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New comment by keanzu in "Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]"

keanzu — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 09:33:12 +0000

Elizabeth Warren would disagree.

New comment by keanzu in "Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]"

keanzu — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 09:32:08 +0000

African Americans don't vote as a block either: https://time.com/5821170/georgia-democrat-vernon-jones-trump...

New comment by keanzu in "Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]"

keanzu — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 09:26:00 +0000

Better to be part of mainstream society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiJ_2q3RzM4

New comment by keanzu in "Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]"

keanzu — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 09:22:25 +0000

Back in 2017 the Heterodox Academy was ranking colleges on viewpoint diversity but they seem to have taken it down. I was only able to find it on web archive. Could be out of date/invalid. 2017 data.

https://web.archive.org/web/20171111053903/https://heterodox...

New comment by keanzu in "Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]"

keanzu — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 06:23:18 +0000

Yes it was: https://reason.com/2019/10/22/orchestra-study-blind-audition...

Also no: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-02/that-b...

Either pick the source that best fits your pre-existing bias or do your own study.

New comment by keanzu in "What is interesting about Factorio"

keanzu — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 08:30:40 +0000

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Helicopters

https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Optera/LogisticTrainNetwork

New comment by keanzu in "What is interesting about Factorio"

keanzu — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 08:27:15 +0000

...and here they are: https://factorio.com/blog/

New comment by keanzu in "WHO says cut in funding by the U.S. will affect Africa greatly"

keanzu — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:05:13 +0000

^ This is the correct answer. Too difficult for the WHO to come up with apparently, their rep thought the smart move was to hang up.

New comment by keanzu in "Amazon employees plan ‘online walkout’ to protest treatment of warehouse workers"

keanzu — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:01:36 +0000

Intersectionality is a theoretical framework for understanding how aspects of one's social and political identities (gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, etc.) might combine to create unique modes of discrimination. It aims to broaden the agenda of the first waves of feminism, which largely focused on the experiences of white, middle-class women.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality

New comment by keanzu in "WHO says cut in funding by the U.S. will affect Africa greatly"

keanzu — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:24:28 +0000

Bruce Aylward, assistant director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), has disappeared among the list of leaders on the organization's website a day after awkwardly refusing to answer a question about Taiwan's exclusion from the UN agency.

During a video interview with Radio Television Hong Kong journalist Yvonne Tong (唐若韞) on Saturday (March 28), Aylward claimed not to have heard her question about whether the WHO would consider Taiwan’s membership. When the journalist tried to repeat the question, the WHO official asked her to "move on to another one."

After Tong insisted on getting Aylward’s comment on the Taiwan issue, the advisor appears to have ended the call without notice.

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3906962

New comment by keanzu in "WHO says cut in funding by the U.S. will affect Africa greatly"

keanzu — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:22:45 +0000

Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on Tuesday (March 24) confirmed that it had warned the World Health Organization (WHO) about the human-to-human transmission of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) in December of last year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22874243

New comment by keanzu in "Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform"

keanzu — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 07:49:23 +0000

Working with the [Taiwan's] five major telecoms companies, the system tracks the quarantined individual by triangulating the location of the their phone relative to nearby cell towers. “Each telecom company has a different way of calculating the location of the phone, including how far it is from the cell reception tower and its direction in relation to the tower,” said Jyan Hong-wei, director general of Taiwan’s cybersecurity department. “As long as the phone is turned on, we can figure out the location. And if the phone is turned off, we’ll know that, and we can send a message to front line administrative or police officers so they can follow up.”

https://qz.com/1825997/taiwan-phone-tracking-system-monitors...

Exactly: Pervasive tracking is already available to the telcos and is being used in at least one country.

New comment by keanzu in "Ask HN: Has any progress been made on large format E-ink displays?"

keanzu — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 06:11:30 +0000

Good point. Clay at no point used the word "invent" - that was entirely me. My rather rudimentary understanding of law means that prior art would invalidate any patent. Had Clay published his design when he claimed to have built the device (Dec 2014) it would seem to have rendered Apple's patent worthless, or nearly so.

A patent is a form of intellectual property protecting an invention. An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process.

If it was a invention worthy of patent in March 2015 - according to Apple - then it was an invention worthy of patent in Dec 2014, when Clay claimed to have devised and built the device.

New comment by keanzu in "Ask HN: Has any progress been made on large format E-ink displays?"

keanzu — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:29:26 +0000

"A year ago over the holiday break, I created a large-scale digital “canvas”" posted December 27, 2015

https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels

He claims to have invented it prior to Apple, but he didn't publish before they got their patent in.

New comment by keanzu in "Ask HN: Resources to learn basic UI layout design for React apps?"

keanzu — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 09:31:36 +0000

Partial support in IE refers to supporting an older version of the specification.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-grid

New comment by keanzu in "Ask HN: Has any progress been made on large format E-ink displays?"

keanzu — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 05:31:55 +0000

Clay Bavor published in Dec 2015 but Apple filed their patent on March 30, 2015 - seems Apple just got in under the wire there.

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...

New comment by keanzu in "Ask HN: Has any progress been made on large format E-ink displays?"

keanzu — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 04:09:59 +0000

A Canvas Made of Pixels (claybavor.com)

The most interesting problem to tackle was “the blue glowing screen problem”.

One of the many ways that screens give themselves away as screens is by emitting light that is “out of character” with the surrounding environment. They can be too bright or too dark relative to the things around them, and indoors, displays often seem too blue.

I solved these problems with what I call “luminance matching”. The basic idea is to sample the light falling on the frame several times a second, and then adjust the display and image parameters so that what’s displayed is “correct” given the surrounding environment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10900439

How to Compile Node.js Code Using Bytenode

keanzu — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 06:31:36 +0000

Article URL: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-compile-node-js-code-using-bytenode-11dcba856fa9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22820310

Points: 1

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New comment by keanzu in "How airlines plan to make billions from rewards cards"

keanzu — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 04:13:51 +0000

> The only way to get rid of this racket is to pass a law that bans credit card rewards.

Another way would be to mandate disclosure of the exact fees on every receipt. Let the market do what it wants with that information.

New comment by keanzu in "WeWork sues SoftBank over canceled $3B tender offer"

keanzu — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 17:26:31 +0000

WeWorkFromHome is going to kill WeWork