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Flu vaccines are an interesting one. They're changed each year (in UK, Fluenz Tetra is used primarily) based on a guess at the 4 most likely prevalent strains for the forthcoming season. I don't see how you can hide behind "rigourously tested" "longitudinal scientific observations" and such.

All public vaccination schemes are for populations, but flu vaccination in this form seems much more of a gamble than tried-and-tested vaccines.

AIR one-in-ten getting the vaccine get "flu-like symptoms"; but it's for the population as a whole.
"I think people will be regarded more as statistics than as actual people."

There's probably a fair bit of nostalgia in there (and for a time way before mine, too) but boy did that boy nail it.
I love how the title and the first sentence of the article are completely at odds. The judge said that it was ok that Harvard discriminated not that they didn't do it.
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I didn't say consuming meat products made by the modern factory farming system/methodology makes anyone a Nazi. I'm saying that consuming those products means you're consuming the products made by a system that actively commits genocide and torture at the scale of billions of lifeforms. That doesn't make everyone doing it evil, and I hope that as people come to read more and become more aware of what's going on they choose to stop their consumption of animal products. Individual agency is all we can have.
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Ah, but now you prove my point.
its a good question : could the dictator get the support of the military? Would the people in the military from the top down be willing to, say, decimate a resisting US city with artillery and bombs?
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>No one is taking away your guns.

Not yet.
Why do you think that? Discriminating by race for hiring is explicitly illegal, so wherever it's happening, it's already happening despite the law.
> sick days, holidays

There might be some fancy pizza restaraunts where the staff isn't hourly, but I don't know of any. Taxes and fees are pretty minimal on a minimum wage employee, so that leaves lawsuits which I have no idea how to quantize.
Harvard does tend to favor wealthy legacies though:

"According to The Harvard Crimson, 43.2% of legacy students and 20% of athletes in Harvard’s Class of 2019 come from households that earn more than $500,000 a year, compared to just 15.4% of the overall class.

Harvard President Lawrence Bacow said that many of the legacy students applying to the university would be in the most desirable applicant pool regardless of their status.

“Their applications tend to be well put-together," Bacow told NPR. "They have deep knowledge of the institution. So it's a self-selected pool, which, as a group, by almost any metric, looks very, very good relative to the broader applicant pool.” "

https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/09/penn-upenn-philadelphi...
Wow - I thought evidence was super clear that Harvard DID discriminate. If what Harvard was doing was not discrimination than a whole world opens up for this type of "non-discrimination" against minorities, Asians and others.

How in the world are other much more nebulous and tenuous cases being won and this one is not?

Crazy world.
I have had almost this exact experience multiple times, except with the alarm I set to wake myself up. With most old-school alarm clocks, you can violently fling your hand in the general direction of the clock and usually manage to at least hit the snooze button.

Ever since switching to a phone/tablet though, (Android, in my case), I now have to first locate the phone, make sure it's oriented right-side up, attempt to remember which direction I'm supposed to swipe, and if I can't remember, attempt to decipher the tiny symbols without any explanatory text.

I remember at one point that the entire UI changed when I upgraded Android and the next day I could only stare blankly at the screen trying to figure out what was going on while the alarm blared in my face.
The point is to compel compliance by outrage of the majority group.
Does anyone have a link to the opinion?
There's people saying there's too many whites and males in tech too.
And here you see first-hand the decline in the quality of discourse in HN
Sorry to say this but pizzas in that youtube video look disgusting.
I'm in the same boat as you except I haven't started this dating game yet. I know no one in my (admittedly small) network of friends and acquaintances, who is willing to drop everything and create a startup with me. I'm not in the SV so that doesn't help.

I'm trying to come up with a strategy including meetups. But how likely is it that single founders going to these meetings with an idea of their own, are going to give up on it and join someone else? And if someone is going to these meetings without a strongly held idea, then what does that tell me about their intention (free ride?).

The only way I can see this working is if 2 founders meet that have an idea so close that they can see merging them. How likely is that considering constraints of time and location...

I'm starting to find that the hardest part of my startup is going to be the people factor, which I will say is my biggest weakness. I guess it's good that I'm aware of it at least.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21122778.
I ended up using google keep as my most stripped down notetaking app that can can sync between devices.
What made you think I think that?
It's like somebody looked at RDF triples and thought "F*CK IT WE'RE GOING TO FIVE ELEMENTS"
You probably can't, which is my point.

Generally the best ways to analyze the impact of similar social changes is to compare two similar locations, one that makes a change and one that doesn't, over the same time period, and hope that controls for broader social change.

It's not perfect by any means though.
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Thomas M. Cooley and you are both right, the Second Amendment is now completely useless, as it was written in a time when individual states operated their own militias who were actively being disarmed by the "tyrannical" government at the time. Now they don't and therefore aren't being disarmed, so it can go away entirely.

Trying to warp this specific Amendment written 220+ years ago to serve as guidance for modern times is a farce, and has been manipulated by special interests into causing the murder of hundreds of thousands of people.

Thomas M. Cooley recognized that, but didn't draw the better conclusion; that the Second Amendment needs to be revoked.

2008 was a substantial setback, but it isn't the end of the conversation. The Second Amendment will be the thing our grandkids shame us most about.
Graph, not tree
There's so much to unpack here, IDK where to even start.

"I don't see color" doesn't feel helpful to many people of color. If you believe that there are prejudices, and you want to fix them, saying "everyone immediately needs to stop being prejudice and everything will be better" isn't actually a solution we can enact. What if people don't suddenly decide it's in their best interest to not be racist?

*Edited to remove off topic comment
Yeah, the WSJ article's headline seems more accurate

"Judge Determines Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Policy Is Constitutional (wsj.com)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21129654
The judge said they did it for "the right reasons" not that they didn't do it....
> A federal judge on Tuesday rejected claims that Harvard had discriminated against Asian-Americans in admissions, saying that the university had a right to choose a diverse class.

There's a big difference between "does not" and "is allowed to".

EDIT: I was a bit curious so I took a look at the author of this article and her NYT bio says she graduated from Harvard: https://www.nytimes.com/by/anemona-hartocollis. Now it's generally editors, not the writers, that come up with the final title. But still that's one hell of a conflict of interest.
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This is all true.. However what I meant is that the way gerrymandering can indicate a winner that is not the majority choice, is quasi analogous to how the Simpson's paradox exemplifies a weighed average that disagrees with the subtotals of the data.
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He's got a gun, he's got lots of guns; just as many as you, possibly more, because he's also been preparing, as you have.

You're going to have to go much further right than you seem to think to arrive at a conclusion of, "I need to commit acts of terrorism against my own country because I believe the US government is tyrannical."
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Yes, but I also don't see how breaking up Facebook would change that.

(For the record, I'm not decided either way on whether breaking them up is the right way to resolve the problems that Facebook causes.)
> Who is going to be able to afford the products if we all are replaced by robots in the workplace?

!=

> When robotic manufacturing eventually becomes cheaper and faster than manufacturing in China

That is a straw man argument. Manufacturing is one of the leading frontiers in automation. It's going to be cheaper to manufacture things outside of China due to automation long before a significant enough portion of the workforce is out of work due to automation and unable to afford the manufactured goods.
Discriminating by race for college admissions is also explicitly illegal. (Edit: see https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/hq43e4.html )

The law only matters inasmuch as it can be enforced. If judges decline to enforce the law when they believe it’s in the interest of diversity to discriminate against a specific race like Asians, it could equally apply to employment where similar diversity initiatives are taking root.
It's like we have these two irreconcilable ideas:

- Diversity is good

- Discrimination is bad

When 50% of the world's population is from China/India, how do you both promote diversity and not discriminate?
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They manufacture in China not mainly because it's cheaper (lots of places are cheaper than their home countries), but because it's the only way to get a significant part of the large Chinese market.

> inherently do not trust a Chinese-owned, manufactured, and regulated system for commercial aircraft

This is true, but it was also true for European airliners in the US at a time. And it took time and effort, but it changed.
Wow, thanks for sharing this. I'm on Linux myself but you can find builds for Windows, OS X, and Android here: https://github.com/janbar/noson-app/releases
What I don't get is, what happens if you don't declare a race, or declare "Other", during admission? Why wouldn't Asian candidates do that?
Because the control is still being implemented. To implement it, you need influence.
Okay, but producing fuel requires a lot of energy, so how are you going to power that? With a different engine onboard your jet?

The point of this device is to take energy available on the ground and store it for use in the air, and use a storage method with a tremendous amount of energy per unit weight (hydrocarbons).
> just like we avoided nuclear war

That's reporting bias. If nukes had been used we'd quite likely not be having this discussion.

> These big, nasty collective-action problems CAN be solved.

I used to think so too. Now I don't believe it. We muddle though, but one day we won't be able to any more. I fear climate change will be that think.
A judge just said it is ok discriminating at admission, another one will say it is ok to discriminate on hiring. It is just a logical path of thinking.
A masters is already quite good. It should make your life more interesting than a bachelor's. Think about a decent job, no questions asked, you might even have a reasonable choice on what type of job you will take. Don't expect too much though.

Now with a PhD you could be the envy of your community. Imagine posting about pursuing your PhD in Australia or posting on Facebook about the space entity named after your research group. From what I know phds like to post on fb a lot. That is not to deride them. Most of their achievements are genuine and worthy of a like or three. A PhD is quite something. But it is no guarantee. You could get a PhD and still end up at the bottom end of the totem pole. One of my friends is like that. Spent years as a lecturer in China only to choose unemployment for a decade when he got back. But yeah. You have to mess up quite badly. I would argue that even in his case his life became more interesting because of it.
You are talking about war like it's like a football game. You have one, and when the time's up, it's over. You have a clear winner and a clear loser based on the scoreboard.

Wars are comprised of many battles, which may or may not cause one side to "win." Wars are over when both sides agree to stop. What compels a side to agree to stop? Many, many things. The US won every major battle in Vietnam, yet there isn't a clear cut winner. The CSA probably would have been an independent nation had Lincoln not been reelected in 1864, a victory Lincoln himself didn't think would happen.

The point being, an insurgency, yes, ultimately wants to "win", but winning includes things like protecting food / water, freer movement, slowing down an advance, creating safe areas, disrupting the enemies ability to wage war as effectively, or just general annoyance of the enemy. If this can go on until the opponent ultimately loses the will to fight, or offers acceptable concessions, it's a victory. It doesn't have to be an overwhelming, parade-in-the-streets type victory, it just has to make the enemy lose the will to fight the insurgency.
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If they can't discriminate against asians that means they couldn't discriminate against white people either.

We allow that therefore we allow this.
This specific ruling at the lower court is mostly inconsequential. DOJ will immediately appeal, and I don't think anyone doubts for a second that it will ultimately be decided by SCOTUS.
I've had progressive colleagues virtue signal their disappointment when my company selected Asian/White male leadership over 'more diverse candidates'.
What pizza shop offers health insurance?

I completely agree that if you're offering a minimum wage hourly job with no benefits you don't get to complain about difficulties finding staff and retaining them. They have tons of options at that price point if they want to switch jobs. If you want to avoid having to constantly deal with turnover you need to offer more.
> Both the far left and far right feel like they're being silenced

I'm in the group of people who thinks that Facebook is a huge problem, but I don't think the problem is that they're silencing anybody, left or right.
> Interesting how Boeing and Airbus don't manufacture in China

Airbus has been building aircrafts at a Final Assembly Line in Tianjin since 2009. And many Airbus/Boeing suppliers have formed joint-ventures with Chinese companies to bid on contracts for the C919.
"In her decision, Judge Burroughs gave an eloquent defense of the benefits of diversity, and said that while the time might come when it would be possible to look beyond race in college admissions, that time was not yet here."

This article seems pretty biased. Also it seems like the ruling will be appealed.
The whole premise of “woke” movements is they’re the right kind of bigots — just like the bigots in the 1950s said.

Progressivism is a cancer for egalitarian societies.

And frankly, that black politicians can keep their job while associating with the Nation of Islam black supremacist group speaks to the long term double standards in government.

For those who don’t know, the Nation of Islam is the group of black supremacists who gunned down Malcolm X when he stopped teaching black supremacy and instead preached universal brotherhood, following Malcolm X’s trip to Mecca.

Obama associated heavily with one of their previous leaders, Louis Farrakhan — the man suspected to have ordered the assassination of Malcolm X. In fact, the entire Black Caucus had lunch with that black supremacist.

https://www.ajc.com/news/local/could-this-long-lost-photo-ha...
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The real question is "why doesn't everyone mark 'African American' " I always self-identify as an african american woman where possible.
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One of my best friends works a remote software engineering job in a relatively rural area. He needs fast internet.
At least our C02 emissions would be reduced.
Also was the bus seating 50 years ago, as judges confirmed at that time :(
Washing machines have an extra cheap line too (the bottom model of a make), which is tooled even cheaper than standard line (whereas regular stock uses 10k RPM four-pole induction or 1500 RPM four-pole synchronous motors, 600 RPM spin model of the same brand uses 3600 RPM six-pole asynchronous motors). Dishwashers have no such extra-cheap lines.
I'm out of the loop, but isn't this the same kind of affirmative action that makes it more difficult to be accepted into elite universities as a white male? I was under the impression that this kind of discrimination was perfectly legal. When I was applying for college I constantly heard about how white and asian males had a much more difficult time getting scholarships and getting accepted to Ivy league, and other highly selective, universities but I don't know how true that really is
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I’m sure I’ll feel silly when someone finds them, but are the concepts of “narrow win” and “near miss” defines in the context of this paper? Is “career setback” defined?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLxpgRqxtEA
There's plenty of people who put AA as their race just to get a boost to their chances.
Value-judgement words like "eloquent" do not belong in a straight news article. Journalists used to know that.
I find it sad that in the year 2019, in what is ostensibly the best country in the world, and is by a very long way the richest country in the world that an apparently significant majority of people still think it possible they will have to actually go to war with their own government, and they need to keep guns for that outcome.

Brutal, bloody, horrible war where literally tens millions of people will die in agonizing pain.

Why the hell is "the best country in the world" thinking about and holding onto it's gun for this?