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The greatest threat to most rich people is not war, starvation, poverty, or even revolution. It's getting cancelled on Twitter.

The reason why Hollywood talks a lot about diversity, inclusion, feminism, gay rights, human rights, etc, is not because everyone in Hollywood independently decided those things were good. Far from it: this is the same town that circled the wagons around Roman Polanski, after all. And their institutions were built on the backs of bright-eyed female actors being drugged up and sexually harassed. They are genetically tainted[0] against social justice.

What happened to make Hollywood care about this is very simple: the people who fought for the rights of the oppressed figured out how to weaponize social ostracism and public shame as a political tool. And this is not the first time this has happened, of course. The 50s saw Congress blatantly purge Hollywood of leftists through ostracism; and there's a whole right-wing strain of cancel culture[1] that rarely gets mentioned. Even deep-rooted tendencies have to bend in the face of external pressure.

Ostracism isn't unique to rich people, of course. It can happen within any social structure[2]. The difference is where people get cancelled. If you've been fired from your job for going on right-wing rants all the time, you go and get another job. If you've been given the national spotlight by becoming Twitter's Villain of the Day, that reputation will stick to you forever. And that latter scenario is way more likely to occur to people who are already well-connected, well-known, and have something to lose.

In other words, famous people tend to seem detached from the rest of us because they are looking down at us from space. In the same way that any one of us might be a little detached from, say, someone growing up in the 1950s.

[0] As in, I am deliberately tarring Hollywood with the genetic fallacy. #NotAllMovieMoguls

[1] Remember when they cancelled the Dixie Chicks for hating the Iraq War?

[2] Which, inevitably, will form into a nested hierarchy of cliques.
Hmm... sounds like you got the short end of the stick. Off-topic conversations at work can be tricky, can't they.
Yes, and one argument is to divide us and focus on race over so we don’t go for the overly rich
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As the judge put it, a case could potentially be made that Visa knowingly provided the tools to MindGeek while aware of the child exploitation issues and could potentially be complicit. That potential means the case should proceed and be heard on its merits (at least as I understand it).
Ironically, the FoRS sat on lots for ages after the first batch left show rooms. You could find them new well into 2019 (a model year after production stopped, or about 1.5 calendar years).

The current car market is making me regret no picking up another cool car in the late 10s. So many great options were on the market for well under MSRP: GT350s, base C7s, 1LE camaros, pre-refresh ND Miatas. Those same cars are probably selling for well over purchase price now, with 50k miles on them.
That guys rich too
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Exactly. Culture of actual personalization is just gone these days.
This is also why euro-spec Mercedes have so many more engine options compared to Americans. in the US 3 engines is a lot for a model, but some German VWs have like 7 choices. You pick the exact one for your needs.
It should be noted that neither class nor race is a reindeer-style glowing red nose. There's an recent trend in England of people faking lower-class roots to take advantage of targeted programs, and there are indicators that white Americans are pretending Native ancestry for college admission.
Nice dodge of 'minorities', some of whom are men, and are incarcerated at a higher rate (as much as 5x higher).
Actually it seems that trying harder in case of Asians is being punished. They have highest meritocratic scores and are being punished for it... That from engineering view point seems just insane.
It sucks going down to a lot to test drive a new car and being hassled by someone who often knows less about the vehicle than you, then your phone blowing up for weeks after.

I'd prefer to go to a showroom, test drive, not be hassled because there's no commission on the line. Then go do that at several other manufacture's showrooms, then go home and make my final selection in peace with a web browser and my spouse.

If this system becomes efficient there's no reason why the manufacturer cannot have an interstate warehouse Amazon style with some "next day delivery" vehicles. So you can either pick your bespoke configuration and wait [period] or get something in inventory for almost immediate delivery, but in both cases you're ordering via your browser/phone.

Now instead of shopping each state dealership's inventory one by one, you're shopping all collective dealership's inventory together and getting an incredible buying experience.
You still do (to a lesser extent). How a transmission works is a typical driving test question.
This is why I like playing Go (the game). The decisions made early in the game has huge effects on the rest of the game. Lingering effects of dead formations (aji) comes back to haunt and shape future decisions.

Playing Go exercises this, and helps develops the intuition on the effects of architecture, outside of the game.

I am again also reminded of Christopher Alexander’s ideas in living architecture.
Of course nothing is inevitable. Things never go back to the old way, but things do revert. Just look at some of the replies here and you'll see comments such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32319989 and others. Is decentralization an inevitability? No. But as I said above, the more that cloud companies do these sorts of customer-adverse actions, the more we'll see this movement to decentralization.
I think many people disagree or have never thought of an endgame, thinking culturally different groups of people can be "given" equality.

Likewise what actually equality is is not thought about.

In other words people fighting this fight have no idea what winning it looks like.
It's official: anyone not claiming minority status on your application is a fool.

I don't like it either, but if they are going to be racist, just do what you need to do.
Sure I remember. Let's talk about that another time. Those things have been discussed. You are missing some key plot elements such as the entire rest of the UN security council.

Whataboutism aside, those events are not 1:1 relevant to what is going on today. Turkey maintains an indefensible invasion of Cyprus, and engages in acts of wargames by frequently flying fighter jets over Greek airspace, constantly taunting them and threatening to take more of their land, laying baseless claims to Aegean seas, and Russia maintains an indefensible invasion of Ukraine, and followed a very similar plot.

Missing in either of these two situations was 16 other nations imploring the country soon to be invaded to comply, and the largest act of terrorism in the modern world.
>>They also wouldn't have a new vehicle available for 2 months as their cars were sold that far in advance

Is that.....meant to be long? Everywhere I ask, every dealer every brand, every model, if you want a brand new vehicle from factory, the wait time is at least 6 months, usually 12+ months. If you want a brand new Kia EV6, the earliest delivery time is Q1 2024 - the order book is closed for 2023 already.
Will people coming in from Twitter and co specifically to check in on Pelosi's plane have any interest in converting to a subscriber for general flight tracking? I'd suspect the conversion rates would be (/are) extremely low with this kind of inorganic traffic.
That says they use a single database, as in a logical MySQL database. I don't see any claim that they use a single server. In fact, the title of the article you've linked suggests they use multiple.
Isn't this just blatant ageism too? Especially the part about "behavioral problems"?
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Me too. I've gotten paid anonymously via Monero for a small service. Worked really well.
Listen to the MBAs and they'll tell you there's a shortage of developers everywhere. What they really mean is that there's a shortage of devs willing to work for what they're willing to pay.
Anyone else find that Covid had a strong affect on the taste of peanut butter?

Right after Covid in Nov of 2020 it started tasting like raw sewage for me. I used to love it.

It’s only somewhat improved since. Met a few people that won’t eat it anymore.

https://www.news24.com/amp/health24/medical/infectious-disea...
In your investigation did you try out Flyte at all?
Or if you can't stand mail-archive.com:

https://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2022-March/032769.html
I recommend Blindsight frequently. It isn't for everyone, but I think there are a wide variety of types of people who would enjoy it, including those who tend to read more non-fiction than fiction. In my opinion, the payoff from that book is high enough that it is worth recommending it to a few people who won't like it.

I also think that people too frequently don't try things because they or someone else thinks they won't like it. I'm a big fan of people pushing their comfort zone and trying new things.
Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM!
Assuming people are "disadvantaged" simply because of the color of their skin is a textbook example of "the soft bigotry of low expectations".
It is not at all removed from my direct experience. (And I am, in fact, an Ivy League alumnus.)

See https://www.econlib.org/archives/2015/03/the_prevalence_1.ht... for the shocking level of acceptance of Marxist ideas in the social sciences, despite a lack of anything resembling evidence for it. And a tremendous amount of evidence that attempts at implementing Marxism have done insane amounts of damage to the world.
I really don't understand current progressive ideology. Apart from discrimination against Asians, there is also the whole "Hijab empowers women" nonsense. I come from a part of the world where women have to fight for the right to take off hijab. They are shunned socially for doing so. In worse places, they can be jailed or beaten.

Imagine coming from such a place to America, and seeing here women are wearing that symbol of oppression as a fashion statement. It just boggles the mind. Its analogous to if you were an American slave in 1800s, got your freedom and sailed to the UK. And on landing saw blacks in the UK wearing chains as a fashion accessory. It seems so disrespectful towards your struggle.
I don't think it's possible to have meaningful diversity of thought without diversity of background. That spans many attributes—race, economic status, where you grew up, etc. Race is obviously an important one, given how much it changes many people's experiences and perceptions.

I think diverse racial representation is important, but is maybe better viewed as an indicator of success rather than a metric to optimize. Especially at a university, diversity of thought and academic talent should be the primary factors (imo).
Strong agree.

I don't see Visa as culpable here. And yes, you're right—no more culpable than the ISP serving PornHub, or their analytics provider, data center, ad services, or anything else. The blame lies squarely on PornHub. And there are surely other institutions than Visa that should be obliged to take immediate serious issue with CSAM on PH.

Why isn't Visa being forced to stop providing payment processing services for Liquor stores that sell alcohol to people who drive drunk and injure themselves and others? It's not a strawman—I see Visa as removed from culpability in that case as they are in this PornHub case.

The specific behavior of the person posting this content is unquestionably damnable, but it doesn't mean PornHub is a whole is a net-bad. Sex work is real work, and America has a real damn hard time appreciating the aesthetics of the human body in a comfortable and unproblematic manner, and the pressure to keep PornHub surpassed in the shadows is also what promotes some bad behavior—since we can't talk about sex comfortably as a culture.

In any case, Visa's job is not to moderate the content of the internet or any other purchases on their platform, aside from an interested best-effort response to deny outright the sale of illegal goods and services. Visa should be able to fine or sue PornHub for breach of contract. Or increase their payment processing fees, and make them provide reports and transparency from this. It is not ok for Visa to feel forced by external pressure to cut off this business category as a whole. Sure, charge them more, but don't deny the business.
> supporting systems which encourage systemic preferences for certain groups

The newest definition is "systems that do not ensure equal outcomes between ethnic groups".

I'm sure you can discern the dark side of that statement. The idea is that we should ignore the problem at the source - injustice, unequal treatment, real racism (by your first definition) -- and instead correct it via racial quotas wherever there's supposed to be an objective, impartial test of one's fitness for a role.

One of the USA's great mottos used to be "equal opportunity". Not anymore, sadly -- between nepotism, promised donations, and racial quotas it's become nigh on impossible for some otherwise highly qualified but poor kids to go to an ivy-league school.
>Why not? While Asian immigrants certainly face discrimination they have also certainly experienced much less than black Americans have over the last 300 years.

Well .. you have to be careful when talking about groups, because at the individual level it's not clear that this is true. In fact, it isn't true.

For example, Ilhan Omar, a Congresswoman from Minnesota, is a black American. Her ancestors didn't suffer American discrimination. She was born in Somalia to a well-connected, upper-class Somali family. Her personal experience still had trials and tribulations that was unique to her, but it was different than the experience of other black Americans.

Couldn't we give a 'hand-up' to the people that need it by focusing on class, instead of race?
We’re not talking about “removing privilege”, ie, ending a racist program that favors Asians.

We’re talking about discrimination against an 18 year old Asian kid who has done nothing on the basis of race.
How to Avoid YouTube Copyright Claims [video]
> Twenty seconds after adding two drops of water the battery reaches a stable 1.2 volts, a little less than 1.5 volt AA battery. The charge lasts about an hour, after which the paper dries out. Users can get another hour at 0.5 volts by adding a couple more drops of water.

This is so great. How many times can it be "recharged"?
Unfortunately the reality is that dealer owners have a huge amount of local political power as they’re usually among the wealthiest people in their area. The us is generally decent when it comes to corruption, but this is one area where we have clearly failed.
Perl is getting to be like COBOL - lots of lines out there still doing useful things but they aren't cranking out new Perl programmers like they used to. Lucrative if you can find the gig.

That said, I met a millennial COBOL programmer a couple years ago.
And this is called the crab mentality: "My family struggled so much in my childhood, so I want you to struggle as much. I'm miserable and you too should live in misery." People with this mentality really want some company, but this is turned into the crab mentality by their sick minds.
> :)

Give us an example? Surely not last Sunday's. I think maybe 3 weeks ago I got a good chuckle but that's every other month or so.
Yes in my job hunt over the last 6 months basically the first thing I have had to say to potential employers is: "No, I'm not expecting to match what I was getting at Google."

Pretty sure that a lot of places I simply didn't hear back from was because they didn't expect to be able to even come close on comp. And I've had other Xoogler friends who applied for places, got promising initial results, and then insanely low offers (like 1/3rd or less of Google comp).

I'll do 2/3rds or even 1/2 for the right job, but not 1/4 or 1/3rd.

Now, part of that is the domestic market (Ontario Canada) has been underpaying SWEs for years and getting away with it, since most of the good talent flees south after graduation anyways.

But part of it is that FAANG compensation is just far more than anybody else could ever afford.
It's been long enough that perhaps the manufacturers are hoping the lesson will be lost as they move to return to online sales.

Ford in my experience is especially bad about making poorly engineered low-mid tier vehicles that require consumer recalls, lawsuits, etc.

They would benefit greatly from a reduced dealership presence without a corresponding decrease in sales volume.
Unless there's something being done to the raging dictatorship, the event makes the dictatorship more determined to spread and demonstrate its influence over the region. And the US does nothing, it actually is unable to do anything to CCP at this point, but it shows the audience meaningless posturing that don't lessen dictatorship's influence.
Which is more diverse:

1. Admiting a black boy who is living with both parents and who have a net worth of over $100 million

2. Admitting a white boy who grew up in poverty in Appalachia and lived in a single parent household
What federal laws are you referring to here? From my understanding most dealership protections are state, not federal.
It's not Asians primarily. They are discriminated against more stiffly, but are far outnumbered in the US by Whites, who also get the thumb placed on the wrong pan of the scale.

The focus on Asians is because of a doctrine that discriminating against Whites is very good and correct, because they deserve it.
We can look back at history and come up with a thousand reasons to support any cause that exists today. Asians were discriminated when they were brought in to work on the railroads, are we going to factor that into the admission process too? So in the end, is it just going to be a battle of which race had the worst time in history?

The point is, instead of chasing the fool's dream of finding who was hurt the most in history, we can just make sure everybody has the opportunity to be successful. It's not perfect today but it is still better than hurting one group of people in order to boost another.
In general, this point of view has some merit; but this is Oracle.
I am pretty sure a lot do. First, a lot of immigrants came to pursue the "American Dream", trying to break free from poverty, or oppression, or both.

Then you have specific instances of Asian people (systematically) being mistreated in the US. Chinese railroad construction workers come to mind, who were basically treated as serfs and whose lives were considered "expendable". People with Japanese origins were put into concentration camps during WW II, along with societal repressions against anybody who "looked" Japanese, on top of the general racist stance of the time.

Asian-Americans were effectively as segregated as Black Americans for a long long time. While the Asian-American population might not have experienced slave-labor to the same degree, Asian-American communities certainly were for a long time pushed to the edges of society, usually even physically segregated, systematically and ideologically denied access to upwards social mobility, and so on.
That is precisely the point I was making. The dealership becomes the scalper. Would you rather pay the scalp price at a dealership with the accompanying regulations and laws surrounding that transaction or pay the scalp price from someone you don’t know with much fewer regulations accompanying that transaction? The scalp market exists. I think it’s better to have that market at a dealership than from people you might not be able to track down in the case something goes wrong.
I was a surprise in their last video why mainly discuss one watch which start with B but use a title involving Rolex. But they say clearly why. That is even for old fan of their channel (which frankly just two mic or one camera with a hand and a watch is not exactly attractive unless you want the content). I finally get it. Even if most favourite channel need to use that.

Deeper you really want to have a reference and unless that reference is used for comparison you do not know.

Hence even here unless there is an anchor I would not watch just anything. Once started it is not the title.
I also switched from paprika to PlanToEat, and in general like it, however, they never respond to emails in the usual ways, so it feels like a black hole sending bug reports or feature requests.

They would usually fix bugs a few months later, so I do presume someone is reading the email, but yeah, expect silence if you do reach out.

That said, I’m still happy enough to recommend using them.
what's wild is that several YC companies that have frequently-featured job posts on HN explicitly state they want 10x engineers. Kable is one: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kable/jobs/h3wKq6F-fou...

> You are a 10x engineer, capable of getting more done than others and in a fraction of the time.
> around the 45:30 mark

Correction: I meant 49:30.
if there are 894 candidates for a position, there's going to be somewhat arbitrary weeding out somewhere down the line
I guess the situation is probably not “overblown” in general. Here is a job advertisement for the University of Guelph in Ontario that was posted a couple of days ago. It’s for a position in experimental physics. It explicitly says that no white people need apply:

https://www.universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?job_id=58317

Perhaps this is legal in Canada; surely not in the U.S.?
Dealers are a legally protected market in many states, which ban manufacturer-direct sales of cars. This is why in many states (including Texas), Tesla only has showrooms, not dealerships. (You need to fill out a purchase online and can't pick up any inventory from the, ahem, showroom.) No reason why Ford couldn't do the same, except that many dealerships which were independent are now owned by a few conglomerates who have a keen interest in preventing the loss of their business.
I can imagine the political cartoon right now, a school administrator boasting that 98% of the student body is from a minority group, to a room full of white male students who lied about their ethnicity on the college admission process.
Yes, totally.

Among the setups the one that I think is the golden is BIG Db Server, 1-4 front-end(web/api/cache) servers. Off-hand the backups and CDN.

That is.
They will go extinct eventually from rivals without a dealership network consuming passenger vehicle sales TAM along with service revenue decline as combustion miles traveled decreases (EVs require much less service, and heavy drivers are financially incentivized to transition to EVs).

What that tipping/inflection point is, I haven’t done the math. Smaller dealerships or those at the margins of course will be the first to close or sell out to mega corp dealer chains.

Carmax is pretty decent for new car sales where they’re able to offer that, in my experience, and their used car buying experience is very good as well (have bought a handful of used cars from Carmax). Cannot speak to Carvana, haven’t used them.
Also what happens if you enclose it in a ziploc bag full of water? This adding of water thing seems weird to demand from the end user.