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by csa 4y ago
> Why should the government be able to control which apps people install and use on their own personal phones? The theoretical argument will be national security and “protect the children”. > What happened to "personal liberty an
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by csa 4y ago
> There's another part of me that falls for a slippery slope, it could be a bad precedent to start banning foreign stuff, like we could end up having a US only internet The balkanization of the internet has been a thing for a while
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by csa 4y ago
… yet somehow a district court found no reasonable claim of discrimination, and the appellate court upheld that finding. Imho, this article is an example of how the NYT has gone off the rails with their agenda-based spin on reporting. The a
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by csa 4y ago
See my other reply on this comment. There is no cap on Asian admissions, and there never will be. The Asians that get rejected at the margin have similar profiles to White people who are rejected at the margin. If you think that this is inc
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by csa 4y ago
Check out this article: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/27/opinion/harvard-presi... The original push for diversity was successfully implemented by Eliot (president before Lowell). Lowell definitely
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by csa 4y ago
> these elite schools would change that criteria, because the criteria are a means to an end. That’s a nice opinion you have. Do you have any evidence to support this? The case against Harvard showed us pretty much everything behind the
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by csa 4y ago
> What you're seeing is that Asian-Americans are better qualified, but not enough of them are accepted as one would expect from being better qualified. Please reread my entire comment. I covered your thesis, and I am fairly certain
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by csa 4y ago
> So schools have subjective criteria that disproportionately impacts one group of students, but it’s fine because that’s the rules and they are following it? I don’t think that the criteria are quite as subjective as you think. Anything
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by csa 4y ago
> It sounds like you're buying into Harvard's argument that "asian applicants are systematically less likeable / weaker in intangible attributes" which is racist nonsense in my opinion. Please don’t put words int
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by csa 4y ago
Let me put your concerns to rest… There are no elite schools that systematically discriminate against Asians. Zero. None. Let me add a few points that counter some folks who think that schools do discriminate against Asians: - Some schools
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by csa 4y ago
Trusts are the most common way to do this.
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by csa 4y ago
> I mean... the whole point is that that stuff is not a titled role. It's responsibility you can choose to take on as a senior IC that helps extend your reach, influence, and visibility into what is going on elsewhere in the company
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by csa 4y ago
> tech lead, feature lead, mentor, cross-team liaison, steering committee member All roles that young folks dream about becoming when they grow up. Grandma: What do you want to be when you grow up, honey? Granddaughter: A CROSS-TEAM LIAS
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by csa 4y ago
It really helps a lot if you know the game of go.
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by csa 4y ago
> The people of Alabama, Texas, Ohio and Louisiana very much want competitive sports teams and are happy to pay. Iirc, the Texas and Alabama sports programs are self-funding and (when I last looked at it) contributed some amount of exces
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by csa 4y ago
> Never felt anywhere close to the terror I felt living in San Jose and commuting to Los Gatos Terror in Los Gatos? Los Gatos is pretty damn close to Mayberry (of The Andy Griffith Show fame), imho. Certainly parts of San Jose are horr
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by csa 4y ago
> To give some perspective, nowadays all PhD students generally take something called “Responsible Conduct of Research”. Unfortunately, I think that these sorts of classes mainly serve as either CYA or to check a box for a funder. Most o
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by csa 4y ago
Very true. I should have specified HYPS (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford). I think these are the schools that the “public mind” think of as elite. I would personally add a few more to the list, but I think that the “public mind” prob
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by csa 4y ago
> In the public's mind one goes to an elite institution for access to elite education This is one area in which the public’s mind is (for the most part) very, very wrong. While there are certainly some excellent courses at elite sch
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by csa 4y ago
> If the… customers are happy, they don't need a new CEO. Do you think their customers are happy? Google’s thought leader customers are extremely unhappy with pretty much all of their products to the point that Google is ripe for
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by csa 4y ago
> Is admitting the most capable students unfair? Grades and standardized test scores might be one of the least interesting and almost definitely one of the less effective ways to classify the “most capable” students. If I’m optimizing fo
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by csa 4y ago
> you know how to play the game As a business owner, I value this trait highly. It’s very rare that “be highly competent” alone is enough to optimize for (ethical) success. People, including one’s customers, often have drivers other than
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by csa 4y ago
> We need a cheaper way to down these spy balloons. Probably fits nicely in the training budget.
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by csa 4y ago
I agree with dctoedt. This is nothing.
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by csa 4y ago
> I've never once seen anyone get further than a quarter of the way through the game in an adcade. Beating the dragon in the arcade was a complete rush. People watching were thoroughly entertained. Honestly, I think it was more fun
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by csa 4y ago
> What advantage would I have as a user of a "digital pound", compared to a regular bank account Two largest groups of users will be: 1. People who don’t have access to pound bank accounts (folks who live abroad). 2. People who
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by csa 4y ago
See my same-level reply for exact posts and threads.
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by csa 4y ago
Here is a patio11 blog post that has some relevant content: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan... Relevant HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8573992
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by csa 4y ago
> While everything you say is true, this isn't really unique to Japan though? I can’t speak to many other countries, as I haven’t really looked as deeply into them as I have into Japan. That said, the differences in Japan are signif
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by csa 4y ago
> Surely after 4 years you'd know if they were worth it and convert to an employee I think in many/most cases, the goal is not to have an additional permanent employee. Most large, reputable companies completely gutted their hi

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