IanDrake

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by IanDrake 10y ago
French? Orleans is right down the street here in Massachusetts. ;) Still, the name makes searching for help and information difficult.
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by IanDrake 10y ago
The EFF is an outspoken critic of the CFAA and has admonished multiple entities for threatening criminal prosecution. When Craigslist threatened me the first thing I did was contact the EFF. They didn't ignore me. They told me there i
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by IanDrake 10y ago
In the epic 3taps vs. CL battle, CL claimed copyright on all posts, which wasn't supported by their TOS. So they updated their TOS to give them worldwide exclusive rights to ads. CL finally backed down when the EFF told them to, which
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by IanDrake 10y ago
Stay away from doing this. I built a small business doing real-time alerts on CL and eventually got a C&D letter from their lawyers. I gave up. I got around IP restrictions by essential having SETI like software running on my client&#x2
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Maybe not the best name.
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by IanDrake 10y ago
More manipulation through bad statistics. You can't evenly divide by the population ratio to get a meaningful number. Law abiding citizens have fewer police interactions than criminals and criminals are disproportionately African Ame
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by IanDrake 10y ago
>> Obviously, that's not a pragmatic statement, as poor kids from the ghetto often have no appreciation of this and simply don't work towards great outcomes - but this is the reality. >Ah, it's their fault. That&#x27
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by IanDrake 10y ago
If I was Mr. Castile, the last thing I would want is to have my good name [0] banded about in pairs with Mr. Sterling who was an armed felon and sex offender with a history of resisting arrest [1]. [0] http://heavy.com/news&#
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by IanDrake 10y ago
I think a lot of commenters here are missing the point being made in the short story. Agile is good for startups building a product where they don't already have a known product/market fit. It's understandable in that situati
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There are many factors. What is the total population, what is the violent crime rate, what is the prevailing attitude of civilians towards police, how many police encounters are there, how well does the government record these statistics, e
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I didn't miss that. Those aren't risk adjusted numbers and are meaningless. I think if you were to re-read my comment you would see that I wrote he sometimes uses absolute figures and never uses risk adjusted numbers.
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by IanDrake 10y ago
There is so much misuse of statistics in this article it's hard to take it seriously. If you're going to make blanket statements about the US vs. Europe than compare those two entities, don't cherry pick a European country fo
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by IanDrake 10y ago
If I ran for Senate, I would vote against most gun regulations. It wouldn't matter if the NRA donated or not. Is it possible, that the cause and effect have been reverse here? Perhaps the NRA gives them money because the candidate al
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by IanDrake 10y ago
There is latent racism on Airbnb, but I think they're looking at it the wrong way. We have two properties on Airbnb and instead of my white and shaved ugly head, my wife is on profile picture (she's asian). We get far more reques
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by IanDrake 10y ago
>Did you read the article?... Proof: out of 6,000+ availability request made (without checking actual availability which is known, but sending a request anyway) 50% of "white sounding names" were accepted, while only 42% of &q
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by IanDrake 10y ago
They can code AI, but can't run their sound through audacity to clean it up? That's a bummer.
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"Taking the US as an example: there's a "tourism" visa, and there's a "business", which includes attending conferences. " No one will check you visa at the conference. So, while not lying about it, t
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"Why are you visiting Canada?" "On vacation." Done.
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by IanDrake 10y ago
Just curious... what is everyone using scrapers for? I've done a lot of work scraping various sites and I can tell you this: basing any product on your ability to aggregate data via scraping will not work in the long run. Eventually yo
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by IanDrake 11y ago
Is the speed of light affected by the gravitational fluctuations mentioned in the article? Or, put another way, is the speed of light only a constant because we measure it in constant gravity?
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by IanDrake 11y ago
I hate to see how race (as percentage of population) gets mentioned under the topic of immigration, as if the two are inextricably linked or represent our general anger. I live in New England where (IMO) race tends to matter little, howeve
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by IanDrake 11y ago
>and that we have to bear some of tbe blame ourselves I assume you're speaking for yourself. I will bear none of that with you. Never have I participated in any way to hold down anyone because of their race, gender, or otherwise.
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by IanDrake 11y ago
When you have conflicting myopic world views, sometimes you just have to pick one.
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Exactly. Don't be duped by this. If there were 24 black women seeking funding and 12 received funding, then they have a success rate of 50%. Whatever the real value for that figure is would be more telling. Still, these attempts to
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by IanDrake 11y ago
>The times that BI has been tried have not had the outcome you describe You'll need to make a citation for that claim. >After that, if they want a nice car, a nicer house, they would have to work In your second paragraph they onl
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by IanDrake 11y ago
I can't take this seriously. >(Questions about how a program like this would affect overall cost of living are beyond our scope, but obviously important.) No, that's not just "obviously important". It's practica
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by IanDrake 11y ago
> if you accept that health benefits can outweigh personal freedom, where do you draw the line? Agreed. I hate using these terms, but the "progressive liberal agenda" that wants to make "HealthCare Free For All" will
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by IanDrake 11y ago
If you're building a business, never build it as a feature onto someone else's platform without some sort of contract that confirms the nature of your relationship.
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>“It’s a whole new perspective on how the Earth works,” said Daniel J. Fornari, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, Mass. It's really interesting to see a scientist say that we don't real
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>So their predictions are wrong, but yours are correct? Wrong/correct? We're talking about predictions, so let's talk about probability. In the course of 20 years is it more probable that life will look more like it does

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