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Ya, it is partially reality you're right. I just think it ought to be more explicit.
If the V-2 had been used to attack staging areas for the D-Day invasion, etc., it might have been effective. But randomly blowing up a building here and there accomplished nothing for the war effort.

The Allies' bombing attacks on German homes had similarly useless effects. See "Fire and Fury" by Hansen.

For a fascinating book on the development of the V-2, see "V-2" by Dornberger.
All the top schools are publicly funded because all the top schools were nationalized. And the rich have always been free to go to England, America, or elsewhere.

Many of the premiere U.S. schools are also public, and in general I think it's implied that pay-to-play college admission proposals would be limited to private institutions.

One reason the American university system is usually ranked so highly is because it's such a global destination for the world's rich. Not only does their tuition fund much of the system, but the demand drives the elite status, which in turn helps to attract real talent. And even smart people know that, all else being equal, it's better to sit in a classroom with the rich and elite. I don't think it's a coincidence that Stanford is a private university. Of the startups I've personally been involved with, directly or indirectly, I can't think of one that didn't successfully cash out where one of the founders didn't also have "connections", such as a rich uncle who made introductions.

The fact that the rich and elite drive eduction in the U.S. creates problems of its own, but there's no getting around the inherent funding dilemmas. Especially in a culture like in the U.S. where t-a-x is a four-letter word (i.e. unspeakable), it's better to view these proposals as alternative taxation schemes.
The taxes extract surplus value now appropriated by landlords. Rents are unchanged. Land supply is inelastic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
I actually appreciate the downvotes as it means there are 4 viewpoints and not just 2..
This guy literally said the hiring bar was lowered for women. It says that in his doc. And it's false. After everyone was upset about this, he never apologized or walked back that part of the doc at all.
> It was easy to pirate, twist and damage. And there was a unique, unspeakable dread when you dropped a deck of punch cards—and watched them scatter across the floor completely out of order.

Two solutions to that.

Better than nothing: Was to draw diagonal lines across the top of the deck of cards with a sharpie.

Better: Later cards were given a sequence number and there were machines to check the sequence and also sort.

My dad said some of the old computer programmers would 'program' by collating pre punched card sequences.
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About time! Mensa is for people who know how to memorize information and take tests. Basically, Mensa is for human robots.
> If the system is dependent on charity to support it... it isn't supported

This could apply to literally everything in the world, forever.

Unless 1,000 trillion dollars per year is being spent on education, then that educational system would benefit from more charity.

More charity is basically always good.

Nobody at all loses from this. More money gets spent on the university, and this money more than pays for the cost of the student. This allows even more students to benefit from this.

Why should we sacrifice the education of 10 kids, just to stop 1 rich kid from going to a top college?
I agree 100%. CS programs are packed now because they pay is so high vs other majors. The problem is that there are only so many positions the economy can accommodate and many of the students going through the system now will never get a job in the field.

The outstanding graduates from the prestigious programs will always get a great job but everyone else will have to fight for the jobs that are left.

Look at India. The schools are turning out a bunch of CS/Engineers but the economy can not accommodate the number that are graduating so many of them are getting jobs they could have gotten without all the education. The same thing is happening here.

The real winners will be the ones that use CS as a stepping stone to creating a business, therefore, creating your own need for the degree.

If I had to get a degree now I would pick a combination CS and business degree with a minor in a field that's in the humanities and start to figure out how I'm going to put it to use.

A CS degree alone will lead to a job that does not need it and could have been gotten with any college degree. It's really supply and demand in effect.
As much as we joke about this, a google doodle is such a great sticky "come back and see what's new tomorrow, and while you are here, maybe search which will make us money" tactic.
It wasn't retaliation, a good number of Googlers didn't want to be working with someone who believes women and minorities were just dumb diversity hires.
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If we apply to any of these, is there a way to mention that we saw the posting on HN?
As a Tesla driver, I look out the windows when operating my motor vehicle. If my car crashes on AutoPilot or otherwise, it’s my fault.

When Tesla tells me I can stop looking while the car drives, instead of how they currently do it where it constantly reminds me to be alert, then I might change my position.

Until then it is abundantly clear to every single Tesla driver, who exactly is responsible for controlling the vehicle. The car reminds the driver of this when activating AutoPilot and persistently while under way.

The name of the feature could be MagicCarpet, AutoDrive, AutoCruise, SmartPilot, Pilot, Jeeves, I don’t care what. The car says in big bold letters every time you activate the feature to be alert and ready to take over.

I also expect the performance of the Beta AutoPilot software to change with each update. Navigate on Autopilot didn’t exist when I first got my Tesla. Blind Spot warning functionality either. Adaptive cruise and merging behavior have both significantly improved.

Last week a car in the lane to the left of me put on its blinker and I could have sworn my Tesla slowed down to let them in. I did not notice the car make any rightward motion to enter my lane before my car slowed slightly. It was not a jerky deceleration but just a smooth increase in the distance just enough to maintain the follow distance with the new car in place. The car changed lanes in front of me and we kept driving along. I’ve never seen that before, and I wasn’t aware Tesla could do that based on optical recognition of the blinker alone, but I’m pretty sure that’s what happened. It could be the Tesla saw the car moving to enter the lane before I did, but it had certainly not crossed the dashed line before the deceleration.

Drivers flirt with danger when they allow themselves to drive distracted and stop paying full attention to the road, with or without an AutoPilot capability.

Two days ago I was driving without AutoPilot and was on a phone call on speakerphone (Bluetooth through the car speakers). It was a fairly contentious call and even though I was hands-free and looking ahead it was definitely the first thing on my mind. I was approaching a left-lane must exit, in the middle of a 3 lane highway when at the last minute a car in the left lane swerved to avoid the exit in front of me.

I probably had enough time to slow down without causing an issue behind me, but I hadn’t checked my rear-view in some time due to being distracted by the call. So instead I jerked to the right and moved partially into the right lane. A car in the right lane ~3 car lengths behind me then had to hit their brakes hard enough for their tires to squeal.

After reviewing the dashcam video (Tesla records if you plug in a drive) I was unhappy with my choice there. I should have slowed quickly and stayed in lane. If I wasn’t on that call I would have made a better choice.

But worth mentioning, if AutoPilot was engaged, it would have made the better choice in that situation as well (since AutoPilot will never swerve to avoid an obstacle in fact).
The "screed" [sic] became public through no fault of Damore's. Why focus on him then, if not as (late) retaliation?
It's a good investment because it reduces your lifetime housing cost to zero. You can achieve that in other ways or basically just not care about it. There was a women in NYC who paid $25 a month since 1950... she got a deal. It wasn't zero and she didn't make money but she got a deal.
The fundamental issue with housing is that you cannot rent a home. You can rent a house. These are really very different.

Retiring in a (privately) rented property is so impractical in the UK that I would feel fairly comfortable in calling it impossible.

I would be extremely surprised to hear of more than a few token examples in London who have been privately renting the same property for the past 20 years, for example.

From the council, with secure tenure and at below-market rents? Sure.

Performing anything other than basic improvements to a rented property is also fairly pointless, so your options are to live in a cookie-cutter new build, a run down conversion, or if you're lucky an ex-family home.

I tend to think that this effect causes prices to skyrocket far beyond what they normally would do because there's such an enormous gulf between renting and ownership far beyond the basic financial calculations.
AFAIK a fair fraction of mid-and-large enterprises use the Intel Management Engine, which seems to be considerably more dangerous than this.

It is "an autonomous subsystem ((...)) incorporated in virtually all of Intel's processor chipsets since 2008. ((One)) can use it to turn the computer on and off, and they can login remotely into the computer regardless of whether or not an operating system is installed. ((It)) always runs as long as the motherboard is receiving power, even when the computer is turned off."

According to the EFF it "has full access to memory (without the parent CPU having any knowledge); has full access to the TCP/IP stack and can send and receive network packets independently of the operating system, thus bypassing its firewall".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
Where does it sound like they're saying Google retaliated?
Regardless of rankings, I'm definitely jealous of USC's alumni network. It's leagues above UCLA/Berkeley (rivaled probably only by Stanford).
Ok, and why do you want to take away my right to rent a house?

Why do you want to force me to buy a house? I don't want to do that. I want to rent one.
Elite schools are a great mechanism to entrench privelege. Paying to get your slacker kid a middling GPA at an elite school is a great way to connect them to a business network of other wealthy people, and fast track them for high paying jobs at the top of the corporate ladder. Also some poorer kids get a good education, while not quite being able to tap into those same connections.

In terms of research output, it's true that elite institutions are at the top... but not if you adjust for their revenue and assets. We'd get way more bang for our buck socially and scientifically by spreading those billion dollar endowments around, and properly funding state institutions like most other sensible countries.
I love posts like this, "I don't like your data, it is bad, and I have none"

All lists are lame, do you like Niche? UCLA is 29, USC is 20. UCLA has an acceptance rate of 16%, USC 17%. USC SAT range is 1300-1500, UCLA is 1220-1450

I was responding to the poster who said the schools weren't academically comparable. they obviously are shockingly similar. Don't know or care which is "better". But only a radical partisan would argue they aren't similar.
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Google Earth for the web doesn't work for any version of Chromium. It has only ever been supported on Google Chrome because it is a Native Client based Chrome App.

When development of the web version began the only options for running C/C++ code in the browser were Native Client and asm.js. asm.js was not performant enough for the task. Shortly after release of the web version Google announced it would be ported to the now available WebAssembly at which point it would gain cross browser support.

Last year Google demonstrated an in development WebAssembly version running on Chrome and Firefox. There has been no word on when the WebAssembly version will be released but Native Client Chrome App support is currently scheduled to be removed from Chrome on all platforms except ChromeOS in Q2 2019 which hopefully bodes well that a release will be soon. Of course the date for removal of support was originally scheduled for 2018 so further slippage is possible.
Palo Alto residents saw this problem and they have opted to limit business growth in their city.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/08/30/palo-alto-mayor...
> there really aren't that many good investment opportunities over the long term

What’s wrong with the market as a long (emphasis) term investment vehicle? ~7% average yearly returns for the past 150 years is pretty solid. Yea you have to insulate yourself from market fluctuations, but that’s also true of the housing market (see the collapse of the US housing market 10 years ago). Barring a complete collapse of the US economic system, in which case Americans will have other things to worry about, how is housing superior than some boring-old Vanguard market tracking ETFs/Mutual Funds? Better returns?
Well it never had a strict definition once it stopped just applying to the Italian fascist party. In the 30s or 40s it's usage by non-fascists morphed into a subjective umbrella term based on a loose collection of similarities with other groups.

eg for the Nazis, "Fascist" still meant the Italian party despite their own party having quite a large overlap in philosophy. Every political movement seems to care more about internal differences far more than outsiders do (see People's Front of Judea).

It was always hard to pin down and never really ever had a strict definition - just an incomplete collection of possible tendencies (see the Wikipedia article above).

But yeah, usage has always been loose/overused.
Why would he be worried about standing trial in Sweden? There's no way the accusations can be proven. Explain to me how the prosecution would work? If Sweden has a remotely sane legal system the case would be thrown out of court.
Apparently academic talent is not reliably enough to get into a UC anymore, due to the vagaries of yield management and going to a school full of high achievers making it difficult to stand out when you’d walk it if you went to a school with less gifted average students. This is obviously only a problem for a very small segment of the population but if getting an academic publication in high school is not enough to get into an elite college the system is broken.

> In my local public schools, the average SAT is 1470, higher than half of the Ivy League (this pretty much tells you where I live). A lot of that is due to selection of middle class Bay Area professionals, but much of it is due to focussed test prep. Local test prep (which is ridiculously intense) can add 200 points, if you commit to doing it. As a result, all those people who have near straight As can increase their score until their SATs (or ACTs) are near perfect. This leaves a huge pool.

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> Can you get into one of these schools by being academically brilliant? Essentially no. The professors have no power to help a student get accepted. There is just no way for them to intervene. People joke saying a first author paper in Nature would do the job, but as no teen has published a paper in Nature as first author in time for admissions (the paper needs to be accepted by November of your senior year, 6 months of review time would be fast, a high schooler is unlikely to get a straight accept, so most likely will need to revise and resubmit. Realistically, submitting your ground breaking research by the end of your sophmore year would be in time. This does not happen.) I know of cases where students have had published papers by admission time. Harvard, Yale and MIT have a way to upload published papers in the admission process, but in the case I am familiar with, the papers were not reviewed by professors. How do I know this? The student was in email contact with the relevant professors (in all three colleges), as about 80% of college professors will get back to high school students who send them papers, with marked up comments (professors are wonderful). They told the child the admission committee did not contact them, and said they would admit the child to graduate school, but had no power over undergraduate admissions. At least one child with one publication in Analytic Philosophy do not get admitted to these schools.

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/bdpv1f/comm...
If they behave exactly like the United States that would be scary. Between Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria the US attempts to flatten about 1-1.5 countries per decade in the Middle East.

If China used that strategy in South America, I'm not sure the US military would smile and quietly appreciate the parallels. They'd be angry.
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False. What's not affordable is having human beings not able to have access to shelter.
I wanted something like that, but in the browser.
You know they've lost hearts when memegen ain't lit
Google says the acceptance rate is 17%. Would love to see your source on 25% of non-Stanford alumni SV people being from USC. Anecdotally, I’ve met one.
Not if you take property off the market when it goes down.

>"The property developer behind the conversion of central London’s Centre Point office skyscraper into multimillion-pound luxury apartments has given up trying to sell the flats after receiving too many “detached from reality” lowball offers.

>Mike Hussey, chief executive of the developer Almacantar, said the company had decided to halt formal sales of the flats in the 1960s brutalist tower, now called Centre Point Residences, rather than slash prices.

>The company said concerns about Brexit and possible tax increases on overseas investors were encouraging potential buyers to make offers well below the asking price.
The reception at the redeveloped Centre Point building in London’s West End.

>The decision to halt sales means about half of the tower’s 82 flats, which range from £1.8m for a small one-bedroom apartment to £55m for the two-storey five-bedroom penthouse, will now lie empty, adding to a glut of unsold ultra-luxury property across London."

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/31/brutalist-m...