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Even if it's not intended by design to segregate based on color, but just an unfortunate effect, when that effect is known for years and nothing is done, then I think it's OK to call it segregation.

Many of the parents I know who has kids that were accepted in the gifted and talented program had very expensive tutoring in order to be accepted. We are talking thousands of dollars for toddlers. That's tutoring that most Black and Latino New Yorkers simply cannot afford. And their parents paid these obscene amounts in order to avoid that their kids were stuck at the mostly Black ordinary public schools with kids from the projects.

I don't think NY Times claims that the parents are racist. But the fact remains that they try to get their kids from mostly Black schools into mostly white schools.

Almost, yes. It happened gradually over decades, and I would assume that all unmarried priests weren't replaced right away.

But the comment I replied to was not.

Protestant priests have married since the reformation (Luther married). So in the mostly protestant Northern and Western Europe, and in the mostly protestant US, there was no celibacy requirements for 4-500 centuries.

One of my kids started school last year. He did well, learned to read etc., but we noticed that unlike his older sibling, he didn't seem to like letters, numbers and books much. We never seemed able to concentrate for more than a minute.

So in the summer break, we had his vision tested, and it was +6 and +4. Turns out that although you are half blind you can somehow manage to read and write anyways. In a matter of weeks after he got glasses, he taught himself to read in English, a language he doesn't even have in school but that he knows from YouTube and Netflix, and with letters different from the Cyrillic alphabet he knew.

If like us, you live in a place where kids' vision is not tested automatically by your physician, I can only encourage you to have your kids' vision tested.

Perhaps jobs posted on HN are not representative of IT jobs in general, but the tendency is clear.

No, they are actually burning less trees (although they are still burning trees and waste). Biomass is a shrinking part of the renewables. The increase in renewables is mainly solar and wind:

https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/index.php?tbl=T...

Add to that millions of square feet that are not officially vacant but are not in use either, because people are working from home.

It doesn't scream "Get Out", does it?

When I read those sentences as a layman, they don't tell me the building may collapse.

Geographic indications is far less intrusive and far less monopolistic than a trademark is.

If I make a search engine the exact same way Google does, I cannot call my search engine Google. Neither in America, nor in Europe or in Asia, or even Africa or South America. And this brand is not even 30 years old. One single company, Google, has trademarked the brand for relatively little money on the entire planet, and it serves a very limited group of billionaires and relatively few employees.

A geographical indication, on the other hand, serves not just one company but typically hundreds or thousands or even ten thousands of independent companies with up to hundreds of thousands employed. If I want to sell wine as Bordeaux wine, all I have to do is to have a vineyard in Bordeaux and live up to the requirements that the other Bordeaux vineyards also comply with.

Note, that Google is free to keep its trademark although it changes its services to the detriment of consumers. Meaning, it maintains the trademark that all governments of the world are paid peanuts to protect on its behalf and can continue to lure consumers to believe that it is still the same service, for example still not "doing evil". But if I change my Bordeaux wine, for example if I change the blend to include grapes that are not part of the approved Bordeaux grapes, I cannot keep the geographical indication.

I am not saying trademarks should not exist or that companies with government protected trademarks should be forced not to change their products or services. But I think it's important to remember that the trademark is often sells a lie about what a company used to be. And I think the protection of trademarks should be linked to taxes paid in the geographic markets where the trademarks apply. Please note that geographic indication as a type of intellectual property right that applies to producers of products typically leaves more revenue and taxes in the countries where they are consumed.

It is in many ways a more modern, inclusive and fair IPR.

36 percent of the US is covered by forest (1). 38 percent of the EU is covered by forest. That's EU with Britain. Without Britain, the percentage is higher (2).

I realize I use different sources, and that maybe all forests are not equally good for lumber production. But Europe has as much forests as the US. Yes, a lot of it is concentrated in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, so traditionally, that would have been less accessible to most central and western European countries. Also, traditionally, there was far more farm land. But nowadays, Europeans could access lumber as easily as Americans.

1:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forests_of_the_United_States#:.... 2:https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/statis...

I work as a lawyer. When I do brain work such as research, contracts or court meetings, I believe 3-4 hours a day is the max I do continuously. If I have more phone calls, client meetings etc., it's easier to do the 8 hours.

Does it matter that a manager doesn't speak English well if he wins? Isn't that really what he was hired for?

I think it's much more about the facts that

1) They speak English. Players, expert commentators (former players), managers etc. give interviews, tweet, comment etc. before, during and after the matches. It's a huge part of the product. You just don't get all that fuzz with Spanish, Italian, German, or French football. Those leagues can only sell the match itself internationally, not everything that surrounds it. Unless you speak Spanish, you don't know what Messi said about his hattrick in the last match or what he thinks about rumors of him changing club. You may not even know what he sounds like. You don't know his agent, his father, his brother, his wife, ex girlfriends etc. With Premier League players, that's part of the package. For better or worse.

2) So much Russian and Arab oil money floated to the clubs the last 20 years, not just as sponsorships but through actual buyouts of the clubs. Several of the best teams in continental clubs cannot be bought because they are owned by the fans.

Well, Arm is not a UK company much longer either: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/14/qualcomm-offers-to-invest-in...

Did anyone really read the title thinking that the article was about alkaline batteries? I think not.

The title is not misleading. It's incomplete, as titles are by nature. Titles are not supposed to include all caveats and modifications. The title also doesn't say that the decline is measured in dollars. Probably the price has dropped much less or much more when measured in other currencies that have moved relative to the dollar. The title also doesn't mention whether it's adjusted for inflation. It also doesn't specify whether that's the price at the consumer level or the price paid by manufacturers. Whether it's when you buy the battery in America or somewhere else on the planet.

As long as a title doesn't deliberately seek to mislead, it's not misleading. The intended audience expected this to be about lithium ion batteries.

There is plenty of space in Denmark for its existing population (and for millions more, for that sake). The issue is that there is not that much space in Copenhagen.

This, and

- Walk kids to school in the mornings, pick them up in afternoons

- Buy groceries when it suits you in the middle of the day.

- Do sports in the middle of the day

- Start slow cooking during the day

- Avoid being called into pointless meetings (no-one can see that you are actually not in another meeting or phone call)

- Take breaks with your wife

The greatest obstacles to constructing high speed rails in Europe or the US is expropriating land, environment feasibility studies, somewhat convincing plans for sustainable financing through user payments or otherwise, and the fact that rails traverse several political units (whether borders between countries, states, regions or municipalities) that all have to cooperate.

Those are not necessarily issues in a one party, socialist system.

Why is Taiwan on the map of Chinese railroads? Can you actually buy a ticket to Taiwan's system at a Chinese station?

I am a guy, so maybe I don't know what I am talking about. But I have a strong suspicion that the consequences for young women that chose not to take birth control pills can be felt as well and that they often feel quite a pressure from friends, boyfriends, parents, etc. to take the pill.

Yes, but when literally none of the founders of the largest IT-companies - the very richest of the "Nouveau riche" that we are talking about - are Protestant, whereas much of the old money is, the comment is quite off.

No.

"Silicon Valley money wants to remake people in their images, they have a Protestant zealotry associated with their money that makes any oligarch look straight up sympathetic in comparison"

The comment literally suggests that Silicon Valley billionaires (which it juxtaposes with old money) have a Protestant fanaticism associated with their money.

Protestant zealotry? Seriously? When you bring religion into it, at least get the religion right:

The Google founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, had Jewish backgrounds but consider themselves non-religious. Facebook founder Zuckerberg had Jewish background and considered himself atheist at some point. Microsoft founder Bill Gates is Catholic. Paul Allen had Jewish parents. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was raised Catholic. Apple founder Steve Job's closest religious interest seems to have been Buddhism. Steve Wozniak describes himself as atheist.

So we don't find a single Protestant, certainly not a Protestant fundamentalist, among any of the founders of the 5 largest tech companies.

Great post, but it doesn't really mention that subway systems and light rail systems could be built in some of those cities that are currently without decent transit. I've spent time in Houston, too much of it in a car, and it's a city that could definitely use more transit systems than the small light rail system that it currently has.

I live in a European city where transit systems except old busses and trams were absent until a few years ago, and where a metro system has been built and expanded over the last decade or so. When a new metro station is about to open, office buildings and high-rises are built in its vicinity.

Nobody is suddenly selling their McMansion to move to an apartment near a metro station, but their kids might, divorced people might, people moving in from other cities might etc. It's a slow process but let's not forget that urbanization from villages to cities happened in a few decades and a lot of "densification" from suburbs to cities could happen in a few decades as well.

As I understand it, whereas Denmark paused every AZ vaccine, Austria suspended certain batches of the vaccine:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/16/astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-do...

It's underreported, but the EU hesitance towards the AZ vaccine really started with the Danish government putting the vaccine on hold. Hours after, Austria followed and many other EU nations.

Whereas it may make sense to err on the side of safety for the Danish government, who has already vaccinated the oldest and weakest 10 percent of population, who has no third wave yet, who can afford the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, who has the infrastructure for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, and who has a generally well educated population, it really complicates things in many other places.

I live in Bulgaria, where the population and even health care personnel are already skeptical. Medical doctors are old, many don't speak English. They get their news from Russia. My own physician called her patients warning us not to get a jab back in February. A third wave is well underway now. When people here heard about richer and more well functioning nations suspending the vaccine, they lost the last confidence.

Although Bulgaria has since reassumed vaccinations with AZ, I fear the damage is done. Few people are getting a jab now.

I really wish richer nations would think more globally before they rush to such decisions. Thousands of people will die in poorer nations due to the delays it causes.

It's more or less the same in Denmark, with the difference that interest payments for decades have only partially deductible, and that most home purchases include a 5 or 10 percent down payment.

I don't know if the Vikings were cool and if they were more brutal or ruthless than the Anglo Saxon.

A newly christened society claims the enemy is ungodly, primitive and ruthless. Isn't it always like that? There was probably a good deal of PR already back then.

I think we should be careful trusting the sources on Viking brutality all that much as they are almost exclusively from the Christian side.

You would expect Sweden to do roughly as well as its Scandinavian neighbors, not to perform roughly an order of magnitude worse. I’d say ‘collapse’ describes it well.

Facebook is in the business of selling advertisement. When they sell advertisement in the EU, they must follow EU legislation, including GDPR. Mercedes Benz is in the business of selling cars. When they sell cars in the US, they must follow US legislation.

Nothing new in that. Different jurisdictions have always had different legislation, both online and offline. For a while, when the internet corporations were small, and most business and life interests were still offline, internet companies flew under the radar. The last 10-15 years, though, larger jurisdictions have very much asserted their influence online.

Whereas some Brits don't care about privacy protection, many do. The British likely already have or will get their own privacy laws after Brexit, but it remains to be seen whether large corporations like facebook will respect those.

When Britain was inside the EU, facebook risked billion euro fines. Outside of the EU, the risk of ignoring the rules is smaller.

The latest move from facebook shows that they believe British users are now fair game. They can prey on them the same way they prey on Californian users.