They didn't set up a clinic and stick a "Colored folks only" sign out front.
At the county or state level, they looked at the data and identified that Black and Latino populations were not being vaccinated at the same rate as white populations, and also recognized that the pandemic has disproportionately affected those same populations.
So they committed resources to establish more clinics in areas with high concentrations of the given populations and may have waived certain documentation requirements that are historically more challenging for them to acquire.
The result being that people of means, predominantly white people, took time off of work and travelled long distances to take advantage of the situation. Taking the place of a non-zero number of residents that were the intended recipients.
You did?!? You still have poor neighbourhoods populated predominantly by black and latino people, and the “wealthy people from other zip codes” (there, satisfied?) who swoop in to take advantage of the vaccines intended for these neighbourhoods are still predominantly white... So how, exactly, can you claim to have “got rid of segregation”?
I use Android Auto in my car, and the only complaint I have thus far is the occasional misinterpreted input.
Often, what I intend to be a tap will be interpreted as a swipe by the display. I suspect this can be attributed more to the cheap touchscreen hardware in my low trim model, than the software in Android or to the concept of touch screen interfaces.
Just as with the older analog controls, there will be good implementations and cheap implementations. It's not productive to compare well engineered, premium, apples to cheap, mass market, oranges.
That doesn't answer the question. That just says historical markers are reserved for state highways. I'm asking 'why are they reserved for state highways, or any highway at all?' Why put a historical sign on a road of all places?
It's like they stuck the sign on an elephant, and I'm asking why, and your answer is 'because it's an elephant sign'. Yeah I get that... but why is it an elephant sign?
The best I can piece together, as a layperson reading state statutes, is because the NH Division of Historical Records[1] was assigned a duty and a budget to preserve and disseminate information on NH history [2]. The NH Historical Marker program is a joint effort with the NH Department of Transportation, and it is the responsibility of the DOT to erect and maintain the signs after approval from the Division of Historical Records [3]. The DOT has authority to erect these signs on class I-III roads which are state owned and maintained [4].
There appears to be a separate statute governing the installation of markers along class IV and V roads which are maintained by cities and towns [5].
We do the same in Germany. It's so you get interesting buildings and other things pointed out when driving through an area you don't know well.
There are many interesting places between A and B. You know about A, because you're living there. You know about B, because it's your destination. Typically, you've never thought much about the in-between.
There are all sorts of historical markers on various things and in various places all over the US. (Though I'm not aware of any at Dartmouth College regarding the computer-related events that occurred there.) These particular markers are ones put up on NH state highways where they're fairly visible even to people not actively looking for them.
If I recall, there is a plaque in the lobby of Kemeny Hall at Dartmouth about Kemeny's role in creating Basic.
New Hampshire has these green historic signs all over the place - they are particularly thick in the seacoast region, for historic buildings or places where events of any kind of significance took place. For example, in downtown Exeter, there is one by the town hall commemorating a speech that Abraham Lincoln gave during his presidential campaign, also noting that his son went to Phillips Exeter, and across the street there is another marking that Exeter was once the capital of New Hampshire, and then a couple hundred yards away there is another marking where a tavern still stands that George Washington once ate dinner.
Later in life, Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, built a large house called Hildene in southern Vermont that was occupied by descendants into the 1970's. It is maintained as a museum. It's pretty interesting and worth a trip, if you're into that sort of thing. Even my two teenagers found it interesting ;)
There's also a plaque in Dartmouth Hall about the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, considered the founding event of AI research.
Most of these, in most states, are either beside roads or on buildings. I suppose it allows marking things that aren't buildings (or associated with one building). It also allows making far more visible, due to our car culture.
I believe the paper makes a distinction between bullshit receptivity (Eating it up), bullshit sensitivity (Calling it out), and profoundness sensitivity (Correctly identifying profound statements). Donating was positively correlated with profoundness sensitivity and less so to bullshit sensitivity. And slightly negatively with bullshit receptivity.
I noticed most of the bullshit phrases used a lot of big, _fancy_ words. Not sure if this was covered later in the paper, but it could be this study identified a correlation between language skills and prosocial behavior.
Someone who's never encountered words like elucidate could be dazzled into believing it describes something profound. Whereas people who are familiar with the word would recognize it's use is awkward and meaningless.
I don't think it would be a big leap to theorize that an effective education correlates with prosocial behavior.
At the county or state level, they looked at the data and identified that Black and Latino populations were not being vaccinated at the same rate as white populations, and also recognized that the pandemic has disproportionately affected those same populations.
So they committed resources to establish more clinics in areas with high concentrations of the given populations and may have waived certain documentation requirements that are historically more challenging for them to acquire.
The result being that people of means, predominantly white people, took time off of work and travelled long distances to take advantage of the situation. Taking the place of a non-zero number of residents that were the intended recipients.