Arguably. The legacy system exists to provide funding that can be directed to students of merit.
It is also unclear the extent to which legacy programs influence admissions. Legacy applicants have higher acceptance rates, but we would likely also expect this in a situation where there was no preference for legacy admission.
That particular incident was the result of him teasing a classmate about their fathers' recent suicide and that classmate pushing him down a set of stairs as a result.
Elon's father has talked about it in interviews. It seems Elon was the bully in this specific incident.
Yes, mocking a classmate for their parents’ death is extreme behaviour, even for a child. I would not be surprised to learn it constitutes fighting words.
I found this forced me to use vim's natural language more rather than relying on hjkl for the majority of my navigation, since it was ergonomically uncomfortable and I wanted to preserve vim's mnemonics by not rebinding.
Just chiming in to say I've been satisfied as an Enpass user as well. Felt like a good middle-ground to me and I bought the app before the restructured their pricing model so I was grandfathered in.
A fun theory, but these kind of mental exercise to re-interpret an irrational decision as rational, repeatedly for certain individuals, seems frighteningly familiar.
Not everything is 4-D chess. Sometimes unforced errors are just that.
Sometimes they are, but this isn't the category of error you make at that level of risk. Theorizing about rationality is no less rigorous than standing him up as a hate figure though, but it's a lot more interesting.
- "but this isn't the category of error you make at that level of risk."
People do make all types of errors at all levels of risk. I often see comments in the vein of "He spent 44 billion dollars, I'm sure he has a plan", as support for theories that give Elon more credit, in terms of intelligence or capability. There are countless examples of humans through history throwing away fortunes or destroying kingdoms over petty spats, or out of ego, or stupidity, or for no discernable reason at all. I don't think giving powerful people the benefit of the doubt in this way is a good idea. It lends support to the idea that they're more rational in general (because all their choices likely have higher risk, they have more to lose after all), and from there it would be easy to argue that they deserve their power and should have more.
The news this morning is the poll result means he will be hiring someone to replace him, which is likely a win for all involved. It's going to take some time, and he can make some of the necesary changes in the mean time. Twitter is not an institution, it's a rigged slot machine that pays out in temporary fame. Most complaints I see about Musk are backbiting, and I find it lowering and exacerbating to that kind of attitude.
it's a very small thing, but the booleans in python can be added like integers, with True being 1 an False being 0. So your comprehension could have been:
No, that is just branding. If these institutions were truly based on merit the legacy system wouldn't exist.