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The ACLU is not the organization it once was.

There was a time that the ACLU would defend the right of Nazi's to march down a Jewish neighboorhood. Not because they thought that particular lawsuit would help anyone other than the Nazi's; but because they recognized the importance of establishing a legal precedent so it would be there when the "good guys" were under attack[0]. Under this old philosophy, even if the aim of the lawsuit were specifically to help whites, it should still be supported.

By supporting Harvard in this case, you are weakening the legal precedent against racism, and strengthening the legal precedent for it.

Once this precedent is established, it can be used to argue for racism against Jews (it already bears an eerie resemblance to earlier anti-semetic attempts), or gays, or liberals, or redheads.

Sure, this one case won't overturn all our legal protections overnight. But those legal protections did not spring into existence overnight. They grew up through a long sequence of court cases [1] that gradually established our rights. Those cases can be overturned in the same way, and this case is 1 step on that ladder.

[0] The ACLU also recognized the practical importance of sympathetic cases, and so would often make a strategic choice to pursue the most favorable ones, but that is a separate discussion.

[1] And legislation, and shifts in public opinion. But we are talking about a court case, so I am focusing on that aspect of the history.
"readily available to us" I like it.
I honestly believe the market is still there, as is so often the case the lack of choice is nothing to do with market or sales.

The SE was far from a failure.

So I can only conclude that the makers would prefer everyone on larger phones for some reason.
It seems like perhaps you shouldn’t make blanket assumptions about the commenters and submitters here either then, because you were pretty harsh in your own comment.
If this story is as real as Bloomberg wants us to think, there are too many tampered motherboards in circulation for them to have all been vacuumed up by someone with a clearance.

A random technician in a datacenter is under no obligation not to leak one unless he holds (or held) a clearance and has agreed to the terms of it.

Example - back when internet worms like SQL slammer were a thing, classification was a huge point of contention among gov security. At least in some agencies, because they were due to a vulnerability in a gov system, the IT/security staff were unable to discuss it with outside, uncleared people, because the vulnerability aspect made it classified. At the same time, knowledge of said worms and backdoors was public all over the news, and no reporters ever went to jail for discussing it.

This isn't so different - it only takes one person without a clearance to dig up one of these chips and publish pictures, and they can do so legally. The fact that it hasn't happened tells me this isn't a widespread problem.
I don’t know about that but my parents always said: Money doesn’t bring happiness, but being unhappy in a Porsche sure as hell beats having your old clunker break down on the way to pick up your kids from kindergarten.

Money solves problems. Fewer priblems makes you happier.
Worse than no justice is only selective justice: one set of rules for us vs. another set of rules for them
My claim is exactly about what contributes a distributed namespace - i claim it is a namespace that spans multiple hosts and requires (distributed) consensus algorithms so that nodes that provide the metadata service (operations like rename) can execute operations only in metadata. Volumes are not just for isolation. They also partition the distributed namespace, and make it easier to scale - but at a cost. Operations that cross volumes do not solve the consensus problem, so they do not execute operations like move atomically. Whether that is a copy, then delete or something else is not the issue. They still do not provide a single distributed shared namespace abstraction with atomic operations.
I don't understand why China would do such a thing, when they have a pretty effective dragnet on US cell towers and routing equipment (alleged to me by a security expert). Hardware seems like such a fragile and expensive hack. That said, even if the story is a complete fiction it does help shine light the surveillance state that has emerged in China, and its global ambitions.
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You can get a hell of a lot of smarts into robot-sized packages these days. Any smartphone has thousands of times the CPU power and I/O capabilities of an Arduino.

Why are students still doing line following bots and stupid R/C battles? Why isn't there a rapidly accreting standard library of robotics with robust image recognition, speech recognition, navigation features, and so on? Seems to me that your average FIRST design by this time should be downright impressive.
This. Apple is a large enough, and competent enough, organization to investigate this internally.

Some will say "but the people involved have a gag order, and nobody investigating, including tim cook or legal knows". This doesn't make any sense.

People without a clearance are not obligated to keep it a secret, and can investigate for themselves. So either everyone competent to investigate this has a clearance and/or is gagged (i.e., many thousands of people) and if that were the case it'd almost certainly make to Tim Cook's radar.

Or not that many people are gagged, and Apple has thousands of engineers that could be looking into this, and they found nothing. I find that much more plausible.
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That seems minuscule.

The Yale endowment is a hair away from $30 billion dollars.

Their budget is $4 billion per year.

I don't feel good about tax benefits for organizations that big.
Not had much problem with sites on my SE, or felt the experience lacked compared to the larger Android phones I've owned. The few times something's been off I've not been able to compare against a larger or Android phone so it doesn't really count for much. :)

For me the difference is the SE simply fits the hand better. My other half would be even more vocal on that point.

So if the choice becomes 5.5" and larger or nothing, we'll probably be ex-smartphone owners. Speaking for myself I'd go feature phone before I'd "go large" again.
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Their plan to use/modify Android and essentially a smartphone platform is a bit bizarre and certainly won't help with the cost, because they're aiming for a feature phone; there are existing platforms for those and I'm sure adapting one with an EPD and changing the UI slightly to match is going to be a far cheaper route.

China will probably come out with similar clones before long... maybe even before the original:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18210950
It's a big change because Apple may keep you on the waitlist for weeks, which already happened to you?

Why is a time traveler speculating on the future?
I'll be really honest. I haven't done it ever and I regret it. I AM planning what I call a monk year now. I also interview people that have done it so I've been on the other side.

Conclusion: It's really all about a plan first, discipline about the plan's boundaries and self-confidence when you present your achievements after. Else you may be viewed as a lazy hedonist.

E.g., My PLAN is to take year to train for an Ironman. That's about 4h a day on average. I'd also eat well, stretch and keep up with the ancillaries of such hard training to prevent injuries. Then I'd be studying 4 online courses à day in whatever I want. My goal would be to finish a few nanodegrees and a few specializations on Coursera. Courses would be about 5h per day. Every day, non-stop. At the end, I would have done one Ironman AND add a whole lot of skill to my arsenal. It's not cheap - calculated it to be about $40K so far with a mortgage and rent to pay but I'm working on creative ways to lessen this. Last but not least, I have three non-profit projects I want to do. One huge dream, one medium, one small. If I went to an interview à year after this starts having been disciplined enough to accomplish even 75% the above, I'm pretty sure not even the hardest interviewer would be skeptical.

Basically, I view the monk year as the year where I still grind. But I grind to add value to yours truly NOT the corporation.
I thought the iPhone 5 was the last decently sized phone made. I recently held an older iPhone model and it was actually smaller and even better. I understand that most people, like my wife, use their phone for everything and a bigger screen makes sense. But I spend my day in front of a computer and my phone is for calls, texting, and photos. Throw in directions/maps, and I would gladly live without almost everything else.
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At all, or "roll your own"?

I'm not going to roll my own. I'm using it for basic security and obfuscation; I'm not a high-risk target. Therefore, a recommendation for a service is still required.
If you attract 4.5 million tourists a year and charge admission your "nonprofit" label is a bit of a joke.

I don't buy the argument about bringing in other tax revenue by association. "Everybody else" shouldn't be subsidizing infrastructure for the most attractive place in town just because it's the most attractive place... those people are probably working harder and taking more risks, they shouldn't have to foot the bill for the group profiting the most. (see also, sports stadiums)
Those don't have an eink display (yet), so battery life and sunlight readability won't be as good.

(Battery life might not be all that much better since the display of a feature phone is going to be used far less than a smartphone, but the readability certainly can be.)
There are certain things I just can't do after a while. Like writing. I can't mentally bring up the energy to write after 4-5 hours.

But as soon as I switch to another task, such as coding, my mind lights up again.

Task switching should be incorporated into your routine if you find yourself getting bored by your work.
I'm met with a racist depiction of a black man when I click on that link. Is something wrong?
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Do any of those numbers refute my point?

Instead of saying "take a look at what's already been linked" either link something that refutes my point or make a clear argument that does so.

The statement was:
> To play devil's advocate, looking at 5-year survival rates by country, you'd be 15-20% more likely to survive in the US after you contract cancer than in the Netherlands. YMMV.

I asked "Did you factor wealth into that?" and then backed it up with a hypothetical that shows how it could matter. I see no comments regarding whether the numbers given factor wealth in or if anyone can clearly show it doesn't matter. You want to challenge my claim that quality of healthcare is correlated with ability to pay, fine, but "look it up" isn't an argument.
The Nokia Classic phones are probably the closest released phone that fits this criteria so far.

I recently got a Nokia 105 (2017) for my parents as the bespoke charger on their old phone broke, and it was cheaper to get a new phone. I played with it a bit, and as far as a phone goes it's top notch for making calls, but the lack of even basic apps like maps or messaging (other than SMS) make it pretty limited.

The phone has a grand total of 4MB of RAM in contrast with the latest smart phones which have up to 6GB. Android is too bloated as an OS for feature phones, but I'd love to see a new platform come out designed for limited RAM (maybe a few hundred megabytes) which it's easy to develop apps for, yet still produces devices that last for a week or two on a single charge. In developing countries these phones are still pretty popular, and from the comments people are posting here would go down pretty well with the HN croud.
That's like being surprised to see the pope in Rome.
"direct consequence of the tortured logic needed to reconcile the institution of slavery with the principles on which the Constitution was based"

You cannot pick and choose which principles you like. The Constitutional principles include the support of slavery. The Constitutional principles do not include universal suffrage. The Constitutional principles said nothing against expanding westward and stealing Native American lands. The Constitutional principles didn't prevent us from ruling the Philippines as a colonial power, or using government power to suppress labor rights.

To the contrary, I believe federal power was strengthened in part to be able to suppress the rights of the poor. The rebels of Shay's Rebellion fought against monetary policies and court practices which caused their lands and possessions to be confiscated. The elites and merchant class wanted to be able to call out federal troops should their own power be threatened.

What does "natural law" say about the right to confiscate land and possessions for failure to pay debts? For failure to pay taxes? What if those debts and taxes must be paid in hard currency, and that currency isn't available, and the government refuses to issue paper currency and allow it to be used as a substitute?
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This PPCA is really clever... allowing MLE for missing data/variance in a PCA in genius.
I'm confused. Why aren't Salesforce shareholders making that company oppose Prop C?
"It would have saved me and them the trouble if Reuters actually provided the sources."

If we want them to do this, we need to start telling them. To anyone interested in seeing Reuters start including links to sources, a good first step is to email:

brian.moss@thomsonreuters.com

He handles enquiries about reporting standards.

EDIT: removed first paragraph, which I pasted in error from a chat message.
> the literal Sanskrit meaning of Dravida which refers to Southern India.

No, it doesn't refer to any geographical location. I urge you to go check your Sanskrit dictionary. http://sanskritdictionary.com/?q=dr%C4%81vi%E1%B8%8Da
Is this really the case?

The two archetypal Western ancient fictions, the Iliad and Odyssey, display emotion front and center: Agammenon's greed and jealousy, the love between Achilles and Patrocles (and the former's rage at the latter's death), and Priam's mourning all come to mind. Similarly for the Odyssey, a story about nostalgia in the most literal sense: the pain of Odysseus's estrangement from his family, entangled with the pain of returning as a stranger. Homer even refers to him epithetically as "many-pained" and of "many-sorrows."

That's a small sample size, but the same can be seen in Roman love poetry: Horace does not hide the emotions of his subjects[1].

[1]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Odes_(Horace)/Boo...
> If you attract 4.5 million tourists a year and charge admission your "nonprofit" label is a bit of a joke.

If you don't charge for admissions then there is no way to moderate how many people visit the site, and you start to create a lot of problems just to deal with the massive influx of people.

> I don't buy the argument about bringing in other tax revenue by association. "Everybody else" shouldn't be subsidizing infrastructure for the most attractive place in town just because it's the most attractive place...

If you ever visit the Sagrada Familia you'll notice that the blocks surrounding the cathedral are packed with businesses living off the cathedral's popularity.

Even FC Barcelona and Nike have official stores right next to the front entrance.

It is rather obvious that the cathedral is a huge profit source for the city and a lot of companies, not counting the typical tourism and HORECA businesses. Insinuating that the Sagrada Familia is leechng off the poor government's goodwill is simply wrong and the exact opposite of the truth.
I like how Finns do it. I personally am pretty fine with being silent for a while, even in a company of others. I always have things to think about. But I feel in many places the social expectation is that you have to talk about... something. No matter what, but silence is awkward. That is exhausting sometimes.
I knew it! But seriously I’ve heard about this “ trend” for years but anecdotally most people I know don’t consume random videos on social networks.

Vids from friends?

That seems to be a different story.
Sorry to put you on the spot. Perhaps your CTO can chime in when he gets back.

Serializable tends to sound really good to database people, because it's the "highest" isolation level available in most databases. However, those databases are built for a single machine, and they really offer "strict serializable" without calling it that, because they maintain a single log which serializes all writes, and all reads operate as of the latest time. With the advent of distributed databases, the "strict" part is becoming more relevant, because it's no longer something you just get without realizing it.

I gave an example of the "blog post" anomaly that occurs in a system that only guarantees serializability. As another example, imagine I am using FaunaDB to store bank account balances. As the developer, I design a system where any time a customer receives money to their account, I send them a text giving the amount and their new balance, along with a link to the website where they can get more details. Except, when they click the link and go to the website, they don't see any change to their balance. Furthermore, when they refresh the page, sometimes they do see their new balance, and then they refresh again, and it disappears!

More investigation reveals that FaunaDB is in a partitioned state, and was serving stale bank account balances from some replicas. The replicas were behind a load balancer, and sometimes the web client hit one replica, and sometimes another, which explains the alternating balances. Is it possible to solve this problem using clever application logic, causal tokens, or saying "don't do that"? Sure. But a consistent database is supposed to prevent this scenario, not the application. Also, note that the "this is no different than increased client-server latency" argument does not hold here. People expect that if they finish action A (like writing to the DB), then do action B (like clicking a web link that reads the DB), that B will always see the results of A. The stale bank account balance isn't a delayed value; it's a wrong value.

You're correct that most systems allow some variant of "secondary" or "follower" reads that can return stale data, in exchange for better performance. I'm all for this kind of feature, as long as the developer understands the tradeoff they're making. Moreover, I think it's appropriate for FaunaDB to offer the same. But I'd advise against making unqualified claims of "complete guarantees of serializability and consistency" and the "latency profile of an eventually-consistent system like Apache Cassandra". FaunaDB is able to offer one or the other, but not both at once.
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From what I've read the allegation was that Harvard admissions was giving lower personality ratings to applicants who weren't white[1].

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-asian-enrollme...
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All I want is an iPhone 3G with an all screen front. It would fit 4.2-4.5 inch screen with ease and it's the size of my wallet. iPhone X specs in the iPhone 3G body. Thicker is fine, just make the battery last a long time. Honestly, there must be people like me out there. I'll gladly pay $1k for a 4ish inch version of iPhone X.

Large phones are fine, to each their own. But some of us what small phones. And I have large hands, but I want to be able to comfortably use a phone with one hand.

Typed in iPhone SE.
I hate to say it but not really. The SE had the same hardware specs (except the screen of course) as the 6 Plus.
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Anyone that thinks 240hz is useful is a nutcase. Show me a double-blind test that proves it. People will go far defending their outrageous purchases however.
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What are the odds you mentioned this product on here like a year ago and they this sprung out of your own job own hunting? This feels familiar but I can't place why.
Put them to work and make them earn things. Understanding the calculus of how much picking rocks out of the garden or how many times you have to mow the lawn for a new doodad is a kind of tethering that persists for many years.
The agreement includes urbanistic planning around the temple.

One of the major issues is that to complete Gaudi's original design, there should be gardens and accesses that are now occupied by buildings. Since the Sagrada Familia is not officially being built (because it has no permit), the city cannot officially study (if it can / how to) free that space.

Now they will be able to make these studies, and will have a proper justification if they end up deciding to expropriate some buildings to make space for these gardens/accesses. That's the real reason why the Sagrada Familia managers agreed to the payment...

Edit: Also, the Sagrada Familia is already exempt from paying property (not construction!) taxes because (a) it is owned by the church (religious temples don't pay property taxes in Spain); and (b) it is a good of public interest (that also don't pay taxes, like the Gaudi's designed Casa Batlló for instance). That is, "the leftists" could go after a much larger pie, and we must assume they don't because they somewhat agree with your reasoning.
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I'd actually bet the SE is viewed as something of a failure within apple after the X was such a hit.
With more people willing to pay multiples of the price of a SE for one, SE screen size support for iOS apps must be an absolutely huge restraint on some developers.

I love my SE though. Battery is so much better than I've been used to.
We need to first make sure we're all talking about the same problem. When people complain about the homeless of San Francisco it is not the people Doreen is taking about.

The people in question are severely mentally ill, addicts, likely both. They are the people that shoot heroin at the bus stop you are trying to wait at, they're the guy with no shoes, covered in his own waste screaming at passers-by. These are the people that are causing the frustration, not people who could make it if they could level up their skillset and get a better job.

We really need to agree on the issue at hand because so often I see people talk straight past each other. The man covered in his waste needs help, desperately, he will not be someone who with a little help starts paying rent and holding down a job. He needs the community to pay for housing, medical treatment, and psychiatric care for a long time, likely forever to some degree. But we can't keep talking about different problems.
True! Never thought about that. Indeed conflicting.
Presumably it's because the article was just republished.