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That is essentially the author's point, though. Society has endorsed powerful private institutions (specifically in his book, universities) that have moved away from the Enlightenment-era's notion of radically protecting freedom o
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If you watch his press conference, he seems to be taking a public health angle. He has three sons within his marriage in the same region as his 17 in vitro children. There's increased risk of inbreeding between these 20 people who (unk
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It's a quote after the first Gulf War.
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Will be interesting to see Microsoft return to the smart phone market. Satya Nadella's organization is much more geared towards catering products towards their demand signal instead of repeating Ballmer's blunder of always acquies
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Correct. The university also provides tremendous support in media training and publicity garnering. For example, when you see a media interview blitz for a Heisman candidate - that's certainly not being organized by the 20 year old ath
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Amazing how quickly Hugging Face's Transformers has become the most important library in NLP.
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>The thing that I just cannot stop wondering is, why, knowing the perks of industry, advisers still treated us like this. It's cultural. Their PhD advisors treated them the same way. A PhD is effectively a hazing ritual required to
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Why not both? It sounds like OpenAg engineers were trying various solutions for the device, but by the end of the effort, demo culture prevailed and the end-results were faked. At some point their staff decided to dump their concentrated ni
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You can thank loose monetary policy that has created an unbalance between capital seeking returns and the number of investment opportunities. Executives have leveraged this into abusive multi-class share structures that sacrifice shareholde
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> This work was supported by the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany. What an odd area of research for Volkswagen to fund.
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Note that this is basically an advertisement for the author's new book which primarily focuses on the future of reading: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/leah-price/what-we-talk-ab...
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Species are created on geologic timescales. Human activity is, in comparison, instantaneously destroying biological diversity. Evolution simply doesn't have enough time to adapt species to the sort of exponential changes we're see
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DEET is a good acetylcholinesterase inhibitor - certainly possible it has mild hallucinogenic effects.
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As a FoCo resident, Comcast sent me an email saying that they're "upgrading our network" and "increasing your Internet download speed". Not really clear what that means until I see an updated rate sheet. I'm su
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No, it means that the federal funds rate has begun to stop responding to changes in the Federal Reserve's overnight rate based on supply and demand. The Federal Reserve will be required to use other policy tools, such as QE, if it want
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Context: RMS waded into the MIT Epstein scandal https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21... > I’ve concluded from various examples of accusation inflation that it is absolutely wrong to use the t
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Students would just give their cards to their friends who were staying at the game.
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Like everything else in the US military, there is a written standard to support this style. See Army Regulation 25-50, Section IV "The Army Writing Style" https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a&#x2F
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You can still form an LLC and hire yourself as a w-2 employee.
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That's an excellent tutorial - more are available on http://www.deeplearningindaba.com/practicals-2019.html for those interested.
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MIT had a similar internal debate about Saudi-affiliated funding, see https://thetech.com/2019/01/14/mit-cut-ties-saudi-arabia
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>In a bid to maintain an intrigue, Intel did not disclose TDP of its new product. They basically released all the details but TDP. Very likely this sucker is a steaming hot mess. Wonder what the stock cooler is like, or if it's even
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Read the paper, the authors did a power analysis to arrive at their participant sample size. ( http://myweb.fsu.edu/vshute/pdf/portal1.pdf ) > We needed at least 34 participants per condition to estimate modera
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This has been true for a few weeks in many Amazon regions. Even as a prime customer, my one day shipping options, which were previously handled by FedEx, are completely gone. Best case shipping is now USPS two-day here.
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The call-in segments on Stern's show have been frequently used as a platform for extreme and fringe positions, including calls for violence. Through the mid 90s, these came from Stern himself, although he has matured and tempered with
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Except when their rapid product cycle creates a feedback loop where users are afraid to adopt in fear of a shutdown, thereby increasing the risk of falsely determining a bad market fit.
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Junk food is engineered pleasure. It has everything that your ancestors craved (salt, sugar, fat) compressed into a calorically dense marvel of science.
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They use older cards without the restrictions.
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Note that ethanol, and a host of other mind-altering substances, should also be avoided until neurobiological adulthood (approximately 26): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4669962/ For alcohol, n
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Harvard offers undergraduates remedial classes through their extension school. In fact, you may be surprised to hear that so many admits have issues with writing that they offer a non-extension remedial writing class (Expos10.) These are ju

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