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by Rylinks 10y ago
>That there even exists some simple set of rules we can all follow, something that fits in 80 columns to match our source code style guide, that will resolve all these problems. No, these problems are complicated. Resolving all the probl
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by Rylinks 10y ago
I have heard a story that goes like this: -Rating agencies set criteria for marking things BB, BBB, etc. -Banks noticed that those criteria did not perfectly correlate with credit risk and created products that optimized for ratings rather
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by Rylinks 10y ago
Here is a plan: 1. Invoke article 50 2. Wait two years This might not be a good plan, but that's for the voters to decide.
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by Rylinks 10y ago
>It would be perfectly possible to retrain the long term unemployed for all but the most difficult design and management elements. They're not done because the metrics of Wall St deem them "not profitable" - which means tr
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by Rylinks 10y ago
>The number of 'scientists' that do not employ sound thinking and reason, will always out weigh the number of brilliant minds. There is a reason why almost all science can be traced back to five individuals (Copernicus, Galileo
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by Rylinks 10y ago
Random selection might work right now, because all the candidates are pretty good. But, if you announce that you are selecting randomly, it screws up the incentives. If everyone knows that you are selecting randomly, people will apply wit
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by Rylinks 10y ago
It's hard to pay lawyers from the proceeds of piracy.
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by Rylinks 10y ago
>Naturally, we're nowhere close to my crazy example, but there are smaller examples of this effect that we're starting to see. Try going down to the store and buying a Blu-Ray player that doesn't encrypt its HDMI output. Y
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by Rylinks 10y ago
It cuts both ways. If you're coding and you decide to go home early, it is also exceedingly unlikely that your absence will kill someone.
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by Rylinks 10y ago
Ycombinator is a poor example. The modest amount of money is not the important part of the program.
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by Rylinks 10y ago
I have had many tests where the material tested is not a strict subset of the material taught, and some problems require creative generalization or insight during the test.
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by Rylinks 10y ago
>That's in the case of clear-cut predictions from theory or empirical relations. But bias generally arises in a more subtle fashion than statistics on measurements, though. Even if you have a "5-sigma result", it still nee
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by Rylinks 10y ago
Physics can collect so much data that the generally accepted standard for results is five sigma. There are biases in physics, but it's much harder to delude yourself into a five sigma result than a two sigma one--in the end the right a
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by Rylinks 10y ago
This is a nitpick, but Coke has many different flavor compounds that are part of the formula, while most medicines contain a single active molecule. A widespread arms race of decoys and analytical countermeasures is still bad, of course.
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by Rylinks 10y ago
Chesterton's fence applies to things that are built with a purpose. Natural evolution does not meet this criteria; mosquitoes are more like Chesterton's Fallen Tree.
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by Rylinks 11y ago
Just make UBI payments unrecoverable by lenders and let the market sort it out.
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by Rylinks 11y ago
>excess supply collapses housing prices If this motivation was held by anyone other than random individuals and families, it would be regarded with scorn.
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by Rylinks 11y ago
A tie in SCOTUS does not create binding precedent. Other circuit courts would be free to disagree, and a later SCOTUS could rule against the government.
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by Rylinks 11y ago
The no-fly list can have three nines of accuracy and still have more false positives than actual hits.
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by Rylinks 11y ago
Pro ranks are much closer than amature ranks. The difference between a 9p and 6p is probably less than one stone, and definitely less than three.
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by Rylinks 11y ago
Wasn't the margin in the 5th game b+1.5?
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by Rylinks 11y ago
You can only rarely calculate min(accepted a) in the actual world. In this example, the college learns no distributions; they only know whether the student passed or failed.
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Security Advisory – E-Detective Lawful Interception System(musalbas.com)
1 points by Rylinks 11y ago|0 comments
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by Rylinks 11y ago
>The DNA samples allowed the scientists to factor out the influence of genetic heritage That's a pretty impressive achievement
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by Rylinks 12y ago
The suspicious part isn't really that he was avoiding specifics, it's that he was looking for an it professional in a bitcoin startup company.
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Material Cools Buildings by Sending Heat into Space(technologyreview.com)
36 points by Rylinks 12y ago|18 comments
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by Rylinks 12y ago
We have, right now, short-term environmental influences that boost IQ, for example, nicotine.
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by Rylinks 12y ago
Exit rights are a good starting point for a solution.
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by Rylinks 12y ago
switching it off might activate drive encryption
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by Rylinks 12y ago
The was a WaPo article[0] posted on HN a while back: >If I understand how it works, the only time the new design matters is when the government has a search warrant, signed by a judge, based on a finding of probable cause. Under the old

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