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by Lazare 8y ago
It's ALWAYS been the case that journalists that sell more papers (or more recently, attract more viewers, or more ad impressions) get more prestige and money than ones who do not. If you thought that journalists were entirely disin
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by Lazare 8y ago
Short answer: If they "stole" the information (by, say, bribing an insider), they it's probably illegal. If they found it out by being clever (by, say, buying some satellite images and counting cars in parkings lots), then
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by Lazare 8y ago
Paying people more for doing their job well? Yes, it's legal. :) (I'm sorry if the answer comes off as flippant, but really, there's nothing particularly odd or unsavoury here. Journalists are paid to break stories that ge
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by Lazare 8y ago
Well, they don't have any particular accuracy , but they do allow the operator to generate whatever result they like in a usefully opaque manner. The linked article discusses a large number of cases of racial bias. Obviously if you
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by Lazare 8y ago
> Boy, they sure didn't open with a case I could be sympathetic with. Lied to the state police, lied when applying to a city PD, but this time, oh, this time he's telling the truth! You misunderstood the article. There's
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by Lazare 8y ago
The continued use of polygraph "tests", as if they have any validity whatsoever, is honestly a scandal.
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by Lazare 8y ago
This is so frustrating, as I really loved the client, and now it's just being killed off. It's absolutely burning a good chunk of whatever goodwill I may have had for Slack.
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by Lazare 8y ago
I'm sure you think that shows bias, but you could also say that his track record of being right means he should be considered extra credible. :)
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by Lazare 8y ago
I'm honestly shocked to see someone say they found React natural, but felt Vue was confusing.
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by Lazare 8y ago
> Are there any previous examples of someone doing something similar to what Musk did and the punishments they received? If you look at the facts of what Musk did...yes, there are literally hundreds if not thousands of examples, and they
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by Lazare 8y ago
> That could have a very simple explanation: There is no Wikipedia page for "Gun Rights". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_rights is a valid link, and seems like the obvious wikipedia page to deem relevan
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by Lazare 8y ago
> the company pays 1000 dividends, and investors receive 1001 dividends. You missed out the last part of that, which is "and investors pay 1 dividend". Investors as a class receive 1000 dividends on net. It all just nets out.
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by Lazare 8y ago
> Can you explain what part of it doesn't really work? It seems kind of odd to ask for evidence of something which is a mathematical formula. Counterexample: It turns out that planes can't fly! This is easily demonstrated by
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by Lazare 8y ago
> the original dividend is paid to the person the short seller sold the share to It is not. Whatever side bets people may have with each other may result in money changing hands, but it's not the "original dividend". Ther
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by Lazare 8y ago
> But then enough shorting can cause them to fail, because it makes it more difficult to raise money by selling new shares or using shares as collateral. That's one of those ideas that looks kinda of plausible on paper, but doesn&#
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by Lazare 8y ago
> For now this has given me the impetus to ditch Chrome. I think you're approaching this precisely backwards. > All of the other major desktop browsers still provide useful UI for EV certs. There is no useful UI for EV certs, bec
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by Lazare 8y ago
Oh yes, that too!
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by Lazare 8y ago
> Unless you can prove “getting group X less addicted” is more valuable than “getting group Y addicted” If group X is larger and/or the harm avoided from their switching to less harmful behaviours is more serious, then a simple util
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by Lazare 8y ago
Yep, a really good tool to get people off of cigarettes will inevitably lure some people to try it who weren't smoking cigarettes to start with. > and start being addicted to nicotine as well? Then they'll be addicted to nicoti
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by Lazare 8y ago
I ran across another similar-yet-very-different example of this once in a completely different language. In my case, we added a new class, it worked fine on dev, then failed on staging (and would have failed in production if we'd let i
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by Lazare 8y ago
I'm honestly unsure if your post is sarcastic or serious.
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by Lazare 8y ago
> Seriously, what legitimate reason is there for a quitting tool to be more appealing than the thing being quit If the quitting tool is less appealing, then it makes people more reluctant to quit. That's just simple logic.
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by Lazare 8y ago
There's a ton of basic CRUD apps and REST APIs being written in node for which the event-driven model is useless at best, and actively harmful at worst. Looking around at actual production node code, huge swathes of it could easily be
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by Lazare 8y ago
> I read that section of his opinion, and it certainly seems like the answer is "no". I don't think you understood what you were reading then. You can't just naively analyse someone applying rules other people wrote,
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by Lazare 8y ago
You were replying to someone who said "I have to wonder what criteria you believe he should be using to decide his position when answering questions like this.", but that was referring to the questions he answered when he wrote th
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by Lazare 8y ago
Are you really arguing that every single judge should decide every single case as if they were on the Supreme Court? That's 1) not how the system works and 2) not how it really can work.
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by Lazare 8y ago
That's a lot less obvious than you'd think, in large part because people have so much scope to react to changes in tax rates by restructuring their income, sheltering it, etc. The impact of taxation on inequality is empirically mu
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by Lazare 8y ago
But he wasn't on the Supreme Court when he wrote that earlier opinion, so the earlier opinion tells us nothing about what he'd do if he was on the Court. In theory we have confirmation hearings to give us some idea of how someon
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by Lazare 8y ago
"The City" is to London as "Wall Street" is to New York. It's a term for one specific geographical part of the city which historically was a centre of the financial industry, and is now used to refer to the financi
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by Lazare 8y ago
> Working at one of these big banks, there are 10 000 employees for each building in canary wharf. It's delusional to think that they can be moved. They're already being moved. The question is how many and how fast, not whet

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