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Also, middle-/upper-oriented people are more likely peer-pressured to placing in the "best" kindergartens, whereas lower-oriented people may skip it (much like skipping parental-school involvement). And, I suspect both nature and nurture aspects are self-amplifying: smarter/more competitive kids may make more money and attempt to seek similar mates to have improved offspring and try really hard to inculcate successful attitudes. Plus, having more money helps reinforce getting into selective kindergartens and making more childhood friends of future powerful people, leading to better social access to higher quality mates (better genes), more money and hopefully better lifestyle-choices.

Interesting. Oddly enough, I used to have this massive custom sofa which was a real PITA to move... could only fit in storage unit if stood up on a roller dolly and so on. I bet there'll soon be an app using CV/ML to figure out if a sofa will fit/which way to move it. ;)

Alt-right gonna keep shoveling billionaire propaganda and/or InfoWars/Unabomber beliefs onto every and any memetic channel, because shouting lies loud/often enough is sadly rewarded by changing sentiment in low-fact environments. (Doesn't really work so well on HN because of pervasive motivation for fact-challenging and argumentativeness.)

Recall, recall, recall.

TC rarely covers non-tech fields unless there's a tech aspect.

Plus, we're talking about TC.

There's a happier, less-dramatic sane-area leaving out overt misogyny and social-justice warrior cry-bully behavior. Also, in hiring there needs to be process removal of as many cognitive biases (ie blinding resume names/personal details) as possible to foster as fair of a messy ordeal as humanly possible.

Another issue is the promulgation and veneration of taboo, protected groups as being automatically special proportional to an university-proscribed, identity/attribute(s) neoliberal caste system. Bollocks.

I think such lists come from a positive intention for there to be less arbitrary discrimination and to motive likely-targeted/underrepresented individuals to succeed. I'm not sure how a special list helps motivate people with fundamental confidence, but instead may temporarily confer false confidence based on non-skill attribute(s) except by an inkling of almost getting on a generic list.

I'm not using 1.0.0+ until it's codesigned and/or dmg gpg verifiable with a known-good signature.

Do not install untrusted, unverifiable apps is security 101.

When I was there way-back-when, the dining account dept hooked us up with unlimited all-you-care-to-eat (non-packaged) dining, likely because it was cheaper in terms of productivity (a-la Google) to keep staff on-campus.

Back at uni (somewhere else), on-campus we had a block-purchased meal system which was managed and outsourced to Sodexho Marriott (it was greasy, boring shit).

Stanford Dining dining halls were usually better-than-average because they had/have respectably awesome executive chefs (mostly from high-volume commercial culinary backgrounds) usually hemmed in by over-zealous cheapskates in management) but with more freedom to meal plan outside of generic/corporate standards, source ingredients from managed vendors and generally more competition (esp. when the Dining Clubs were operational but still with other on-campus options like Treehouse and other non-RDE Tresidder; ie peanut-free Ricker). IIRC there was prime rib and king crab sometimes, and there were french fries which were knock-offs of McDonald's. Btw, Subway and Peet's (Clark Center) are/were RDE-managed franchises.

I've been hearing about a bullet train for 30 years.

Building codes are not a one-sized-fits-all panacea, neither good nor bad inherently. They are both policy creation and enforcement to prevent as much harm as people can reasonably afford while balancing the tyrannies of the many and the few, the poor and the rich, the DIY and the commercial. Regulation isn't always bad such as preventing lowest bidders from building garment factories which collapse, using outdated/dangerous electrical technologies (ie, aluminum wiring, lead pipes) or lacking modern safety items to prevent classes of risks (ie hard-wired smoke detectors).

Certainly, people whom are more affluent could purchase additional safeguards (ie automatic external defibrillators, whole-house water-filtration) while those whom are elderly/poor will likely need assistance meeting minimum standards.

Also, clipboard auditing (timber stickers) shouldn't be a substitute for inspection common-sense.