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I find I give up my social life to work long hours as a people pleaser. Also I end up doing the low visibility low reward tasks that no one else wants. Just to be a team player. Then appear as a low performer compared to the guy that refuses to do anything that doesn't praise.
It's also hard to bootstrap a cocaine habit if you're strapped for cash.
In an attempt to lighten the mood a little, I would just like to relate a quick story about a restaurant I saw while visiting Liverpool many years ago. It was called, "Jamaican me Hungry". :)
I'd argue that the American system was systematically build to be systemic :)

There are laws in the US that, on the surface, seem to be benign, but upon closer inspection are specifically and systematically created to target a certain racial group disproportionately.
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And registration fees too! My annual registration fee in CA was ~$900. In Florida it’s now ~$35.

Insurance dropped from $120/mo to $50/mo.
What you mean racism is problem in Poland? Since early '90 there is for instance a growing number of people from Vietnam and I've never heard about any attacks on them?
While I hope that's true, it's never a good idea to plan exclusively for the best case scenario. There's a lot riding on your 'probably' when it's considered by many to be the only viable way forward.
It’s not like Trump is as healthy as an average 65+ person.
> many can only function as a business with low wage workers or automation.

If this were true, they would not have extra money to give to shareholders. The idea that a corporation is allowed to pay poverty wages while still claiming profit for speculative investors is the problem. That isn't a harsh reality, that is legally sanctioned exploitation. Does every business do this? Of course not, but looking at corporate profits over the last 20 years, it is clear this is the norm.

> The only other option for higher wages would be for these businesses to be state-sponsored, which is at least worth consideration.

Completely untrue. The money is already there. It is just being given to speculators, not workers. Weird how average wages have gone down in the last 40 years but CEO pay has gone up almost a 1,000%.
Many americans (including journalists, thinkers, politicians, etc) can't imagine that there's any legitimate culture, or any issues, and preoccupations, other than their own. Or that their views are not the pinnacle of civilization, and they're not the white knights humanity waits to be saved by.

It's part of the traditional exceptionalism...
Who is this addressed to? From the article it seems addressed to British people using social media to share American specific viewpoints. But the comments here make it seem like it's Americans doing the imposing of views.
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I've been using poly.market. Their upcoming upgrade won't have fees (allegedly). Right now it's expensive to place trades because it uses transactions on Ethereum.
If you guess it's non-zero, can you identify one such case?
How many Apple Computer employees work on GPL projects? I suspect that number is extremely low.
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Hi Taylor! A few things:

• In Chrome, the website log in system fails silently (and we get "FB.login() called when user is already connected" when retrying).

• The website is blank on Firefox.

• The principle is cool, but not Bayesian enough IMO. Points are expendable (especially when one can get them freely by creating a new account). Better use statistical priors estimating the likelihood that a given source outputs an accurate prediction. Give a bad prior to new accounts, to discourage creating new accounts to "clean the slate" of bad predictions.

• In the current state, this system, if it gets popular, can quickly have diplomatic, political and economic repercussions and consequent abuse that the website seems wholly unprepared for, based on my reading of the guidelines.
So Americans across this gigantic country should adopt the attitude that all cops are bastards?
I still love the Acorn font, it has a very consistent look.
> For example, why was OJ Simpson's verdict met with adulation when everyone knew he was guilty?

Uh, maybe because the glove didn't fit? It's one thing to say "everyone knew" he was guilty, but when prosecutors don't even do they're job properly you can't just convict based on what "everyone knows".
I remember American trainers for company sponsored training basically making the implication that there being no black people in most of the groups (of 10-15) being a sign of the institutionalised racism keeping them out of tech.

Not considered was the ~1% black population in the country where the training took place. Having 3/80ish black engineers was actually significantly more diverse than if you'd just grabbed a random subset of the population. (ditto for Polish, Indians and Chinese, the actual sizable minorities in the country).

Now had he been talking about the 15-20% of female engineers participating, he may have had a point, but the american perspective was "wow, there should be way more Black people because America has more Black people"
Not that far I'd say. While the British have their nazis and everything in moderation, at least they're not generally 24/7 preoccupied with race. (They are however preoccupied with class a lot).
Hold on. Here's what he said:

"The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything."

That's very different. This is a message that is useful to hear for extremely driven ambitious people who are already successful - that it's better to spend all the time you spend working on a few carefully chosen things. It should not be interpreted as advice for people who are not extremely driven to not do things. The baseline assumption is that you already spend a substantial amount of time working on potentially productive things.
> Would you mind stop overloading the word racist with more definitions?

Racism has been linked with discrimination against nationality for many years. In the UK the Race Relations Act 1965 (55 years ago) included "national origin".
Does anyone have a reference to the rev 7 Apple ][ that has lower case that the article refers to?

Apple’s first professionally built computer was the Apple ][ which from rev 7 onwards added lower-case letters.

The Apple IIe (1983) and onwards had the lower case characters that are shown in the image for the the Apple II (1977). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe#New_features
Yes, I bore that in mind when I made the statement. Especially the younger people the GP talked about do not bother getting flu shots. If everyone got vaccinated, the yearly influenza waves would result in way fewer deaths.

Since you can get both influenza and Covid-19, even at the same time, German health authorities have strongly recommended getting flu shots and started the vaccination campaign earlier this year. It's good advice. Get your flu shot!
I agree.

The British Museum would be pretty empty if we had to give everyone their stuff back. I can see why they resist so much.
It's the latest TikTok meme.

Writing curses and hexes against Donald Trump in Ahramaic is the new random K-Pop gifs.
(1) Yes, Americal cultural hegemony is widespread, especially in the English-speaking world (second language or first).

(2) Yes, your country has racism, including systemic racism. Denial is one of the privileges that marks you as a member of the dominant group.

Your job is not to deny the racism, but to try to identify it an root it out.

The crux of the biscuit is that the American concept of 'race' is so very very nebulous. Since there is no hard definition of 'race', there is no way to definitively sort an individual into a 'race.' It's entirely subjective and relies on an individual's prejudice.
Not surprising. Just look at what they named themselves.
Likewise. Had a good giggle, so who's so sensitive they have to flag and kill?
No, it really isn't. American I presume? You have full rights to use elements of our culture from this here part of Europe (not that you ever asked our permission, you use them anyway. But it's not like we care either...).
Yes, thank you for this opinion piece. I do believe however that we non-Americans are also to blame. We consume American media like there's no tomorrow and don't support our local media even barely enough.

The great advantage America has for spreading their culture is its single official language. It's able to echo within the country, gain a large following and then spread outside of its borders. Europe has done nothing like that.

Ever since the European Union was made, there has been no successful attempt to find a common language in order to unify the countries lingually. It's not a surprise due to the divisive history, but I strongly believe that Esperanto could've been that language. Of course, it's too late now and English (especially American English) has become the virtual lingua franca, but that means Europe (and other countries) should learn from the U.S.

What the U.S has is practically a large propaganda machine that blasts its views across the world. The entertainment industry (film, music, news) is large and the major window into American life. It's available everywhere at either no cost or when the demand is large, at a premium.

I'd say other countries should:

- subsidize their entertainment industry heavily

- expand their education to provide world-wide

- do away with geo-blocking and exclusivity

- have free national programs to help learn their language from anywhere in the world

and last, but definitely most importantly: educate their populace to think logically and to broaden their horizons to think out of the box.

Culture, tradition and language are in a product in today's capitalistic world. If you do not make your product attractive, appealing, and available, people will not buy it. The U.S has understood that and are doing a mighty fine job at exporting it.
Though you should be able to sidestep this by doing something like seeding your hash with your hashtable pointer. Then you'd also need control over the memory allocator to break the hashtable.
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Hilarious that people here are so brainwashed that they think the global media is "American..." Ya they're such hamburger-eating, gun-toting, tradition, church-going... Oh wait, no, they're from a tiny minority tribe with dual citizenship if things go south! And they curse you with the word "anti-semitic" (or similar) if you stray outside of the Overton window in really any direction.
I was also thinking about Italy, especially with how popular people like Berlusconi always were precisely because they were never playing by the rules... but it's possible that it's still a difference in degree. I don't know if Italians would go to such extreme lenghts just for a t-shirt. I don't really know Indian culture though, so I can't judge.
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People value money differently - so any prediction market with real money is just a play money market for rich people.

That doesn't give it better predictive powers - and maybe the opposite.

Uprating people with a historical record of accuracy is likely to be at least better than wealth as a marker.
Because to have systemic racism, by definition you have to observe something happening on a large scale. There is no scale there. There are isolated interactions mostly. It could be widespread racism, or a small number of racist people. The n is too small to tell.
FYI, "systemic racism" is usually understood to be roughly "discriminatory treatment is embedded in the institutions". For example, if Roma get stopped by police more often, that's systemic racism.

I think you use it to mean "it played a major role in the founding of our country". Saying "there is no systemic racism in Poland" makes sense in that context, but probably not in the other, and that's why people are doubting you.
Which is gaming the system, if you ask me.

Cracking coding interviews would be considered “overfitting” in statistical learning parlance. You may ace the interview, but for most people the performance at coding interviews has no correlation with performance in actual work.
Well, that's not "cultural appropreation" though (the marbles thing) it's downright stealing...
In my experience americans (at least the limited sample that I know) have a need to find a subculture to identify themselves with, and quick.

I'm not even talking about race here, i'm thinking about the billions of independent christian churches, of soccer fans dressing like soccer players, gang colours etc.

And when they find their subculture, they get stuck in it and become unable to see the others' point of view.

American style racism may be a consequence of that.
To nuance this once again by Jason Hickel:

"If we use $7.40 per day, we see a decline in the proportion of people living in poverty, but it’s not nearly as dramatic as your rosy narrative would have it. In 1981 a staggering 71% lived in poverty. Today it hovers at 58% (for 2013, the most recent data). Suddenly your grand story of progress seems tepid, mediocre, and – in a world that’s as fabulously rich as ours – completely obscene. There is nothing worth celebrating about a world where inequality is so extreme that 58% of people are in poverty, while a few dozen billionaires have more than all of their wealth combined."
> circumstances that are put upon them by the system, and that they also lack access to better legal representation for the same reason, and are therefore more likely to be convicted of crimes.

If only we had a convenient word for this, "the confluence of negative formal and material circumstances put upon someone because of race"...
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Sixty years ago, Belgium set up a live display of people from Congo for the 1958 world fair.

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Yeah “cultural appropriation” criticism is often cultural purism.

In some cases the way “appropriated” culture is represented look embarrassing to those native in said culture, like people are wearing ethnic clothing without the trousers that go with it, or cooking food not in the way it should be done and ending up with horrible slurry, but that’s rare in recent years.
The systemic problem is the huge overlap of class (aka being poor) and race (aka being black) in the US. And that, along with general racist views, makes it such unique, and utterly racist, system. Ignoring that overlap means ignoring the root cause, for the US that is. in other countries, things are different.
The funniest thing to me is the discourse about "white privilege" when it's transplanted into countries where basically everyone used to be white. How can that be a privilege to be the same as everyone else? But people will repeat just anything as long as it's fashionable.
>it shocked me how much of a political issue it is there

Not that much at all. Perhaps you encoutered it at all because you're a Brit and so got into related discussions. It's not like people talk about it that much there.
Isn't that exactly what choosing a license is all about?

Choosing a license and then not caring if the license is upheld seems like you should have chosen another license.
You'll be hard pressed to find anyone anywhere that claims array.includes or string.indexof or list.contains and such are O(1)! :)
I'd like to think that's what the OP was saying, but that's not remotely what the OP actually said.

Also, they called me a moron, which (accurate or not) is not cool.

> The system is set up in such a way that it assumes indigenous people want to and/or should confirm to white European ideas of what is "normal" as well

I suspect that the system does not assume that aboriginal people want or should be European; rather, it doesn't think about aboriginal people at all.
You forgot to mention rape. I'm told that 1 in 200 people on this planet can claim genetic heritage with Ghenghis Khan. That happened via rape together with the 'exploitation, killing and conquest' but no one in their right mind wishes to visit this mind-numbing inglorious fact on his descendants and not just because that would be impossible.
Who knows? Maybe you and I are one of those descendants. Familiarity with world history will tell you that there are no groups of superior beings anywhere who abstained from the activities mentioned. Some won and some lost. The latter, not for the want of trying.
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Transport Tycoon is the predecessor of RCT, using the same engine and it was released in 1994 too.

Having played both on my 386 back then, I'd say that TT run much more smoothly and with a bigger world
So... are we using the term “compression” loosely here? Because a bijective function (domain = range) over strings has an average compression ratio of 0. There are significantly fewer short strings than long strings, and for every long input that produces a short output there is a short input that produces a long output.
The one thing I took away from seeing all the BLM protests in Europe this summer, and all the discussions among my friends and family back home about it is that Europeans in general do not understand how incredibly racist the US was, and still is.

At one point in the 1800's, slave labour contributed over half of the US GDP, and to protect that economy, to protect that business, the states who benefited the most from it were completely drenched in absolutely brutal amounts of racist propaganda.

The slave economy of the US necessitated the institutionalised racism, because that was the only way you could get ordinary people to put up with the practice. And Europe has never experienced anything like that, so for the average European, there are no frames of reference, no shared history, nothing.

Sure, there's been slave economies in Europe, but the last ones were a thousand years ago. Sure, there's racism in Europe, plenty of it, but it looks completely different, and it's never been as hyperfocused on skin colour like racism in the US is. Racism in Europe is more about ethnocentrism, and some of the worst atrocities in the continent's history have been committed by super white people against other super white people.

Another thing that Europeans do not understand is how the police works in the US. Where I'm from, the police consists of two national organisations, 700 years of history, and an origin as the city watch, making sure cities in the middle ages didn't catch on fire.

Whereas in the US, the police consists of some 16000 decentralised wildly different organisations, federal, state, county, local, all with a much shorter history, wildly different histories, wildly different scopes of law enforcement. But most importantly, some of those local police organisations were explicitly founded to enforce slave laws, to enforce racial segregation, to enforce Jim Crow laws, and they were founded by the local KKK leaders.

The situation is completely different, the history is completely different, the racial divides are completely different. And then people try to import the US discourse on racism, and nothing fits, nothing makes sense, but people still don't want to be seen as racists, so they try to make it fit, try to agree, and it's all just weird.

You can stand in solidarity with BLM no matter where you live, that's fine, but if you're European, please stop there. Don't try to deal with uniquely US issues in your own country, because I promise you, they don't exist. You have other issues to deal with.
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It's not uncommon in scientific computing for the algorithm used to be automatically adjusted based on the input. An example of this is if you want to multiply very large integers. Karatsuba is first used, then Toom-Cook, then Schönhage–Strassen.

Karatsuba: θ(n^1.58)

Toom-Cook: θ(n^1.46)

Schönhage–Strassen: O(n log(n) log(log(n)))

Benchmarking is really the only thing that can reveal this kind of thing, otherwise you'll end up with a theoretically fast but practically slow algorithm.
Price list:

* Bosch drill/driver kit: $100

* Circular saw: $100

* Tape measure: $20

* Square: $10 x2 (one big, one small)

Total: $240. That's 1/10th of what you quoted.

"Step it up a notch" kit as next step:

* Random orbital sander: $70

* Router: $170

* Planer: $120

* Guides: $20

* Clamps: $100

And we're up another $500. Still a good ways short of $2500. And that's at current Lowes prices. If you wait a few months, you can find complete 5-tool kits on sale sometimes.

I don't think $250 is unreasonable to spend on a hobby starting out. If OP is at FAANG salaries, then dropping $750 isn't unreasonable either. And if OP is a student, use a university woodworking shop, or buy used. These things go for a song on Craigslist sometimes.

Planer (or belt sander) saves money in the long run. You can recycle (free) old wood, use cheap S1S2E wood, and similar. For the most part, you just want to build a lot of stuff. Given the random orbital recommendation, I thought of the two, a planer was more versatile. It has unanticipated beginner uses too. E.g. If you mess up and make something 1/16th of an inch too small, you can trim a bit, and it will fit. Or if you can't do layout/cuts precisely and well, you can leave a bit of margin, and keep trimming a piece of wood until it fits.
This stems from tax law that taxes different food differently. Usually this is because the legislator considers that staple food should be kept as cheap as possible for everyone to be able to afford it.

So they decide that bread, biscuits, cakes, 'luxury food' should be taxed differently.

Right, but then they need to define each category.

In this case Irish law puts a limit on the amount of sugar and fat that 'bread', defined for tax purpose only, can contain. This is most likely in order to draw a line between 'bread' and 'cake', again only for tax purpose.

The law is from 1972 so this is not new, and this case is not ground breaking. It's rather that Subway Ireland seems not to have read the local tax law. That's what happens when a multinational standardises a product globally.

This sort of issue is unavoidable as long as different products are taxed differently.