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There was one ruling that was a lot more harsh but wound up getting overturned on appeal.

On June 7, 2000, the District Court ordered a breakup of Microsoft as its remedy. According to that judgment, Microsoft would have to be split into two separate units, one to produce the operating system and one to produce other software components. Microsoft immediately appealed the judgment to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C....

I’ve used my learning budget for music lessons on this site virtu.academy

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From the article:

“The authors found studies with high-quality design, such as those which used a group of active controls – children who did not learn music but instead learned a different skill, such as dance or sports, for example – showed no effect of music education on cognitive or academic performance.“

If you can acquire the skills you mentioned doing other activities then it doesn’t mean learning music is worthless just means music doesn’t hold a special ability to do it relative to certain other activities.

Something that is not touched on in the post but the book The Color of Law touches on in depth is how single family zoning has strong racist motivations. There are many Suburban areas that had the exclusion of black people as a requirement for Federal financial support. These include areas such as Stanford/Palo Alto and Long Island in NY but the list is numerous.

According to Wikipedia

Legislation = Legislation (or statutory law) is law which has been promulgated (or "enacted") by a legislature or other governing body or the process of making it

Qualified Immunity = Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine in United States federal law

Legal doctrine = A legal doctrine is a framework, set of rules, procedural steps, or test, often established through precedent in the common law, through which judgments can be determined in a given legal case

So it's a bit of a grey area, but I think the greater point stands that this is how court cases are decided vs. a law in the traditional sense that people think about laws.

It's important to clarify. "Qualified Immunity" is NOT a law. It is judicial precedent. That means the Supreme Court made this up and courts don't go against prior rulings except in rare cases. Sometimes Congress creates laws to confirm judicial rulings or go against them and clarify their intentions.

The Supreme Court has ruled a lot of things that we would not allow to stand today. For instance, the Dred Scott Case [1] "In a landmark case, the United States Supreme Court decided 7–2 against Scott, finding that neither he nor any other person of African ancestry could claim citizenship in the United States, and therefore Scott could not bring suit in federal court under diversity of citizenship rules. Moreover, Scott's temporary residence outside Missouri did not bring about his emancipation under the Missouri Compromise, as the court ruled this to have been unconstitutional, as it would "improperly deprive Scott's owner of his legal property".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott

Curious, what books did you buy? I’ve been getting interested in this sort of thing lately.

I've thought about solving this problem with an ML approach like you all are taking but as you say never had the bandwidth because I was focusing on my "core missions". I'm no longer a heavy spark user but am very happy to see you all working on this!

It always seemed so inefficient to me to spend all this time hand tuning jobs only to have the data change and need to do the same thing again.

Good luck!

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I think if 2 events are independent then you can use an eventually consistent DB like Cassandra and move on with your day. The importance of something like TrueTime arises when you have an example like in the article. Step 1: remove your parents from seeing your photo albums. Step 2: post your spring break photo album

This seems like a good resource in general for understanding how to structure and communicate your ideas e.g. preparing a slide deck

That stuck out to me as well. It kind of seems to me like they’re saying variable cost of goods sold increased

The exact same. I read the whole article but averted my eyes and quickly scrolled past all the images

Impossible Foods is a startup working on this mission. They have a really tasty product too.

http://impossiblefoods.com/about/

I'm not saying I don't have beliefs, and sometimes feel that those beliefs are right compared to what other people think, but I try to recognize where things may be objective (like slavery) and subjective (like government spending).

The tool you mentioned makes a lot of sense for issues that have a clear preference e.g. slavery or not, but I suspect it would show cracks if we start looking at more subjective issues (which I imagine dominate nowadays).

I think your last sentence gets at what I was trying to get across

Good and bad is in the eye of the beholder and what you value.

Is American culture (a loaded term because American culture is the product of numerous sub-cultures) better than all other cultures because of our economic strength? If not, then what are the objective measures that define a "good" culture.

I'm very glad slavery doesn't exist, because I value equality and freedom. Yet still, I'd ask who is the authority that determines that one culture is better than another because they hold that value?

Europeans via too many systems to name here (e.g. colonizing much of the world, forcing religion on indigenous people, slavery, apartheid, etc.) imposed their cultural values on the world and then held them up as the best.

Ultimately, it's not right to conflate what you believe with what is objectively good. It all depends what your solving for (e.g. profit, equality, harmony, etc.)

Agreed. See this quote from the OSHA website.

Under the OSH Act, employers are responsible for providing a safe and healthful workplace. OSHA's mission is to assure safe and healthful workplaces by setting and enforcing standards, and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance. Employers must comply with all applicable OSHA standards. Employers must also comply with the General Duty Clause of the OSH Act, which requires employers to keep their workplace free of serious recognized hazards.[1]

https://www.osha.gov/law-regs.html

I'm curious if anyone has examples of large companies willfully funding organizations that are critical of them.

Google plays a huge role in our lives, but it is also a corporation that has a duty to its shareholders. The EU's decision has an impact on their profits that has the potential to affect their future revenue opportunities. I'd see an issue if Google was intentionally burying information from this group, but choosing not to fund them seems like a perfectly rational, fair thing to do.

This is also an example of a repeated game, so over time if they maintained their strategies, investor B would own the whole company.

Also depending on how the company operates, there is another element of game theory because the controlling shareholder could elect to cancel all future dividends. if you're the newly minted majority shareholder, it's probably in your favor to do this immediately. In that case, the Nash equilibrium seems to be both parties choosing the stock dividend (and effectively getting nothing).

While the 2 shareholder example is an oversimplification in this example, after enough plays of the game (i.e. dividends) a large shareholder could take control of the company if the other shareholders always choose cash.

Looks like a competitor to weCliq (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wecliq/id965067652?mt=8)

Good luck guys! Think this is a step in the right direction.