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Kind of, yeah. Supreme court justices aren't elected, are appointed for life, and collectively have veto power over basically any law, should they choose to break (or gradually discard) historical norms.

I think it's telling that neither Biden nor Harris was willing to rule out court-packing at the presidential debates, and at this point I think they're right to leave it on the table! But, it really would mark the beginning of the end of the Supreme Court. It's easy to predict what would probably happen the next time power changed...
I’d imagine owning the former made owning the latter easier.
>You can also observe how easily different species interbreed today, like wolves (canis lupus, obligatory pack animals) and coyotes (canis latrans, solitary).

Their taxonomy predates the more modern biological classification systems though. Things have been reclassified before and I expect they will be again.

[A bit of a rant:] Any classification system that can't tell you something about the objects it classifies is objectively useless for anything but naming things. You might as well use a random name generator, draw lines in the sand in geometrically pleasing ways, and pretend it's a "system".
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Wow, that is a fascinating video and such an inspiring spirit of hacking. I'd love to learn more about the electrical engineering side of computer science to be able to do similar experiments.
One solution might be for the Supreme Court to acknowledge that APIs are copyrightable, but that re-implementations are always fair use.
I applied for the new grad position too a couple months back, having a previous FAANG internship and starting (and selling) my own startup during college. Never heard back or even got the coding challenge. I’ve used Stripe in my own projects a few times and have also heard good things so I’m bummed too.
Don’t all these institutions unilaterally discriminate based on socioeconomic background?
> I know there are a lot of people coming to the conclusion that affirmative action counts as discrimination

Any distinction in a decision is discrimination. What is more relevant is it (legally or ethically, depending on context) impermissible discrimination.
devs would just catch keyboard events and simulate text fields
you're not getting this one back in pandora's box
I'm a chinese american as well, and I also think its an important issue, but I don't think theres any need to bring identity into this discussion.

You can't deny that the timing of this decision is suspect.
Ahhh. You cut off the part where he’s quoted saying that he kept it despite his dislike because it had become a “trademark” of his so he could not simply undo the ‘do.
Political activism and pandering to left wing mass hysterias is status quo.
As someone who isn't Asian, thank God someone calls these institutions out for this racist BS. I don't care whether they discriminate against group A in favor of group B or the other way around. ALL discrimination is abhorrent, and I genuinely can't believe we allowed preferential admissions based on ethnicity to go on that long.
Mainly the former things, but also from the article:

"Sometimes this involves scalable writing such as the Stripe Atlas guides. Sometimes I work with a single founder to get their B round accomplished."
It's not always trivial, especially if any computational geometry is being done (read: any game with a landscape).
https://marketingexamples.com is fantastic for marketing.

I wish there was one more like this which explains startup building (in terms of SWOT (https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_05.htm analysis))
The smallest measure of blacks as a percentage of US population would be 12%, and at Yale blacks are half of that.
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Because then they'd have to call blm and antifa terrorists too.
Believe they're referring to:

"Stripe is a celebration of the written word which happens to be incorporated in the state of Delaware. We produce prodigious amounts of it internally, most of it widely visible within the company." - https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/3/18/two-years-at-stripe/
That sounds like speculation not fact. In such a emotionally charge discussion, we are better served by facts.
You could consider working for a 501(c)(3) charity, where employees are forbidden by law to make most types of political statements (including in private) using company equipment or channels. The actual laws around this are nuanced and don't cover all types of political speech, but it covers enough to where the average employee will be wise to think twice before saying just about anything political at work. The IRS has zero tolerance for this.
The question isn't whether this is an example of positive discrimination or negative discrimination because the implication of either is that it that the result is either positive/negative for another party.

The question is whether or not this is justifiable discrimination.
Everything you wrote requires ignoring the entire last decade.

But fine, for an illustrative example lets use this article as an example. The government asked Google for IP addresses, then the government did an additional thing to determine the phone number was tied to the person they indicted, whether that was due to a Google account or requiring them to go to the cellular provider.

Nobody in this thread is arguing about the false positives snatching innocent people, just the VPN part.

With a VPN the same government would have gone to Google, then to the VPN company, then to the cellular provider.

VPN didn't help the customer, just slowed the government down.

You also wouldn't know if passive surveillance was being done on the VPN provider, which has been shown to happen to ISPs before from the Snowden leaks 7 whole years ago, which was about things that were even older. The NSA and FBI used National Security Letters to directly tap the servers indefinitely, and the CIA would just pay companies to directly tap the servers. They can be more easily coervice domestically, but other countries, even countries without automatic cooperation treaties are eager to help US investigators and have.

You wouldn't know if Proton/ExpressVPN/Nord you name it were passively sharing data, if they began keeping logs if at one point they say they didn't, if you were the active target, etc.
The Google v. Oracle argument hinges on Structure, Sequence, and Organization[1]. Things like the actual package structure arguably involve creative decisionmaking, and are not strictly analogous to something like accounting methods. For example, even if the idea of a max() function that takes two integers and returns the larger of the two is not copyrightable, the specific name "java.lang.Math.max()" might still be. Especially if you're talking about not just one function, but some enormous number of methods in some large number of classes across 37 different packages.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure,_sequence_and_organi...
This would have been (and still might be?) a fantastic submission to the International Journal of PoC||GTFO: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/
On one hand, as an immigrant I support policies that ensure race or national origin plays no weight in college admissions process.

On the other hand, my father who graduated at the top of his class in a small rural school, earned his undergraduate admission through a program in the Soviet Union that helped disadvantaged folks to fairly compete with those who were given a bigger piece of the pie.

I don't know if I was where I am today if not for policies like these. I still don't think that race or national origin should play a role here, but maybe some other factors that help the best of us in life's worst circumstances to succeed.

Maybe today's financial aid policies accomplish just that. But it's still worth exploring other factors beside finances that potentially successful college applicants need help with.
I'm attempting to be both diplomatic and open in what I already know is a contentious issue. The whole intent behind this type of positive discrimination is not to hold any specific race back, but to equalize the outcomes for some people that have been systematically disadvantaged in the past.

Part of the assumption behind equalizing outcomes is that it might illuminate negative discriminatory behavior, and allow the system to equalize on it's own faster than it would without any intervention. I'd love to hear more about when & whether this works. If it does help fix racism, maybe it's worth some temporary action. If it doesn't help fix the underlying issue, then maybe the Justice Department is doing the right thing.
From the Baker opinion:

"The conclusion to which we have come is, that blank account-books are not the subject of copyright; and that the mere copyright of Selden's book did not confer upon him the exclusive right to make and use account-books, ruled and arranged as designated by him and described and illustrated in said book." [1]

I believe based on this reasoning, copying APIs or copying code is a distinction without a difference, so long as it's in the context of calling library functions.

[1] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/101/99/
Yeah, tools like Salesforce/etc. make this absolutely trivial.
I voted for this!
> ALL discrimination is abhorrent

I think you meant, racial or ethnic discrimination.
Apologies, but nitpicking to make your position stronger.
It bothers me that private universities are considered to be "receiving federal financial assistance". There are, as I understand it, two justifications for this:

1. When students borrow money from the federal government, whoever they pay that money to is "receiving federal financial assistance". This makes absolutely no sense.

2. When a government program intended to produce research does so by funding researchers, those researchers' employers are "receiving federal financial assistance".

The second one doesn't make sense either; it appears to be exactly analogous to saying that if the federal government engages private contractors to repair damage to the White House, those contractors are receiving federal financial assistance.
No, there shouldn't be discussion and nuance about judging people based on their race: it is not acceptable and positions to the contrary and in violation of the spirit and letter of the 14th amendment.
> I do not believe API design of a math library is in any way the same level, having designed hundreds of APIs and several SDKs myself.

Oh given that the APIs were "designed" by Oracle, that stance might be relatable. However, designing actually "good" APIs will turn out equally complex if not more complex than arranging some recipes in a cookbook. Most stuff that Oracle does falls more into the category of a "monkey throwing dart arrows at random code snippets" and then suing the heck out of anyone who breaks their copyright or licenses (Oracle doesn't make software, they make licenses and that's how they earn money. The software is secondary).
> Even black people are not treated in that fashion nowadays.

If Black Americans were not subject to high levels of structural discrimination, maybe this issue would be less fraught.
I grew up in a very diverse suburb and went to schools where no race made up more than 40% of the student population. It's blatantly obvious to anyone who grew up with Asian friends that Asian immigrant cultures, in general, place an enormous emphasis on academic achievement. My Asian friends had a hell of a lot less fun and free time at home than I did. That work was reflected in higher grades. It's not Asian students' fault that mainstream white and black culture in the US is less suited to institutional performance.

It's like if you had purple-striped people who all spent their after-school time at the shooting range and then wondered why the army is full of purple-striped people.
actually not fancy pictures its totally random pictures
like snapchat icon on a chicken curry text or a stock sound icon on a text about papaya salad.
anyone can make better infographics by random google searches
At least $10k per person since the total payouts are still coming in and haven't included any of the high or critical exploits so far.
See, this is intentional. They’re squishing the widespread (and somewhat bipartisan) support for the Black Lives Matter movement, a protest movement against police abuse, into the phrase “political activism”, which isn’t entirely untrue.

The problem is that “political activism” also encompasses the ongoing american culture war, which indeed does not belong at work in any capacity. Reasonable people don’t want to engage with the culture war at work, and, increasingly, ever.

They want you to think the latter when they mean the former, and support them. The problem is that the “activism” they’re complaining about isn’t the culture war, it’s the fact that there was a widespread social movement to protest racist police abuse, and Coinbase management didn’t feel it important enough for them to participate. Many of their staff took an issue with that, which has absolutely nothing to do with the sort of “who are you voting for?” thing that springs to mind when you think of “political activism at work”.

Don’t get me wrong, advocating for human rights is indeed political activism, which is why their technique is so effective.

It’s intentionally designed to deceive you.
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they're trying to play to the sensibilities of the "good people on both sides" even though it results in an incoherent and diluted argument.
Oracle had asked for a sum that was super reasonable and Google decided to roll the dice instead. Incredibly foolish. In the grand scheme, what's a $10B fine on a business worth hundreds of billions. Google had to get to market fast and it was an existential threat.
Location matters here. Licensed taxis in Santa Clara county are hard to get reliably outside of the airport and train station. Otherwise, you call a number and someone says a car is coming, and 80% of the time a car does come; the other 20% of the time, you don't get to the airport on time. Yes, it doesn't take much to drive someone somewhere, but if hypothetically Waymo drives Uber and Lyft out of business and then drops out themselves, VCs will have learned that the unlicensed taxi business is a waste of money, and we'd be back to licensed taxis, which is a lot lower quality of service.
Actually, what you quote comprises two sentences. The first might be improved by a comma after "process", the second violates the cranky notion that one should not start a sentence with "And". Both are legitimate sentences, though.
Ring species[1] are a particularly fascinating example of the fluidity of the concept of species.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
This is a clash of keeping a status quo of entrenched wealth, legacy, and power vs. discriminating/affirmative action at some level. Without some kind of affirmative action somewhere in the system we are just perpetuating old power and money dynamics extant since the founding of the country, if not before.

As a person in the discriminated against group of the DOJ complaint, I am against the DOJ motion. I agree Yale probably violated the law, but I don't view AA as inherently immoral.

Downvote time: my solution for Yale to serve the least empowered historically groups in this country, descendants of slaves and equally disempowered groups through generationally unfair/racist laws (e.g. interment camps, 3/5 compromise, Jim Crow, red lining, etc) is to say if you can trace your family history to any of these events, you get a boost. Same effect, not race based.
I don’t think they care where your money comes from or how long you’ve had it.
> Any classification system that can't tell you something about the objects it classifies is objectively useless for anything but naming things

They are both canis, you know. The difference in species designation tells you very little because that's not a problem that can be solved. It's not an issue of misclassification. The specific designations latrans and lupus tell you a lot.
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> I'm not going to argue whether I think APIs should be copyrightable, but I believe creating a good API is a work of creative design, and is artistic

I disagree. I think the specification can be, but the API code itself is a mechanical translation of the specification into computer code. Note that abstractions, names, etc are conceived in the specification and are then translated into computer code. Even if you skip the specification step, as sometimes is done, you're then dealing with an implicit, ad-hoc specification.

Edit: To clarify what I'm saying, the "creative design" aspect of what you're talking about and that I'm in no way denying, is meant to be protected via the patentability and not the copyrightability of the end product. The creativity is in the behavior not in the mechanical translation of the behavior for computers to use.

> APIs aren't just restricted simple functions and types. Some may involve the creation of a custom DSL to make it easy to declare functionality in part of your system, or clusters of protocols that work together in very specific ways so users can implement a complex system atop them

Indeed. Yet you're still describing behavior here. A DSL is an example of a specification of one language in terms of another. This is a creative work, I strongly agree! The difference is where does the creativity reside? I don't believe it's in the API code, but in the specification whether written or unwritten and therefore implied.
(speaking as a software developer) this dramatically underestimates the intelligence of top lawyers relative to average software developers, and also misunderstands the facts of how law works (the subject matter expertose required is still mostly in law rather than in software development).
Is some discrimination acceptable then?
I voted against.
I'm not arguing that blacks are fairly represented at Yale (clearly they aren't). I'm just pointing out that it's not what this lawsuit is about.
Uhhh... this pretty much says to me there are a lot of affluent kids being rejected who have done well in school and their parents are flipping shit. More than likely this is solely for the press during an election cycle to win affluent votes/money/donations.

Here are Yale's student body demographics, from the department of education's scorecard [1]:

42% White
19% Asian
13% Hispanic
11% Non-resident alien
8% Black
6% Two or more races
0% American Indian/Alaska Native
0% Unknown
0% Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander

Here's the nation as a whole [2]:

Non-Hispanic white - 63.4%
Hispanic and Latino (of any race) - 15.3%
Black or African American - 13.4%
Asian - 5.9%
Native Americans and Alaska Natives - 1.3%
Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders - 0.2%
Two or more races - 2.7%

FWIW- I'm not saying Yale doesn't have acceptance problems but the identification of the problem made in the release above is probably... fucking bullshit.

[1] - https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?130794-Yale-Universi...
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit...
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Unfortunately, even antibody testing is unreliable now because of waning antibodies.

(One might object and say that if someone has little to no levels of antibodies they must not be immune anymore, but immunity is complex and not solely determined by antibodies)
I fully agree, and that's exactly what I'd like to explore more. I went with what I believe is a common interpretation of discrimination as something that is negative and biased against a specific target.
Could you explain what you mean here? I assume from your reply to 'rayiner that you are criticising recent decisions limiting Chevron deference and applying the nondelegation doctrine. It’s confusing, because big business won the case establishing Chevron deference. Whether the principle helps big business or not depends on big business’s relationship with the relevant regulator. Is the “apocalyptic” commentary describing the past effects of Chevron deference, the current effects of limiting it, or the potential effects of future decisions further limiting it?
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>if it's true that blacks are still being discriminated against, and nobody is allowed to compensate for that by taking action, what else can we need to do to solve the pre-existing discrimination, assuming that it's cultural and difficult?

You won't get many responses to this question. Stated plainly: If we aren't allowed to engage in some form of positive discrimination, we aren't allowed to compensate at all. To some people, that's how it should be. I don't agree, but I understand why they may feel that way. We all just want the best for ourselves and our respective groups, I guess.
Even if this lawsuit succeeds, Yale will still be able to discriminate against applicants of color. The DoJ is specifically targeting methods of discrimination that don’t benefit white people.
>Cosmetics are potentially harmful to humans, and that harm can be prevented by testing on animals first.

I think the idea was "unless is needed to avoid harm" in general, not "unless is needed to avoid harm caused by people using a non-essential product".

E.g. curing cancer is OK, making BS products like cosmetics safer is pushing it as a justification (since those could just, like, not be made in the first place).
OG in terms a group of people means the group that initially started it (the originals). In this case a bunch of young engineers.
I'm sorry but did you read the complaint?

"Yale expressly agrees to comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a cornerstone civil-rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance. "

They can "reverse discriminate" for Black applicants all they want, it's when they accept Federal Money it becomes an issue.

Yale is potentially on the hook for Billions in back Federal Aid.
Google would lose if they would continue hammering the interop point and the justices would dig deeper. Google only copied a selective set of Oracle's Java libraries. If they were about interop, they would have copied all of them. So no, Google didn't copy the libraries because of interoperability reasons. Google copied them so they would get access to the large developer community and ride the coattails of the successful investments into the Java platform that Oracle made. As one of the justices said, it's a one-way interoperability.
The response to that was that (paraphrased) "headings aren't functional", which really is the whole point.