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There are educational systems that mitigate that problem. Not perfectly, but to a large degree.

Many people studying today had poor parents that never had any form of higher education. I don't think the US systems is good at this. It concentrates on excellence or at least the appearance of it, although there are probably exceptions if you parents are rich or influential. Bad thing is that it works to a degree because the smartest heads get concentrated while others need to be content with lower quality education. A system that should be obsolete with modern logistics of information. Tech is currently leveraging that weakness by building an even worse alternative with their own campuses. While integrating the industry in universities can be quite the advantage, I doubt this will be a helpful basis. There will be people that like to live in infrastructure belonging to their employer, it is just the modern version of a cult.

I don't know about the issues in India, but perhaps lower caste members just don't have access to education. Financing education in the US is difficult because economic imbalance and ridiculous prices on education. Of course that works as a selector if you don't get a scholarship.

I think it is fairly possible to have a broad education system that doesn't determine your future if you fuck up elementary school. Instead there need to transient systems that allow to build upon your educational career, because pupils learn at different speed and had different advantages like private tutors.
I currently use Lync and despite all Teams flaws I'm trying to convince my coworkers to stop Lync/webex meetings when Teams meeting work fine and it comes with an Android app so audio issues will be fewer
Let's not give anybody ideas for some destructive action now because there is a name attached to this.
That's exactly how I feel. It's taboo to discuss that our economic system is just as rigged as (say) China's.

I also should have been clearer: racism is definately also a factor. Poor minorities fare so badly because they get both racism AND classism (or whatever the appropriate term is for the natural increase of both wealth and poverty).

I think one of the major upsides of the cold war was that western countries were very eager to show we could do better than those dirty commies. That birthed all sorts of programs to give people a chance of improving their lots. Most of those are dead now.
Inbox should have met that metric. I think it is a culture thing, it's far more easier to deprecate any product than to keep supporting it
It's literally in the linked IntelliJ blog post:

IntelliJ: 72%

Eclipse: 13%

Netbeans: 3%

Who knows how realistic it is though... I personally enjoyed working with Eclipse. It simply suffers from a reputation problem because people developed monoliths with hundred thousands of lines in a single maven project in it...
coax ? how quaint - there may be a small number of customers on actual coax but this is about Openreach part of BT's plant which will be POTS copper.

Unless they actually mean that tv blew away everyone's wifi, which is impressive but unlikely.
This discussion made me think of the "Joe Flom" chapter from Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell - https://www.litcharts.com/lit/outliers/chapter-5-the-three-l...

I post this not really as a rebuttal to your post, or the grandparent, but more of a "here's what success a couple of generations later" actually looks like and what some of its characteristics may be.
> Why shouldn't you be able to spend all the resources you can to give your kids advantage?

Because it's absolutely toxic for society as a whole if inequality gets amplified over generations.

Estate tax should ideally be 100% above a reasonable cap. And by "reasonable" I mean a sum definitely below "never needs to work to support a middle class lifestyle".

> If the first generation achieved success, should it be reset in the next one?

Yes, absolutely.

> Why?

Because many opportunities are essentially zero-sum.
> I'm not even sure I can think of a fair way to level this.

The only way is to reduce the pre-existing wealth inequality. Which is why a lot of people are in favour of strongly progressive taxation.
i would also like to get off the bus
This is a protest against a government contractor, not against surveillance state. It's misplaced, which is a pity. I don't see anything good coming out of protesting against Palantir, not even favorable PR.
I think that it is a bit more complex than that. Their original plan was for native[1] gaming on Linux.

When it proved hard to bootstrap that and seeing that the Steam Machine itself they started looking for options. Wine was already pretty good but DX11 support was bad. I do not know if it was serendipity that DXVK started showing promises around they same time they started looking into wine or whether it was the reason for them focusing into wine in the first place.

The rest is history, although the side effect is that it pretty much killed native ports for AAA games on Linux [2].

[1] for some values of native. Many, most, ports are based on internal close source equivalent of wine.

[2] I do not really care about native vs proton, but it would be nice if game companies did officially support proton.
To be fair, it's pretty difficult to sue a megacorp and make it stick, so I suspect that we won't see either Google or FB be massively penalised till late 2021 or early 2022.

By which point FB will no longer exist in Europe (as they recently claimed that the Privacy Shield ruling would require them to do).
The caste system is worse than just being rich or poor. Poor people rarely accept that they have to be poor and it's the natural order of things.

I remember when I saw this for the first time and it left me speechless. I'd work with a team of Indians, all officially with the same job title and qualifications. But while most of the guys (this was a long time ago, it was all guys) would really work hard, there would always be one who knew nothing about the job and didn't even bother to pretend he's working. He would literally just walk around acting like the CEO on inspection, or even like a slave owner, wearing a suit that cost as much as the yearly salary of the other guys. He was of course paid a lot more then the rest of the team even if he couldn't find his way out of a wet paper bag.

But what shocked me the most was that the rest of the guys, even when they knew I'm (very publicly) on their side, still talked as if this is the natural order of things. It was not only normal, it was expected. I realized that it's not like a prisoner obeying the guards because they have guns, it's like someone obeying a priest because "he talks to God".

Those colleagues accepted that their position is immutable, that those things were happening exactly the way they were supposed to happen. The "natural order of things". Maybe things changed in recent times, I certainly hope nobody accepts their position just because someone wants an easier time discriminating them.
Wtf? How is affirmative action relevant in this context?
What advantages does the single tube fuselage give?
>Also it's not entirely true; there's a bunch of examples where people did make it big.

That's totally irrelevant though. People are not saying it's impossible for poor to start a company and make it big (in which case those would be counter-examples), they say it's many times harder.

The discrimination lies in the extra difficulty. As someone said, the rich kids starting a startup get to play startup in "easy mode" (which also doesn't mean they'll succeed easily in the market -- just that devoting time to and trying to succeed is far more easy and less rick prone for them).
Bear in mind that "African American activists helped created South Asian America as we know it." - https://blackdesisecrethistory.org/ , and high-social status of Asian-Americans who immigrated after the racist National Origins Formula was replaced in 1965 with a policy which emphasized professionals and other individuals with specialized skills is used as a wedge to attempt to break that solidarity. So if it's taken so long for BLM to be "so hot", perhaps it's not so surprising that an awareness of caste discrimination in the US lags?

Some people say "I don't see race" as of it's a good thing. (See https://www.oprahmag.com/life/relationships-love/a32824297/c... and https://theconversation.com/i-dont-see-race-and-other-white-... for two of a myriad of articles on the topic.)

Most people in the US really don't see caste, because they don't have the training or experience, and therefore also don't really see caste discrimination.

I think this shows a downside of "not seeing" bigotry.
I like to call this light switch per light bulb to drive home the point with customers about toggles for everything. If there is not a clear point behind it, it can become a bit obnoxious.

When working on a system that is or might become multi tenancy we tend to add light switches per light bulb
>> Why are giants attracting 95%+ of users?

Because they get free money from the Federal reserve through cheap loans and government contracts and money attracts people.
They can use the money to saturate the media with their brand until everyone ends up using them.
Then they can use the money to crush all potential competitors.
Out of curiosity, does iOS enable you to disable internet access to an App?

I've done it on Android for apps I don't trust and those who shove ads down my throat and it works amazingly.

MX Player doesn't show video ads when I'm watching a video
The Indian caste system is a specific, fairly regimented thing. Not really the same as the informal structuring of society that we might colloquially refer to as a caste system.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India)
If there is no both WORTH to maintain and hard to maintain code in your language of choice, it's because that language of choice was not used to solve the type of problem Java is used for...

In this current post monolith, micro-service world, most java applications remain very maintainable though.
What is a good input method?
Or cut off internet to that app so there will beno question of messages getting delivered at all
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What about all the reits? A lot of bonds are backed by mortgages. If no one is paying rent then aren't all property owners in serious trouble? What about the massive tax hit for all local governments from property taxes. This isn't a simple problem.
I cut my copper a year ago and switched to LTE+ – unlimited 75/35 Mb/s with minimal congestion for $17/month
The Washington Post have the same thing. To view articles for free, they require you to sign away your GDPR rights, and they attempt to charge you 2x the money for a subscription without tracking.

Sucks to be them I guess, as I pay for news (and run Ublock) but won't reward this mendacious behaviour.
Amazing work on the HD soundtrack! Takes me right back..
I've heard this before and it is mostly false: Only for commercial purposes, since 2016 it is freely available for natural persons to do so in a personal setting.

From wikipedia (easy source in this case, links for more info via them):

> "Since October 7, 2016, article L122-5 of the French Code of Intellectual Property provides for a limited freedom of panorama for works of architecture and sculpture. The code authorizes "reproductions and representations of works of architecture and sculpture, placed permanently in public places (voie publique), and created by natural persons, with the exception of any usage of a commercial character".[20]"

This is the case in most of Europe by the way. Some even allow commercial exploitation.
At least the IPC idea survived with D-BUS, and they could actually still do it, but the elephant in the room is that desktop fragmentation in Linux world is a big obstacle.
Good news! It’s an open source project so you are free to do this yourself!
I agree completely. However, you listed "Github pages" in your examples which is very well known to be on the PSL.
They're really impractical for this use though as they don't act the same way as HTML being inlined into your page e.g. the elements inside the iframe won't influence the size of the iframe making responsive layout a pain, CSS on the parent page won't act on the HTML inside the iframe, sharing state via JavaScript is more complex. Pages that have e.g. contact forms that are really iframes tend to stand out a mile for example.
Oh yes awesome, I tried this on a CRS326 but the main issue is the lack of storage
Some related advice on meetings, stolen from Getting Things Done: every point discussed in a meeting should result in one or more agreed and recorded next actions. This helps keep things clear, focused, and concrete.
What languages do you write and which tools do you use?

How much assistance are you used to or do you consider worthwhile? Where do you draw the line?
For people who discuss this with Indian co-workers - don't be surprised if they find this bizarre or far fetched. For most upper caste folks, it appears as if the caste system doesn't exist because they've never been at the receiving end of it. Most people (me included) would be tempted to say - I've never discriminated, I've never seen it happen in front of me, I'm confident none of my friends would do it so therefore it doesn't exist.

But it does. It's heartbreaking that my fellow Indians have to deal with this in 2020. Just like BLM educated some white people about the existence of racism, how it manifests, how it affects people etc., we need a similar movement to educate upper caste Indians.

I've also seen the same people say "if we completely ignore caste, it'll go away". It won't. I personally can't tell you what someone's caste is based on their name because I don't care enough to find out the mapping between name <=> caste. If everyone was like this, there wouldn't be a problem. But I know for a fact that there exist people who can map name to caste and these people also discriminate on the basis of caste. These people might only be a minority but they can have a disproportionate effect. As long as they exist, the rest of us can't adopt an ostrich approach to the caste system.
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To be fair to the Irish regulator, the only reason that people have been able to delete Facebook accounts is because of their 2012 investigation.

They are somewhat under-staffed, but this is improving (did you know that they are also suing the Irish Government?)
Have you done much with IPv6 scanning?

I know some researchers have set up public services like NTP servers to try and build a catalog of active addresses but with the privacy address extensions even that seems functionally infeasible to me. But most of the things I care about are on private networks these days so I haven't had much cause to seriously investigate.
I have been waiting for company like Palantir to come up. Imagine if we can catch child abusers before they can do too much damage.
I would imagine that without skin splices it weights less, has less drag in flight and generally one less thing to worry about for mechanics.
>I don't know about the issues in India, but perhaps lower caste members just don't have access to education.

The caste system is about natural born status not tied to economics, but ancestral in nature. You're born into your caste and there isn't mobility within the system. So, try as you might, if you're in the lower caste you're in the lower caste and people higher up are going to treat you that way regardless.

I'm not overly familiar with it myself, but I understand it's a deeply ingrained cultural thing that sounds damaging beyond belief and incredibly bad idea, yet somehow inescapable.
From the article:

> The court correctly mentions that Bell has filed many lawsuits over the ‘skyline’ photograph. It also notes that other judges have mentioned that his motive appears to be to extract quick and easy settlements instead of protecting his copyrights.

It's not protecting if you are in it to get rich.
I don't like diversity/inclusion pushed down my throat either and I think people are actually two steps in front of institutions promoting it the strongest, but the intersecting economic problems are similar all over the world.

Hinduism and its caste system seem alien to most western people, but the "you should know your place, peasant" - argument is pretty similar in some interpretations in Abrahamic religions. But sure, some cultures have their own peculiarities and I think not being apart of religious communities is still very rare in India.
For the same reasons people like everything sweet: more carbs less fibre.
It's weird that this is significant news - maybe in the US this is odd but coming from another secular European country, we have had similar shows over the years and no one bats an eye really.
Wow that high - I sort of knew that this was an issue from my contacts in the international Trade union net work.

I will have to send that to one of the people I know who got Caste discrimination added to UK Law.
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I was wondering if something like this existed. Thank you.
Wait until you experience the stress of Apple deleting all your photos including the backup, because someone got them to clear your account.
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That's why inheritance tax is important as a generational reset
If one knows one has a deadly communicable disease and is willfully negligent knowing that your actions are likely to cause particular harm then it would be assault.

Rarely people with HIV have _chosen_ to spread it through intercourse, if someone purposefully chose to give you HIV would you say you had fully consented to that sexual act, given you were entirely ignorant to their infection and their choice?

How would you protect people from active malicious infection? Or, have you done reason that we shouldn't consider these things to be assault?
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Docker doesn't support Prefix Delegation which makes it unusable on home networks with dynamic ipv6 prefixes.

What worked for me was running https://github.com/robbertkl/docker-ipv6nat which allows you to run containers with NATed ipv6 addrsses exactly the same way you'd run ipv4.
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Would love to get my hands on traditional woodblock prints of the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji...
It is sometimes (often even) discussed directly, but being cross-correlated to these proxies means that there are different perspectives on what the operative or underlying essence is.

Part of the definition of class that is often overlooked in discussions is that it's not just about money. This is why the socio qualifier gets added into the "socio-economic" designation... even though people sometimes use the dash and then ignore it.

A class implies a hereditary, cultural and quasi-ethnic aspect. So does caste, obviously.
From the article it seems they are a pro immigration group that is mostly bothered by the collaboration with ICE
Whatsapp data is included in iPhone backups so if you create local backups of your phone you have them. These can be encrypted on the phone.
> The lawsuit alleges that the upper-caste Iyer recognised John Doe and instantly began ridiculing him in front of all the other higher-caste Indian employees at Cisco, saying that John Doe was a Dalit and only got into the engineering school because of affirmative action, which India implemented in 1980 under the then-Prime Minister VP Singh.

If they believed that, it would also explain the other things like lack of opportunities and low wages too.
Openreach certainly are interested in converting homes from EO to a street cabinet and have done this many times, but that's little comfort to you because they haven't done yours yet.

In some cases Openreach converts from EO to FTTP, so you go from only having very poor ADSL2 available to 300Mbps or better available over fibre.
Ungrounded (floating) switching power supplies can emit a lot of high frequency noise. Unfortunately this is the majority of PSUs these days.
looks like HyperScript-Helpers for Rust, nice!
While I agree with the general point you make, I think it is a mistake to say race or caste is a proxy because it gives the impression that there's a "genuine" order of things behind the curtain of illusions. This is not a good model for a better understanding of the world around us imo. Hierarchies whether based on material resources or status seems to exist everywhere but are instantiated differently in each place for historical reasons. Race or cast is not a proxy for real hierarchies hidden behind them, it is how some of those hierarchies have taken form at some point in history (and will hopefully disappear at some other point).

As the anthropologist Maurice Godelier puts it in the L'idéel et le matériel, it is not about seeing another reality behind reality but about seeing the same reality with a different look.
Earlier discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23697083 (358 points/83 days ago/606 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23798922 (84 points/73 days ago/58 comments)
wait untill more people use Apple Pay, they will be taking their infamous 30% fees. Either from you or the merchant.

sidenote: Apple Pay is being blocked by major Norwegian banks because Apple refuses to let banks create competitor payment app with NFC.
Worth pointing out that this is nothing new for Denmark, I remember naked bodies being displayed in children's sex-ed shows in the 90ies.

Sex-ed classes in school often involved(involves?) displaying pictures of a wide array of genitalia to make sure kids understand that there's quite a bit of variance
Ah, now that makes more sense! Original comment threw me rather. Thanks.

A -> bAb where b is a terminal, ok.
From the FAQ:

>Why doesn't Maud implement context-aware escaping?

>If a project follows best practices in separating HTML and CSS/JavaScript, then context-aware escaping is unnecessary.

>Google uses context-aware escaping because it has a large, decades-old code base, much of it written before these best practices were well known. Any project that uses Maud is neither large nor decades-old, and so should not have the need for this feature.

This seems misguided. Javascript and CSS are not the only contexts. Another example is URIs (which can be javascript: or data:), which Golang's html/template correctly escapes: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/html/template/u...
This is measured by things like the Gini index etc that measures social mobility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient

In countries with good and available education, competent people from poor families can get good careers. It makes a lot of sense to run companies there as well, as recruiting works well - people are sorted by ability rather than money.
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His Meditations undoubtedly also play a part in how he is perceived today, do you not think so?
If you stay in the walled garden!

I was not successful to transfer WhatsApp’s chats from android to iOS.

I ended up uploading unencrypted to google.
There is also Z

https://github.com/z-pattern-matching/z
I like the rebooted X-com series but in my opinion this "pod" system really kills the atmosphere of the original game. No more shots from the dark, no more searching for enemies, and no more throwing grenades blindly in hope of taking some aliens out.

I would say the more direct successor to the original X-Com is the excellent Silent Storm game (with Sentinels add-on).
A personal anecdote about caste in India:

I had to move to Chennai to work there some years ago. As I went around looking for an apartment to rent, I was openly told by several Brahmin homeowners that they weren't going to rent to me because I wasn't a Brahmin.

The Brahmins have destroyed India. (I'm from one of the "upper castes" myself.)
air combat power against whom exactly? poor bedouins riding their camels? that's indeed the achievement.