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Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
on Saturday April 25, 2020 @05:33AM (#22976891)
Elizabeth Warren would disagree.
Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
on Saturday April 25, 2020 @05:32AM (#22976884)
African Americans don't vote as a block either:
https://time.com/5821170/georgia-democrat-vernon-jones-trump...
Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
on Saturday April 25, 2020 @05:26AM (#22976853)
Better to be part of mainstream society.
Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
on Saturday April 25, 2020 @05:22AM (#22976838)
Back in 2017 the Heterodox Academy was ranking colleges on viewpoint diversity but they seem to have taken it down. I was only able to find it on web archive. Could be out of date/invalid. 2017 data.
https://web.archive.org/web/20171111053903/https://heterodox...
Re:Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
on Saturday April 25, 2020 @02:23AM (#22976101)
Yes it was: https://reason.com/2019/10/22/orchestra-study-blind-audition...
Also no: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-02/that-b...
Either pick the source that best fits your pre-existing bias or do your own study.
Re:What is interesting about Factorio
on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:30AM (#22953890)
Re:What is interesting about Factorio
on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:27AM (#22953873)
...and here they are: https://factorio.com/blog/
Re:WHO says cut in funding by the U.S. will affect Africa greatly
on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:05PM (#22902466)
^ This is the correct answer. Too difficult for the WHO to come up with apparently, their rep thought the smart move was to hang up.
Re:Amazon employees plan ‘online walkout’ to protest treatment of ware...
on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:01PM (#22902435)
Intersectionality is a theoretical framework for understanding how aspects of one's social and political identities (gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, etc.) might combine to create unique modes of discrimination. It aims to broaden the agenda of the first waves of feminism, which largely focused on the experiences of white, middle-class women.
Re:WHO says cut in funding by the U.S. will affect Africa greatly
on Friday April 17, 2020 @09:24AM (#22898756)
Bruce Aylward, assistant director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), has disappeared among the list of leaders on the organization's website a day after awkwardly refusing to answer a question about Taiwan's exclusion from the UN agency.
During a video interview with Radio Television Hong Kong journalist Yvonne Tong (唐若韞) on Saturday (March 28), Aylward claimed not to have heard her question about whether the WHO would consider Taiwan’s membership. When the journalist tried to repeat the question, the WHO official asked her to "move on to another one."
After Tong insisted on getting Aylward’s comment on the Taiwan issue, the advisor appears to have ended the call without notice.
Re:WHO says cut in funding by the U.S. will affect Africa greatly
on Friday April 17, 2020 @09:22AM (#22898745)
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on Tuesday (March 24) confirmed that it had warned the World Health Organization (WHO) about the human-to-human transmission of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) in December of last year.
Re:Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform
on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:49AM (#22853923)
Working with the [Taiwan's] five major telecoms companies, the system tracks the quarantined individual by triangulating the location of the their phone relative to nearby cell towers. “Each telecom company has a different way of calculating the location of the phone, including how far it is from the cell reception tower and its direction in relation to the tower,” said Jyan Hong-wei, director general of Taiwan’s cybersecurity department. “As long as the phone is turned on, we can figure out the location. And if the phone is turned off, we’ll know that, and we can send a message to front line administrative or police officers so they can follow up.”
https://qz.com/1825997/taiwan-phone-tracking-system-monitors...
Exactly: Pervasive tracking is already available to the telcos and is being used in at least one country.
Re:Ask HN: Has any progress been made on large format E-ink displays?
on Sunday April 12, 2020 @02:11AM (#22846371)
Good point. Clay at no point used the word "invent" - that was entirely me. My rather rudimentary understanding of law means that prior art would invalidate any patent. Had Clay published his design when he claimed to have built the device (Dec 2014) it would seem to have rendered Apple's patent worthless, or nearly so.
A patent is a form of intellectual property protecting an invention. An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process.
If it was a invention worthy of patent in March 2015 - according to Apple - then it was an invention worthy of patent in Dec 2014, when Clay claimed to have devised and built the device.
Re:Ask HN: Has any progress been made on large format E-ink displays?
on Friday April 10, 2020 @07:29AM (#22831922)
"A year ago over the holiday break, I created a large-scale digital “canvas”" posted December 27, 2015
https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels
He claims to have invented it prior to Apple, but he didn't publish before they got their patent in.
Re:Ask HN: Resources to learn basic UI layout design for React apps?
on Friday April 10, 2020 @05:31AM (#22831353)
Partial support in IE refers to supporting an older version of the specification.
Re:Ask HN: Has any progress been made on large format E-ink displays?
on Friday April 10, 2020 @01:31AM (#22830270)
Clay Bavor published in Dec 2015 but Apple filed their patent on March 30, 2015 - seems Apple just got in under the wire there.
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
Re:Ask HN: Has any progress been made on large format E-ink displays?
on Friday April 10, 2020 @12:09AM (#22829901)
A Canvas Made of Pixels (claybavor.com)
The most interesting problem to tackle was “the blue glowing screen problem”.
One of the many ways that screens give themselves away as screens is by emitting light that is “out of character” with the surrounding environment. They can be too bright or too dark relative to the things around them, and indoors, displays often seem too blue.
I solved these problems with what I call “luminance matching”. The basic idea is to sample the light falling on the frame several times a second, and then adjust the display and image parameters so that what’s displayed is “correct” given the surrounding environment.
Re:How airlines plan to make billions from rewards cards
on Thursday April 09, 2020 @12:13AM (#22819705)
> The only way to get rid of this racket is to pass a law that bans credit card rewards.
Another way would be to mandate disclosure of the exact fees on every receipt. Let the market do what it wants with that information.
Re:WeWork sues SoftBank over canceled $3B tender offer
on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @01:26PM (#22815000)
WeWorkFromHome is going to kill WeWork
Re:Ask HN: How to get Bill Gates's attention?
on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @12:55PM (#22814690)
> people with the clout to make this happen
You said you are in Australia? The Australian government has the clout to make this happen.
Re:ETFs, Volatility and Leverage: Towards a New Leveraged ETF
on Monday April 06, 2020 @09:07AM (#22793356)
Three questions:
What is the cost of the leverage and how does that affect returns
What is the friction cost of all the trades needed?
Where is part 2?
Re:If you imagine a business making surgical facemasks is working 24/7...
on Monday April 06, 2020 @05:08AM (#22792001)
Arbitrage is a transaction that involves no negative cash flow at any probabilistic or temporal state and a positive cash flow in at least one state; in simple terms, it is the possibility of a risk-free profit after transaction costs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrage
There's no arbitrage for the factory taking a loan, it is just a business risk.
Re:“Today I cut my pay to $0. I'm committed to laying off 0 of our emp...
on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:08PM (#22724314)
> My employer would have a lot more runway if our execs were making the same as the rest of us.
He was making the same as the rest of his staff so where is his runway? First serious crisis in 5 years since that article and he's scrounging for $70K.
Re:“Today I cut my pay to $0. I'm committed to laying off 0 of our emp...
on Sunday March 29, 2020 @01:51PM (#22720970)
Gravity, which he co-founded in 2004 with his brother Lucas Price.
making a dramatic announcement to his 120-member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it
The reaction was tsunamic, with 500 million interactions on social media and NBC's video becoming the most shared in network history.
https://www.inc.com/magazine/201511/paul-keegan/does-more-pa...
I'm confused as to how he managed to parlay a tsunamic reaction of 500M social media interactions into a 16yo company whose finances are in need of slashing the CEO's salary to zero.
Re:“Today I cut my pay to $0. I'm committed to laying off 0 of our emp...
on Sunday March 29, 2020 @01:39PM (#22720872)
Every twitter post by every corporation/majority owner/CEO/founder ever is done for PR.
Re:“Today I cut my pay to $0. I'm committed to laying off 0 of our emp...
on Sunday March 29, 2020 @01:36PM (#22720851)
November 2015
As majority owner, he is not exactly penniless.
https://www.inc.com/magazine/201511/paul-keegan/does-more-pa...
Re:“Today I cut my pay to $0. I'm committed to laying off 0 of our emp...
on Sunday March 29, 2020 @01:35PM (#22720831)
November 2015
120 employees
He revealed to Inc. that he has sold all his stocks, emptied his retirement accounts, and mortgaged his two properties -- including a $1.2 million home with a view of Puget Sound -- and poured the $3 million he raised into Gravity. As majority owner, he is not exactly penniless.
https://www.inc.com/magazine/201511/paul-keegan/does-more-pa...
He's the majority owner of Gravity
Re:On Killing Tanks
on Monday March 23, 2020 @07:03PM (#22669785)
With the M1A2 engine governor removed, speeds of around 60 mph (97 km/h) are possible on an improved surface; however, damage to the drivetrain (especially to the tracks) and an increased risk of injuries to the crew can occur at speeds above 45 mph (72 km/h).
Re:On Killing Tanks
on Monday March 23, 2020 @07:56AM (#22663139)
A M1A2 main battle tank can travel at 40mph or 30mph offroad. If you know where one is and then lose track it can be 600 miles away from where you thought it was within 24 hours. If you saw the tank in Paris it could show up as far away as Prague or Madrid the next day.
They aren't that slow.