>What’s next? Cities imposing such restrictions? Should NYC or Austin require people to pass vibe check to ensure that the city life is vibrant?
That's pretty much what HOAs and micro-managerial local ordinances are. The whole point of them is that they make it an expensive hassle and generally crappy to either live in an above your social class. It gets kind of plausibly deniable on a city level when you've got nice neighborhoods and poor neighborhoods and they just differentiate by the degree of enforcement.
Obviously none of this stuff is water tight. It's all a sick game of relative probability. Some low class new money professional sports/entertainment types will retire to some waspy neighborhood in the Hamptons and persist but less of those people will do so than if places like that didn't actively try and be a nuisance to live in for the "wrong type of people". Likewise some guys who have a dozen cars in their yard will persist in their locations as the neighborhood gentrifies around them, much to the annoyance of their neighbors, but most of them will cash out and move out because having your neighbors constantly calling the government to harass you using laws that didn't even exist when you moved in gets real old real quick.
> You can join any private club you want with any composition of well-rounded people. What does that have to with higher education?
I believe that a key component of an effective education is studying the roots of philosophy. Surely you agree that the State should not prevent me from forming a private university that mandates freshmen take a philosophy class.
I also believe that a key component to an effective education is exposure to peers who come from a wide variety of different backgrounds and life experiences. Surely you agree that the State should not prevent me from forming a private university that considers the creation of a diverse student body as one minor factor in admissions.
Realistically, formal higher education is not simply a private matter. It's a part of the complex web of accreditation, government subsidies and entrenched social institutions (not necessarily state institutions).
A university is a public accommodation. You can certainly create a book club among your friends and forbid people of the opposite gender to join or require everyone to be of a different gender, maybe you can even call it a university; but that wouldn't be the same as doing such thing on the level of a large educational facility that e.g. provides the degree of Juris Doctor that allows you to take a bar exam.
So to answer your question, "Surely you agree that the State should not...", I would say "it depends on the particulars".
"Surely you agree that the State should not prevent me from forming a private university that considers the creation of a diverse student body as one minor factor in admissions."
The SCOTUS decision on affirmative action in college admissions has at least restricted race from that consideration.
Private universities aren't. They get loads of research funding, tax breaks, people paying for their education with government backed loans. All American universities are to some extent public.
Sure, it's misleading, needs a lot of "interpretation" doing a non-trivial amount of the lifting to make it map to anything in the real world, mismatches things that happen in the real world while leaving no room for other things that happen in the real world a lot, and will lead anyone who tries to use it to understand the real world deeply astray, but it isn't always wrong about absolutely everything so it has some non-zero "utility".
Fine. It's not wrong about absolutely everything all the time. It isn't bereft of all truth. It's just something that is of net negative value. I see no value in insisting on trying to "rescue" a net-negative value model of the world.
I suppose you could say ultimately I agree with you though. The OSI model isn't useless. It's worse than useless. You're better off trying to understand networking from basic first principles than through the lens it provides.
Analogies are rarely perfect, that's why they are analogies. The OSI model isn't intended to be perfect and yeah there are a lot of details that leak between layers, but is also expected, any non-trivial abstraction is always going to be leaky. That doesn't mean it useless or absent of value in discussion at appropriate levels.
I mean in practice it's so broken, imprecise and messy to a point it's often more misleading then helpful and IMHO should have been replaced in teaching with something better well over a decade ago.
And to be clear I'm not saying it's bad because some small implementation details don't fit, it's bad in it's job of being a high level abstraction where you ignore many implementation details.
Behaviour that merely differs based on implementation is either unspecified behaviour or implementation-defined behaviour. That and undefined behaviour are different things in the C++ standard.
I think for implementation-defined behavior the code has to do something sensible, but the standard doesn't specify what; the distinction for undefined behavior is that it could be erroneous (meaning it triggers an exception or just goes completely bonkers) but it could also do something sensible and expected, again depending on environment.
If your program eats all computer resources given specific inputs, is this a DoS vulnerability, simply a bug or even expected behaviour? It depends.
Is Spectre a vulnerability? Even that depends on what code you run and on which machine.
The reason your salary is going up is because there is no sensible access control management and sensible threat model for software. Can we know in which circumstances some software (or CPU) will be used? Can we assume who the users are? No, we can't because there are billions of computers out there and, thus, billions of different use-cases. And we all have to suffer from slower execution because someone wants to expose access to their machine through a multi-tenant single-process cloud environment or whatnot.
> Having everyone maxed out on test scores at the expense of such diversity would be a travesty to the thing that makes campus life vibrant.
What’s next? Cities imposing such restrictions? Should NYC or Austin require people to pass vibe check to ensure that the city life is vibrant?
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