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Raising taxes, primarily. Or at least force donations to public institutions to be no-strings-attached. Many years ago when I attended UCSB and this project was in its infancy, someone told me that UCLA has a long-term development plan where large donors can choose from a menu of pre-planned projects. Not sure how true that it, but much better idea.

But my more extreme view is that individuals should not be able to amass so many resources to begin with. It's absurd.

> Charlie Munger does not decide "what to build", he decides whether to participate.

Sure, this is a convenient way to look at this particular situation. Yet I google "strings attached donation university" and see many instances of this crap: Koch brothers, John Allison, etc. It's serious enough that Harvard recently issued a "Gift Policy Guide" discourage strings-attached giving. Ironically, only the elite private universities have enough cachet to make such a policy stick.

It’s a public university, and in my opinion the public should decide what to build… not unelected, unaccountable twits with a lot of money.

There are actually many UCSB students living in hotels due to a severe housing shortage.

About those judges…

Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the disk.

Of course he avoids discussion of any topics with a direct material impact on working class people and instead engages in the same “culture war” crap he’s trying to rail against.

I’ve heard of IT departments who place USB sticks around the building and then send nasty-grams to whoever plugs it into a device on the corporate network. (I don’t know exact details.)

My guess is socialization. The people I have in mind have found above average success in life and probably got good grades themselves. They have internalized the "fact" that education = worksheets + tests + grades. And this is the lens through which they manage their children's education.

My big problem with licensure/curriculum standards are that they create a pipeline for the Pearson's of the world to siphon public dollars in the name of "teaching". School boards concerned with choosing a standards-conforming textbook never got in trouble for choosing Pearson.

But constant testing and metrics seems to be what a lot of parents want, in my experience as a parent.

I’d go one step further and say a whistleblower is by definition an activist. The entire point of leaking is to instigate change.

Isn’t a whistleblower by definition not neutral? I’m not even sure what a neutral whistleblower would look like.

Should her motivations be questioned? Absolutely! But if you don’t like her stance, just say so instead labelling her an “activist” or “advocate” like there’s something inherently bad about those things.

> I think they're fine

Perhaps if they weren't on twitter.com. The site is impossible to use if you're not signed in, especially on mobile. This is probably 85% of the problem, IMO.

> I'd prefer something long form

Yeah, except not too long and not on Medium, either... haha. I like the idea of the constraints of a tweet and that a tweet thread (like a powerpoint) forces an economy of words. The tweet threads on HN are usually from high quality writers, so it's not actually that terrible to read them. But you're still stuck in the same "cognitive style" as powerpoint.

Maybe I'm simply old and my belief that "microblogging is an oxymoron" is wrong.

The exact same was true in the military, re: vendors. The haircuts weren't free, at least as an officer.

Sure I was being hyperbolic, but the point is legitimate. They used benefits to get people willingly to sign up for a lifestyle, then used hierarchy to efficiently accomplish a bunch of insidious tasks.

You have an entire generation of students majoring in computer science and "grinding leetcode" to get a high paying job and never once stop to think about the consequences. The job is just like another homework set and the employees want those good grades (a PIP... oh no!). And like the military, you're a "professional" which means you aren't allowed to talk politics. (I know the Damore's of the world will complain that Google is run by "SJWs"... but that's only because that line of corpo-liberal talk is good for attracting people who don't think too hard about the actual mission.) I mean... they even had PIPs in the military (though had a different name)!

Also they were giving employees haircuts. Having been in the military and watched enough documentaries on the subject… any group that gives you a haircut is probably a cult.

And of course Gauss discovered the FFT even before Fourier published about heat transfer.

And FFT is “just” a special factorization of the DFT matrix.

I agree but it also suggests that anyone above the VP level who sticks around for any length of time is infallible (otherwise they’d be gone).

I agree they aren’t elites, which is why I’m suggesting the term “professional” instead of “scientific elite” in the GP post above.

The professional class are the foot soldiers of the elite class. I subscribe to the view put forth in “Disciplined Minds,” a great book on the subject.

https://louisville.edu/journal/workplace/martinreview.html

Sounds like the mafia.

You could replace “elite” with “professional class.”

And remove the word "that".

Earth ground, signal ground, digital ground, virtual ground…

Using an AWS security group. I'm a basic b** as the kids say.

Didn't know about ufw, but I'm not on the same network as the RPI and don't have a static IP. And the RPI was already uploading data to an AWS instance.

I’m currently in a low-user situation and can lock that down AWS instances by IP.

My concern is that I'm running an experiment and don't want things corrupted by some script kiddies simply because I'm not a great network/Linux admin. This merely reflects my lack of knowledge... hence my ask. (Which I guess people hate enough to downvote? haha ok)

I setup an RPI in a field at my dad’s w/ 900MHz internet bridge and wanted 24/7 remote access but didn’t want to pay for and configure VPN. At first I opened a router port but the RPI showed access attempts every few minutes, which was troubling. Learned enough about ssh tunneling to setup a systemd service to auto-attach the RPI to an AWS instance. (Also have an RPI on the bench attached as well.)

I always laugh when I ssh into AWS, then into the RPI (over the internet and then a 900MHz bridge). Then sometimes I ssh or ftp into a data logger running in the field. Good times and has worked relatively flawlessly for a few months. (I don’t have any uptime metrics for the network connection but no noticeable problems.)

I’m planning a few more which would be much more remote. Any other suggestions for managing such a setup? Some sites may have cellular connections and so I’m not sure I want 24/7 ssh tunnel (though I don’t think it uses too much data).

Edit: I see others recommending WireGuard for similar situation. Never heard of it will check out.

I mean, the PSP was formed to replace the more violent coal police and break strikes... police protect capital... same crap, different decade.

Ok you convinced me.

Be my guest, go to a small town fire hall and see how “well off” the volunteers are compared to the median HN poster.