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diff --git a/article/atom.xml b/article/atom.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd2ee74 --- /dev/null +++ b/article/atom.xml @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?> +<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> + <channel> + <title>Andrew Yu's Personal Articles</title> + <link>https://www.andrewyu.org/#articles</link> + <description>Rants, opinions, technical stuff, all mixed together</description> + <generator>vim</generator> + <!--lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate--> + + <atom:link href="https://www.andrewyu.org/article/atom.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> + + <item> + <title>Affirmative Action</title> + <link>https://www.andrewyu.org/article/affirmative-action.txt</link> + <pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2023 14:14:28 +0000</pubDate> + + <guid>21</guid> + <description><pre>Subject: Affirmative Action +From: Andrew Yu &lt;andrew@andrewyu.org&gt; +Message-Id: &lt;CTWUQHND92OE.31YJ2FM2GHPTB@andrewyu&gt; +Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2023 14:14:28 +0000 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 +X-Mailer: aerc 0.14.0 +X-Article-ID: 21 + +(Slightly modified for "publication") + +Here is my attempt at the Harvard/UNC affirmative action question, +though I can't guarantee it's comprehensive, objective or developed, and +the language here is deadly plain. Be aware that there's a fair bit of +ethics, political philosophy and (minimal but still) US politics ahead. +Also, since I'm Asian myself (of course, disadvantaged under the AA +policies), perhaps I'm biased. + +Firstly, let me declare my unconventional "stance". I believe that +affirmative action based on race is generally useless and may backfire; +however if I were a supreme court justice, I would vote with the +Liberals, to not interfere with the affirmative action policies of the +universities. + +I'll start with why I believe that the court shouldn't interfere with +the universities' policies. Harvard and UNC are private universities. +They have their own ideals, and as long as they're not causing active +harm to society (in my opinion, that'd be violating other people's +negative liberty in the traditional interpretation by Isaiah Berlin--I am +aware that there are paradoxes but it's the closest to a consistent +theory of political philosophy that I can reach for now). Simply +speaking, the students they admit is irrelevant to the government/state. +If we consider public universities on the other hand, then sure. The +government funds them, is supposed to set their goals and policies, and +is responsible for their admissions and could rightfully implement +policies that they see fit, but for private educational institutions, my +"small government" mindset comes in. + +However, there are interesting arguments surrounding how "elite" +universities such as Harvard, and to some extent UNC, have substantial +social impact on society, as they are more or less a standard in +defining tertiary education in the US and globally. Other educational +institutions may follow their policies in attempts to bring themselves +to the prestigious "standard" that elite institutions set, these elite +universities are crucial in educational mobility, there might be +potential public investment, etc. However I still intuitively think that +the government shouldn't intervene, perhaps because of how in the US, +court cases set precedents, and a precedent of such intervention would +"allow" for government expansion and potential for the government to dip +their feet into more private business. + +Now I'll briefly argue why I believe that affirmative action based on +race is generally useless and may backfire. There are three main reasons +that I could think of for affirmative action, I'll describe my opinion +on each, one by one. + +First, that affirmative action promotes diversity. I (personally) think +that diversity is an insufficient reason to be potentially racially +discriminating (people with the same academic capability may be +rejected/admitted based on racial quotas, which may be considered a form +of discrimination based on factors that they couldn't control). + +Second, that affirmative action adjusts for educational inequality. I +haven't fact-checked this, but perhaps it's true that African-Americans, +on average, live in poorer communities and have lesser access to good +secondary education. Therefore their grades cannot fully reflect their +academic potential, and universities admissions should compensate for +that. Now aside from how this feels patronizing, race is no longer a +good measure of "lack of educational resources due to financial +situations/etc", with the existence of quite affluent African-American +families. Affirmative action (if any) for +educational-inequality-adjustment could be better implemented by looking +at education and financial situations themselves, not race. + +Third, that affirmative action compensates for past wrongs. Having what +people's ancestors do affect them negatively present-day feels awkward, +although arguably people benefitting from the achievements of their +ancestors means that they also need to take relevant responsibilities. + +Anyways, here are my thoughts, a bit incomplete but might be +interesting. Cheers! +</pre></description> + </item></channel> +</rss> diff --git a/article/hardware-oligopoly.html b/article/hardware-oligopoly.html deleted file mode 100644 index cb9724d..0000000 --- a/article/hardware-oligopoly.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,85 +0,0 @@ - -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> - <head> - <title>Hardware Oligopolies and the Decentralization of Hardware Production</title> - <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> - <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> - <meta charset="utf-8" /> - </head> - <body> - <h1>Hardware Oligopolies and the Decentralization of Hardware Production</h1> - <p>Article ID: 20</p> - - <p>While I was looking through some of my email archives, I found that <a href="https://mail.andrewyu.org/pipermail/evosaur-general/2022-October/000001.html">I sent the following to the Evosaur project's mailing list</a>. It might be an interesting read, so here's a copy.</p> - -<pre> -Here are my thoughts on the current situation on the oligopoly of the -CPU and general technology market. - -Many markets, especially the computer hardware market down to the basics -such as the architecture/chipset-like level, are Economics of Scale, -meaning that the cost of production per unit decreases as the total -number of production for one entity. This naturally gives rise to -oligopolies, also known in the technology industry as companies like -Intel and Microsoft. - -An oligopoly is a market structure in which a market or industry is -dominated by a small number of large sellers or producers. People often -confuse this with monopolies, for which the latter Francis Wayland -defines as ``an exclusive right granted to a [hu]man or a monopoly of -[hu]man, to empoly their labor or capital in some particular manner'', -which cannot exist in a free market (i.e. free of government -regulations). The technology industry in most countries is an -oligopoly, not a monopoly. - -The harm of oligopolys (and monopolies, which are similar in this -context) are commonly discussed in Economics, such as the lack of -competition causing prices to be solely in control of one economic -entity, who may set insane prices in seek of profits, which is -especially harmful for products that serve basic human needs, such as -food and water. And in modern times, technology is often a necessity -for daily life, exacebating the harms of a relevant oligopoly market. - -There is yet another practical harm of a oligopoly technology market: -about the rights of users. When CPUs are produced by almost solely -Intel, AMD, and a few others, they are now free to add their backdoors -and ``management engines'' into the CPUs that we users use daily, and -their seek for profit pushes them to do so. We now have to work with -spyware in our computer hardware, and we can't do anything about it, -because the oligopoly nature of the market doesn't allow us common -people to monitor, produce, develop, or otherwise deal with our own -technology except for the ``expected usages'' that the oligopoly -superimposes on us. - -One way out is to decentralize the development and production of CPUs -and related goods. Individual cities and towns should be able to -produce computers, from the very basics, for their own people. -And I know this sounds like an anti-internationalisation self-sustaining -propaganda chiche economic outcome, but if you think about it, such an -essential part of life (like technology) would be better served by -people who'd be less likely to massively implement spyware that would be -of any use to them. - -Initiatives to decentralize development of CPUs and other computer -components, such as LibreSilicon, have existed for a short time (in -comparison to the time that Intel and AT&T have existed). We're nowhere -near what Intel could make, however, partly due to the insane patents -around their technology. Patent trolls exist and often target free -software and free hardware projects, and thus applying the idea of -copyleft as it works for copyright, to patents, may aid practical -development. And at this point, we can't really develop upon existing -foundations, so we have to ignore pre-existing knowledge and develop our -own architecture and CPU from the start, paying attention to copyleft -licenses and copyleft-in-patents to hopefully prevent patent trolls from -taking over the world again. (This is also what the <a href="https://evosaur.andrewyu.org/">Evosaur</a> project is -attempting to do.) - -Please tell me your thoughts on this. -</pre> - <div id="footer"> - <hr /> - <p><a href="/">Andrew Yu's Website</a></p> - </div> - </body> -</html> diff --git a/article/index.html b/article/index.html deleted file mode 100644 index fd4cf41..0000000 --- a/article/index.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ - -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> - <head> - <title>Andrew Yu's Personal Articles</title> - <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> - <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> - <meta charset="utf-8" /> - </head> - <body class="indent"> - <h1>Andrew Yu's Personal Articles</h1> - <p>Pages for other projects (i.e. Evosaur) are not listed—only independent articles are listed here. These are sorted from newest to oldest. Some do not come with HTML anchors: these articles are not published online, but are still listed here. For these, you may ask me for a copy in real life, but it is within my rights to decline such requests. Note that if an article ID has an asterisk (*), it is considered fiction and its meaning shall not be interpreted literally.</p> - <p><a href="/contact.html">Feel free to comment on any of the articles.</a></p> - <ul> - <li><a href="sway-keysym.html">Sway keysym</a> (22)</li> - <li><a href="affirmative-action.txt">Affirmative Action in Light of Harvard/UNC Case</a> (21)</li> - <li><a href="hardware-oligopoly.html">Hardware Oligopolies and the Decentralization of Hardware Production</a> (20)</li> - <li><a href="unicorn.html">Unicorn</a> (19*)</li> - <li><a href="texmacs-maxima-integral.html">TeXmacs Maxima Integrals</a> (18)</li> - <li><a href="gender-and-pronouns.html">Gender and Pronouns</a> (17)</li> - <li><a href="poems-2.html">Poems Collection 2</a> (16*)</li> - <li><a href="poems-1.html">Poems Collection 1</a> (15*)</li> - <li><a href="means.html">Means</a> (14*)</li> - <li><a href="depravity.html">Depravity</a> (13*)</li> - <li><a href="dream-of-the-whisker.html">Dream of the Whisker</a> (12*)</li> - <li><a href="purple-hibiscus.html">Random Notes on Purple Hibiscus</a> (11)</li> - <li><a href="math-science-and-philosophy.html">Math, Science, and Philosophy</a> (10)</li> - <li><a href="the-old-web-was-better.html">The Old Web Was Better</a> (9)</li> - <li><a href="free-hardware.html">Free Hardware</a> (8)</li> - <li>A Fragile Society (7)</li> - <li><a href="copyright.html">Copyright: It's okay</a> (6)</li> - <li><a href="democracy-us.html">Democracy: The United States</a> (5)</li> - <li><a href="democracy-fundamentals.html">Democracy: Fundamentals</a> (4)</li> - <li><a href="abortion.html">Abortion</a> (3)</li> - <li><a href="pragmatic-use-of-nonfree-software.html">Pragmatic Use of Nonfree Software</a> (2)</li> - <li><a href="free-software-education-in-china-and-covid-19.html">Free Software, Education in China and COVID-19</a> (1)</li> - </ul> - <div id="footer"> - <hr /> - <p><a href="/">Andrew Yu's Website</a></p> - </div> - </body> -</html> diff --git a/contact.html b/contact.html index f5b6730..5219611 100644 --- a/contact.html +++ b/contact.html @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ <p>There are many ways to contact me. None of these require proprietary software.</p> <ul> <li>Electronic mail to <code>andrew</code> AT <code>andrewyu</code> DOT <code>org</code>. (Please sign and encrypt messages if possible. See below.)</li> - <li>Internet Relay Chat to <code>Andrew</code> on <a href="https://irc.libera.chat/">Libera.Chat</a> and <code>irc.andrewyu.org</code>.</li> + <li>Internet Relay Chat to <code>Andrew</code> on <a href="https://libera.chat/">Libera.Chat</a> and <code>irc.andrewyu.org</code>.</li> <li><a rel="me" href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@AndrewYu"><code>@AndrewYu@social.treehouse.systems</code> on Mastodon</a></li> <li>Paper mail to <code>Yu, Andrew (Run Xi 于润熙, s22537%29, 1800, Lane 900 North Sanxin Road, Songjiang District, Shanghai, China 201620</code>. (Note that I do not check school mail daily and I can't check it during vacations. Please do not attempt to use OpenPGP encryption or such for paper mail.)</li> </ul> diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 6246776..4d36b41 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -11,18 +11,28 @@ <body> <h1>Andrew Yu</h1> <hr /> - <p id="now" style="rotate=180;"> - Recently: Working on <a href="https://git.andrewyu.org/andrew/smlmp.git/">the Simple Mailing List Management Program</a>. + <p id="now" style=""> + Gender-affirming care is not child abuse. </p> <hr /> - <p id="about-me">I am Andrew Yu, a 15-year-old student in Shanghai, China, currently studying at YK Pao School. I am interested in philosophy, computer science, mathematics, physics, and biology. 🏳️⚧️</p> - <p id="pronouns"><a href="/note/pronouns.html">My pronouns in English are ``they/them/their/theirs/themself''. 我的中文代词是``他''。</a></p> + <p id="about-me">I am Andrew Yu, a 15-year-old student in Shanghai, China, currently studying at YK Pao School. I am interested in philosophy, computer science, mathematics, physics, and biology.</p> + <p id="pronouns"><a href="/note/pronouns.html">My pronouns in English are ``they/them/their/theirs/themself''.</a></p> <hr /> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/">My Personal Website</a></li> + <li><a href="#articles">Personal Articles</a> (<a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/article/atom.xml">rss/atom</a>)</li> + <li><a href="#faq">FAQ, etc.</a></li> <li><a href="/microblog/">Microblog</a></li> - <li><a href="/article/">Personal Articles</a></li> - <li><a href="/contact.html">Contact</a></li> + <li><a href="/contact.html">Contact</a> and Accounts + <ul> + <li>Email <code>andrew</code> AT <code>andrewyu</code> DOT <code>org</code></li> + <li><a href="/contact.html#pgp">OpenPGP</a> <a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/pgp/andrew-ecc.asc"><code>ACF28DC0A2E8D76446B33A2D545412166A37189B</code></a></li> + <li>IRC <code>Andrew</code> on <a href="https://libera.chat">Libera.Chat</a> or <code>irc.andrewyu.org</code></li> + <li>Mastodon <a rel="me" href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@AndrewYu"><code>@AndrewYu@social.treehouse.systems</code></a></li> + <li>sr.ht <a href="https://sr.ht/~andrewyu"><code>~andrewyu</code></a></li> + <li>GitHub <a href="https://github.com/andrewrunxiyu"><code>@andrewrunxiyu</code></a> (deprecated)</li> + </ul> + </li> <li><a href="https://git.andrewyu.org/">Git Repositories</a></li> <li><a href="https://evosaur.andrewyu.org/">The Evosaur Project</a></li> <li><a href="/school/">School Stuff Hub</a></li> @@ -30,6 +40,35 @@ <li><a href="/buffer.html">Random Buffer Webpage</a></li> </ul> <hr /> + <h2 id="articles">Personal Articles</h2> + <p>Pages for other projects (i.e. Evosaur) are not listed—only independent articles are listed here. These are sorted from newest to oldest. Some do not come with HTML anchors: these articles are not published online, but are still listed here. For these, you may ask me for a copy in real life, but it is within my rights to decline such requests. Note that if an article ID has an asterisk (*), it is considered fiction and its meaning shall not be interpreted literally.</p> + <p><a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/article/atom.xml">rss/atom</a></p> + <ul> + <li><a href="/article/sway-keysym.html">Sway keysym</a> (22)</li> + <li><a href="/article/affirmative-action.txt">Affirmative Action in Light of Harvard/UNC Case</a> (21)</li> + <li>Article 20 does not exist</li> + <li><a href="/article/unicorn.html">Unicorn</a> (19*)</li> + <li><a href="/article/texmacs-maxima-integral.html">TeXmacs Maxima Integrals</a> (18)</li> + <li><a href="/article/gender-and-pronouns.html">Gender and Pronouns</a> (17)</li> + <li><a href="/article/poems-2.html">Poems Collection 2</a> (16*)</li> + <li><a href="/article/poems-1.html">Poems Collection 1</a> (15*)</li> + <li><a href="/article/means.html">Means</a> (14*)</li> + <li><a href="/article/depravity.html">Depravity</a> (13*)</li> + <li><a href="/article/dream-of-the-whisker.html">Dream of the Whisker</a> (12*)</li> + <li><a href="/article/purple-hibiscus.html">Random Notes on Purple Hibiscus</a> (11)</li> + <li><a href="/article/math-science-and-philosophy.html">Math, Science, and Philosophy</a> (10)</li> + <li><a href="/article/the-old-web-was-better.html">The Old Web Was Better</a> (9)</li> + <li><a href="/article/free-hardware.html">Free Hardware</a> (8)</li> + <li>A Fragile Society (7)</li> + <li><a href="/article/copyright.html">Copyright: It's okay</a> (6)</li> + <li><a href="/article/democracy-us.html">Democracy: The United States</a> (5)</li> + <li><a href="/article/democracy-fundamentals.html">Democracy: Fundamentals</a> (4)</li> + <li><a href="/article/abortion.html">Abortion</a> (3)</li> + <li><a href="/article/pragmatic-use-of-nonfree-software.html">Pragmatic Use of Nonfree Software</a> (2)</li> + <li><a href="/article/free-software-education-in-china-and-covid-19.html">Free Software, Education in China and COVID-19</a> (1)</li> + </ul> + <hr /> + <h2 id="faq">FAQs and Stuff</h2> <ul> <li><a href="/note/pronouns.html">My Pronouns</a></li> <li><a href="/note/comms.html">Communication Guidelines</a></li> @@ -43,7 +82,7 @@ <li><a href="/note/really.html">``Really'' is a confusing word</a></li> </ul> <hr /> - <h2>Other People's Sites and Projects</h2> + <h2 id="coolsites">Other People's Sites and Projects</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://writefreesoftware.org/">Write Free Software</a></li> <li><a href="https://libreboot.org/">Libreboot, a coreboot distribution</a></li> @@ -51,6 +90,7 @@ <li><a href="https://vitali64.duckdns.org/">Ferass El Hafidi</a></li> <li><a href="https://drewdevault.com/">Drew Devault</a></li> <li><a href="https://vimuser.org/">Leah Rowe</a></li> + <li><a href="https://rosenzweig.io/">Alyssa Rosenzweig</a></li> </ul> <div id="footer"> <hr /> |