's supposed to work in theory; do you really still buy into that bullshit? You can't see how that's just another excuse to let the rich keep raping the world at their convenience? Ever been to Lisbon? I swear half the city is vacant by now, all the old beautiful buildings; and poor people have less money than ever.
I should read more about k/r-selection
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You are moving someone else's goalposts

I answered where circles are in our universe and you then try to change the original intent of omalleyt's question to mean a symbolic representation of pi

> It would take an infinite amount of power to calculate every digit in pi

Calculating pi is so simple life without nervous systems does it

Now, expressing that value in our limited yet overly verbose base ten symbolic representation would indeed require infinite recursion
IMO the "March for Science" movement and these kinds of "People who don't vote the same as me do so because they're not as smart as me" kinds of things are starting to really annoy me.

Science is a tool/process. Not an agenda. Everyone in their own heads will choose whether or not to believe something regardless of how much SCIENCE they shout. The same people who yell SCIENCE on the internet could be the same people who turn around and claim that weight and calories are independent of each other, no matter how much that doesn't make sense.
In the comments it was mentioned that she was arrested for involvement in a Haitian cocaine distribution ring out of Miami 7 years ago (as per an FBI press release)
So much this. Talent management is more than hiring.
That is as valid as creationism. Please abstain from such worthless platitudinous statements.
How is it different to https://github.com/FlingOS/FlingOS/ ?

Not trying to be difficult, I'm just wanting to learn more about your project.
The explanation is that the government massages unemployment figures to make the economy look better than it is. The government has been doing this for decades, under Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives. Unemployment is one of the most widely watched and therefor political numbers; anyone who is in power wants it to look as good as possible.

One of the tactics to make the official unemployment rates look better is to classify some unemployed workers as "not looking for work." Voila! They don't show up in the official estimates and it is their fault!

Most economists are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other powerful institutions that have little interest in questioning the official numbers. Hence lengthy academic discussions to try to "explain" the seemingly odd behavior.
TSA agents are on par with retail store employees in terms of hiring standards. The Customs and Border Patrol agents are armed law enforcement officers and are held to far greater hiring standards.
> No reason to think [Monzo systems will be available in the future] now that there is overwhelming evidence of the opposite.

What would that be then? This outage is not Monzo's, but the processor's, affecting any card issuer that users it - a function Monzo has stated [0] it will do for itself without a third-party when it offers full current accounts later this year.

Calling this Monzo's failing is like complaining that Trello went down earlier in the week (due to the S3 outage). It's perhaps even less fair, since I imagine using multiple AWS regions is easier and more common practice than using multiple card payments processors. (Though I am just speculating on the latter point.)

[0] - https://monzo.com/blog/2017/03/05/outage/
It's because money has marginal utility[0]. The 0.001% spend tens of millions a year, each, on this kind of pointless status signaling, and think nothing of conveniences that could pay all expenses for, say, a dozen families of four, for a year (or a decade).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility
If the house is also an investment, they can make money by buying rather than renting it. This is part of the problem with so much speculation and housing being treated as an investment: you earn potentially greater returns by buying a house, so everyone starts doing it and th values keep going up.

As to why they don't rent it out when they aren't in town, I can think of a few reasons: they don't want the risk of items in the house being damaged, they don't want "other people" in their house, they like visiting on short notice (even if it's only a few times a year) which isn't compatible with renting.
A, yes. In that case you could expose all the functions you want in advance, in some map that's accessible by (string) name.
What a goofy headline; why emphasize auctioneers like that? "Pink Floyd recording console at auction" would be better.
> Does this person also expect businesses to disclose their profit margins before he's comfortable doing business with them?

Is that really such an unreasonable demand?
It's also worth pointing out that there is no "feminism", any more than there is one "american". There are as many meanings and iterative ideas that get labeled as feminism(by originators, and relative strangers) as there are different people in this country.
I disagree. I don't think its harder to meet like minded people. Meetup and Facebook solved that issue,

I think the issue is that it's SO EASY to find people that there is very little incentive to actually care about a specific group more than any other. Its like criticisms of modern dating. The ocean is so large and easy to navigate that there is no incentive to get anything to actually work. Just moving on is easier.
Particularly women evaluating men. In general, women see the ability to protect and provide as desireable qualities in a mate.
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I think that there is more to this story that just "low education low skill men not working". I personally think that this has more to do with the poor state of psychological health at this socio-economic status.

Specifically, the people I know who fall into this category have one or more problems:

1. One (big) problem is that they often have an enabler -- that is, someone who is supporting these folks not working in some way. The fact that they don't do more chores or childcare supports this hypothesis. As the video said, sometimes it's the wife, sometimes it's the government via disability, sometimes it's family.

2. Another problem is issues with authority -- some of these folks are difficult or impossible to manage. Of course, sometimes it's because the company/manager is dysfunctional. Other times, the "issue" is that an employer sets healthy boundaries, and someone who does not have healthy boundaries will struggle to work within such an environment.

3. A third problem is simply drug use. There are a not small number of jobs that can be done by people with low education and low skills, but the employee must be drug-free or must be a "functional" drug user. There is definitely a chicken-egg question about drug use, but once drug use begins, getting and keeping a job becomes much more difficult.

In the video, they say education is one of the keys to help the situation, and I am not convinced that this is true with the current state of education in the US. The education that needs to be done is more social/psychological in nature, imho. Until this happens, these dysfunctional people will continue to be dysfunctional. I don't want to pretend like this type of education is easy, but I think that it's closer to the solution.
God, some of those quotes about how some early math teaching techniques hurt people's appreciation and understanding of the subject are depressing. I still remember the anxiety and even embarrassment caused by timed drills in elementary school that seemed to harshly pit student against student.

It took me until college to realize that I was just coasting through math courses and not really investing myself in the subject. Perhaps in an effort to avoid those long-ago memories? Everything started to click in college. Interestingly enough, it was my enjoyment of programming and study of philosophy that really helped to push me. That, and sitting in a calculus class and realizing that I had to either dive in or be royally screwed.

It's a shame that such stories are so common.
From my experience, there are plenty of stores on instacart that are same price as store and they are transparent about it. Why not shop there? This seems like a store which they mark up.
I can understand this, though. An Indian restaurant close to me does not accept orders in Seamless during lunch rush hour (noon - 1pm).

For a restaurant with limited bandwidth that offers pickup and delivery as an additional method, it makes sense for them to honor only earlier / in time pickup orders.
Do you have a job? It sounds in your post like you don't.

You should really reflect on your attitude, because invoking ideas like "class struggle" when you're dating a single mom who's parents are helping her is not a healthy way to think.

If you are dating this woman and love her the only thing you should be brainstorming is how YOU could be making more money. Not some crazy armchair economist explanation for why her situation is bad.

This is one of the reasons that those two fellows did not discuss for the current problem we face: American men are declining in quality.

Get out there and do something about it.
> knocking them so far out of balance that it ceases to be a meaningful experiment

Things in physics can sometimes be knocked so far out of balance during an experiment it boggles the mind, while still rendering perfectly sensible observations.

E.g., I once heard the LHC described as "trying to determine how a grand piano works by throwing lots of them one after one down a very long set of well-defined stairs equipped with lots of very sensitive microphones and force sensors".

In other cases, nothing could be farther from the truth. Say you are measuring heat transfer coefficients in high-Re laminar flow through a tube. A single 100-micron step imperfection in the tube wall will render your results pretty much useless.

The distinguishing feature of physics is perhaps that one can know to a very high degree of precision before constructing the experiment which parameters/uncertainties it is very sensitive to.
I'm past dating age (and anyway I have a relationship that has survived 20 years), but when I was younger, I never considered what the woman would bring to the relationship financially. I'm very traditional, though, so perhaps this attitude is no longer as common as it was when I was younger.
That documentary is hogwash, a marketing stunt, feeding off nostalgia and romanticism. There's a reason they never use actual data and measurements to prove their points.

If you really want to try those famous consoles, i'd recommend Sound Toys' "decapitator" plugin.
Remarkable, it reminds me noteslate
My first computer was ZX Spectrum (a successor of ZX81). By coincidence, a few days ago, I've finished reading the book "It's behind you" about development of R-Type, a top-notch arcade which pushed ZX Spectrum to its limits.

Here is a link to official free copy of this book:

http://bizzley.imbahost.com/

About game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-Type

Gameplay of R-Type on ZX Spectrum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6lvAXSGBpI&t=90s

I'm still playing ZX Spectrum games once in a while in the urge of nostalgia.
$160 for $80 worth of groceries is insane. $160 for $80 worth of groceries that you claim is worth $130 is fraud.
in order to believe this is possible, you have to believe in some group that has decided---a priori---to arrogate to themselves to decide what is a "meaningful contribution to something that is essential or impossible to automate" and furthermore you have decided that the situation is hopeless and that this group is ABSOLUTELY DETERMINED to discard AT LEAST SOME PEOPLE as INCAPABLE of MEANINGFUL CONTRIBUTION.

In reality, all you have is a bunch of people who periodically go around looking for troublemakers and deciding on which justifications to use to push them around. I don't like you, so I'm going to arrange things so that if anyone gets the notion that you are making a meaningful contribution, I will hurt them. That way no one will say that the troublemakers are making a meaningful contribution.
Because they couldn't say then while socializing ".. in MY home in France..", some use it for investment (but only few). If everyone around you have something and talks about something like it's some kind of achievement and just having that thing gives them higher social status then you want that also.
But then we can just have Monzo's own infrastructure fail or so. In saying this, I'm a happy Monzo user for almost a year and use it regularly, but it really dawned on me today that new technology brings new ways for things to fail, and when it's to do with my bank, it worries me a bit.
In my marriage, I bring home the bacon with a small SaaS and the wife is in graduate school. We split the raising of our child 50-50.

I like it just fine.

She doesn't.

She's admittedly jealous of how much time I spend with my son, she resents having to continue on her career path and not being able to be a stay-t-home mom. She doesn't understand why I would rather raise my son than work a real programming job.

We are getting divorced.
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> So this markup may be based on discounted cost instacart pays, not necessarily what YOU would pay at the store.

Doesn't that just make things even worse?
I'm dating a gorgeous inspired woman. She doesn't have a Facebook account or an Instagram. I don't have a full time job. We have been living with my parents to save money during the winter, and bike touring / camping during the summer.
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