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A whole series of colonial models was brought back to the West, and the result was that the West could practice something resembling colonization, or an internal colonialism, on itself

I keep thinking a lot of today's identity politics are the direct result of colonialism and its racial hierarchies. A lot of post-Apartheid South Africa's affirmative policies transferred some of the priviledges of the former whites to the groups that Apartheid had marginalized, but the legitimacy of identities developed by a colonial system were never really questioned. (Saying this as a coloured man, who still can't see how such a category could ever be considered meaningful).

You could even say that affirmative action evolved as a kind of colonial science of imperial management. Following brutal colonial repression and subsequent rebellion in the late 19th century European empires adopted a softer type of rule that - on the surface - provided more advantage or more recognition to colonized people. Japan itself learned the technique from Europe and implemented a similar ruling style for its Empire until WWII, giving more visibility to Manchu, Koreans... and representing itself as a multicultural Empire. A historian called the USSR the "Affirmative Action Empire"[0] because this was their preferred way to maintain control over minorities while giving them the sense that they could "make it" in the Soviet Union.

I think affirmative action dates back to the 60's in the US, which follows its rise as a global empire with the Japanese occupation, Korean War, Vietnam War and influence over South America...

[0]https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Affirmative_Action_...
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Connect the iPhone to your mac with the lightning to usb-c charging cable and enable it in the Audio Devices app on your Mac. You can then use the iPhone as you mentioned by selecting it as an input from the Mac’s Sound app.

I know OP mentioned Bluetooth, but as a work-around to not having audio cables. Hopefully this would fit the bill instead.
To add to your point, he didn't even say it wouldn't be a good investment; in fact he said if someone pointed a gun to his head he would choose to invest. His problem was he couldn't assess the exact likelihood of success (which he nevertheless reckoned was "high"), and he only goes for investments he considers 100% winners.
> If you don't properly fund and support you public postal service

Raise prices for shipments? Or make them "free" using covid-19 "free" money
Yes, Buffets long-term shtick has been "grandfatherly simpleton". He intentionally plays that up for maximum effect.
What I find interesting is that now Gates is aping Buffet in that regard. Gates now exclusively appears wearing sweaters and speaking in simple truisms. Selling vaccines must require it?
I think Ardour is doing the same. You can get the code and build it youtself, or you can pay them and get a proper build.

Of course Linux distros are still building and shipping it.
I would be careful about citing a fictional example of an American bank.

I'm not even objecting to the fiction. But more that American unit banking was extremely weird. Basically, many states banned banks from having more than one branch. The result was the world's most fragile financial system.

See https://www.alt-m.org/2015/07/29/there-was-no-place-like-can... for a comparison of 19th / early 20th century Canadian and American practices.
@Thanks Derane, but the device you suggested is only voice call. Not video call. And we wish to make use of our current devices.
Finding (print) anthologies that contain a specific short story can be a challenge though.

I got introduced to Bujold's Vorkosigan series via the short story "The Borders of Infinity" which is (amongst plenty of other anthologies and a collection of three Vorkosigan shorts confusingly called Borders of Infinity itself) included in Infinite Stars (ed. Bryan Thomas Schmidt). Getting most of the novels was easy enough, but hunting down the remaining short stories meant foraging for second-hand out-of-print anthologies.
We're in for an... immigrant shortage problem, however unbelievable that may sound.

China alone could absorb all that workforce and still have room for more given that their fertility rate has been below replacement for close to 30 years now.
The fatalism around America’s relative decline is so tiring to read about. Apparently the only thing that can occur is a sudden and disastrous collapse of Pax Americana, even though as shortly as 15-20 years ago America enjoyed total and complete hegemony over the rest of the world (militarily, economically, politically and culturally).

That period was a historical fluke, in my opinion. At no other time in human history has one nation been as powerful and influential as America was, and to a certain extent continues to be. To assume that its relative decline can only continue and exacerbate and end in complete and utter disaster in our lifetimes reads to me as simplistic binary thinking.
Most people I know online are parents of young children. They, like me, post to share what they're doing with friends and family. Who is really posting their dog soggy at the beach just for selfish attention? They're just sharing their lives with friends. Maybe my social circles are generally fairly wholesome?

I'm a bit socially inept, so if I'm at a gathering and know (from Instagram) someone outside my immediate circle that I'm talking to has recently holidayed with their kids or got a pet or whatever, it's a big help prompting conversation.

For me, appearances and experiences are part and parcel. Let's say I like going on adventures and that I like people to think of me as adventurous. And so being adventurous to demonstrate that I'm adventurous is self-serving. Gets me off the couch in those moments I need a little push.
But still.
I'm not a fan of this. While I see the privacy benefits of not implementing some of these APIs, I think it's also worth noting that:

1. Privacy and convenience will always be a trade off, and if you constantly put privacy/security as your top priority, you'll hold back tech/society and limit what new products/services can be created. The potential for abuse shouldn't be the sole deciding factor between whether someone gets invented/implemented or not.

2. As people have said, app store apps have access to this stuff. This makes it less like something Apple did for privacy, and more to try and limit competition from web apps, since if those do well, Apple won't get any money from them.

3. It restarts a worrying trend where browser devs just decide they can ignore the spec because it's convenient for them/in their best business interests. That's something that was terrible back when Internet Explorer had a near monopoly, is worrying now with Chrome/Webkit being in the same situation, and just as bad with Apple here.
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No, this is either because they have no idea what they are doing, or because they like bossing people around in return for not getting their way regarding user data while pretending this behaviour is because of consumer-unfriendly EU regulations.

It's perfectly fine to set cookies that are necessary for providing the service without having to ask the user.

They only need to get one's permission if they want to do other things like selling data to advertisers.
That's way above the US inflation figures for food and beverages ($17k), and less even than US medical ($22k)

The pound inflated a little more on average, to £18k, but nowhere near that 95p inflation.
Did you have to include the antisemitic whistle?

American police needs no lessons in brutality from anyone.
The Whole Earth stuff is fascinating. If you can get hold of the Catalogues they're full of interesting details.

People may want to read The Cuckoo's Egg (Cliff Stoll) and The Eudaemonic Pie (sometimes called The Newtonion Casino in other countries) to get the flavour if this bit of history.
Banking services for rural Alaskans / people without internet access / anyone else in the 2% [x] lose about as much as postal services.

[x] In the west big tech can more or less serve 98% of the population. but there is (approx) 2% of the population who for various reasons are massively uneconomic to serve - mentally, ill, disabled, poor, lacking literacy skills or the wrong language. Hell its probably more than 2%. But the point is Government must serve these people and provide a level playing field. Commercial companies dont have to.
Deutsche Post has flat-rate pricing within Germany - unlike your proposal that mail to and from remote locations should cost more. So I'm not sure how that example supports your argument?
> Python now has a complex type system - that many developers never use.

Python doesn't have a complex type system. How could it when, to this day, it doesn't bundle a type-checker?

Python had a way to annotate functions (PEP 3107), which the community largely used for type-hinting, so Python introduced better support for type hints (PEP 484 and various extensions since).
That the St. Moritz Toboggan Club committee sticks by nineteenth century customs in the twenty-first might be circumstantial evidence for the brain-addling effect of too much high-velocity ice time?
Mind if I ask what kind of startup and more about your journey?

I just started learning web dev, looking for some inspiration
Appreciating accessibility with a broken collar bone
More fully explained here : https://dev.aseprite.org/2016/09/01/new-source-code-license/

The license and FAQ are somewhat confusing as to if you need to pay for a license even if you compile from source.
> with Model 3 / Y eating up S / X sales.

Eeehhhhh. Not really. They did discontinue the low-end S editions, yes - but the number of people who could have afforded to buy an S who opted for a 3 instead aren’t that many people.

Tesla opted to remarket the S/X as flagship cars instead of being their mainstream offering.

It would be cannibalism if Tesla launched an extended wheelbase/station-wagon/estate/shooting-brake version of the Model 3/Y while still getting the S/X around.

Actually - I will concede that the Model Y probably is eating into sales of the X.
Fair point, I didn't think that deeply about trade secrets. I guess it could be even more hidden with various forms of machine learning, even the engineers themselves possibly couldn't explain how or why it worked when they left the building.
> a Tesla is an affordable option for an Norwegian looking for a nice car

Not only that but between the EV incentives and ICE disincentives, a Tesla won't be just affordable, it might end up costing just as much as a lower-end ICE car. The value proposition of the 2 options is reversed so one extracts more value by going the EV route. This has historically been called as "tax benefits for the rich" presumably because most EVs were still out of reach for much of the population. This should equalize now as more cars like Zoe come onto the market, assuming the incentives are there to stay.
Show HN: Service Status Checker
I found it annoying to check if a service I depend on was up or down.

So built this simple tool to check the status of various third parry tools I rely on.

Hope someone else finds it useful.
> IMO the same tension exists in Python. The hobbyist-hackers are using the language to write small-ish scripts, and the enterprise-scale developers are working on million-line codebases.

It's an endless cycle in all aspects of IT, the conflict between small tech and enterprise tech

Large tools from bureaucratic enterprises are useless (that's a given)

Shadow IT built around hacker tools gets the business goals through

Enterprise IT see that these tools are popular and actually meet business goals, but they didn't invent them

Enterprise IT attempts to justify itself and find something approximating the usability of the good tools from some "safe" vendor like Oracle, Microsoft, etc. After all nobody got fired for buying IBM.

Enterprise IT spends a fortune, everyone hates it, but old tools are defunded so can't be used.

Shadow IT build new ecosystem around different hacker tools to get the business goals through

And the cycle continues.
What version of uBlock Origin? I'm on 1.28.4 and it is not blocked for me.
2-3 weeks is not even remotely persistent.
They did something like this at one time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Savings_S...
Another anecdote.

Me, my wife, and our two kids recently moved.

Previously we lived in a large house that looked “special” — old but in good shape. Lots of wood and 4m ceilings. That was a rented place.

By chance we found a house smaller and not special at all — a mass-produced townhouse, basically — that we were able to afford buying. For a few us-specific reasons we really wanted to buy a house instead of rent it, so we went ahead.

I was a bit scared that it would be a let-down. A downgrade. The house would be less special. I would feel less special. I was certain I would regret it, but it made sense for the family.

The opposite happened. It’s a much nicer experience. The house feels more cozy and more modern. The kids have suddenly lost all problems sleeping in their rooms by themselves. They go play in their rooms. They never did that in the previous house. And being a townhouse, there’s a bunch of similar families around — suddenly the kids have friends.

I work remotely so there’s not a huge difference work-wise. But I’m much happier and more relaxed knowing the kids are happier and more relaxed.
I actually made a conscious effort not to idly listen to music anymore, so when I listen now, its purely for the enjoyment of listening to music. When I go for a walk, I listen to nature and let my mind drift without constant stimulation. I enjoy the music a lot more this way.

Yeah, I find 90% of what I use my iphone fir, I could really do without, like social media. When this phone dies, I plan on getting a cheap dumb one for emergency calls (I can still communicate with friends over IM on a laptop) and not replace the smartphone.

The experience taught me that I do not need to be stimulated all the time and I don’t need to be connected or reachable all the time. It felt liberating knowing that when I left home/office and was out of wifi reach, that I wouldnn’t get bothered by work requests. It felt liberating knowing that, while inconveint at times, I had to arrange a time and place to meet people, and we had to thennstick to it, instead of “i’ll call you when I’m near, whenever ir whetever that may be”.

The only reason I went back to having a phone is a family member got annoyed and bought me one, but a middle ground would have been to get a dumb (phone calls and SMS only) phone, rather than a smartphone or going without a phone completely like I did.
I agree with the article's title but much less with its content, which seems to claim that returning imperial soldiers will always cause some sort of trouble for the (soon to be former) empire.

I think it's quite telling the author had to go back to the 15th century to find a historical precedent for his claim. Especially since the Hundred Years War could be described as many things (succession war, civil war...) but certainly not an imperial or colonial war. Why not take an example from the end of the British Empire, the French Empire or the Japanese Empire - all great colonial powers in the 20th century? Or Spain, Portugal and Netherlands before that? Because they are very few. I can only think of the loss of Algeria and the coup attempt by the French military in that context - but in the end that hardly destabilized the country.
The trance like aspects aren't really what it's about with dance. Sports/martial arts/yogas are great, but the whole point of TFA is that dance is different. The others have all sorts of strengths, so it's a little puzzling to me why the argument would be made "yeah but sports too!" Nobody's criticizing sports here, and the implicit argument here that "naah, dance can't be special" is not based on fact and kind of off-topic.

Having studied a little modern dance, being a sw dev and bicycler, lifelong musician, and a pilates fanatic -- dance absolutely has more for the brain/body/emotional/spiritual connection. It's kind of the whole deal and it is unique this way.
The system can of course continue to grind & lurch for a very long period of time. However, here we have a global forcing function: climate change, and the likely mass refugee crisis. America is not set up politically to welcome those refugees. The plan is to let them die at the border. It's unlikely a sizable portion of the American population will accept this solution.
That many developers never use type annotations (nothing interesting has happened to the type system in a long time) kind of suggests that it's not a problem. The feature is there if you want it, if you don't you ignore it.
Yes, my first thought was "did grinding gear games write something new and technologically interesting?"

How have people been finding the Harvest league in PoE? I'm loving the easier crafting, but dislike the seeds/garden layout/management aspect.
Ubuntu Web: an upcoming Ubuntu and Firefox based web OS
The only meaningful mail most people get is packages, so from that point of view, this headline is a good thing not a bad thing.
You are literally trying to sell product in every single post you make.
Good. How often is mail something I need vs spam, or things that could be emailed to me or sent digitally.

Amazon are things I needed delivered.
Minute garlic butter ramen noodles
Building an API MVP from the Ground Up: Part 2 – Billing
View it in "Reader" mode.
Azure Training: How to Start, and How Much It Costs
Good, probably for the better.
In the article one provider was notified that their database was without a password an publicly accessible.

They secured it, and somehow managed to make it publicly accessible again without password, this time it got hit by this attack.

Honestly this is like if a company decides to keep their paper records with my information on a public side walk, and somebody saw that and decided to bring them to the landfill.

Is it legal or fair? In a perfect world no, but at this point the company is not blameless.
Is this someone [0] one actually wants to refer to?

From his Wikipedia page [0]:

Several of Bjørn Lomborg's articles in newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Telegraph have been checked by Climate Feedback, a worldwide network of scientists who collectively assess the credibility of influential climate change media coverage. The Climate Feedback reviewers assessed that the scientific credibility ranged between "low" and "very low". The Climate Feedback reviewers come to the conclusion that in one case Lomborg "practices cherry-picking", in a second case he "had reached his conclusions through cherry-picking from a small subset of the evidence, misrepresenting the results of existing studies, and relying on flawed reasoning", in a third case "[his] article [is in] blatant disagreement with available scientific evidence, while the author does not offer adequate evidence to support his statements", and, in a fourth case, "The author, Bjorn Lomborg, cherry-picks this specific piece of research and uses it in support of a broad argument against the value of climate policy. He also misrepresents the Paris Agreement to downplay its potential to curb future climate change."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Lomborg
I use Bing and Google normally. I never use DDG. My results are different than yours. Including things that you don’t have.
I don't doubt that _some_ people do it, but I would seriously doubt that everyone, or anything approaching everyone, does it. This would imply a much smaller market for small cars than actually exists.

So, yeah, the Zoe wouldn't be suitable for those people, but it might be suitable for people who buy small cars anyway (which is most of the market, AFAIK).
Different index algos and filter bubble. People don’t get the same search engine results.
I really appreciate the insight here - thanks a lot :)
How India Became a Hack-for-Hire Hub
I tried but when I scroll down slower I have to wait for the content to slide in from the left or from the right, or to assemble at random. Still no good.
More countries are on track to have declining populations than there are countries that have anywhere near enough people to export a labor class to do hard manual labor around the world. In fifty years, the countries above the replacement rate will be slim and mostly down to a few African countries.

Countries relying on immigration are going to get strangled and fall behind those that found ways to continue to develop themselves.
In my opinion, it is due to location. Bing returns 8 results on the first page, and DDG returns 10 results. At the top of the Bing page, I can see that Bing already takes my location into account (and it is precise, it is my city), so there is no box to tick. Once I tick the "location" box on DDG (it is only the country), I get 7 identical results out of 8 on the first page! The order is the same for results 1-4, the 5th result is different, the 6th result is identical, and results 7-8 are identical but their positions are swapped.
Give a Try to CDK constructs for fargate (ecs-patterns) and Assets for registering Dockerfiles as ECR repos
> a car's airbag does not go between my brain and my skull, yet it does prevent my brain from slamming into my skull

No it doesn’t. The airbag stops your head. It doesn’t stop your brain.
Yeah, I get that, but it seems like an unhealthy way to live. I guess that’s just part of having kids, for a lot of people...
> The marginal tax on a £100-125k London salary is 62%

This is why you should reduce a 100 - 125k salary by 40k through salary sacrifice, paying into a self directed pension. Taxable income is reduced to £60 - 85k.

> Also, VAT there is much higher than sales tax in CA.

Yes but there are no property taxes in the UK, which I'm sure far outweighs the difference in sales tax on a yearly basis. Also VAT isn't applied to everything, it is reduced to 5% for fuel and 0% for food. I'm making the assumption I can cash purchase a home I actually want to live in in the UK. Purchasing a house isn't really optimizing net worth either, but it is a stability factor I would rather have. I'm looking at $1.8m-2m minimum in SF for a property I would actually want to purchase and live in. I'm sure there are plenty of massive homes in the middle of nowhere I could purchase but am I going to have a job I want and live near interesting like-minded people? Probably not.

> an acquaintance of mine had to pay ~75% marginal tax on AMZN RSUs

RSUs are not a qualifying option in the UK. Most startups in the UK are offering EMI share options, which are more tax efficient than any offering in the US unless you look at early exercising with an 83b election, which is obviously significantly riskier.

> The savings from your ISA accounts will be negligible until your portfolio grows

Yes that's the point, if you grow an ISA to 1mil in value over 25 years, drawing down that ISA at a 3% rate is a significant tax-free lump sum contribution to your yearly income.

I won't go into the full detail but I reckon that with the combination of an ISA, pension allowances, and dividend/capital gains allowances on private investments, you can draw nearly 97.5k in income and pay only 3750 in tax, and there is no AMT in the UK.
I am inclined to agree. But I assume that in practice it's all just down to accounting: retirees tend to vote a lot.

So I expect pensions to be bailed out. Especially government pensions.

USPS is just forced to already confront reality early, instead of waiting for the bailout later.
A bit confusing.

If I vote for something, does that mean I

- 1. believe that thing is good/exists etc

- or 2. that I'd like to talk with people who are interested in this

Stupid example: a vegetarian might very well hold the position that raising animals for meat is bad while still be interested in discussing it.