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I thought this recent drive toward marxist / equity / wealth redistribution positions were the very source of all division and polarisation. I am an extreme skeptic of any such study if it found that appeasement through giving the radicals what they want will result in harmony. These universities today are somewhat infected with the marxist worldview and have been a major source of the polarisation.

As another example of justified skepticism, I wonder what their research departments have to say about student debt forgiveness programs? I am sure they will find such programs fantastic. There is no conflict of interest involved there.
History is best viewed from the perspective of the individuals or groups with substantial power, because outcomes are their acting in their own best interests. Or what they perceived to be their best interests.

In the context of the Cherokee (which I'm more familiar with than other tribes), you initially have a group of mostly-independent city states, surrounded by neighboring tribes (with which there is good and bad history), dealing with substantial population decrease (due to smallpox), trying to negotiate with a fundamentally different culture (colonies/US) encroaching on their lands. Think 10th century Europe.

There were a diversity of opinions on how to move forward, and so a diversity of approaches, as groups jostled for personal advantage. Fundamentally though, it was a delaying action, fought (economically, politically, and militarily) until ceaseless European migration made coexistence as equals untenable.

The Cherokee have a somewhat unique history in that, by the late 1700s, they were moving to colonial style economics (land ownership, farming), politics (central government), language (invention and dissemination of written language in the 1820s), and religion [0].

Unfortunately, 1829 also saw gold discovered in northwest Georgia, at which point there was too much money to be made by seizing and exploiting land, and any burgeoning cultural similarities and human rights were conveniently ignored so fortunes could be made.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Echota#History

See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee#19th_century
I've had the misfortune of being in banking much of my life and met many POS rich people that do this kind of stuff. Trust's most certainly can be used to hide your identity. Banks are more than willing to let rich people leave their names in the bank trust as a service to hide their identity. Trusts are not used as a financing product, they are a wealth management tool.

I'll give you a challenge. Find another vehicle title that has "trust" on it other than a yacht or private jet. Time saver, you won't.

It's to hide the owners identity. I don't know why people are arguing with me about this. Trust's are a wealth management tool that provide a number of services including hiding a persons identity.
You don't directly redistribute. You set taxes and economic policies to target free-market wealth redistribution. That is, find instances where there is significant distribution of money from the poor to the rich and find ways to add friction to those markets. Like landowners renting out housing.

Suck large amounts of money out of the housing market by taxing commercial loans used for residential real estate, doubling property taxes for non-owner-occupied residential real estate and vacant real estate, and putting caps on mortgage vs income though some means or another. Have economists model how these things will actually effect the markets with the goal of turning residential housing into a bad investment and dropping prices. So much money and effort is sucked away from people into bank interest and "cost of capital" for people who already have lots of it. Maybe go to the extent of statutory redistribution of ownership of housing, 2% per year. If you rent a house for 50 years it's yours. This can't raise rents because rent pricing is based on maximizing what the market will pay.
A good answer to this question is always "the people who benefiy from the established status quo, aka the economic elites"
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The regression from Windows Explorer and OSX Finder to Midnight Commander is absolutely amazing.

We have only gone backwards, in all aspects, from performance to usability.
I'd simply start a progressive wealth tax at a high enough threshold so that a person could provide themselves with a reasonable nest egg. Pulling numbers out of the air, maybe 1%/year for the first $10 million, up to 10%/year for $100 million. (Note that if you live in a house, you're already paying some wealth tax). This would leave most people with both good and poor standing with enough to live comfortably, and the ones who got there by working will probably continue to make more to cover the tax.

Reducing inequality would hopefully have the benefit of aligning political goals with the interests of the population, in which case politicians would be more motivated to score things such as universal health care, workplace safety, education, a safety net, and so forth.

If the government were to be burdened by too much money, they could give some of it back to the poor. ;-)
I don't believe it's fair to characterize the actions of a larger group based on those of a minority. We were repeatedly told that the summer 2020 protests were 93% peaceful, and that the fires, pipebombs, and shootings shouldn't distract from the larger message.
It doesn't mean anything. Does a defined work package improve the product you are building in any way? Then plan the work. If not, then don't do it. I discourage using this term within my team, because it's not a transparent term.
After many reports like this: Why would anyone want to work for Amazon?

I say this as a tech worker working for big hated chemical companies but frankly we are heavily watched and controlled. I feel Foxconn (Apple), Amazon etc have multiple times proven to support ugly practices but every developper seems to jump for joy working for them in an age where doing something meaningful and good is also en vogue. Can someone elaborate?
The military budget is ~$700B and more than half of that is personnel costs going to your recruits and staff. About $300B goes to procurement annually, and not just weapons. There are uniforms, engines, paint, cleaning supplies, food, fuel, etc...

That's less revenue for an entire industry than Apple or Walmart does per year.
so if it's not "in your face," whatever that means, discrimination is okay? I struggle to see your point, the defense is surely more robust than this
That WSJ article is basically pompous trash, not science. Kids don’t even use SMS.
If there is a terminal rendition tool, please share. Last I checked all efforts where abandoned, either due to too tight integration to rustdoc or due to bike shedding…

Note that there is no problem with the web version being available, it’s useful at times.
The ToS does not constrain the company! The agreement does not stipulate that the platform _has_ to enforce ToS, so this is not a necessary action to perform the contract.
Yeah, I too live in a country that uses a fair amount of hydro. Low in service emissions are nice, but on the flip side hydro kills an insane amount of animals and permanently destroys their habitats. We have geothermal too, but nothing making the sort of power the hydro does.

The only thing that is clear is that using more electricity could be accepted as 'bad' by many important metrics.
If Al Capone was a murderer why was he convicted of tax evasion?
People underestimate cultural difference and even pretend they don't exist.

Even within a culture there are people who don't fit into the dominant cultural values and way of working. A big part of diversity and inclusion is addressing that.

This becomes an even bigger problem when dealing with other cultures.

And you might find that other cultures don't value diversity and inclusion as much as n American corporate culture and really look down on the way others do things and see there way as the right way.
I think that we all agree with education part.

But that is very hard to implement.

Let’s take an example of San Francisco: public schools were closed all of 2021 and that really hurt low income families. Of course private schools were open.

And San Francisco is very left - so I don’t know.
https://getpublii.com is a great free, open-source option for less-technical users who want to generate a static blog that can be deployed to any web host (or Cloudflare Pages, Github Pages, Netlify, AWS, etc)
This is what big O (also little O and little omega) notation is all about. Unfortunately, all the resources I know of teach it as pure mathematics, so they require a firm grasp of mathematical proofs to understand the details and implications.

With that said I highly recommend the classic Introduction to Algorithms (CLRS for short) by Cormen et Al. It is written in clear and straightforward language. And the lectures on MIT OCW by Erik Demaine are outstanding.

By reading and watching the lectures I deeply understood stuff that I had just muddled through previously.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms
You’re spot-on about this. Even for my personal finance, I have to apply classification rules at import time and I can’t bulk edit transactions to reclassify them after the fact. As a result I am looking for a replacement, although a requirement for me is some sort of fava equivalent.
> My personal answer, and seemingly not so popular, is education, at all stages.

Former educator here, the problem with this idea is that educational outcomes are dominated by three factors:

1. More individualized education (smaller classes or tutors)

2. Children having a safe, well resourced home life

3. Smarter, less stressed teachers

To get an idea of how strong (1) is it is useful to know of a result called Bloom's Two Sigma which roughly says that a student at the 50th percentile for their class is tutored, they will perform like students in the 95th percentile (the most recent literature I read pegged the effect slightly weaker than this, but not that much).

These results on inequality tell us several things:
Increased inequality reduces the quality of home life for children by making parents stressed and unhappy.
Increased inequality plus the fundamental economics of public education mean that smart and capable people are less likely to become teachers, and those who do will be more stressed
Increased inequality means that richer people can afford to hire the services of tutors for their children, drastically improving outcomes.

As someone who sold my educational services to rich people, and gave it away to poorer students when I could afford to, I can personally testify to the massive difference this kind of resourcing makes. I don't think there's any way to get away from that aside from actually reducing inequality.
This hypothetical situation doesn't require the appointment of a DPO.
At what level of wealth inequality do you imagine the upper classes saying, "ok, I guess we've got enough, we can stop fighting back now"?
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If it doesn't affect the non-technical people, is it an issue then? I tend to be on the side of your director to be honest.
Lots of people cite this paper from the author of “Bowling Alone” claiming pretty much just that https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/benediktsson2013/files...

Anecdotally I’ve experienced this to be true, but I still think diversity is something we must strive for. I even kind of hate the word “diversity” since to me it carries undertones of “existing separately, together” versus empathy that will make us truly one people.

It may be easy to feel safe by default in a community of people who all look like me, but I think that’s my survival-focused animal brain just not wanting to be killed or eaten. There are just as many stories about families/communities sweeping all sorts of awful abuse under the rug in the name of cohesion, and I would rather push through the eumemic struggle and try to truly understand all types of people than be happy in a lie where we have to force a happy face every Thanksgiving when Uncle Touchy comes over or whatever.

Southern Hospitality is definitely a real thing though, and it feels so nice to greet people on the street, wave at others and have them wave back, have off-the-cuff conversations with strangers, etc. Way better than walking around San Francisco where lots of people (I’m guilty too!) try to stare at the ground when walking by each other, not that you’d be able to see their face if they were holding their head up anyway.
I undoubtedly compressed too much into too few sentences. My allusion to genius||wrong is raising exactly this concern. How do you decide which? For me in this argument it comes down to results. Why do people organize in this way? As I stated,I believe groups get more done than individuals and that coordinating those groups becomes the central feature of management. It can be done poorly or well, but if it facilitates the group being more productive than an individual it is superior from a pragmatic perspective.
Another good example is Win32, in many cases only the length is initialized and the API does the rest, this allows them to change the ABI across versions without impacting the caller.
Yes, 100 times yes if you are really delivering documents to the browser.

It is a totally different thing if one is delivering 'web application'.

Web application is about manipulating data, having lists, text fields and editing content.

Delivering documents is about documentation, blogs, prose, maybe just image browsing.

If company is crapping JS/tracking all over content that can be delivered as a document it is annoying.

Just don't say that everything should be sans JS - because there are legitimate uses of JS and even those heavy JS frameworks if one is building rich editing experience.
>My personal answer, and seemingly not so popular, is education, at all stages. Poor people send their kids to poor schools that don’t give their kids enough skills to make it in life. Find these schools, through taxes, so that every child gets a stab at a good education. Provide professional courses for adults, financial support to those who want to upskill.

Success in schooling is much more than just providing a good building, teachers and resources(computer/books/etc.). It is also a function of what the child has to go through in his/her day to day life. Those early years cement what kind of person the child becomes so you can provide all the Adult education you want, it is too late. Is the family around to provide support outside of school hours? Is the neighborhood stable enough so that you are in an environment to not fall into the edge cases of our society (ex: Are there groups that discourage breaking out of a specific mold?)

Hell this happens even with minorities in suburbs that provide them with all the resources needed for success. As a muslim living in a upper class right wing leaning suburban town I ingrained a self defeating mindset after 9/11 that I cannot achieve specific things and fulfill my wildest dreams. Despite this I ended up relatively successful thanks to the environment I was in giving me multiple chances after I failed time and time again.

Others don't have as many chances. The school is not the only problem. It is the system around the school that resulted in the school being in such a poor state to begin with. Some of this is being brought up(and subsequently banned) in topics such as Critical Race Theory (CRT). These talking points that you have expressed are sometimes brought up in Libertarian and right wing circles. It will not lead to this issue being solved in my opinion.

I have seen it with my own eyes in others as well. One of my many failures led me to being put on probation at my University: A school that prides itself on helping the largest # of minorities achieve STEM degrees in the country. I ended up at community college where I saw first hand how they ran many dozens of entry level math, physics, history and english sections that end up being empty by the end of the semester because there are huge swaths of the population that just cannot get past the first courses in a college level program. So they re-run these sections in all possible schedule combinations to maximize the chances of success. Still a majority students don't make it and give up. Keep in mind many of these people also get enough of a grant to likely be getting their tuition covered. The system failed these people years ago and just free education does not make up for it. They needed a stable environment from childhood in all aspects to maximize the chances of success.
Comrad your medal from the committee on negating party slander is on its way.
> Nothing in that statement says that masks don't work.

The implication seems pretty clear. We don't live in a world where statements only mean their narrowest and most literal reading.

pseudalopex linked to Fauci's tweet plainly stating that masks are ineffective for the general public.
What is the impact on the end user? Will anyone notice or care if you don't address the technical debt?
Then envious people can work on themselves, as we've always understood envy to be a moral problem.
It's to hide the owners identity. I don't know why people are arguing with me about this. Trust's are a wealth management tool that provide a number of services including hiding a persons identity.

Look at a normal vehicle title it will say {Bank} financing division. NEVER "trust"
Are you suggesting the Government buy an iPhone 13 for everyone?
Yeah, probably, it is also clear they’re asking about access or control no matter how they got there
Unless GUI code comes up with Rc<RefCell<>> all over the place.
LispWorks 8.0 does support the M1. You can get a version for macOS and one for Linux. I can run the Linux version under the Parallels on my M1 Mac, too. It even supports universal binaries for macOS on the M1: LispWorks can produce one macOS application with both native Intel 64 and native ARM64 code.

SBCL is native on the M1, too.
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> A study would mean looking at actual people, and say directly reducing the inequality. Obviously such a study would be infeasible

Hence models. Your complaint boils down to "This is a model of reality, and not reality therefore it's meaningless." This is a very shallow criticism. Yes, all models come with assumptions. If you have a criticism, it should be about specific assumptions, and not the fact that this is a model.
You don’t need compressible flow to generate lift. Any basic inviscid (Euler) 2D incompressible solver can be used to calculate lift. For drag you need to resolve the boundary layer and solve Navier Stokes.
> I didn't reach anybody, and you quickly realize how everybody else on the Internet just assumes you must either be lying or not telling the full story.

I have observed the same. When I evaluate service providers, I'm curious to know how they handle dispute with customers.. it's quite depressing to see that on most online forums, it usually goes straight into victim blaming. You must have violated the TOS, you must be doing something sketchy, you're not telling the whole story, you're just holding a grudge so get over it, you're just entitled, etcetra. There's very little sympathy, and no giving benefit of the doubt.

> But literally one hour later, I got my account unlocked with a personal apology.

Congrats! This is a lovely anecdote, thank you so much for sharing.
> No??? This is what having a prior is for. In this case, the prior was the mechanistic model which told you with reasonable confidence that masks would work in the slices of worlds where the primary mode of transmission was one mitigated by mask-wearing.

Yes. I'm incorporating a prior. Read what I wrote at the top of the thread: every medical intervention that has ever failed a trial has had a biologically plausible justification for doing the trial. Nearly all trials fail.

In the history of medicine, literally every failed medication, surgery, treatment or intervention has had an explanation that seemed plausible at the time. Just as we're seeing with masks, the vast majority of interventions have little to no effect. Many make things worse. From bloodletting to thalidomide to failed cancer drugs, medicine is littered with examples of people who "knew" that their preferred treatment would work based on "priors" or "plausible mechanisms", and ended up doing great harm.

As a bayesian and someone who is knowledgable of science and medicine, my prior probability of any medical intervention working is almost zero.
I don't think education is a money problem at this point. Maybe it can be gamified more but in the end I think it is a cultural thing. Victimizing everybody doesn't help and stopping it would probably have a better outcome than throwing money at it.
Since you're asserting that you don't believe the results of this research because it's "woo" -- can you explain what type of evidence, or what degree of impact, or how deep or impeccable the link must be established for you to accept it?

Is it even possible that you are, as you say, open to being proven wrong? (I ask this in good faith, because I've been arguing on the internet for 25+ years, and whenever someone says this, I end up asking them what would persuade them and the answer is usually "nothing," which, ... okay ..., but I am an eternal optimist and I strive to take people at their written word.)
And I was wondering who's having a go at Nir Sofer's range of free Windows utilities: https://www.nirsoft.net/
Alternate theory: Earth was assembled by some subcontractor who skimped on construction costs where they thought no one would notice.

This accounts for the absence of slood.
That is great! Latin american are still suspiciously uncommon in tech so there is definitely a neglected talent pool.

That illustrates one of the few good traits of capitalism: discrimination pushing you to miss on good candidates (women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, etc) is a drop in profit that can be exploited by other companies and that, thus, should disapear with time (at least in theory, in practice not all companies act as rational capitalists...).
Compared to what products supporting so many platforms with a commercial quality IDE, and regular updates?

Can you find even a single competitor?
And if they succeed, we'd be in Harrison Bergeron's universe.
Sidebar:

How come such a check is so damn expensive?

It should not be.
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Polarization is due to cultural issues, not economic ones. And no, those cultural issues don't stem from economic issues either. That's a Marxian base/superstructure analysis of the situation, which isn't accurate.

Furthermore, inequality will always be with us. Pareto principle is an actual thing and is mathematically sound when it comes to economics. Generally, the top 20% will hold 80% of the wealth. Many phenomena exhibit this distribution.
I'm really excited for the inevitable improved version of this that supports binary addresses and setting approximate PWM brightness levels.

Given the manufacturing process[0] linked, it could be a _little_ tricky to actually assign a known ID to each light in the strand, but either using the placement order when the strand is made or using a stochastic process to randomize the IDs and subsequently calibrate the strand should be viable, and result in a low cost strand with WS2812-like capabilities.

[0]: https://youtu.be/wCKlCUBsaT4