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by Paul-ish 9y ago
> Admissions can become somewhat cutthroat This is what I've heard about a lot of places that provide good higher education. I would be concerned in the US that college readiness correlates a little bit too closely to familial wealt
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
I spent a whole day struggling with a bug because I equated &[T] with *T and thought you could cast one to the other (for interop with C++ code). It took me too long to figure out that &[T] is two words long, but now its obvious. I&
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
In the USA advertising cigarettes through certain mediums is illegal. I wonder if the same could be done for sports betting.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Percentage of total users is deceptive in some ways. The absolute number of FF users can stay the same, or even rise, and their % share can decline. It is absolute number of users that impacts the deals they can make. That's not to say
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
"Evidence That Gendered Wording in Job Advertisements Exists and Sustains Gender Inequality"[1] looks at wording of job applications effect on applicant pool. I know there are some start-ups[2] in this area trying to automate the
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
I don't think you can do better than brute force search for cryptographic randomness, but it would be interesting to see if this does well on personal heuristics people use. Eg the XKCD approach.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
My fear is that DRM for video content will quickly become DRM for text content. Say goodbye to adblocking and tracker blocking.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Lately Facebook has been pestering me to enable notifications in my browser nearly every time I visit. This is an anti-patern as I suspect once I accept notifications, it is hard to remove. Some services just fatigue their users into opting
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
How do you get it working on chromecast?
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Where did they say there? Their twitter[1] doesn't mention DDOS at the moment. EDIT: I didn't realize they have 3 twitter accounts. Their status account has a tweet about this[2]. [1] https://twitter.com/DreamHost
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
What impact will this have on bandwidth?
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Bias can be corrected statistically.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
This makes it sounds like someone (or some nation) was trying to break into the account.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
> The private school system in Australia saves the government money. Per student funding in the private system is lower than per student funding in the public system. This money is then available to spend more on government schools. Isn
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
I am not very knowledgeable about battery technologies. How could you ditch the membrane in a system that is expected to be moving and shaking? (eg a car) Is it not important for the fluids to be separate?
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Also, the move to WebExtensions is a move to a more secure extension model. Traditional XUL extensions were comparable to the extension developer compiling their own code into the browser. Yikes. WebExtensions should be better sandboxed an
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
The hard time I have with having a computer in front of me is that I always feel the need to use it (eg surf hacker news), even if that isn't the best course for solving the problem I am grappling with. Sometimes a shower or a walk h
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
How does having my lithium ion battery die without being replaceable allow my device to last for years?
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
I am so naive. I've been asked that before by a Taxi driver in NYC I believe on my way to the airport and just said "Uh, shouldn't you?" I never realized what they were up to.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
I think twitter might fall into the same category as well. They form a sort of crucial social infrastructure. If they can't be supported by ads while maintaining their integrity, it may be important to keep them around through some oth
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
> Unfortunately, credit card companies/banks/etc have been selling purchasing histories, to pretty much all comers, for years. Do you have evidence of this?
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Good point, I don't know anything about law so I wasn't aware of this. Maybe I can restate my comment as "This promise is meaningless, but there are meaningful promises they can make that they chose not to, and that is meanin
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
This really isn't up to iRobot Corporation or Colin if the company gets acquired. They are publicly traded, hostile take overs are possible. The promise is meaningless.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
There is a good documentary by the name Poverty, Inc that explores the west's approach to foreign aid. It is currently on USA Netflix if you have that. It convinces me that our current approach to foreign aid is flawed. In most cases i
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
I grew up in Seattle. I remember my mother constantly complaining that Gates was always trying to drive public school policy but in the end sent his kids to private school. It does seem like a breed of hypocrisy to claim how good your educa
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
Universities, and I would guess charities as well, tend to liquidate their shares immediately to avoid conflicts of interest. Liquidating that many shares that fast would cause havoc in the markets.
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
With the stakes that high for the players you don't think the players will engage in dangerous behavior? It could be just as likely that we will see more skull fractures. The rules need to be constantly adjusted to disincentivise dange
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
I think a more nuanced approach, eg the Zack Lystedt law is appropriate until we under stand the science better. The key part of that law is that athletes must be taken out if they are suspected of a concussion, and they can't play unt
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
>“Like I said, I would rather have [the brokers] go through all of the headaches than me. It’s bad enough what we are dealing with out here on the roads than to be worrying about that.” This seems to imply that there is something traditi
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by Paul-ish 9y ago
It is interesting that people go straight to single payer in their mental model when they think of changing the healthcare system. Germany has a multi payer system (although the government does provide a large % of the total funds) that see

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