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There is no such thing as a merit-based system. We have pitifully few examples of "merit"-based metrics functioning restoratively or in service of justice.
I don't get why a private University can't decide who it wants or doesn't want to attend its school regardless of the metrics it chooses.

For instance, I don't think that a University doing things like favoring alumni or trying to match demographics to the "national" or "global" demographics is likely to produce highest caliber candidates. What if alumni or Jewish and Asian candidates consistently outperform other candidates, why shouldn't a private school be free to accept more of the candidates it thinks "deserve" it more?

If people don't like the policies of institutions that do this, or think they are ineffective, over time other institutions will outcompete/outperform them.

Edit - I see that I am being downvoted on this, and I think the response is misguided, as I am not saying I support these propositions.

The argument is: Imagine you and a friend have a private tutoring business. You should be able to have the freedom to pick whatever customers you want, your not a slave, your not obligated to provide a service for someone if you don't want to. Over time if there is demand for private tutoring that you and your friend aren't willing to meet, there will be others who will provide that service because there is profit in it.
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Your litmus test is interesting - why focus on that single group of people?

Maybe another litmus test should be "does this meaningfully decrease access to guns for a person who is planning a mass shooting?"

I don't have any stats, and I suspect more single black women die than people at the hand of mass shooters, but you see my point - it's a game of tradeoffs and focusing on a single dimension is myopic.
What kind of apps and games get featured on Google Play?
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In order to qualify for the scholarship, a student must be attending a university recognized by the federal government. You can't get a government loan or aide to attend tathougies's super cool pottery school -- for good reason. Some educational institutions are illegitimate.

And that is just scholarships. Harvard is a graduate institution, which means the federal government also funds research projects at the graduate school level.
Yup, amen to that.
> So the end goal even according to SCOTUS is for these measures to eventually become unconstitutional.

This shouldn't be an acceptable justification, "righting historical wrongs" is a highly subjective policy goal which shouldn't be relevant to a verdict of "constitutionality".
Well, not really.

The California legislature (for example) is less than half white.[1]

You could argue white males are overrepresented in some circumstances, but claiming white males hold institutional power exclusively (which is what you inferred) is just plain wrong.

[1]https://www.library.ca.gov/Content/pdf/crb/reports/CRB_2017-...
> Personally, I am curious if there is any cellular automaton that has something like 3-dimensional rotational symmetry.

Have you seen the Miller-Fredkin paper on circular motion of strings in cellular automata?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.2060
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Given the fact that the economy is at full employment and that there are more job openings than people looking for a job, I'm not too worried at the moment.
I'm in the same camp as you. I love Spotify and have 0 interest in amassing and maintaining my own music collection any more. Ever since they added the ability to play directly from the Spotify app to Sonos I couldn't be happier.
Owning a car is necessary for daily life. And your backyard pool will not impact the rest of society.
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Walmart isn't Harvard.

If it was, it would again be incredibly disrespectful to compare it as someone that "couldn't go to Walmart". Unlike Harvard, Walmart isn't exclusive by definition.

Now, if a community college was accused of something like this (somehow), you have my rapt attention.
This adds nothing to the conversation because no one is saying that.

People are saying that they're entitled to a fair opportunity to get in, not that they're entitled to get in period.
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Right, or just use *BSD where /dev/{u,}random both behave correctly :)

I'm not the same guy, so I have no idea what he was reading /dev/random for. Just pointing out that it can in fact be "exhausted."

I'm not a crypto expert either, but wouldn't it still make sense to use /dev/random when generating long-lived keys (e.g. PGP, SSL CA, ssh keys...)?

I understand, I think, that a CSPRNG seeded with just the minimum amount of entropy should be "good enough." More entropy has to be at least theoretically better though, doesn't it?

If the only tradeoff is having to wait a few more seconds or possibly minutes to generate a key I'm going to use for years... why wouldn't I want to do that?
As this article states, there are a lot of non-hyper intelligent people at Harvard. My personal experience with the many people I know from that school back up the assertion that many are there for purely non-intelligence or ability related reasons.
On the other hand, thinking creatively is often discouraged at the majority of bigco white collar jobs and executives would gladly replace an expensive person with cheaper software doing the same task if they could do so without tripping on labor laws.
That looks very nice. I appreciate the link. Are you (or is anyone) aware of open source alternatives?

I really like how it shows the terminal, but kind of separate from the phone UI. A lot try to show you the terminal as the phone UI and it does not work well.
Intel started to withhold a portion of bonuses unless engineering departments achieved percentages of diverse employees, and other companies have followed suit [1]. Microsoft gives hiring managers incentives to hire people of certain genders and ethnicities, which was brought into question recently [2].

I can personally confirm that this results in discriminatory behavior when my previous company instituted these policies. Diverse candidates that failed 2/3rd of our interviews usually got offers, whereas non-diverse candidates generally had to pass 2/3rds of the interviews or more. This year, the company introduced a policy of withholding 20 positions for diverse candidates. When people know their bonuses are going to be compromised unless they hit N% diversity, do you really expect them to treat diverse candidates and non-diverse candidates the same? The company institutes these policies and then it's speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil.

It might not be as egregious as "hiring someone solely because of diversity" but it's definitely discrimination.

1. https://www.payscale.com/compensation-today/2019/03/tie-bonu...

2. https://qz.com/1598345/microsoft-staff-are-openly-questionin...
Pretty much, IIRC. I wasn't exposed to it until about a decade later myself, but my wife was. Most or possibly even all C++ compilers were still front ends for C compilers. Exceptions either didn't exist or weren't considered reliable, so her company rolled their own using setjmp and longjmp - which don't do stack unwinding so forget about relying on destructors and RAII. Similar for templates, so no STL. Does anyone even remember the NIH class library any more? It was very stripped down compared to the cancer it has become.

So yeah, somebody who knew C++ in 1990 was probably within spitting distance of knowing C at the time ... but now, they know it the same way I know Lisp or Prolog, since I used those long ago too. But if they've stuck with C++ ever since, do they effectively know C today? Could they be productive in it more quickly than they could in Rust or Go which they'd never even seen before? That's not clear at all.
Not according to many people on the Left. Congresswoman Tlaib, for example, identifies herself as a "Woman of Color" (https://thehill.com/homenews/house/429550-tlaib-people-hear-...).

My maternal grandparents were born in Gaza City, and Syria respectively. Grandmother was expelled Gaza in 1929, and the Syrian grandfather was expelled from Syria in 1927. Both families had been there for many generations, if not since Temple times.

When I'm in the United States, even though I am very dark, I am never considered a "Person of Color" solely because of my religion. Other people from the same places _are_ "Persons of Color" if their religion differs.

I'm darker than Ms. Tlaib if you want to get your colorimiters out.

It's 12:54 AM in Tel Aviv now, where I am. (I spend about half my time here and half in Silicon Valley).

However in the United States it's still Rosh Hashanah. I think it's a little unfair to have a discussion about Jews and affirmative action in the United States at a time when observant Jews will not be on-line.

Shanah Tovah.
They got a fair shot. A judge just determined it.

I got a fair shot. I didn't get in. Can the plaintiffs move on?
You have a typo in your video subtitles: "Even though the bathroom hasn't change in a century" should be "changed."
You are being deliberately disingenuous.

The post you're replying to specifically claims that it is to make employment more representative of the whole of society. Your statement that it's "hiring women just for the sake of hiring women" completely ignores the very words you're quoting.
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>Who’s actually doing this? In a way that is actually documented?

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Also I think it stretches the bounds of credulity to assert that an industry that bangs on and on about wanting to increase diversity is somehow also a perfect, disinterested and impartial judge.
"Personal rating" is the new "cultural fit".
>Time for unpopular facts: Harvard is more proximate to Europe. Conversely, the UC system favors Asian international students over all others. One could argue Harvard is at least pro-US by comparison.

How does favoring Europeans over Asians make it "pro-US"? Neither of those populations are American.
This is about GDM, which is the last thing that gets started.

Hardware devices are initialized before init is started, so you should still be able to gather entropy from the various input devices.

Lack of entropy can't cause the kernel to not boot; it's just userspace (typically services which require encryption) which can have a problem. It would be silly to start a webserver or sshd before the FS is remounted rw.
We have to consider not about who gets into Harvard. What is more important is the incentive structure that our education system is creating. If our system rewards people who play "victimization" games, that would encourage the next generation to prioritize writing stories that complain about the barriers in their way.
If we had a system that rewarded learning a skill like mathematics, reading, writing, and only focused on these, we would have the next generation devoting more time, money, and energy to obtaining mastery over these. You can look at China, where families and students spend thousands of dollars on tutors, and some tutors are millionaires. Encouraging investment and dedication to learning is a good thing. True, you might take it too far, but it is far better to have an educated population that can think for itself.

The SAT should transition to something like the National Exam in other countries. Offered only once a year, entirely free, very rigorous, and encompassing all subjects. This will provide both the carrot and the stick for the next generation to apply themselves to education. We need a culture that loves education and learning, not just sports and drama.
These kinds of stats are basically impossible to produce while children of alumni get to skip the queue and get in much more easily.

If what you say is true, the problem seems easily fixable -- makes children of alumni enter through the normal channels, and not mention their parents, and if they will get in if they deserve to.
Actually the conversion to fully automated is in the end stages.

https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2019/06/18/cashless-...
No. It's something I heard growing up in SA, and I thought there'd be lots of sources about it online, but that was all I could find. It's possible that it's a myth - happy to hear from someone who knows more.
> Interesting how Boeing and Airbus don't manufacture in China

https://qz.com/1497137/boeings-china-plant-delivers-first-je...
> Imagine if the US suddenly had a dictator that just decided they were going to take all property rights and freedoms like that

He wouldn't be in power long because the economy would shut down and the US cities are extremely dependent upon a functioning economy.

And say California and Texas don't go along--now what? That's more than 50% of your military.

This is similar to Syria. Sure, Assad is still in power, but what's left of the country?
> when I would bet that 99% of people visiting a slaughterhouse would be absolutely reviled by the modern animal condition with how animal farming is currently done.

I bet 100% of people visiting farms in the third world would be absolutely reviled by the "modern" human condition with how crop farming is currently done. And 99% of vegans/vegetarians disregard the human violence and food shortage behind that quinoa in their plates.
I probably shouldn't have said "can't" be paid the same. Instead something more like "don't need to".

Up front, I believe everyone should be paid the same. I want that. But I do accept local living standards. I must - and therefore I am paid less. It's just a reality of our world today.

I think this conversation is about how global our economies are. Which I think are more local than people believe. Also keep in mind that cheaper living isn't always worse living, just cheaper.
Pizza shops are making >100 pizzas an hour where this would be a problem?
It's worth noting that religion is not a demographic category that explicitly factors into admissions or collected. Students are not required to disclose their religion (sexuality for that matter as well). Those figures are collected through various student surveys and may not fully representative.

Also international students are counted separately from the race/ethnicity categories. This is due to how the government classifies and collects information about race and ethnicity (see IPEDS definitions below).

https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/report-your-data/race-ethnicity-de...

I used to work at Harvard as an institutional research analyst. I actually submitted the final reports (institutional demographics and other stats) to US Department of Education. If anyone is curious, a large portion of the aggregate demographic statistics is open and available to the public: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data
Hey now, I was the proverbial awkward nerd in highschool, but you know what I've never done? I've never implied that child pornography is okay.. or bestiality.. so I see this differently.

I've heard nasty things come out of that man and I have no interest in listening to him.
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It would be interesting if they got different diplomas depending on what basis they were admitted. BA(History, Sports), BSc(Chemistry,Donor), MD(Legacy). I'd be happier if the doctors at least we're not legacy advantaged. Of course, legacy might be a determinative factor in life success, but I'd prefer the doctor who got in on academic merit alone.
Because life sucked for black people in the 60s and they managed to change the law?
Costco now has sauce machines as well, basically a big turntable with a dispenser arm.

https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/how-costco-makes-its-pi...
Who would go down without a fight if the government tried to break up your business? Just the logical next step of escalation.
You didn't answer his question, created a strawman, put words in his mouth, implied he doesn't care about equality (isn't treating people equally, regardless of race equality?)... goodness.
What? Rule 30 is on a 2D plane.

EDIT: Oh I understand now! Each generation is 1D. Thanks for explaining! :D
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>Labor is cheap relative to the materials in the 3rd world so they run things as long as they can get parts.

Don't think it's a function of that frankly.

I grew up in South Africa and the market down there is driven by a mentality you describe - cost consideration, pre-owned, access to parts, certifications etc. Stuff any westerner would be familiar with.

Head a bit further into ahem "proper" Africa and things changes very rapidly. e.g. My uncle living in Kenya reckoned that you could get a full transmission change done on the side of the road i.e. on gravel of the road shoulder (if it has one). That's where the old tank style mercs come into their own...anyone with mechanical aptitude and access to tools has a chance. Certified? Nobody fuckin cares - can you fix it in dust conditions with limited tools?
spies! everywhere!
honestly, as someone who cares about typography and culture in print, the constant and relentless "spies everywhere" statements from the security community look more and more like a sickness, not a defense. PDF was designed for print integrity, with images and typesetting, and I am grateful for it everyday. Please calm your alarmist content, and yes, security is necessary.. a good servant and a bad master, I would say.