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Interesting.

I find that the black community (including myself) will quickly point to the reason of Affirmative Action, and what it is trying to accomplish. I find it fair if a historically marginalized group require over-representation to "break" it's cycle. Yet I find something troubling.

I'm concerned that many of the flagship arguments that are still often brought forth by this community have propositions that continue to look less and less stable.

There is a perpetual cycle that the average African-American faces, often said starting from slavery. It has frequently been said that starting with proper education, will this cycle begin to unravel. Though there's been significant attempts to equalize opportunity of education for decades, yet there's been virtually no improvement in the racial performance gap (Black-White).

The main reason I commonly see for this gap is socioeconomic status and parental education. College Board prompts every testing student for their family income status, race, gender, etc. I'd love CB to dump every categorical statistic they've collected, but they do provide a summary every year. Every year they're able to give basic statistics on performance of the different groups based upon the groups stated above.

What I find really interesting was for 2 separate years (2003, 2008) College Board made public test performance by race x income. College Board had also released 'Reaching the Top: A Report of the National Task Force on Minority High Achievement The book' (1999). The book generally stated that black students whose parents were college-educated scored lower than white students whose parents did not graduate high-school. Both datasets show that black students from high socioeconomic families were scoring comparatively to white students from low socioeconomic families.

I see this as deeply troubling. Though there is an large list of variables that are not publicly accounted for, it would make more sense for discussion to be shifted towards the discovery of the cause of the gap.

I fear that Affirmative Action is inherently unjustified and examples like similar to OP's post will continue to hurt the opportunities of the talented.

(2008) [JBHE] https://lesacreduprintemps19.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/why...

(2005) [JBHE] http://www.jbhe.com/features/49_college_admissions-test.html

[Teachers College Record] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280232788_Race_Pove...

Extra bit, attempt to model 1995, caution on the rhetoric but quality article:
http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/testing.htm
Well except for that which he can enforce himself through means of force.
There will always be rich, there will always be poor. That's simple economics. There has not been a society in human history that hasn't had those. Pretending that you can magically wish that away is crazy.

Our system is based on equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome. If there are issues with the opportunity then we should work to fix those (like is already being done in inner cities cleaning up the drugs/pushing out gangs/preventing fatherless homes/etc). But pretending that you're going to fix those socioeconomic issues by giving preferential treatment to people based on race is just pulling other problems into the mix and is blatantly racist.
There are broad stereotypes about Asians and conformity that are at play in the parent comments assumptions about what China’s weaknesses are
The VCs that were funding the startup I worked for got spooked and demanded an immediate reduction in force; I was one of the programmers that got hit.

The market the company was in didn't shrink, and they kept on making money, so the VCs were definitely not the all-seeing oracles that day :-)

Personally: the Seattle-area housing market shrank (and has since recovered), which didn't affect me because I already had a house. And I found a new job pretty quick.
oh hey ur the Nova nigga
And I would argue that Harvard is also illegitimate as it practices racial discrimination. Guess we'll see if the supreme court agrees.
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There are 5,300 colleges and universities in the US alone.

Maybe you tell them "Harvard's not the only option"?
This has been done but holds very few advantages. Nuke and davinci resolve already run on linux. In either case local bandwidth and multiple cores are the biggest factors. Transferring images back and forth to a server is a waste of time when it takes longer than the processing time.
Can't you do it once for home purchase? You basically borrow from yourself in order to buy a house? Instead of paying a mortgage, you slowly redeposit the money back into your 401(k).
I've always operated under the assumption that nothing in a PDF is secure, and that the only safe way to redact something from one is to print it and rescan it. Convince me otherwise?
You had then (as now) several major trends. The progressivists were modernists promoting modernism -- technology and rationality (along with a whole host of jingoistic thinking).

A principle response was the fundamentalist movement, back to fundamentals, especially of religion, and against science and technology, most especially evolution. See the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist–Modernist_contr...
> For example, that's why you still see - in 2019 - manual toll booth workers sitting in glass boxes in NY instead of automated tolls like every other state has.

Does Kansas have the same protections? Plenty of humans in booths on the Turnpike.
> After meeting a few of the admissions officiers, I have a lot of empathy and respect for them. They were all kind, considerate and very patient folks.

I'd imagine that the admissions officers, many of them alumni of Harvard or other elite schools, are bright and thoughtful. But I always wondered how they deal with donor admits. "Mmmm, I'm doubtful about this Jared Kushner fellow, but the Development Office has his application marked as a must-admit. Oh well?"

> The difference between say a 1400 (95%) student and 1600 (99.9826%)is small and honestly (my view) meaningless.

If you mean the difference is meaningless (or at least small) when SAT score is figured into the holistic appraisal of the applicant, then I might agree. But I think there's a substantial difference in SAT-taking skill between a 1600 and a 1400. A 1600 means nearly 100% correct answers throughout the test. Someone scoring 1600 knew all the necessary vocabulary, understood the reading passages, and could handle all the math. Someone with a 1400 still could deserve admission, but for excellence in other areas.
That's a good point for any dev thinking they can write their own engine... since one is bad at it and shouldn't do it or good at it and perhaps one should just focus on the engine.
A common saying in chess is that the winner is the person who made the second to last mistake.

However, having played quite a bit against stockfish it certainly doesn't feel like that. It just crushes you, mercilessly and swiftly no matter what you do.
even more black...

see also : https://www.dezeen.com/2019/09/24/blackest-black-mit-materia...
An Alternative App Store for iOS
Also, can't you install and enable Windows Subsystem for Linux (beta) and then you get ssh?
For starters I'd say when the racial wealth gap has closed and when racial outcomes in education even out. So many of the factors that feed back into keeping those gaps alive can be traced directly back to racist policies like red lining that only ended less than a human life time ago.
I waiver back and forth between thinking that this was just institutional naivete or an intentional graft based on the thought that "China will surpass us eventually ... so how do we profit?" held by a lot of Elites at the time (and probably today).
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Without talking about the controversial technical indicators of a state sponsored attack, you can figure it out based on the motive, complexity of the attack, and who is being targeted.

Criminal attacks have a profit related motive, which can be distilled down into "if we spend $X dollars trying to hack Y, we can probably get a payoff of $Z"

If an attack is extremely expensive and has very little potential payoff, you can be pretty sure it's not being done by a criminal organization.

You may wonder "how do you prove it's not being done by not-profit motivated hacktivists?". Hacktivist groups usually have limited resources (that doesn't mean they're not dangerous!). If scale of the attack/payload suggests a team of 10-30 skilled professionals working full time for a year or so, it's probably not a hacktivist group. Hacktivist groups also tend to proudly announce responsibility whenever they pull off successful attacks.
Why does the title of this keep getting flopped around? It's shifted three or four times today. I thought it was supposed to be the title, or the subtitle, and avoid paraphrasing.
"Philadelphia’s first coffeehouse opened in 1703, and by mid-century half a dozen operated within the city limits"

https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/coffeehouses/
As an appellate lawyer, I can attest that this is a terrible idea. It is far easier to for a judge to avoid being overturned than it’s is to get the case right, and consequently a low reversal rate is a fairly strong indicator that the judge isn’t, well... I’ll hold my tongue. The more they try to get the law right, the more they risk being overturned. However, as long as there is a factual question, they can rule on those grounds and force it to a “competent evidence” review that is often impossible to overturn.

One of the things I most respect is when a judge rules against me but has the integrity to write an orde that I can actually challenge on appeal. That - being willing to be overturned - is the best sign of a great judge.
Decade old code isn't anywhere near the far end of the scale for old, big companies.
With the amount of mind numbing easily automated work I’ve done in my career I wonder if they don’t realize or there is some kind of tacit social contract not to cause mass unemployment. Because companies could replace like 50% of office workers if they were willing to redesign their processes.
Coming from you, that means a lot. I hope you find interesting things in it, and I'd be delighted to have your feedback!
Depends on the style, the consistency of the sauce, and the dough, how much you can get use without making a mess. That looks way on the high side to me, though their sauce might be very dry (thick) which might let them get away with it.

Normally on my thin-crust pizzas with a somewhat watery sauce (what you get when you use fresh tomatoes, or canned crushed tomatoes, or anything along those lines without mixing it with lots of paste) you can see about 50% of the dough through the sauce, it's that thin, but if I make it much thicker the toppings get very... slippy-slidey.
Not to poke the emotional strawman, but tetris is an hr game. I think the point was more about motivations, desperation and loud, unproductive whinges. Also worth noting that your shit hires (imo. this includes the author and his manager) could be my unicorns ...
When I'm in the United States, about half the time, I pray with a Chabad Minyan. About half the people there are not Ashkenazi, despite Chabad's Ashkenazi origins. We have Persians, Yeminites, Ethiopians, Syrians, etc, and people whose families have lived in greater Israel area for generations.
Being overweight or obese is the cause of 90-95% of cases of Type 2 Diabetes. https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/diabetes-causes#1

Being overweight usually is tied to overconsumption of calories. Most people don't consume too much fat or protein: it's just difficult to eat a jar of crisco or an entire ham. However, in western cultures, overconsumption of calories is largely associated with highly processed, sugary foods. Chips, soda, snacks, etc.

I will concede that's not the reason for everyone who is overweight, but for many, it is the case. It's predominantly too many carbohydrates.
Lots of people working on different ideas to help reduce CO2 is probably what we need though. We don't know what will be the 'winner' yet, but the more things we try the more likely we are to find the best solution(s).
> Is there some obvious way of generalizing the 1d rules to 2d that I'm missing?

No you are correct. I was looking for analogies, to help me flush out my thinking of the space more by looking at it from a few angles.

I wanted to think about systems of limited size or machines of different dimensions but turns out periodicity is known for those (https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p255--systems-of-limited-...).

My main attack vector is to build up a simple new math starting with just 1 and 0 to define both the problem and solution in and see where it goes, hopefully creating useful side effects along the way. If I were to solve a problem my hunch is it will be related to impossibilities in formally defining "infinite sequence" in the problem definition in such a language.
This is a known phenomenon among psychologists. People who are more realistic tend to be more likely to be clinically depressed.

Below is a link to a really really brief podcast that talks about the phenomenon. It's very interesting.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/91618...
79GB for all of the English articles minus the media. That's smaller than I would have guessed. You can fit this large slice of our culture on a $20.99 flash drive and with 49GB left over. That seems like a good econo-cultural indicator, storage cost per wikipedia. I wish I could short that index.
Pedantic. In the 1980s there weren't many in America, now there are Starbucks'es and others throughout.
On Web-Security and -Insecurity: PDFex: Major Security Flaws in PDF Encryption
I'm just going to leave this link here.. in case anyone else is curious about what it takes to get EMR software certified in the US.

https://www.healthit.gov/topic/certification-ehrs/certificat...
Quitting would be more about not wanting to work with idiots than the parting shots.
How about we fund mental healthcare nationally, reduce wealth inequality, and end racial disparity in policing first?

Until then, an attempt to ban all guns is not only a politically infeasible waste of energy, but also seems like a racist attack on the self-defense rights of the disempowered.
to further nitpick and distract from the main conversation, it sounds like they are talking about non-local goto (setjmp etc in c), which, just like an actual goto statement, is useful for error handling, but is much more difficult to deal with that a normal goto.
Tangent, sure, why not COBOL? COBOL in the cloud for example with Elastic Cobol:

https://www.heirloomcomputing.com/elasticcobol/

? I mostly just love the name.
Detroit-style and some others (I think there's a thin crust square shape that gets claimed by various other midwestern cities?) are already rectangular.
Apples to oranges. I don't think you'd be as surprised if the statement were reworded to "the human brain has more flexibility in parsing to understand intent from text than a computer". The issue is very unlikely to be poor language design as, as you allude, people can parse old code just fine. The thing we're actually bad at is building computers that reason intent from content like we do.
I fared well during the recession overall. The company I worked for was affected more than the overall economy since we were an MBA prep company so I figured with the collapse there would be fewer jobs for MBAs in the coming years. I was planning on quitting in November 2008 and I actually handed my letter of resignation to my boss on a Friday, but he told me to take the weekend to reconsider. What he knew then, and what I was about to find out, was that they were laying off most of the tech team, including me. By not resigning I was able to get a 6 week severance. I took a vacation to Cancun before starting a better job. I lasted at the new company about a year before jumping ship for a 45% raise in November 2009.
How much racism is necessary to get to the ideal of not selecting people based on race?
I don't think I can really help, but for what it's worth -- you're definitely not alone.

You may not have this option... but in my org, we can submit feedback to a co-worker's manager at any time during the year. I have, on occasion, submitted negative feedback. I really _really_ dislike doing that. I feel dirty every time. But I view it as a responsibility. I work for a company that designs & manufactures devices that can mean life or death; every time I submit negative feedback I tell myself that it's for the well being of the end-user. When I submit negative feedback, I avoid being vague; I give precise, specific, and well documented examples and try to be as objective as possible. When other co-workers confide in me that they are frustrated with someone else, I give them the same advice: I encourage them not to tell me too much - let's be professional. But, because I respect them as a professional as well, I trust that their feelings are valid and not unfounded. I then tell them to make sure the appropriate people (managers) know - and point them to the feedback link. My hope is that if a manager gets enough negative feedback on a report (and it's all consistent), the problem will sort itself out during the next round of layoffs.
Edit: For each piece of negative feedback that I submit, I try to counter act that with positive feedback about somebody else. I'd like to think it acts a little bit like up/down voting.
> How close can you come to a Python code base that runs in v2 and v3?

Using the `six` module, this is (nearly) trivial for 99% of code. If you're doing certain weird things, its more difficult but possible. (I say this having done py2-3 conversion or dual support for lots of vanilla code, as well as a significant amount of weird code: c/c++ extensions and code that uses advanced features like code object introspection and dynamic imports/rewriting/etc).
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> And they think the same of you. If their preferred method of communication is Facebook message, are you really a friend if you don’t care?

It's hardly the same though, it's not like the other commenter's expressing a preference for a call or text where the other would be equally possible. It's exceedingly unlikely that someone with the capacity to have a preference for Facebook messaging is unable to call or text; the reverse isn't true.

Saying 'I would rather we texted' vs. email or whatever is not the same as 'I would rather you sign up for this service and use it to contact me'.
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I found that the most remarkable accurate prediction myself (OP fwiiw). The rest of it was funny for being wrong in the same ways modern people are wrong about just about everything.
A private university that accepts federal funds is subject to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.[0] Title VI seems to require the university to adhere to the same non-discrimination standards as a state university. That is why 5th and 14th Amendments, which usually apply only to state actions, are applicable here. That is also why the Supreme Court cases involving discrimination by state universities are relevant.

[0] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/oasam/regulatory/statutes/title...
See also SFFA's complaint: https://studentsforfairadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/201...
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Technologies: Python / Django + React + AWS

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Interested in part-time work or short-term contracts doing backend web development or data engineering.
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA.

Remote: Possible.

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Technologies: Clojure, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, NodeJS, Hyperledger Fabric, SQL.

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Exactly.

And there are healthy and unhealthy types of “false confidence.”

There’s the confidence to take on and commit to (reasonable) challenges with the self-belief you’ll be able to conquer them, even if you have no relevant experience. Then there’s the odious, narcissistic type which functions purely on its own desires, rather than reality.