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Caste system of India is somewhat unique in the sense that it gets superimposed on almost every religion in India.

So no, Muslim/Islam religion hasn’t escaped caste trap in India. There are upper caste, lower caste etc. For instance, leather/tanning work is typically done by lower caste Muslims compared to say a merchant.

Let me further drive home my point. “Lingayat” is a religion created explicitly to be outside of caste system. To an extent they consider themselves to be of a different religion from Hinduism. Though superficially you can’t tell the difference because culturally they are very similar to Hinduism. But after a few centuries, Lingayats now have their own caste hierarchy. Almost parallel to Hindu caste system.

https://karepass.cgg.gov.in/CasteReport.do?actionParameter=C...
Wait, are you saying that it'll be better for US to copy India's caste system?

Let me guess which caste you think you'll end up.
You could try reading the article before assuming what the author will say.
The author clearly is keen to Miyazaki's games and puts them into the context of the debate about game difficulty. Yet it justifies the author's intent.
Give it a read.
Reminds me of one of the standard version Easter eggs in Android a few versions ago was a game with this exact same 'press to make float' action
Is the name a nod to Almost Pizza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLHRjaUBb3o ?
This has to the most contrived and ridiculous comment I have seen. Virtually all Brahmins proudly advertise their caste and their caste is also obvious from their last name. There is literally no need to pat their backs.
> NATO doesn’t decide what NATO does.

Yes, it does; NATO works by consensus, not central dictatorship, or even majority vote.

> The US will not close the airspace over Ukraine because then they’d be at war with Russia.

That’s why…pretty much every nation in NATO would oppose a NATO-enforced NFZ, not uniquely the US.
By figuring out why they're under represented and fixing those?

Is it income disparity? Single parent households? Lack of funding for schools in poor communities? Why can't we focus on addressing those and leveling the playing field rather than picking one way to group people (by race in this case) and artificially tipping the scale? Why not by gender, or family income, or height or beauty? Those all have impacts to life outcome too.
I just beat Sekiro last month and picked up Elden Ring this month. I think Miyazaki is a genius - FromSoft smashed it out of the park with this one, and I honestly had no idea how he could outdo himself after the masterpieces that were Dark Souls 3 and Sekiro.
Oh but he has changed - changed for the worse.
> The conservative WSJ using Asians as a wedge against Black people,

Actually, they're using them as a wedge against universities, because (in their opinion) they're communist-infested indoctrination centers that scam humanities majors out of six figure sums of money. Harvard would be ruined if it had to turn itself into UC Berkeley.

There's also the angle of chipping off some of the Chinese- and Korean-American electorate.

> Corporations implement AA because it’s shown diversity increases profits for a number of reasons.

I suppose you could cite some weak sociological studies and pretend they're strong research while ignoring those that find the opposite correlation.

> I see very little curiosity about why AA might be a good thing.

There is an actual argument there, but you're not giving one, the user "markdown" is.

Edit: Sorry you got flagged again. I guess HN's mob censorship strikes in both directions.
This seems very much related to the equal opportunity vs equal outcome debate. Affirmative action seems to be very much about equal opportunity. What I don't quite understand is why the fixation on race? Why not on family income or any number of other parameters that impacts education, future earning potential etc?
>> Not necessarily. It's probably more how they view people who yammer on about free speech, which is a totally different thing than free speech itself.

> Maybe, if you are being very charitable.

No, you don't have to be "very charitable." Many if not most of the people who yammer on about free speech tend to be obnoxious for various reasons (e.g. by using "free speech" as justification or defense of personal bad behavior, or responding over and over with the same dogmatic points that everyone has seen a million times). It's a mistake to infer any particular view about free speech itself from annoyance with those types of people.
Android Lollipop (5.0) easter egg game https://youtu.be/pTuJztsquzE

Yes, I guess also inspired by Flappy Bird.
This is fair. You need to have somewhere to put it. My generator lives in a small shed outside so that wasn't too hard, and you can get some pretty small UPSs, but if you need to keep things up for longer, or have a lot of kit to hook in they get pretty bulky.
Impossible to play on a 280hz monitor. I see you're using Date.now() to calculate the delta. Instead, use the first argument given to you by requestAnimationFrame for higher resolution, which is a DOMHighResTimeStamp[0]

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DOMHighResT...
And if I follow your premises, I come to a different conclusion entirely. You're essentially advocating for society to perpetuate this "tropical, laid-back paradise" for the group, absolving them as a group to grow and better themselves (also implying that they can't grow on their own, absent discrimination).

At the same time, you forget that this reverse-discrimination is usually justified under the guise of "perpetual" repression by the other group. It's a mess all-around and we're just adding additional layers of complexity and blame to go around. I.e. now you're punishing completely innocent people and breeding resentment, whilst telling the other group that they have essentially a repressive enemy. That is Not good for society.

I honestly don't know how we convinced ourselves that this entire thing is good. We will be judged by our future generations.
I have been working in SV for over 25 years now. I have never once seen anyone discriminating on caste. Having said that, I know of a couple of a people who have either completely avoided using their last names or took up new last names. I haven't seen it happening personally but people are still taking precautions to not get persecuted.
I haven't formed a strong opinion on affirmative action yet.

> You cannot justify holding Asian-Americans to a higher level because "they can handle it."

The person you're replying to didn't say anything like that.

> It disgusts me that you can say "this is good for America" when Asian-American children have to go through a nightmare to have a chance at opportunities comparable to their peers, simply because of the color of their skin.

I agree, but I think I understand what they meant. They're suggesting that the benefit to society of having more diversity in the higher educated (and then higher income, etc) brackets outweighs the harm to society from unfair admissions. It's certainly a way start rebalancing the race distribution of the "upper classes" of society.
It would be more fair to create admission quotas based on family economic status, but I can’t imagine that would ever be put into practice because it would hurt the wealthy too much. The universities wouldn’t like the financial impact either. But if true equality of opportunity were the goal, then that’s how you’d need to do it I think.
That school is over. It will be propped up for a while on its laurels but the prestige will quickly wither and not return. Kind of like a capital group buying a once great brand and destroying everything that made it great while cutting costs. The radical, race-obsessed, racist arm of the modern American left destroys everything it touches.
In situations like these, I believe the best thing a distant westerner can do to weight against escalation is to keep cold headed, try our best not to fall prey to endoctrination, remind anyone involved to not burn bridges, to never consider others are fundamentally different, etc.

If we were in Kyiv right now it could be different, but maybe not. Actually, the Russian invasion has been very low intensity so far and to be frank, if not for the nonstop calls for more action from warmongers on the internet, I would still believe we are still well within the range of peace negociations.

I'm conscious how naive this sounds, but after all the Putins and the Bushs can only go to war when their people are filled with enough hatred, that's the first ammo that's ever manufactured.
Agree, and since it becomes a criminal matter employees don’t need to hire lawyers and instead can refer the matter to police.
Maybe not in the legal sense of conflict of interest, a kind of conflict of interest non the less.
Speaking as someone who can say I’ve lost or damaged friendships with sporting disagreements: I have very real significant disagreements with people I care about. I now take them seriously and treat them with care. I try to remember those disagreements might part me with people who are important to me, and try to remember that sometimes that parting is necessary and other times it’s not. Most of the time it’s not.
This is exactly why Mat was so badly butchered at the end of the Wheel of Time: Sanderson doesn't have any experience of carousing to draw on, and prudish is spot on.
That’s academic.

It will soon be known as “the region formerly known as Ukraine.”
I can potentially see VR create a demand for such high bandwidth. With high resolution fully immersive videos perhaps
As other comments say, the difficulty has been oversold. I don't know what your experiences with these games are, but there are lots of forgiving aspects to them that wouldn't be there if they just wanted to make the hardest games on the market. Here's a few:

- every death refills your main healing items, so you can't run out

- you keep all the items you collect before you die

- you can recover lost experience points/currency by returning to the place where you died

- you can summon NPC or online co-op partners when you need. This trivializes most bosses.

- other players can leave messages in the game. Lots of them are tricks, but it almost guarantees that you won't miss any important items.

- they're RPGs. If you don't have enough health or whatever, you can level up to correct that.

These games definitely punish you when you make a mistake, and sometimes they are just janky, but if you invest the time it all starts to make sense.

Unfortunately, I think it's their own marketing department that really pushed the difficulty angle, maybe they're trying to back out of that now that they're not an underdog.
> Affirmative action is crucial in a multicultural society. India has done it for decades.

Good thing India's only been a multicultural society for decades.
It used to have a very unique custom look and now it looks a lot like a standard readthedocs type documentation for other projects. The reduced contrast of code blocks in particular is a step back.
Mark Zuckerberg Talks to Tyler Cowen, and Patrick Collison
If you treat things as forking branches in a tree, then refinement of branching in deep time, is informing of why modern developments diverge. You might have 4 things held to have a common ancestor and uncover 3 of then from one lineage and 1 from an earlier fork. This may for instance explain why Chimps are remarkably non-verbal for otherwise smart creatures.

It's why we're confident about the lineage to Homo Sapiens but the detail of Denisovan, Neandertal is huge. What if we unpacked a pre-lingual ancestor? What might it say if they were not toolmakers beyond the crow-trivial level, and what comes after were? Would we be able to tie tool making to vocalisation?

I don't think this is the only reason, and I have no belief T-Rex progeny do more than inform marginally KFC cooking times and relative fat content of duck and goose..
NYT: In Germany, Threats Grow as Far Right and Pandemic Protestors Merge
They do, and they affect the industry as much as whatever CPUs they were building in-house before the switch.
I see. I was imagining a much more preplanned kind of thing, with screenshots on slides. In that case it makes a lot more sense.
> Very strongly disagree with these assumptions.

It is the fundamental basic business ideas that they have it all wrong. Which is why every time these discussions came up they are non-productive. It is no different to saying Linux would take over desktop in the 90s because it is free. We are in 20s and coming up 30s. It is still not happening.

But at least ( or hopefully ) we have passed stage where RISC-V is fundamentally better ISA than ARM. And talk about the business aspect of it.

Edit: Ok I was wrong, the ISA debate is near the bottom of the page. I didn't invent the term "Riscy Silver Bullet" for no reason :).
I'm sorry you're friend went through that.

I'm also sorry because I should have been more succinct. You are correct.

I, too, have a form of muscular dystrophy called Spinal Muscular Atrophy, type II. I deal with a lot of what's being discussed here, i.e. aspiration pneumonia.

That said, there is, at least in my mind, almost no functional difference between not having a muscle and having muscle so deteriorated that it no longer works. Electrical stimuli such as through a TENS unit does nothing.

Back to OPs suggestion though. You might be able to make a case for early onset muscle assist? Dunno, just spit-ballin'.

There
I don't agree with Norvig here. The optimal strategy is to reduce the number of degrees of freedom in subsequent guesses as early as possible. Essentially, pick words that would earn you the lowest Scrabble scores.

I used to start with TEARS. Once I realized that they never used plurals, I switched to STARE, since putting the S at the end doesn't appreciably lower the entropy. I usually end up winning with 3 guesses, which is the point where strategy starts to pay off. (I do agree with Peter that 2-guess wins are almost always due to luck.)
That's exactly what the actual git does too.
As a visible minority myself, I think you are being way too abrasive and nasty.
Does the futures market swing 50%?

Sure the smart ones use a stablecoin. But what about everyone else?
I've had it happen a few times. Most recently a company told me at the time that they were impressed but it would've been a waste of my time and skillset to take the role they were hiring for (VP at BigCo). About a year later they reached out with a generous offer for a role they had created specifically for me, which genuinely was a better fit.

I've been on the other side of that conversation as well. It usually happens when someone really impresses and stands out but doesn't actually match what the role requires. If you have a limited hiring budget, you can't always squeeze in a person you'd love to hire in addition to someone that fills the critical role. Smart companies will invent a role for great talent, if they can make the budget work, but that often takes a lot of time to put together.
Napoleon Bonaparte roughly once said that elite education was to important to let it available for the mass.
Thank you for contributing something other than pop-sociology to the comments (omg race is a social construct guys).

I hadn’t thought about this this way before - eventually anyone with an inclination to “rage against the machine” will have to really pinpoint that energy and drill down and down until it seems like a parody.

Not saying we’re there now, but an interesting thought exercise.
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Like you, I am not a huge fan of JS, but I'd like to say that the ideas behind TermKit — namely having a shell with richer graphical interaction (e.g. cat works for images too), semantic awareness and tokenization of commands, rich autocomplete, etc. — were ahead of their time.

Maybe it's expected that TermKit-the-project died, but I don't think that TermKit-the-idea should: whether it be bringing features from the project as extensions to existing terminals (cat for images would be nice), or building a new TermKit built on modern graphics libraries powered by WASM/Lua/bring-your-own scripting language.
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Nit: it's not liberalism, but rather the general progressive/socialist movements. Some of the things being championed are highly illiberal, for example CRT has anti-liberalism as a central tenet.
Showing the Russian forces where Ukrainians have been building road blocks, etc?
Very nice. Well done. I love takes like this which subvert the ideas from the old classics. Reminds of of http://hcs64.com/efp.html which is Pong but from the balls point of view.
It’s all so depressingly primitive. Half of me wants to protest that surely we’re more enlightened than this in current year. The other half would settle for everyone else admitting that yes we are definitely still this backwards.
They don't do country tld
When I have given a shy smile and an interested "What is your ancestry?" followed by, if sincere, "You have a really cool look!", I have often gotten very interesting answers and nearly never any offense. Once someone I asked had 8 heritages bestowed by 8 great grand parents, including Sephardic, Chinese, Cree, African-American and Swedish!

I'll ask "Where are you from?" as a way to understand someone's heritage only if it's obvious, from accent or other markers, that they are literally from another country.
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Where are the download links of these PDF's?
NB does exactly this: https://github.com/xwmx/nb
I mean, his name is only on 2,700 pages of it.
In code terms, knowing the history of a codebase is often more important than knowing the current feature set it provides.
Regarding “the Ukraine” I obsessed over this a few years ago and asked every Ukrainian I knew (about 20 people). They had no idea what I was talking about and regarded as purely a quirk if the English language that has nothing to do with anything.

We also refer the Netherlands, the Philippines, the Bahamas, and occasionally even the Sudan.

Not to me mention the United States.
It just doesn't consistently work and I end up with several circles drawn around what I'm trying to erase that I end up having to erase as well. There's apparently some magic angle/distance to hold your fingers apart at and if you deviate even a small amount it doesn't pick it up. Having any part of your other hand/other fingers on the screen as well will cause it to not work either. Someone on the subreddit told me that what has been working for them is to hold their 2 fingers vertical along the left side of the screen and that's been working for me better than what I was doing, but it still often doesn't pick it up. I just today finally got my Lany EMR stylus in and am enjoying the dedicated erase button much more.

You may be looking at reviews for the linux version maybe? The gesture erase has only been on the android version since the latest update and most everyone I've spoken to in the supernote subreddit about it agrees it's not super great at the moment.

Other than that issue I'm a big fan, let me know if you have any other questions, happy to share my experience.

edit - one suggestion, the battery lasts much longer with wifi off, so I would suggest leaving it off and turning it on briefly whenever you want to sync notes, if you even care to do that, and check for updates every once in a while.
The next phase of the war has begun: The battle for the cities
How do we know what 'race' someone is, do we just ask them or do we test for DNA. The more you drill down into the race question the more absurd it seems, and you quickly realize people either mean culture or some DNA pseudo-science.
> Believe or not, there's a similar policy in China that if a student is ethnic minority then s/he can get extra scores on the university entry exam named GaoKao which is equivalent to SAT.

I was amused, looking up the admission thresholds for 清华, to see that Uyghur applicants get their scores docked by an amount that I assume equals the boost they got for being Uyghur.

No such readjustment seems to be applied for Mongols, Tujia, or etc.
Yes; that sounds similar in some ways to Fiona Hill's take on it at https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-... .
> Ideally, yes. But if the group of people who meet your standards does not exactly match the demographics of the general population, you will be held accountable.

Like the NFL or NBA?
Did Brown vs. Board of Education ever apply to private schools (like Harvard and unlike U Mass)? I’m guessing private schools had some rules applied to them later, but that was way after Brown and probably under different laws not arising from the constitution.
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