I don't have a deep understanding enough to have a strong opinion on this but don't the roles seem reversed? It's my understanding that Asian people are underrepresented at Harvard due to affirmative action. The photos I've seen for this story feature Asian people protesting the decision. Is this a case of people coming together against their own interests to protest a decision they think is unfair? It feels too political for me to get a sense of what is right here.
In the long run, since colleges are still free to consider race though writings, isn't this what you would want to see in a healing society? We understand that the pendulum should swing in the direction of helping the underserved and once that footing is there, the goal is always to be agnostic of race. This seems like a baby step to see if the affirmative action worked. Is there something that has happened since the 60s that indicates this should last forever or that the program was reaching it's goals?
City Tavern in Philadelphia serves food made from 18th century recipes, using the tools available at that time. The prices are in line with typical casual dining (Applebees for example).
It's fun if you are in the area but some recipes have improved in the meantime. IMHO, creme brulee benefitted from the appropriation of the butane torch (I think City Tavern uses an iron).
IANAL but there are different types of bankruptcy. Some allow for continued operations and some require that you lock the doors, stop answering emails, don't touch the website, that type of thing. I'm not sure of the totality of what FTX has filed, but originally, they made a chapter 15 filing. That can lead to chapter 7 or 11. With chapter 11, you can continue doing some business. I don't know that they are going this route but it is possible to send a communication from a business in bankruptcy.
Has anyone had luck with this route? I went through the process and was unsatisfied.
CFPB sends the complaint and then the company self reports that they didn't do anything wrong and then the complainer has a chance to say they disagree.
I don't think they intend to resolve specific issues. They seem more like a trendspotter than solutionist.
It's a circuitous path to the solution of get a lawyer. With CFPB, you are basically doing volunteer work for the government, which is fine and possibly noble, but not what you probably set out to accomplish.
I worked for a county school system in an administrative role. My philosophy is that most of the time smart/students with a supportive home life will do well in most situations. I have a similar opinion about students in the opposite categories doing poorly. There is also a group that stretches across the entire student population (including all ethnicities) where you can move the needle and it is mostly comprised of smart people without a supportive home life and anyone on the bubble in those categories.
Also, a pet peeve of mine is when race issues are made out of economic issues. It can be hard for a school system to face the reality that they cannot change the economic situations of the students by feeding them 2 (awful) meals per day and penalizing students that are well off.
That said, it may be reasonable to use race as a proxy but it comes with a lot of baggage and some of that baggage is that you are failing a race. I would love to see that they have done some studies and will be using the money from the advanced learning classes to move the needle on a larger group but the article is written as if they are taking punitive measures in an attempt to close the gap.
I believe that black and hispanic students are not being served well by the way this school system appears to be approaching the situation. I hope they eventually face some facts. We spent a long time focusing resources on hopeless students and just about as long on students who will succeed regardless of attention. Lets spend some time on those who are reachable and I think we will see blacks and hispanics better represented as a side effect.
I believe there are black and hispanic students who are not doing well in school that may develop great ideas and plans for the future due to their education. I want to live in a world shaped by those ideas. The first step is grabbing the low hanging fruit and not casting this as a fight between races. Its so easy to make this a reason to get along that I am suspicious of people who make it a reason to divide people further.
It was from a Cringely series called NerdTV and the tagline for this episode:
Bill Joy -- the father of Berkeley UNIX -- explains why he was fired from the International House of Pancakes.
This article is confusing. I was excited to see someone using research to bubble up a story. Then the writer puts a doctor on the hot seat with no conclusion in the article for him to refute. Is this a teaser for an article to come? I think a good article would tell us how the insurance providers felt about the charges. Do they disagree with the doctor's assesment? Does this represent fraud? Is he taking advantage of ill defined rules?
The link below shows up on occasion and is a good reminder that not only do we need to keep up with physical/practical trust but philosophical as well.
This article on how ridiculous it is trying to sort favicons out from the end user perspective reminded me of how difficult it was to get right as a creator.
I was in this field for just over 15 years and specifically during the Amazon deal times. The idea was that Amazon was mapping the FedEx and UPS networks to clone. FedEx and UPS decided to take the easy money while Amazon was getting started (because they would get there anyway) and get out when it became more direct competition.
Amazon distribution centers started popping up within a few miles of the traditional players and it seems like that time to diverge is here.
This has been the plan for awhile and the timing with FedEx seems less sour grapes (to me) and more of a competitive jab.
Maybe that was the conventional wisdom at the time. Later we found out that wasn’t as true as we would hope.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CtUfBc4qQMg
The movie this clip is from and the companion book are much more detailed about the realities of the time and the though processes of those world leaders.
Gilbert Gottfried has a podcast where he interviews older Hollywood types and Jerry comes up quite a bit. I'm sure they will do a memorial episode soon if anyone wants to hear firsthand stories.
I saw this video a few years back of a Chinese filmmaker asking others, on June 4th, if they know what day it is. The answers show how such an enormous open secret can be kept from your fiancé's generation.