British class definitions are not at all the same as American ones. At least as traditionally defined, upper class pretty much meant you were in the titled aristocracy.
It's the old IBM thing. If your website goes down along with everyone else's because of Cloudflare, you shrug and say "nothing we could do, we were following the industry standard". If your website goes down because of on-prem then it's very much your problem and maybe you get to look forward to an exciting debrief with your manager's manager.
The terminal remains an extremely compelling computing environment in spite of its limitations and fifty years of technical debt. As anachronistic as arcane escape codes and box drawing characters seem in $CURRENT_YEAR, the fact remains that nothing has arisen to fill its niche.
Yes, that's the point they're making. Arguably US citizens are more complicit in the crimes of Israel than Iranians are in the crimes of Russia since Americans have more capacity to choice their leadership.
I wasn't being sarcastic? I heard they're making a new Koenigsegg and I'm genuinely concerned that without corporate sponsorship it might be out of his price range.
Given that this is Hacker News, I think it is worth pointing out that Durham's strong suit traditionally is the humanities. In my opinion a CS degree from Oxford, Cambridge, or ICL is considerably more impressive than one from Durham.
Not saying the theory is bunk but I think that basically everything about this on Wikipedia is written and illustrated by the researcher who devised the theory. So it's that guy.
You think at the time they openly said they were trying to take the vote from black people? Or did they say exactly what you're saying now, that they were simply trying to ensure that only smart and educated people could vote.
I'm not even American and yet where I'm from it's common knowledge that literacy tests were used to systematically disenfranchise black people from voting.