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> What about the middle-class kid who doesn't qualify to any of these programs

Citation needed. I was that kid myself. There are no "programs" to "qualify" for. You file a financial aid form. Whatever you and your parents can reasonably pay, you pay, and the school covers the rest. It works for everyone. And one of the reasons it works for everyone is revenue that the school generates, and yeah, that includes some shady benefactor greasing.

I'm not going to sit here and deny that legacy admissions are distasteful and unfair. I jumped in the thread to point out that what they do not do is significantly disadvantage the needy. If you really care about these issues, call your congressperson about federal education funding and stop bitching at Harvard.
Feels about right to me. But it’s easy to be wrong when it comes to predicting the future. Still, feels about right.
One path is official and in the open. The other is corrupt and helps no one but those in on the bribery.
After donating a $20m building, is an elite institution ever going to pass on a donor's kid?

The main source of outrage between the current scandal and school donation quid-pro-quo is the brazenness of individualized graft. Before, the rigging of the admissions game had a level of indirection and spatial-temporal separation that seemed amenable and subtle.
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Housing, yes. A particular house - not necessarily.
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Well, my state school (rank #50+) is quite a bit different from yours in terms of quality (rank #25 or less) for starters. I didn't get anywhere close to an 800 on my Math SAT, whereas I'm sure a lot of people at UMD CS did (and a few at my school did too!).

>I think to some degree that you're using the school you did go to as a facile excuse to explain why you "haven't done cool stuff", when it's quite possible that that's not the reason at all, and that even if you had gone to that school you still wouldn't be "doing cool stuff".

Right, it's more of a correlation for inherent inferiority in my case more than anything else, but that's besides the point.
SOME people renovate their houses SOME of the time. Our biggest market is trade-up buyers, which is usually viewed as the alternative to remodeling. The housing market has been on an uptick since 2008, which increases the rate of trading-up, as the hope of selling at a profit is one of the reasons people buy homes to begin with.
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> Given that, you buy your house to remove risk of local changes to your detriment.

I think the more reasonable complaint is that people don't like thinking about how much of a risk a leveraged, illiquid investment worth >100% of your net worth is, so they have to delude themselves into thinking of housing as unrelated to their finances (incidentally, this is why richer households' net worths recovered so much better from the financial crisis: poorer households' were more likely to have a portfolio tilted ludicrously towards a single, illiquid asset).

That is to say, you're definitely correct that getting equity in the housing market has concrete second-order benefits, financial and otherwise, that don't show up in a simple assessment of the asset classes in your portfolio. But the _amount_ of house people choose seems to be systematically skewed upwards, often for no real reason other than financial illiteracy and an aversion to sitting down and thinking through the purchase decision.
Why not? Treasury bonds can be affordable and a good investment. Stocks can be affordable and a good investment.

> Well, in order for your home to offer you a real profit, its price would need to increase faster than the rate of inflation.

The entire article rests on the premise of this sentence, which is wrong.
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You're talking about the toy "Bop It" aren't you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF91cJQQONs
I get that going to a well regarded school is good for your career prospects.

But if you're that rich, what's the benefit? It's not like your child will have trouble finding a job, you could even pay someone to employ them.

Also does anyone know what kind of degrees the kids of rich people who paid to get them in get? I doubt they're graduating with a Master's in Physics.
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> This is pure speculation. Configuration of continents has no affect on a warming ocean releasing large amounts of methane trapped as methane ice (methane clathrates).

TFA is about permafrost and not all clathrates, the word isn't even mentioned in the article and if you bothered to look at a map (https://geology.com/articles/methane-hydrates/) you'd see they're virtually all on continental shelves or the continents themselves.
Even 5 years ago if you had said there would be a protest kind of thing with even 50-150 people per Google office protesting... that would have seemed like an unlikely thing.
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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.

Legally, both you and Tesla are at fault if the car crashes. You, for not maintaining full control of the car. And Tesla, for developing the AutoPilot system which directly caused the crash. In this context, Tesla is the "proximate cause* of the crash, so their liability generally would supersede your own. Moreover, in a lawsuit, you and Tesla would be jointly liable for damages, but any sane lawyer would settle with your for a small amount and go after Tesla for the remainder.
Each state has a minimum gross sales before sales tax must be collected. In CO (where I am), it's 100k/yr shipped into CO; in CA, it's 100k/yr or 200 orders.

But if you have a physical presence in CO (or CA), then you have to collect it for all orders (no minimum). But CO and CA consider Amazon FBA warehouses to be an extension of your business.

So if you wanted to make it cheaper, just don't use Amazon's warehouses to store and ship goods from. Also a lot of states allow sales tax to be filed annually.
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The price of housing is only part of it. The rising prices reflect the rising demand and the relatively static supply. Even if prices were capped, it doesn’t mean more people would be able to get housing. There’s still fewer units than there are people who want them, so people would get units based on some other mechanism beside price such as a lottery.

The unpredictability this would entail would probably be worse than a functioning price mechanism. Imagine you get a job in San Francisco but there’s only a 20% chance you’ll be able to “win” a housing unit where you want. Versus the current reality of for sure being able to find housing given you’re willing to pay enough.
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Valve has never been good at building progression systems, and that's exactly what killed Artifact.

You get no rewards for playing the game. If you want new cards, you have to spend money on packs or spend money to enter drafts.

This old fashioned "just play the game because it's fun" mentality is dogma to Valve, but nowadays users want and require the Pavlovian reward systems.
I think the point is that it does the complete opposite if the market goes the other way, assuming you're taking out a loan to buy. If you have a net worth of $100k and take out a loan for a $500k property, as little as a 20% drop can wipe out your life's work, assuming the property market doesn't go back up.

I don't see how it's any different to me withdrawing my entire bank account, walking down to the casino and putting it all on black?
My interest in FIRE can really be boiled down to this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJjKP8vYjpQ

I'm on board and actively pursing FIRE. I'm not sure if I'll actually choose to retire when I hit the magic number (~20x your yearly expenses), but it does provide me with a sense of satisfaction and stability.

I think a lot of the FIRE community over evangelizes the "RE" portion of FIRE, but that may just be a reflection of the high stress/high pay types of jobs that many FIRE pursuers find themselves in.
The rest of the article explains it more detail, but the sentence is obviously correct.

Stocks and bonds remain "affordable" because the minimum purchase size is small; the same cannot be said for housing.
Ford tractors, IIRC, have both hand and foot throttles.
Speaking of exploits... aren't nearly all Intel-processor systems vulnerable to attacks against IME?

Has anyone disabled IME by putting it into HAP mode or another mode?
Obviously. But we’re interested in aggregate effects in this conversation, no?
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I interpreted your comment to mean something like “Emacs is configurable with third-party LISP code”, in much the same way as Vim is configurable with third-party Vimscript.

But Vim is written in C, Vimscript being just a bolt on, whereas Emacs LISP is its own language entirely, a distinct variant of LISP, and much of Emacs implemented in it.
They're not working for the competition.
I think GP meant letting (although that would have the same effect).
Sure it can. You are forgetting UBI.

Here is where single payer systems may be better than UBI:

Collective Negotiating Power drives prices down for the basics as buyers don’t compete for the basics.

That’s why Medicare for All would have lower prices for the same services than a UBI which people could spend on private insurance companies.

The question is - as Marx would say - why should society allow the “market value” of housing to greatly exceed the “use value”, and who does that speculation really help? Today, 11% of all housing sits unused even as people struggle to pay their rent and homeless have increased. In a plutocracy, the percentage would be even higher.

We may want to transition to a society with a UBI + single payer systems for the basics.
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I do not know about Stanford in particular, but elite schools have some of the best financial aid programs in the US. If against odds a kid from a blue collar family gets into an Ivy, they might very well pay zero tuition (which was the case for a number of acquaintances of mine).

However, this money was not paid to the school to buy a spot. It was paid to a white collar criminal who falsified data in order to make it look like the kid "deserved" to get in Stanford.
Can you say more about evasive maneuvers? TCAS provides only advisory information, but doesn't control a plane, I thought.
It really is hard to describe how much bullshit devs have had to put up with to keep IE happy. Even today our front end team wants to use some modern JavaScript features which work fine in everything but IE. IE will never get another upgrade but it’s still holding tight to that small install base.
It might just be a widely held misunderstanding that the V2's purpose was only meant as a ballistic missile. But if I remember correctly it was also, and probably initially mostly, meant as a psychological and political weapon, the objective being to convince British population of the necessity to reach a separate agreement with Germany, so they could end the war on that front before moving against the Soviet Union.
Therefore the best weapon had to be frightening but not necessarily very efficient from a deaths per invested dollars measurement.

The response from the British state is also to be understood as a political move: they responded with the large bombimg raids over German cities (using plain old death-toll effective bombers), thus signifying that there would be no separate peace agreement with the UK.

According to this narrative, it sounds like the German war plan was naive to believe other great powers would agree to let Germany conquer Russia, more than naive regarding the efficiency of the V2 as a weapon.

Anyway, just a reminder that ultimately it's all about politics not technology.

A good source I can remember about the V2 story during the war, from the UK point of view, was this book:

Most secret war, by R.V. Jones
> A society that views housing as an investment means that we wind up adopting housing policies that lead to people being priced out (i.e. regulatory capture).

No. Housing that appreciates at exactly the rate of inflation can still be a good investment and a great tool for building wealth.
It's a sensible thought, but EMH argues that speculators would have already priced in that future expected value, again leading to a price rise in line with salaries/inflation.
> Hansen, echoing work by other scientests, said that in five to 10 years, the arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer.

That's not even a quote, let alone one in context.
Not...really? I'm 22, turning 23. I know a bunch of people that got patents in high school, competed in math/informatics olympiads and have multiple published papers (of varying quality, but nonetheless). Never had any of that or knew how to do it.
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Keep this in perspective: based on the number of avoidable deaths in Tesla cars driving on Autopilot in otherwise favorable conditions, its arguable that Autopilot causes more accidents and deaths than it avoids, especially given that Autopilot is used in the lowest-risk driving conditions.
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Imagine an alternate universe where the Steam client had feature parity with our universe's Epic client, and Epic's client had feature parity with our universe's Steam client. Do you think users would abandon their Steam libraries for the Epic Store, in order to have home streaming?

What's relevant to this discussion isn't what features you like about Steam, but what features cause people to make Steam accounts. In other words, is it actually possible for another player to compete on features alone?
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Because of this post, I just found out about Human Resource Machine...

I’m hooked. Currently I’m trying to optimize my Level 17 solution.

I hope these people continue producing new games.
Interesting I did not realize that about the first one!

I can imagine a company thinking they could take the wind out of it by supporting it. An escalation of conflict was probably better for the protestors than the company at that point.
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Does anyone at google actually work? This is what happens when you pay people a ton of money to do intellectual work. Basic needs are met and they start getting uppety... /s

Honestly though, seems there are so many demonstrations at Google. More than say Facebook which is getting way more of a media thrashing for actual lapses. Whatever actual grievances there are, they’re buried amongst the chaff.
There's no reason both of those can't be done at the same time. The people/technology/equipment required to colonise Greenland or Antarctica have very small crossover with the people/tech/equipment required to colonise Mars.

(And while the money required is "the same money" - the costs of colonising Greenland disappear into the noise of the costs required to colonise Mars.)
180m/73 Ta - HL > 10^15y.

Fly safe.
What do you conclude about Tesla autopilot from this?
AB 36 sounds like it would encourage a lot more turnover on older buildings, incentivizing the redevelopment of what is currently affordable housing. New York has similar regulations, and what you end up having happen is that landlords will either redevelop or renovate to whatever the threshold is to get out of the affordable housing requirement.
Kalman filters over what state space? Localization isn't really the challenging aspect of self-driving cars.
Don’t forget EXAPUNKS!
Land prices can increase faster than inflation and wages while house prices actually drop. Housing is measured in square feet. Land can hold multiples of square feet depending on the number of floors it’s permitted to hold. Land can thus be a good investment while housing remains affordable if the NIMBYs are restricted from strangling property growth.
Could you please review the site guidelines and not break them here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your comment would be just fine with just the second sentence.
Getting our environment into a less volitile state, and in the US, Health Care into a more sane, civilized state are much higher priorities.

I will be ultra frank:

So long as I see my nation continuing resource and politically motivated aggression, while basically shitting on the majority of it's people, fuck Mars.

That is from a policy perspective. Private entities seeking that goal are just fine, provided they are, in fact, paying their fair share of taxes.

Have at it!

No worries.

As a nation, and I am speaking from and as a citizen of the USA, no way. Our national priorities are way out of order. Dangerously so.
Perfect timing. For anyone not familiar from experience, personally I was doing heavy web development during this period and IE6 was a scourge - even IE7 was much better. The version was clearly beyond long in the tooth, having been released sometime like 2000 or 2001. Indeed, usage was still somewhere around 10%. If we didn’t support it, people would complain to us or even advertisers.
Even more frustrating for me is that for someone that rich it is easy to provide early opportunities for the kid, so that they grow into a person that Stanford actually would want on their own merits. Paying for good schools, tutors, experiences, mentors is a useful helpful thing. You can not buy friends and consciousness, but you can buy the opportunities to grow that on your own. The fact that these people had so many opportunities and still failed to be good parents is beyond sad.
For those who are interested, here is the main link to the Mulu National Park, which is where the caves are located [1]

Disclosure: my family visited Mulu National Park a few years ago and it was amazing. We didn't visit the pinnacles as it was too physical for a family with a young kid but we did explore (with guides) some of the publicly available cave areas, including the one showing the profile of Lincoln's head.

The caves are as amazing as the article describes and more. And I will never forget some areas where the guano was so thick that the smell of ammonia was nearly overpowering. :-)

[1] https://www.mulunationalpark.com/