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by Paul-ish 8y ago
The Wikipedia page seems to indicate that the success rate is closer to 8%. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#Milwaukee_protocol
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
Without cover traffic, its not clear to me that this would prevent a correlation attack from an adversary with resources.
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
That seems like a no win. You hire employees and your mean for firing them when you don't need their skillset. You hire contractors and you look like you are stingy and don't want to pay as many benefits.
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
The US supreme court ruled that putting a GPS device on a car constituted a search [1]. People at the time were making the same argument you were. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Jones
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
Maybe your product worked too well, and people don't actually want to change their behavior. They just feel like they should. Same with eating right or exercising.
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
The troubles don't show themselves on the consumer side, they show up on the labor side. Monopsony makes it hard to find competing job offers when all the competing stores have been closed.
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
Companies don't jack up prices anymore. They lower their costs (ie reduce labor). It ends up inore profit and doesn't set off alarms at the FTC, which looks for harm to the consumer. Monopsony has been shown to reduce wages[1]. [1
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
That's common in surveys. It's to see if you are paying attention.
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
> One of my female Computer Science professors used to brag about how she didn't code. It's not uncommon for academics to stop coding at some point in their career. They basically become managers.
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
Is there an arxiv version of your paper somewhere?
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
I had compatibility issues when I tried to use TensorBoard the other day. It doesn't even seem like they were trying for compatibility in that case.
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
You don't address gizmo686's concern, which is that rules without an enforcement or adjudication mechanism are ineffectual or unfairly applied. It's a valid criticism.
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
One qualitative difference is where that code of conduct puts the responsibility. The old one spends more time telling people not to be sensitive, but okay if your feeling are hurt here's what you do, and maybe something will happen. O
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
> Regulators should be doing things like figuring out ways to get more last mile transmission lines installed so there can be real market competition. It's not clear to me why we can't or shouldn't do both. Keep NN in plac
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
It took scientific research to find that trans fats or smoking was bad. Does that mean that they aren't actually that bad, or even beneficial?
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
On the flip side I've been working on the same project with lots of progress but no publication for years. There are drawbacks. I need to graduate at some point and I am afraid my lack of publication will hold me back. I have been work
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
> Just relax and be yourself. For a lot of people, having a script allows them to relax and be themselves. I don't see whats wrong with them interacting the way they want to interact, rather than the way you want them to.
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
It would be nice if I could clip on a thin piece of plastic/foil to my card to block out the magnetic strip if I know the device I'm inserting it into only needs the chip.
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
Is there a privacy focused credit card?
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
Is tipping a solution to to others misfortune?
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
I've started using cash where possible when I see these terminals. It's sometimes the easiest way to avoid the prompt altogether.
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
ProPublica does some really good investigative reporting. They are the first ones on the scene with high quality reporting on a lot of current issues. I have donated to them in the past.
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
Is there a list of companies that agressively use these laws to go after people?
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
The advantage here is you can turn the lasers on right before the harvest (when the birds do damage), but otherwise leave them off and the birds can return.
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
Security concerns aside, I found home directory encryption to have awful performance. It also caused issues with file name length.
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
The Economist is good.
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
Why do you need to authenticate someone to sign them up for your service? Shouldn't a CC, name, and address be enough?
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
Meanwhile, DirectTV still requires SSN to sign up. Until something changes, (create a liability?) this will keep happening.
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
In particular, if you find you cannot use vectorized functions in numpy or scipy and absolutely MUST index, then typing the array in Cython is a life saver. Indexed operations on numpy arrays without Cython is very slow. (eg https:/&#
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by Paul-ish 8y ago
This happened to a Firefox extension I wote. I wrote the extension and published it to the FF extension store and got valid criticism in reviews pretty quickly. I addressed the issues and uploaded a new version of the extension. There was n

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