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One of the main human drives in life is to provide for their children. Why shouldn't you be able to spend all the resources you can to give your kids advantage?

What I find curious about this discussion, which often occurs when people discuss what advantages are fair and unfair, estate tax and the like, is that they perceive each human being as a completely independent actor. Whereas for me, at least, it's more natural to think in terms of families. If the first generation achieved success, should it be reset in the next one? Why? The example you're talking about, with people reaching incredibly high success from nothing, are exceptions; usually it takes two or three generations at least.

And it's never only about money. Family culture, outlook toward education, work ethic, etc, these things survive when the family loses all of it's fortune or goes through even more dramatic events — though it's easier to notice when you live in a country that lived through a couple of revolutions, bloody wars and a couple of genocides in the last century than in US.
How long will it take you to earn 1 million?
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Hope you all can have fun with it.
I left the company, both times. Once I established that they were gas-lighting everybody and nobody cared, time to move on from that toxicity.
> Inhabitants should endeavour to live in love and unity. Anyone bickering, brawling, or slandering neighbours would be severely punished.

Compulsory love under threat of severe punishment. Many modern communities seem to still believe this can be achieved. I doubt it.
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Should we also rail against Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo for paying developers to make games exclusive to their platforms?
Trump went bankrupt, but still managed to be ok due to a huge inheritance. The same happened to George Bush.
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Periodic reminder:

Most data in iCloud, including device backups (that includes full message history) and Photos, is not end to end encrypted and can be accessed by Apple without a warrant.

They provide this data upon request automatically to the US military and federal government without a warrant.
> Maybe with 3 or 4 full generations of nothing but hard work and luck you might make it up from working to middle class. Maybe.

This is a ridiculous over-exaggeration in the age of internet.
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When the user specify the appropriate trigger words Alpha, Alpha gets activated and executes the user commands.

Virtual Assistant: Alpha Hello, Hi or Hey Good Morning" (Greets the user according to time)

The implemented Voice assistant can perform the following tasks:

Opens a wepage : Alpha open Youtube, G-Mail, Google Chrome, Facebook User: Alpha, Open Youtube

Tell time User: Alpha, time

Fetch Top headlines from CNN User: Hey Alpha, news? open CNN page

Captures a photo User:Alpha, Take a photo or camera

Searches data from web User: Alpha, Search Butterfly images from web

Ask geographical and computational questions User: Alpha, weather Predict Weather of different Cities

User: Hey Alpha , Wikipedia Ruby The voice assistant abstarcts first 3 lines of wikipedia and gives the information to the user.

Ask Alpha about what task it can perform and who created it User: Alpha, Who created you? / Alpha , What can you do

Log off your pc when required User: Alpha , log off or sing out

Tell joke Alpha, joke

Show commands Alpha, commands

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Python

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

python3 alpha.py

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I was interested to read about got, which uses the same on-disk format as git.

https://man.openbsd.org/ports-current/got.1

The command-line interface is consistent and minimal. It has the least amount of options possible while still being usable. We strive for sane defaults that fit our workflow, instead of offering configurability for every possible use case.

https://gameoftrees.org/faq.html
I think the last years should have taught us that just because we do not see it, does not mean we are not responsible for changing it.

And recruiting is something where engineers are also involved a lot. They recommend, they rate, they have networks, they may even be part of HR. Just to name some ways. If you get fired (e.g. of your visa protecting job) a well networked person has a lot more chances than someone not.
It's interesting to me that what you're describing has basically been codified into the game design of "rouge lites" like Enter the Gungeon, Binding of Isaac, and now Hades...bunch more, Mana Quest, Spelunky...it's a whole game mechanic now
I never played the 1.13 mod (did not manage to make it work with my Steam install). But imagine: better AI, more refined movement points, multiplayer!

Maybe once my son is old enough I'll play with him (hopefully it will still be available in another 10 years).
I wanted to offer another perspective for this trend: Many states in India, especially in the South, have affirmative action policies that make it really hard for these people to find good jobs or colleges in India. So they head out and prosper in the US.
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There are others too.
> Majority of them are privileged right wing bigots

That's amazing that you've met the majority of them. Did you write it up?
In these countries, what survives more than anything else is political connections. If your family has the right friends you can do well, even after big setbacks.
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100% agree but you should acknowledge the survivorship bias that skews perception away from what you’re asserting. Some people get lucky with everything falling in place while being poor or middle class and get rocketed to upper class. In any case the game is so rigged in a deterministic fashion.
This is why TikTok's algorithm is better than YouTube's, in my opinion.

YouTube takes the content you have seen and explicitly shown that you like, and shows you a more extreme version of it. It tends to over-recommend alt-right YouTube, for example.

TikTok takes the content you have seen and implicitly shown that you like, and shows you diverse content that has some of the features you seemed to enjoy, while it learns from that.

If you are looking to fetishise young Asian women, then maybe you are on the wrong type of website (and: maybe you shouldn't do this).

Is it a bug in the algorithm, or a feature of it? If I'm a young Asian woman creator, I also have an interest in whether the algorithm is fetishising my work.
I'm not sure why you interpreted the comment you are replying to as an attack on the actions of rich people instead of a complaint about societies failure to provide opportunities to poor people.

Perhaps because you know those two things are linked?
It's frequently brought up in radical leftist discourse* (marxism, anarchism, etc…) or even center-left discourse (social democracy, social liberalism, etc…).

AFAICT it seems to be taboo outside these circles.

* I should mention that many people make big point that you shouldn't use economic points like this to ignore things like racism, i.e.: while racism intersects with economics you can't treat it like it's the same problem.
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That might very well be true. I'm fortunate enough to work in an organisation that takes tech debt somewhat seriously and we never jam a flag "on". If we're at the point where we're ready to turn it on for everyone, we just remove it from the code.

It's either on for a subset of users, or it's not in there at all.
I've always thought it's that last point you touch on, that's most important.

There are mechanisms (and we can discuss their effectiveness) that try to balance the playing field in provision of opportunity - but there's a huge gap in "provision to cope with failure"

e.g. Two people graduate with equal abilities and are offered an opportunity to found a start-up.
One of those people knows his parents can cover rent/food if things don't go to plan, and the other will be homeless (or maybe more likely would have accumulate personal debt, or leave the city and move back to parents).
One of those people is more likely to be able to take that risk and therefore more likely to reap a reward.

I'm not even sure I can think of a fair way to level this.
See "Protestant work ethic", but it's not really specific to that. It came along with the belief that "the devil finds work for idle hands"; that is, people who had time on their hands would use it to cause trouble for others. And there's a grain of truth in that, a lot of disruptive youth behaviour is linked to not having a structure and purpose within which to do things.

Idleness is great for us self-entertaining solitary autodidacts, but that's not true of most people!

> It seems today that Western society's whole goal is to increase our option for idleness.

... in a consumerist context. Although the internet has hugely expanded the options for non-bored non-transactional idling.

Prior to the media age, the main thing idleness led to was drinking.

And people who are themselves working hard find it hard to tolerate seeing people who aren't. This drives all sorts of ridiculous behavior, like office presenteeism.
So... They nicely fit in with the upper-caste Americans. As long as you have a system where you make some "upper-caste" universities so expensive that only upper-caste people can attend them, you will keep the caste system alive. This is why education should not be privatized, there are no equal opportunities within the US as well as in India. It's all about what family you are born into.

The whole caste system is also very much alive in the US. Things like good education, crime-free neighborhoods and good healthcare are all for the rich(er).

Edit:
This: "Except, this time, it is happening in the US tech industry, a place that people normally associate with egalitarianism and a thirst for talent regardless of colour, race, religion, or any other creed." is not really what I associate the tech industry with either. I feel it is is still very white male (like me) dominated.
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> Additionally to iCloud I have configured my Mac Mini to download all files and photos, which are then backed up using BackBlaze.

Do you just back up the `Photos Library.photoslibrary` folder?
Of course, how/when would lower-caste get the opportunies to study and/or immigrate as easily?
It’s a Vice.
When you have to buy cryptocurrencies you have to pay your country's payment system, then you have to provide information to government or a bank account. It's just an contradiction of blockchain always said its a "Privacy-Safe"thing.
I saw a remark by Miltom Friedman, basically he think beiing able to inherit your wealth to the next generaltion is one of the biggest drivers of the economy.
It seems inevitable now that the system is going to collapse. There is no way that people will ignore all the things which happened over the past few months and move on...
We're stuck in a media limbo. The public is not digesting the 'everything is good' rhetoric anymore; some people are pretending to believe it, but deep down, everyone knows what's really going on.

I can see occasional articles being published which try to normalize the situation to dig the corporate elites out of this hole but it's not working.
There is no recovery from this. The system will stay stuck in limbo until it collapses; collapse is the only way out.
Yeah, one could make a similar argument with self-hosting: How the data is transferred physically through undersea optical cables, how internet routing works and the complexity of it down to how the hardware underlying his Nextcloud installation works. It is really a miracle that it all works, though.

I've been self-hosting my e-mail, and I'm thinking of switching to Google Apps, Fastmail or Protonmail due to the fact that sometimes my emails just go directly to spam. There's also the worry that my server might get hacked, and the maintenance that you often have to do. My time is orders of magnitude more than the few dollars a month all this costs.
This is actually all very good advice and succinctly put at that. If you think of more, please do add it to your comment!
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Google sent an email to all Chrome Web Store app developers about this... Despite only a tiny fraction having ever used the payment system.

Was that just carelessness? Why not only notify users of the feature you are about to deprecate? Do they not have records of which app developers have used the payments API?
If it were possible to ensure everyone who would potentially be exposed to covid-19 as a result of your decision to engage in high-risk activities had given informed consent, I'd be fine with letting people decide for themselves.

Since that isn't the case, your comparison is patently absurd. Skydiving isn't contagious.
> This is never really discussed directly

I see it discussed constantly all over the internet. Also it's not entirely true; there's a bunch of examples where people did make it big.

All too often this position boils down to "Capitalism bad" which then just attracts the "Communism bad" opposition and ends in a pointless shitshow buzzword exchange.
I do sympathize with the argument (I've made it myself, in the past), but ...

... the problem with that is there are a lot of damned smart people who are good at what they're good at precisely because they view "wrangling tech" as a complete waste of their time.

Artists and musicians are a really good example, and are the key reason I use Twitter (pretty much the entire indie game industry lives on that platform), but this principle also extends to doctors, lawyers, scientists, teachers, historians, practically everyone in all the sciences, trades, and humanities ... except computer programmers. I've had aspirations towards being a polymath, and one of the bitter things I've learned about the programming-autodidact death march is how much of what someone learns isn't important fundamental knowledge, but is just byzantine details that will evaporate half a decade later when the software in question goes obsolete. It's excruciating to waste time learning something like that (which will become worthless) when I could be learning core programming fundamentals -- or could be learning something in a different field like drawing that will stay valid for the rest of my life.

I was a desktop developer looking-in-from-the-outside at web development, and I timed my entry into the field specifically to avoid the hot mess that was the API differences between netscape (yes, Netscape Communicator 4.5) and IE 6 at the time. As a programmer with enough of a nose for bad code smell, I took one look at that and thought to myself "this is completely insane." I could have knuckled down, busted the books and gotten all those api minutiae down just pat. Just in time for jQuery (or future browser versions) to show up and render them irrelevant forever.

It wasn't insane because it was a mess - it was insane because it was definitely going to go away, and soon. And once it did go away all the time I'd spent learning and mastering it would have been utterly wasted, sure - but wasted at the expense of not doing something else that's more important. That's time I could have spent learning the piano. Or a foreign language.

Now - not all programming is like that - eventually you've gotta bite the bullet and decide something's "good enough to get the job done". Many tech stacks actually end up in a nice sweet spot where they're coherent enough to learn quickly, and stable enough (in the sense of an API) to get out of the way and let you approach long-term projects without the ground shifting under your feet. But if you just blindly vacuum up proficiencies as they come off the treadmill you'll quickly discover you're doing nothing else with your life.

--

This is the relation most humans have with tech. Especially the smart ones who are really into something else.

It's a means to an end - and can work wonderful magic. But it demands a price.
Having more money allows you to make mistakes. Having rich parents allow you to make mistakes that are normally unrecoverable for normal people (e.g. going to college and getting kicked out), because money buys you opportunities.

Inheritance is just like caste, you are born with an advantage over others.
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I guess it is partly the design of the application: Enterprise Java apps often contain lots and lots of classes and have deep inheritance trees. So if you have a piece of code that says "foo.save(a, b);", then which of the 132 different "save" methods that your codebase contains is being called here?

And because Java is statically typed, this enables you to do things like changing the name of the "save" method in 83 of the different 132 instance, namely the method from class "Widget" and all its subclasses. And, of course, update the right callers.

If you are doing Python or JavaScript, you often don't have much of a clue what the type of "foo" is in that "foo.save(a, b);" call, and so you don't know which of the "save" methods are being called. And you know that when creating your app, so you stay clear of class hierarchies that require this IDE functionality to untangle :-)
Something that worth to be mentioned too, is that the gateway project has been designed to be extensible with addons. The community took off with more than hundred of adapters to support new devices or protocols and even online services.

Myself I wrote a couple of them and use them to push further than the regular smarthome use cases.

For the curious ones watch demos:

https://purl.org/rzr/weboftwins

https://purl.org/rzr/social
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You could possibly get a job at a company that does something like this or aims to?
> Take the profit out and they would start following the law.

That fails miserably in the callous world we live in.

Petty criminals break the law. Professional gangsters skirt but operate within the law. The true kingpins write the law.

If you already have the money to enter the game, few things have a better ROI than buying the law makers.
I see three issues here:

1. If we force/ask un-social media like facepalm to block fake news, then who do we trust to provide true news?
Fact checking at least forces people to admit there are gray areas, but thinking people are not on un-social media anyways and the unthinking people will see what they want to see. “They only say that because they have to”.

2. Defamation is and always was punishable under law in most jurisdictions. The fact that someone is stupid enough to post something online rather then slander in mouth to mouth fashion is new. The problem here is that “going to court” is a too big a step (and too costly) for most people. This outcome does not fix this.

3. What if later on it turn out that this defamation/slander/gossip was actually true? If facepalm was forced to delete such posts, then who is going to find out?
“Serious” news outlets might not even want to publish this because it could damage their search ranking (after all it is blocked or deleted on un-social media).
>"Oh look at those poor backward indians!!" Well, most of the rich people I know had rich parents.

Yes. But those indians in favor of the caste system remain "backward" - it's not just something like poverty keeping the lower castes back and the rich getting an extra advantage over others to have their kids be rich.

It adds a further layer of pure discrimination akin to very heavy racism.

Imagine the poor considered not only poor, but inferior human beings -- and not allowed (or accepted by "civilized" upper caste people, when legal) to do many things even if they have the money to do them.
The network effects might be real but like I said, it's mostly self-inflicted. You can make friends who are not your race too.
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Doesn't that mean he just had more money than he was dumb enough to lose at the time?
> > Drink driving is banned
> Yet it still happens and claims innocent victims. [...] This is about choice.

So there should be no drunk driving laws "because choice"?

Your argument really does seem to be, "Laws are worthless, because people break them", because you repeat it several times.

> This isn't a pandemic. It's a panicdemic.

I would be ashamed if I had written what you had written.

Where are your rational arguments? Where are your links to peer reviewed papers? Where is the moral, rational or intellectual integrity here?
Even among ordinary people, the default system was limited (if not selective) enforcement. There were a lot of capital crimes, but even assuming someone who committed one of them was caught (before the introduction of police forces or detectives) and convicted (before the introduction of state prosecutors), they would often be pardoned or receive a lighter sentence.

Juries also had a role to play. For instance, at one stage you could be hanged for stealing property with a value of more than 40 shillings. There was at least one case where a jury convicted someone of stealing property to a total value of 39 shillings, even though what he stole included more than 40 shillings in cash!
People who are surprised by this have no idea what life looks like for lower class Indians.
Not surprising considering there is 50 % reservation for lower castes inside India. This results much lower cutoffs for government colleges and jobs for lower caste, so upper caste feel the country doesn't respect them and they leave the country. Why work twice or thrice as hard just because your caste is different while most of your taxes goes to benefit rich reserved people? I'd much rather work in a foreign country that everyone equally.
From the top of my head, Boeing 787 fuselage sections are formed as a single tube (more advanced, more expensive) while a350 sections are formed from 4 separate parts (older, cheaper technology, easier to repair though). 787 Cockpit is made from carbon fiber reinforced with titanium, while A350 cockpit is a traditional aluminium one. So yes, these things are invisible to a passenger the same way as a software architecture is invisible to a user, but to airlines and to industry as a whole these things are important.
> turn some problems from intractable to tractable, or from "go and get a coffee" to "interactive HTTP call"

Or broaden the set of problems that can practically be attacked using SAT solvers.

Deductively proving program-correctness is one such problem. It's currently possible but clunky, [0] or put another way, it's practical given a patient and skilled user. Further advances in solvers will presumably translate into 'lowering the bar' for automated correctness proving.

[0] With the disclaimer that I'm not an expert, this quote seems to capture the state of things in Ada SPARK: none of the provers available in SPARK (CVC4, Z3 and Alt-Ergo) are able to prove the entire project on their own https://blog.adacore.com/using-spark-to-prove-255-bit-intege...
I guess everyone is too busy redoing CORBA and DCOM with gRPC nowadays, to pick on the COM's reference.