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Geniac – 1950s/60s Computer Toy(en.wikipedia.org)
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I don't know much pure math. If I pretend I had never heard of Tao, then I would have completely believed these notes if they had ended with "And that's how I failed my comprehensive exam," instead of, "After this,
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Climate Scientists’ Motivated Reasoning(judithcurry.com)
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At the end of a project death-march (at one point I turned in a >100 hour timecard), the division director had a celebratory thank-you dinner for all the managers involved in the project. My direct supervisor was at first puzzled as to
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by 7402 7y ago
I think this is the reference: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333825726_Rapid_mix... The doi link isn't active (yet?), so the only info I could get was from the popular press - maybe a press release we
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Imperial Examination(en.wikipedia.org)
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Sorry about the ambiguity. It's 750,000 http://www.arrl.org/news/us-amateur-radio-population-grows-s...
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Not so tiny. There are about 3/4 million amateur radio licensees in the U.S. Japan has over a million.
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Whether or not they are incomprehensible, I worry more that most of them seem to boil down to: "We can do whatever we want with any data we have about you. Your only alternative is to not use our services and not use any other business
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I miss job interviews (from both sides!) where a few people read the candidates' resumes, asked them deep and intelligent questions about what they had worked on in the past, and then made a hiring decision, without further quizzes, ta
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> If you have an iPhone, you already trust Apple enough to have a HomePod in your home. Ditto for Google/Android phone/Google Home. Well, no. I have an iPhone, but I don't trust Siri, so I leave voice recognition off. I do
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by 7402 7y ago
I use Macs and iProducts all the time, and I've never seen one of these. What do they look like? What do they say?
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How to Read a Book, v5.0 [pdf](pne.people.si.umich.edu)
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One organization I considered volunteering for had a volunteer form that demanded that I "defend, indemnify, and hold the Released Parties harmless from and against any and all loss, damages, claims, expenses and attorney’s fees that m
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by 7402 7y ago
This is one reason I always opt for a printed-out rental contract when I rent a car and they ask, "Do you want us to email you the rental agreement, or do you want a paper copy?"
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3D Printed Parts for Old Cars May Keep Them Running, but Sink Their Value(nytimes.com)
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Solar and Wind Lock-In Fossil Fuels(forbes.com)
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Although I believe lawyers are still required to disclose to the authorities any information concerning their clients' intention to commit a crime in the future - so the obligation to represent a client's interests is not unlimi
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> Up until about the middle of the 20th century there was still utilitarian and military horse riding. Interestingly, the earliest fighting of the first US war of the 21st Century featured soldiers on horses. Horseback riding is apparent
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See ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct at https://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/ Here are the main points: 1. GENERAL MORAL IMPERATIVES. As an ACM member I will
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American Physical Society Climate Change Workshop (2014) [pdf](aps.org)
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I haven't forgotten. I was on a DC-10 on my first flight to California from the east coast, in the mid-1970s. One audio channel included pilot-to-tower communication, a thrill for me since that was a relatively new thing. Shortly after
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Lifesaving Forecasts Start Here: Inside the Storm Prediction Center(nytimes.com)
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tldr: Amoral research into how to break Amateur Radio regulations concerning encryption without getting caught. Discussion of the purpose of and justification for these regulations not included in article.
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I wanted to help Google make AI more responsible(washingtonpost.com)
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Petition for Rule Making Calls for “Amateur Digital Mode Transparency”(arrl.org)
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If you haven't worked low-end jobs it may be a surprise, but if you are a clerk in certain chain stores, you are searched by a supervisor every time you leave the building (to make sure you aren't stealing anything).
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Social media platforms were used like lethal weapons(washingtonpost.com)
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Ask HN: Any examples of non-terrible privacy policies?
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> Jainisms logo makes it a barrier to entry for many in the West. Are people confused about this statement? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

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