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I'm not sure what you think I'm missing here.

School vouchers with dollars attached to kids is effectively "choice, as long as you can pay for it". It's the status quo of zip code based schooling access, on steroids. That's exactly the "systemic issue" I'm referring to in my original post.

The claim that school choice would improve access to quality education for students in poor-performing schools is a complete farce.

I'm not saying that our current system works well or that it's particularly just. I'm just pointing out that vouchers make the tie between wealth and educational access even more explicit and codified than it already is. A voucher system would deepen, not alleviate, the inequities in our educational system.
People who downvoted this statement should google "disease mongering": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_mongering They may also want to check out Allen Frances: "Saving Normal".

Mental health problems are real. Overprescription due to capitalist reasons is real too. They both do harm.
I post on Medium. I don't really promote anything I write. I get around 50-100 views per thing I write. Why do I do it? Well honestly I have no where else in mind. I don't have any one looking for my blog, I'm not really going to spam Hacker News or Reddit, or Discord rooms with links to get organic outreach.

I just want somewhere nice I can post simple factual articles I enjoy writing. My articles aren't ones that show up behind the Medium paywall, I'm under no illusion there's money in it for me.

Medium can tell you where your readers come from.

Here's a Medium stat screen: https://imgur.com/a/8VhJEhJ
As such information is only sent along the communication path from the device to the computer, it was hitherto thought to be protected from potentially compromised devices outside this path.

That sounds like a very... naive statement, given that radio interference is not an uncommon phenomenon and things like this have been known for years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
I would pay at least $5 per item never to see Styrofoam packaging again. But this is impossible because the market is incapable of offering me this sort of thing. Putting it on consumers is unfair.
> The local government is a government of the local people

And that government, knowing that relying on individuals hasn't worked, still needs to find a way to solve the problem. A possible solution is to make the corporation responsible for the trash they produce. Once this happens, the corporation will begin to explore options such as rewarding customers for returning used cups, providing reusable cups, and even employing people to pick up any of their cups littered throughout the city.
I've noticed the once ubiquitous ferrite core bulge (to prevent cables from functioning as antennae when plugged into leaky equipment) has been absent from the typical modern USB cable.

Is it possible this USB hub lacks a ferrite core entirely? Or are USB peripherals sufficiently advanced nowadays that they've been tucked away neatly, Apple-style?
What if we had prison cities where prisoners can live "freely" and have their own economies and stuff? Let's see how they like trying to live normal lives with other people who have no qualms about stealing and killing to get what they want, just like they may have done themselves to innocent people before they were imprisoned. Will the criminals learn to get along or will they end up killing each other? I wouldn't care because they're in the prison city and not anywhere near me and other normal people, which is what prison is for right? Maybe we can even free those who prove themselves to be outstanding citizens in those prison cities.

Just a thought.
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Wow that article was incredibly relevant and super interesting. Thanks so much for the link!
"I'm all about parents sacrificing for their kids" <--- Did you skip the part where I wrote this?
Multithreading in Java means parallelism, which is what I was originally asking about.

You're confused. Nowhere did I claim that multithreading always means parrelalism.
I used to write on medium. The editor is the best. Nothing I've used is as good. The stats are also incredibly well done.

Some people are saying authors use it for the built-in audience. I can't say that was an appeal for me—or that I got very many readers from within medium anyways.

I started my own blog with hugo/netlify (though notably I don't post things very often). The main reason I switched is because so many people enable the pay wall on medium I feel the medium brand is hurting my own now, even though I've never enabled the pay wall myself.

I definitely miss that editor—and not having to update the site's dependencies.
The author's point certainly has to do with no more RSS networking.
Yep. I did this in Long Beach for quite some time. Real estate is fairly priced there, but it couldn't hold a candle to how cheap a dock slip and used old sail boat was -- and the quality of life for a bachelor can be OK.

It's amusing to think of a Snowcrash style flotilla of derelict boats surrounding San Francisco, though..
> Why should our overburdened local governments carry the cost of picking up a profitable business' garbage?

As an outsider looking in, perhaps because local governments are largely funded by taxpayers, and taxpayers are ultimately the root cause of the litter?

Consider the status quo of litter in countries like Japan and Singapore.

I think if the problem is to be effectively solved, things need to happen on 3 fronts: local government that establishes effective law/infrastructure, companies with cognizance that take meaningful action, and a population with the right cultural values.
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I wish I could upvote this 10 times.

Medium is the pinterest of thoughts.
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An SAT score is an assessment of how well you will do in college. It's not something you can earn or deserve. If someone does less well than you but came from a much worse school district, why shouldn't a predictor take that into account?

If this were almost any other example of adding a modifier to correct for a bias in an initial scoring system, nobody would bat an eye, and we'd be discussing specifics.
The whole point is to devalue those efforts. I thought OP wanted “equality of opportunity.” You can’t have equality of opportunity if some kids get a head start because of their parents.
Yes, absolutely. We as a culture need to emphasize people to pick up their trash and be responsible for their own litter. Lots of other culture emphasize this and you rarely see trash on the ground. Trash on the ground is a direct result of the culture saying "who cares if I toss trash on the ground."
Your thesis is that the main driver for plastic water bottles or to go coffee cups is branding? I don't think that passes the smell test.
The WSJ article has a more detailed list for this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sat-to-give-students-adversity-...

Also it seems Chinese and Indian kids with immigrant parents will be affected the hardest in general
I noticed the other day that garbage is everywhere - and it's pretty much ALL packaging of one form or another.
I think we've reached a point where it's safe to say that if you're using a service - _,any_ service - assume your data is breached (or willingly given) and accessible to some unknown third party. That third party can be the government, it can be some random marketer or it can be a malicious hacker.

Just hope that you have nothing anywhere that may be of interest or value to anyone, anywhere.

Good luck.
semi-serious comment: that's just the kind of comment a social media op would generate.
Actually, the Gaokao does have something that might be similar where ethnic minorities get extra points:

https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1595620876524810727&wfr=spi...
It seems strange to call out Ada for "unexplained" and "unusual" syntax. The syntax is very similar to the syntax of Pascal, which was an enormously popular language at the time when Ada was designed.
Did you skip what I wrote? You say you're all about parents sacrificing for their kids. But why would they bother if their kids won't get any benefit from it?
The locals will clean it up when they start to realize that their tourism industry is going to collapse if their country gets the reputation of being a trashy place to visit.
I think it's just a personal choice everyone makes. How much should they sacrifice now to have more later (either personally, or inter-generationally). We all have different preferences around that, and that's ok. If someone is willing to work harder or sacrifice more, it's reasonable for them to get more reward later on for their efforts. If you prefer to enjoy the present, that's ok too.
> Today, there is not a single medicine that people can take because it extends lifespans.

Metformin. Originally used to treat diabetes, we’ve slowly begun to realize that the users of it tend to live longer than non-users. There are some studies running now to determine if it’s effective, but there are already people taking it daily to try and live longer.
In California they have CRV, which is a kinda significant recycling amount.

However it doesn’t stop people throwing away plastic stuff. What it _does_ do, is create a job for the army of homeless people to go around collecting bottles so they can claim that sweet cashback.

It’s effectively a very strange way of employing people at far below minimum wage to keep the streets clean. Very odd.
Good thing in Japan, even if one or two people litter, there's at least 100 other fine people who will be there to pick up after you happily without even thinking about it.

Man I'd love that here in the US
There's precedence in the Bible. Ancient Israel had sanctuary cities where murderers could go to escape punishment.
It hinges on how you want to define "most amenities", but lots of small towns have reasonably priced housing within a mile of plenty of amenities (with low or moderate vehicle traffic and so on).
“Your "intelligence" is definitely one of those things completely outside your control.”

> How?

The capacity for intelligence is outside of your control for example genetic disorders are not chosen by the individual. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_syndrome

Further, when it comes to intelligence and Nature vs Nurture it’s really both. People 15,000 years ago people had nearly identical genetics, but their society lacked the knowledge to pass a SAT level math test.

Now, making the best of your social and genetic background is up to everyone. But, assuming everything is balanced is at best willful ignorance.
Kafka is a high-throughput, horizontally-scalable blob data store for data streams. The data store part of that is my favorite part.

You can use it as a simple message broker, but since it keeps the message history as a timeseries, you can also do things like run batch analysis jobs on the day's message or replay the last X hours of messages because your DB died and your backup is old.

It is a good way to decouple data producers and data consumer, particularly in an enterprise context - producers push to Kafka and anyone can consume that data, whether they are an operations team that wants a realtime data stream, a BI team that needs periodic data dumps, or a team that wants a long-term audit trail (the duration of the history is going to depend on your scale, but for many users a long history is realistic).

Kafka also has a nice ecosystem including streaming analytics (KSQL), clients that make reading from Kafka easily horizontally scalable (have many machines acting as a single client, automatically rebalancing if one of those machines dies), exactly once processing and probably more since I last worked with it.

I'm not familiar enough with RabbitMQ to say how it compares to Kafka, but I haven't found a use case yet where Kafka isn't a good choice (except for the 'I need to set up a message broker quick and painlessly' use case because it is not a particularly fun technology to manage yourself)
I highly doubt the 10 cents per bottle is the exclusive reason--I wish that article talked more about it. The $0.10 could pay for the other reasons, but I think it's equally about infrastructure and culture as it is about cost.

Culturally, people are only willing to put up with so much. There's a Penn and Teller BS clip where he has like 10 unique recycling bins and is explaining sorting to them. I've been to towns where you have to haul all of your trash out, but at Disney they found that people aren't willing to carry trash more than 30ft.

I feel like I do more than most. I set aside batteries, and hoard the few single use bags I use. I drove to a Best Buy because I saw they had battery recycling, but when I arrived they excluded alkalines. I'm honestly not sure which plastics my curb-side accepts. I know that's what the number in the logo is for, but I have trouble finding it and I'm not sure what's accepted. I wish there was a simpler system, like the plastics were dyed blue, had a blue stripe, or something distinguishing.

Is their program successful because of the $0.10 redemption? Or is it because they have a lot of redemption centers? No city I've lived in honor redemptions for curb-side, which is often a large percentage.
Not quite, but it's a low cost convenience that makes people spend on coffee more readily. If they were made to bring their own cup to take coffee out (or some other less polluting method), I bet it would hurt sales significantly.
Goes without saying, the consistent Medium experience is a good reason why we keep using it. Self made blogs like this that do annoying things that take away from content are foot guns.
So a kid is lacking math/science/reading skills, how will boosting their scores help? They're still behind, you just rigged the game in their favor. They'll still show up at some prestigious college and do poorly for the same reasons they do poorly at the SAT. Testing will never erase the inequality between income, class and race.
In 1900 the northern USA states had a murder rate that was the same as most European countries. The elevated murder rate in the USA came entirely from the sky high murder rates in the ex slave states.
In a world where the efforts of parents don't help their kids, parents won't make efforts. This will degrade the educational attainment of all kids. Most people consider this to be a bad thing.
If you wanted to talk about the costs of disposing of packaging, then there’s some valid points you could make. But to say producers are responsible for littering is insane. There’s nothing about Coca Cola as a company, or the way their products are packaged, or the way they sell them that would lead me to throw the packaging on the ground rather than in the trash can. Anybody that litters is wholly responsible for that act. If you wanna discuss what happens to the packaging after it’s thrown in the trash or the recycling bin, and who bears the costs, then there’s arguments you can make for the producer to have additional responsibilities, but it’s not their job to make sure the consumer doesn’t litter.
The old joke is something along the lines of:

Q: What do you call the person who graduated last in their class in medical school?
A: Doctor.

Sure, I'd probably prefer the higher performing doctor in this hypothetical scenario, but at the same time, it feels very much artificial (maybe a false dichotomy?). Sure, you always want the best for everything -- that's what "the best" means! Reality is that there are always going to be B students operating on people. If I were to propose my own false dichotomy, I might ask whether you prefer the B student who got tutored to pass the SAT, or one who self studied?
Pretty sure all of them had subscriptions. Hell, I was a paid user of LJ until they got sold to the Russians and everyone left.
I've made it a point to start self hosting anything that's particularly sensitive that I don't want third parties to have access to. KeePass and SyncThing probably have my most important information, and it's all owned by me.
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It's the gold star thing, folks. Gold star + Jewish evokes Judenstern, to use the historic name, not preschool accomplishments. It's definitely true that Harvard and other US colleges/universities discriminated against Jews under the influence of anti-Semitism, and it's also true that there were American Nazis, for instance the German-American Bund in the 1930s.

I don't think that this adversity score has anything to do with the Nazis, I have to say. It sounds like the data is publicly available financial information. So this whole little branch of HN commentary is an unnecessary diversion.

To return to the article, colleges have been giving extra points to legacy admits, children of donors, people from X region, tuba players, violists (but not violinists haha), rowers, lacrosse players, merit students, Lutherans, etc etc etc forever. I think schools should have to option to get the adversity score or not. I went to Caltech; they probably don't care and should stick to their quirky admissions as many of us 'minority' admissions found it comforting in the midst of failure to know that we were admitted on nothing but the material in the application. But other schools serve a different purpose and if they want to admit twelve poor kids by "adversity score" that's great. I have to say I read the coverage and it's just a bunch more rich parents freaking out that they don't have every single last advantage possible. Ask me in 15 years -- maybe I'll be doing the same.
Oh oh... More than ever now, don't copy paste blindly from SO answers!
As someone who has worked in the beverage industry. Please don't bring back glass. It's so heavy, it's fragile, and it don't stack efficiently. Beer is finally moving to cans a change which has only happened in the last few years. It's easier to move and store, a twelve oz can takes up about 3/5s the space of a 12oz bottle.
When you say AP tests are nowhere close to college level, do you mean they are easier or harder? Personally I think they are morw difficult, but your comment seems to be implying they are easier (and obviously so).
Jetlagged in Tokyo one morning (maybe 4:30 AM local), I watched a lady open her eatery.

She cleaned and readied everything inside, swept the front curb of her shop, then proceeded to perfectly sweep the ~10' wide sidewalk in front of her place to the street's edge.

How Tokyo lives with its hyperdensity suddenly made sense.
No they do, I completely agree with the original poster on this. Confluent over egg the marketing, I think they may of changed to the phrase “exactly once schematics” as Apache Pulsar labelled it that from the start and people calling out exactly once.
What does this have to do with trash?
You seem to be under the impression that the prison population is made up primarily of violent thieves and murderers - that is not the case.
They both sell ads and offer advanced targeting options. Very similar businesses.
well, it's the nature of the advertising business to defy privacy and liberty. competition occurs around how well you know consumers and how well you can manipulate those consumers into actions favorable to you (i.e., exerting power over you). further, online advertising is basically a duopoly of google and facebook, with google being twice as big as facebook and much more invasive.

google's, or more broadly, alphabet's, only competitive advantage is a thin lead on what might be called data intelligence (or surveillance, for the more cynical). they collect data across all internet ingresses/egresses, on not just those who opt-in, but even those who actively avoid google (through android, gmail, google apps, analytics, dns, internet access, etc.). and that data is super-valuable--alphabet had $30B in profits on $137B in revenue (an extraordinary margin).

to be clear, i'm not attempting to judge or disparage individual engineers at google. i'm sure most are mighty fine folks.

but for the foreseeable future, google really has no choice in the matter, not until it finds a different massive market from which to derive revenues. it's the nature of the business. and in the meantime, it's also under assault from intelligence, paramilitary, corporate, and governmental organizations from across the globe.

at least for americans, privacy and liberty are fundamental and inalienable rights. even though the consitution explicitly forbids only governmental interference in those rights, they apply more broadly to any entity, and particularly global corporations, attempting to exert power on individuals. and while inalienable, citizens still have a duty to be vigilant against such infringements.
Surely not really half the price if you can buy one locally, and have to drive two hours there and back for the other.
That's my basic assumption now. Which is why any website force-asking me for my date of birth or phone number will get a fake one, and I will use Paypal over giving my physical address.

But it doesn't matter, the damage has been done over and over. Pretty sure I'm in many leaked database already (Hi Adobe!)
> Leftists aren't actually oppressing anybody.

Well, that's certainly not true. They are absolutely oppressing people. They may be oppressing people that you or even I think ought be oppressed, but that doesn't mean they're not doing it.

> We're still under the rule of the far-right in the US (a country which does not actually have a left wing by Western standards).

That's true around economic issues. It's not so true around identity politics. The political climate around those issues in the US is very much left of center.

> Voting with your dollar and pointing out bigotry and inequality is not oppression.

That kind of depends on what exactly you mean by that. Naming and shaming individuals for social transgressions based on hearsay seems pretty oppressive to me.
Your English is great, and it’s great that you prioritize shipping over worrying about which blogging platform to use. Shipping is very important.

That being said, I do think a small investment into moving onto your own platform may be worth it, and that might kick in much earlier than you’d think. I use Hugo and a fork of hugo-minimo-theme for my technical and personal writing, and it took maybe three days to set up (granted I have some technical experience). If you paid a contractor to spend a week setting up a statically compiled site with a CMS, you may get competitive SEO without having to worry about content licensing or platform updates. I think statically generated content is generally friendly to search engines. I don’t update my blog infra at all really, and there’s very few steps involved if I needed to relearn how to do it. It is possible to use free open source software and have it get out of your way in terms of making money.
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This RFC reserves an http header name. Is is not just informative.
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Sounds like they just needed to spin up one "affiliate" and provide the data to that for data mining / etc purposes.

Anyone deleting the data "Google" holds would have zero effect on the affiliate, while giving some people the feeling Google was doing the right thing.
they are seen as cogs in a machine, when they break replace them. like the matrix
Don't forget offline credit card transactions, FB and Google both.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45368040
They're talking about returnables which is how beer used to come. Imagine instead of just recycling your beer bottles you hauled it back to the store for it to be sent back to vendor. I've worked around refillable milk containers and it was a pain in the ass, beer I can only imagine is more so.