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The merit-based school such as Styuvesant in NYC and Lowell in SF are both filled with rather poor Asian kids. The demographic profile of these two schools are substantially lower income than the very expensive cities they reside in. Edit:
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Spending extra time reading to your kids, sending your kids to tutors, paying for summer programs, sweating over neighborhood to move into for their good schools...many of these things are now considered “inter-generational privilege transf
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Steam allows achievements in one game to affect another game?
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The whole point of games is that each game invents its own rules, unaffected by the real world, including the rules of other games. Works of creative authorship operate because the author can establish clear walls, then reinvent the rules o
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Hardware people: We worked our asses off for this breakthrough in performance. Software people: Thanks buddy, so we can move everything to Electron now? On a serious note, it does saddens me how a portion of hardware advancement is lost to
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Elephant in the room is that an A15/M1 beefed up GPU is exactly the right chip for a Nintendo Switch/Steam Deck form factor device.
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Reminds me of Conflict vs Mistake theory. Mistake theorists worry about whether an idea is true. Conflict theorists worry about whether an idea is useful their enemies. Shifting the argument to "bad faith", "closet X", &
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Treating everyone as an individual is exactly the opposite of “assume all cows are roughly spherical”. It means judge someone with the highest resolution information available. The fact that perfect information is not always available, does
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by notSupplied 5y ago
Regarding hard-to-cancel subscriptions: I always thought this should be the credit card company's responsibility. High-end credit cards like AMEX and Chase Sapphire already have so many cushy perks, what's so hard about also addin
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by notSupplied 5y ago
Actually, one of the reasons Genshin is lauded by it's player base is that you can clear the hardest content with free to play characters. The 5 stars have way flashier looking abilities and get more face-time in the narrative, and are
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Lets take a step up the value chain: Qualcomm also literally built their dominant position in 3G/4G/5G radios from the ground up. Is that more than sufficient justification for them maintaining as much control as they please? Beca
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Hence, the phrase "gerrymandering" the boundaries.
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Yes, but after you take the product home from Walmart, and open the packaging, a little card slips out with more deals from the manufacturer…deals that are neither controlled nor raked by Walmart. The app upselling you on more features afte
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by notSupplied 5y ago
More economic activity is shifting from meat space and onto our phones over time. Apple’s idea that they deserve a 30% cut of “economic activity that happens on an iDevice” will appear ever more expansive. During the pandemic, when fitness
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Which made me realize…a lightning bolt symbol could just as easily be interpreted by laymen as “charging only”! What a mess…
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If you learned that punishment produced no useful benefit to society, and you want to punish anyway, then what you’re seeking is revenge, not justice.
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Actually, an even more obvious reason that I missed: Politics have become so tribal, that even simple sentences no longer mean what they mean at face value. Instead, they more often signal membership in a group who holds a certain bundle of
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The most typical reason people don't like to answer that question is because they believe it is as setup for a followup: "Then why aren't you doing X?!" where X in this case could be "Fire this person", "S
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So, do you denounce white supremacy? If you said yes, what if they followed up with the following questions: - What have you done to fight it? - Have you donated to XYZ org? - How much? Why not more? Surely you could afford it? - How much t
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He did not "refused to acknowledge racism as a concept could exist in companies", he said "We don't live in a white supremacist culture." Consider the phrase "We live in a democracy culture": You can pract
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Totally, the flow of value goes BOTH ways. The Mac in the 90s was on the verge a death, because you’d pay a premium for a platform with far fewer apps available for it than Windows 98. If Microsoft didn’t bring Office to the Mac, it would h
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You are significantly more locked in to your phone than your meal. There are also more choices for where to eat that what phone OS you want to have. Your phone OS is also a gateway to many different industries. Transactions made on a smart
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That "someone with a copy of the blockchain" is not going to be credible enough to rehydrate Bitcoin. Mining is not just for transactions, but for maintaining the ongoing legitimacy of the blockchain, which is where the real value
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I agree with this. I think design has a serious principle-agent problem. A beautiful design will live forever on your personal portfolio, but no one can directly experience usability there. So designers are fighting competing incentives to
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They wanted both the FAANG level compensation AND the academic freedom. They ought to know their role in this machine is akin to Big Sugar tricking the country into believing that fat was the real evil for 5 decades. My wish is for companie
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Actually, this article may be creating a streisand effect for Codex.
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No, you have not laid your case for why. You have losely described some of his policy positions, followed by the words "is white supremacist" and "is racist". The "why" is entirely missing. This comes off as &q
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- CP2077 could be viewed as a one time inter-generational fluke, where a project was designed with the ambition of PS5, then half-heartedly fitted into a PS4. Once people get their next gen consoles, this use case probably goes away. Can yo
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It depends on the unit economics. Google has billions of accounts because it is FREE create them. Which could mean the cost of providing human support is actually too expensive on a per unit basis. The only way to rectify these economics is
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I wonder if the killer feature for AR/VR is as simple and unsexy as replacing my ridiculous array of massive monitors.

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