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Oh the irony of this coming from Princeton! They accept a third of alumni children compared to 5.5% of everyone else. Is this meritocracy or luck?

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2020/06/princeton-...
I think you forgot the last few lines, where the guy who won ended up telling a friend at the bar how he won the donkey but the donkey was dead all along. And then an irate mob descended upon Kenny's farm, burned down his house, put him against a tree and shot him, and then took his $998.00 and bought rounds for everyone back at the bar.
The article makes very nuanced points that don't transpire in the title, and thus get straw manned in the comments. Here are the salient points:

- The article says nothing against creating a fairer world (aka equality of opportunity)

- Many believe that the world is meritocratic, which is not the case as there are many cofounding factors (plenty of which we don't have control over) that get in the way of finding a causation between hard work and outcome.

- The paradox of meritocracy: believing you acts meritocratically results in less fair outcomes.

- Being grateful to the impact of luck makes you more generous and fair.

- Meritocracy can be used as a justification of our own success and self-worth, so in this situation any criticism of meritocracy can be perceived as an insult and threat to what we have and are
A planet colonised and dependent solely on high tech for its own survival is a potential catalyst for radical innovation and trade. We could turn it into a place free or our earthly issues. Antarctica is just a cold place which we may colonise once it melts, start a few wars over it maybe, destroy it, exterminate its tiny wildlife and so on. Mars is already dead, hopefully not stimulating enough for our primitive instincts and will let us focus solely on tech advancement.
If you are a lawyer, yes.
I'm not sure i'm following. Your inspection is something you would do with any product purchased. If your request is a discount or price because you found something that was wrong, then that would be between you and Amazon. I've never received anything other than a new item when it's happened at other retailers like BestBuy (This exact scenario with wrong HDD in external chassis).

I would argue that just like they bake in issues, you as a consumer have to account for that in your purchase decision.

There's no perfect answer, but i'm not sure you would be entitled to anything beyond them fixing the issue in a responsible manner. If you want something beyond, it's within your right to request that from them and theirs if they accept it. I will say, often if you have issues on individual packages with delays, they extend your prime by X days.
The optimal option would have been to demand root and branch reforms in exchange for very substantial debt relief.
Thanks. Grammar check - its note "codes"; it is "code".
I’ve had this happen to me multiple times with Apple keyboards and mice for the office. They are listed as brand new and sold by Amazon. But they are clearly used when you open the box.
Of course you can, but this article is about folks who want to use Windows (for whatever reason). If you want to use "the raspi" as a controller, there is zero reason to look for a way to put Windows on a tiny board. A standard raspi already does what you need.
or spherical cows.
But our ancestors need not be.

Also, that's something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. In order to be a long-lived civilization, species, or even biosphere, we must learn to think and plan far beyond one's own lifespan.

Anyway, you're proving my original point about the (lack of a) "need" for a magnetic field. It isn't necessary (on any kind of reasonable timescale), provided you have sufficient atmosphere. On Earth as well, the atmosphere is much more important than the magnetic field for shielding us from space radiation.

EDIT:Which isn't to say we couldn't build one. In fact, building a magnetic field for Mars (say, by many parallel superconducting cables around the equator) may be easier than making enough atmospheric pressure.
See all of professional sport in the US before 1950, and what professional teams look like today? How come none of the pre-1950 teams simply figured they could completely dominate their respective leagues by just not ignoring all the "value left on the table".

The story in the article about how the Duke university students were wined and dined, given direct recruiting contacts and wooed, and the A&T students were given the previous days leftovers and NO recruiter contacts isn't some aberration. It's happening right now, this year, literally leaving all that talent on the table.
I think the thought that it’s not dangerous because it’s not the government is itself dangerous. As you say, private interests and multinationals have a lot of power to ensure compliance. Economic power is as powerful as political power.

I think that concentration of wealth in the hands of an ever-shrinking elite is a form of oligarchy.
Yes, it is possible to lose a green card if one spends too much time outside the U.S. but there are steps one can take before leaving the U.S. to protect one's green card (that is, apply for a reentry permit) and steps one can take to reactivate a green card if stuck outside for a very long time (more than one year) (that is, apply for a returning residence visa). There is no exception to the reset - one year continuously outside will reset the residence clock for naturalization purposes.
Back when this came out, I was 15, and still stuck in my zealous fanboyism against anything Apple-- but even I had to admit it looked cool.
aren't you "harboring" them, as far as the law is concerned? https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324

https://www.disciplesimmigration.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...

"Harboring is conduct that substantially facilitates an immigrant’s remaining in the U.S.illegally and that prevents the authorities from detecting the individual’s unlawful presence. (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit)

Harboring includes affirmative conduct such as providing shelter, transportation, direction about how to obtain false documentation, or warnings about impending investigationsthat facilitates a person’s continuing illegal presence in the United States. (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit)

Harboring is conduct tending to substantially facilitate an immigrant’s remaining in the U.S. illegally. (U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit) Harboring is conduct that clandestinely shelters, succors, and protects improperly admitted immigrants. (U.S. Court of Appealsfor the Sixth Circuit)

Harboring is conduct that provides or offers a known undocumented individual a secure haven, a refuge, a place to stay in which authorities are unlikely to be seeking him. (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit)

Harboring is conduct that affords shelter to undocumented individuals. (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit)"

(Could always say didn't know-- don't ask don't tell)
Usually only when the company that bought the volume license goes out of business, so not all the time, but it certainly still happens.
C# is garbage collected. Even if the performance potential was as high to begin with (it's not), that's a non-starter for heavy games because you need to be able to control & predict the performance spikes that GC creates. That's even more important for an emulator, which needs more predictability than a regular game.
I legit thought this was going to end up in a loop where there was never any donkey and it was the same scam the original farmer pulled. Dead non-existent donkeys all the way down.
Here's more information for people looking for help with long term recovery from covid or sepsis, from the UK Sepsis Trust.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheUKSepsisTrust/videos
There's basically no way to stop a consumer returning something, no matter what state they got it in or what state it's in now.

Any discussion about how it was when it was sold is their word against yours.

Ultimately they can just charge-back. Short of taking them to court, what are you going to do about that?

It's important for consumer rights though.
I love it but I’m pretty sure it was built by workers in a factory, but our world only remember names of so-called « leaders »
Absolutely. And don‘t underestimate the mountain range of legacy these baby boomers coded.
Code review: string concatenation in C
I was thinking about cis girls.

They're the ones who need inspiration. If anything transwomen are overrepresented in tech.
Unfortunately that makes the dilemma less clear, although more emotionally powerful. Good rhetoric, bad dialectic.
No, I don't think they need to be worried.
Thanks, that's very useful! Will read through those links.

> developing a perspective before jumping into anything

Probably the biggest takeaway here, for me. Each domain is more complex than it appears on the surface.
> Americans tend to reject it entirely out of hand as it smells like vile socialism to them.

This is a bit too reductionist. I'd wager that most Americans agree that these are worthwhile goals, but many are skeptical that empowering the government is the best way to achieve these ends.
One of the best things that I did for myself related to this addiction process is to use android focus/well-being to limit my interaction with social networks/news with a time budget. It allowed me to focus my efforts in doing other things.
I agree probably 80% or more of your mundane enterprise back-end programming tasks are shuffling data to and fro to the database, batching transformations, system integration and on the wire data transformations. Sure there are the jobs out there where back-end developers are sequencing genomes or creating ML models but for the majority of them, if you need to use ML, you are just the guy pumping the data to some service to get the magic data results. Don't get me wrong, I do back-end dev and it is important, just highlighting that it can be pretty routine stuff.

In those environments front end work can actually be the more complicated system, where a developer is trying to take a complicated manual workflow and capture it into a flow of screens that make logical sense for the user.

What the author is seeing is a lack of team alignment not the division of labor, give that he is a full-stack developer I am sure he is keen to the division, but the problem is a people problem in nature. In the environments I have worked, we do not divide teams into front-end or back-end. Teams are comprised of a mix of skills that are aligned to supporting a business silo. In these team dynamics developers know the value of each of the roles, from the DB admin, to the back-end guy to the front-end guy and what we usually see is cross pollination where many of the *-end developers end up picking up skills from the other side and start working the full-stack.
Well the traditional alternative is that you inherit your profession from your parent. In terms of political leadership this would be aristocracy but it was pretty common for others too. Men with the last name "smith" expecting to follow their father in becoming smiths for example. But of course levels of employment in different jobs are nowhere near as stable as they were back then. Not too many smiths around and we've gone from 80+% of people working as farmers to less than 5%.

I suppose you could have everybody randomly assigned to jobs. Or you could people have a list of preferences and to the extent that there are more applicants to a given job than open slots randomly assign them then move the other applicants to their next slot.
This looks like it uses rrweb which is open source and can be self hosted.

https://www.rrweb.io/
https://github.com/rrweb-io/rrweb

Nonetheless nice work and it's good to see alternatives emerge.
Pentagon's UFO Unit to Disclose Some of Its Findings to the Public
Hey I use ifconfig.io all the time! Thanks for the handy service. Really cool that you are able to handle that much traffic for so little $.
The Cube also had bad market timing. The dotcom bubble was bursting so the market for luxury office equipment was quickly drying up. Aside from that everyone said it looked like a overpriced tissue box.
My ESTA was revoked (unilaterally and with no reason ever given). I waited on a B1/B2 in Administrative Processing for basically 12 months - all of 2019.

It's a frustrating process because there is literally no information available when the application enters this state, although my suspicion is that this is because nothing is being done.

Anyway it might have been longer but eventually the company's legal team collected statements from all the people this had happened to and they were submitted to one of the US Senators in the state where the company is based. My visa was issued shortly afterwards.

Not sure what message you can take from this except perhaps that the whole system is crazy (arguably even corrupt?)

(To head off the first question: No I don't have any criminal record, and there is no reason anyone has come up with as to why the ESTA was revoked.)
Hotjar has offered this for years. And no I do not think it is ethical, even though it can be legitimately very useful for product and UX teams.
How about both cases.

As a student you're on CPT and OPT. And after you graduate, OPT.

Is there a huge difference?
Any lawyer? The obvious question: what about a lawyer in Nazi Germany?

If you say of course not in that case, you acknowledge that there are unethical laws. If you say of course even Nazi lawyers are acting ethically, your absolutionist viewpoint doesn't exactly fit in with the messy real world.
The real question in this article is not whether luck or merit determines the success of an individual. The actual purpose of the article is to covertly present a “debate” without proposing anything in place, because we all know that the alternative to meritocracy can only be the ideology of the radical left, which the author seems to embrace (by looking at his other articles). The author argues that other programmers, as skillful as Bill Gates, don’t ever become as rich. This is a false argument, as equality of opportunity can’t and doesn’t guarantee equality of outcome. By making this argument, the author doesn’t take into account the multitude of other factors that contribute to a person’s success. Nobody says that merit is the only factor in predicting the success of the individual.

Also, the author argues that meritocracy inevitably leads to more discrimination. This is a completely unfounded conclusion, as we know that meritocracy goes hand in hand with capitalist societies such as the USA. And I think it’s fair to say that discrimination has declined in the last century, and not increased, as the author falsely claims.

I find it ironic that the article that claims meritocracy is bad, is hosted on the website of a university.
No, I think it is intrinsic to human nature. We have a need to simplify our picture of the world; if we were to see all phenomena in all their various shades our brains would explode when we try to combine or compare two or more phenomena as we do. That doesn't mean we don't acknowledge the complexity of things (in say a research setting), it's just that we can't make a point if we were to always make such concessions in normal discourse.

That said, in certain political climates, such as the US presidential election season, the tendency to see things as black or white certainly gets amplified.
Yeah I wouldn't like driving to another city to do my errands either. I think the OP meant having a grocery store literally right next door to you
Giving money to undocumented immigrants isn't illegal.

Establishing a non profit to direct money to undocumented immigrants isn't illegal.

What was the illegal activity you were talking about?
For 90% of people they're not really that complex. The 1040-EZ, which is all most people ever need to fill out every year, is ultimately just a few numbers that you add and subtract. Then you look at a big table so that you don't have to do any multiplication or rounding. Then you wait for a refund if you overpaid your taxes through the year, or write a check if you underpaid, and you're done.
heh, one of my classmates had this.

His cat loves sitting on top of it, causing it to shutdown unexpectedly.
Thanks a lot Ivan!
If you're running macOS, Tinderbox ticks a number of your boxes:

* "Need to search? Tinderbox starts looking for the answer as soon as you start typing, and often finds your answer before you finish." https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/

* "Links update themselves automatically as you move notes, so sources always stay attached to quotations, and conclusions are always anchored to evidence." https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/Visualize.html

* "[T]here are some neat improvements for notes containing images; for example, notes that start with images now have those shown on the face of the note automatically, which for my art projects is ideal." https://eclecticlight.co/2019/04/16/take-notes-tinderbox-8-i...

* "With Tinderbox, your data is yours. Tinderbox files are XML, and Tinderbox can create HTML, XML, RSS, OPML, and more. Tinderbox shares notes with Simplenote, Notes, Evernote and DEVONthink Pro Office for iPhone and iPad coordination." https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/
Are you taking into account the luck of genetics and what income level you're born into?

As someone born into a middle class family in a certain area, with certain genetics, I have been able to easily obtain middle class, with very little effort. If it's this easy for everyone why isn't everyone middle class? I don't feel like I've worked any harder then people who are worse off then me. If anything, I think I work far less hard.
In addition to Lord of the Flies, we had to watch a movie in my high school (long ago) about student movements getting out of hand, I think it was called The Wave.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0083316/ might be it
Unfortunately, a three tiered government means the law is written by congress, not by the people who see the injustice of the law and want to fix it =(
For a US based firm which way of Contract work is easy to do business with.

1. Contract with W-2 Which requires TAX/SSN id.
2. Contract work with a Remote hire.(Off shore).

Does firms get any benefits for going route#1 ?
Why staffing agencies are not taking route#2 ?
You can measure for yourself with a sensor[1]. In my experience all of those have an impact, but can be mitigated by things like a HEPA filter and using an exhaust fan while cooking.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21566110
"Bad management"?

Seriously, somebody must be over that process, even the CEO if nobody else will claim it. They either need to handle it, or delegate it to someone to handle. If there is a vacuum, accountability rolls up to the leader.
Well, it's clearly a tradeoff. By staying in the Valley, you are prioritizing having options at many startups at the expense of home ownership.

I live in Minneapolis. Not as wide ranging options here, but many of them are at fortune 500 companies (relatively stable), and homes are affordable. I'm sure you can find examples in many other similar cities.

The Valley may have the most opportunities of anywhere, but to say that there's just no work anywhere else is a bit ridiculous.
I'm a real dummy when it comes to economics, so I have a question. What is the theory that buying assets like stocks boosts the economy? Doesn't this just create incentives to hold on to those stocks, so that you can reap the growth? Given that most stocks by far are held by wealthy people, it's hard to see how this stimulates demand, since they already are able to buy what they want. Theoretically, they might eventually sell the assets and then start a new business or something, but this seems very indirect. Isn't it easier to just hold the stocks/real estate? I don't really understand why holding a stock is considering investing, since the company (where the actual employment and production happens) doesn't see a benefit.
Yes, it's possible and we do it all the time in fact. The issues are around timing of the filing of the green card application and international travel and renewal of the TN after the filing. Generally, it's not advisable for naturalized Canadian citizens who were born in countries with green card backlogs (that is, India and China).
This is a testament to the greatness of Steve Jobs. It’s not just your successes that define you when you constantly are pushing the envelope.
What part of the ruling said that DACA was illegal?

My understanding was that they said that the current administration did have the power to end DACA, but that the justification they gave for doing so (that DACA was illegal) was incorrect, so it could not be ended until they gave a proper justification for it.
You could do the same process if you used dynamic typing and good test coverage. Just make your change and keep fixing tests until everything is green.
I love the idea of an instant replay of my own session! Unfortunately, the replay doesn’t work for me on Safari on iOS.
Your argument is severely undermined by the fact that mars is already fucked up and we need to employ lots of tech to fix it. We can then use that tech to solve some of the issues on earth.
Jeff Bezos at Startup School (2008)
Schedule the 5-10 mins, then schedule again for later.
There are a number of ways to control the GC in comfortable ways in C#. https://adamsitnik.com/Array-Pool/ comes to mind, especially for games. So you can lean into GC when possible, and switch to an unmanaged approach when you are seeing perf issues.
I don't _think_ so.

I think there are certain research areas which are interesting, but research outcomes are so potentially misused or politically incendiary that there are no research done by people of good will.

If you're curious what those are, that would be any root of an arbitrary topic that is contentious in the US culture wars.
Yeah it's going to be the same all around. Ease of returns at the others won't likely be.
> When the conventional-minded get the upper hand, they always say it's in the service of a greater good. It just happens to be a different, incompatible greater good each time

I think its hard to imagine people on the other side of your positions and world view. If your team is winning, you do not stop to think of those on the opposite side of the coin. But circumstances change, you could be on that opposite side of the coin someday.

> Enforcers of orthodoxy can't allow a borderline idea to exist, because that gives other enforcers an opportunity to one-up them in the moral purity department, and perhaps even to turn enforcer upon them. So instead of getting the margin for error we need, we get the opposite: a race to the bottom in which any idea that seems at all bannable ends up being banned.

Free expression of ideas or something else filtered by those that own the platforms. Is that the choice we have?
More importantly, could he have done the same thing in today’s world and political realities that he did then?
I found the old press release. The base price was $1,799 for the 400Mhz G4 and $2,299 for the 500Mhz. Adjusted for inflation it's equivalent to $2,783 and $3,557 in today's money.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2000/07/19Apple-Introduces-Re...
What are the historical views and experiences of people outside of Europe?

Sadly this article is written exclusively from a Euro-centric perspective. Even the “Inventing the Beach” part of the title is colonialist.