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My parents don’t understand why I believe this actually, they’re pretty smart and went to selective institutions. I, on the other hand, am an example of generational decline with nothing to live for because people like GP think state schoolers that didn’t skip multiple grades are subhuman.

> Those included in the XCheck program, according to Facebook documents, include, in top row: Neymar, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr. and Mark Zuckerberg, and in bottom row, Elizabeth Warren, Dan Scavino, Candace Owens and Doug the Pug.

Yes, because I’ve gotten vaccinated and I shouldn’t be continued to be punished with restrictions.

I’m referring to masks. Mandating vaccines is fine and good.

It’s perfectly fine for that to be ones risk tolerance and to take mitigation steps. It’s not to mandate them by government fiat.

It’s probably because they’re our people. It’s normal to most acknowledge our own victims.

Fair, 2001 was a pivot point for Apple's history too.

> I was at work at Apple in IL2 (Building 2 of the Infinite Loop campus.)

You were at work at 6-7AM?

Masks help prevent the flu as well, for the record.

Given quarantine policies for exposures the easiest way to keep kids in schools is to make sure the adults around them are vaccinated and that they take precautions before then.

My state effectively hit zero Covid deaths too a few months ago and that was through vaccination.

They've experienced greater psychological harm by having their parents and grandparents get COVID.

Basically the only place masks are a good idea is where the captive audience can't be vaccinated, which happens to be schools.

I feel like Reddit drama is a few pegs less important than actual abortion bounties being ostensibly legal by a 5-4 SCOTUS decision in Texas?

There are a surprising number of nurses that are unvaccinated (much more than Doctors, of which very few are unvaccinated).

I worked hard, did well in high school, did everything right. Yet I had no shot at getting into any top schools or achieving anything close to what even the least accomplished top school admit has done in their life. Optimizing for a tiny fraction of elites while leaving the left of us to rot is the what's wrong with this country.

Bringing up top schools is implicitly describing people like me, Amazon employees that went to state schools, as failures. It's completely divorced from reality.

> normal people aren't often given the opportunity to go to these schools even if they deserve it"

I personally believe, as a peon, that nobody deserves to go to a top school because they're eugenicist and classist by design. I have nothing because I went to a shitty state school, and the fact that others have happiness and everything handed to them because they're part of the lucky few is why I have a suicide note ready for when I snap and blow my brains out for being an abject, state school-educated failure.

> However, being a normal person making that absolutely enormous leap happens a non-trivial amount of times

Again, it doesn't. 2k admits. Only people that might be normal are the ones that are affirmative action admits from Wyoming or Alaska.

> while attending a world class university

Most of us can't attend "world class universities", we're inherently inferior. The vast majority, actually. So bringing up elite schools in this conversation is both irrelevant and in many cases just self aggrandizing.

I don't know how you twisted what I said into the idea that people from FCs can't go to top schools, but the reality is almost none (and probably close to none) do.

Man, if only they were willing to pay for a masters for me... but I guess I don't matter.

This is correct, people from middle and upper middle class families can't get in that did well in high school and college. What sort of bubble is made up of only people that went to top schools?

You know Harvard admits like 2k students per year right? Of which most are children of professors, upper middle class dream hoarders and maybe a handful of foreign and domestic notables? Plus a handful of people from the sticks, recruited athletes, legacies, and kids from poor urban high schools to round it out. *NORMAL PEOPLE* do not get into Harvard. NORMAL PEOPLE do work at Amazon.

Meanwhile there are 900,000+ front line employees at Amazon. Bringing up elite schools in relation to this group is missing the forest for the trees, and frankly insulting to people that worked hard and went to state schools that you'd consider "failures".

> but I very much doubt Dartmouth will make the cut.

Do you really think front line employees at Amazon are going to go to Dartmouth? People that worked hard in high school and college like me can't go to Dartmouth. Bizarre to equate that with quality when this is designed to give people opportunities to pay for University of New Hampshire.

Nobody who's working as a front line employee at Amazon will get into Harvard tier schools so this is an irrelevant point anyway.

> Are you suggesting that vaccination alone is sufficient and that normal people should ignore additional simple steps they can take to reduce their risk

Yes

Literally everything is a Lambda nowadays it seems, so it seems like it's just Lambda -> ECS -> -> -> raw EC2 unless you're building directly on bare metal.

Another k8s distro that’s hard to administer is exactly what I wanted, definitely not what I used EKS in the first place

(Real talk though, never heard of anyone at Amazon using EKS internally)

Probably because a lot of people are taking veterinary formulations, which you shouldn’t do because they are designed for horses! We have perfectly functioning vaccines and monoclonal antibody treatments you don’t need to get sketchy prescriptions or horse anti-parasitics!

They study everything as they should. Normal people should just get the vaccine and go on with their normal lives.

Because it’s not effective. It’s that simple.

Depressing. I went to a basic state school and work at a normal company (not Google) and it feels like I’ll be destined to stay a failure forever.

That’s an excellent idea!

> Hykes does acknowledge that there were tensions between the Docker and Google teams at the time. “There was a moment when egos prevailed. A lot of smart and experienced people at Google were blindsided by the complete outsiders at Docker,” Hykes said. “We didn’t work at Google, we didn’t go to Stanford, we didn’t have a PhD in computer science.

I found this passage interesting. Are these tensions common?