WildUtah

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by WildUtah 11y ago
If it were possible to commit programmers to a code of ethics, it would be possible to do what most professions do an organize to protect the careers and incomes of professionals. On top of the code of ethics would soon be refusing to work
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"Take an anonymous currency system, for example....Do you build that, or not?" Obviously you do. I don't understand why that would be a question.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"Executing Software Engineers for Bugs" Never have I been prouder to be a plain old programmer. Those software engineers, architects, systems analysts, and data scientists can keep the capital punishment for themselves.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Criminal justice and orchestra employment are non-market phenomena. The people in charge do not benefit if the orchestra is great and are not accountable if innocents go to jail and murders spree freely and the tubas clank. So of course the
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by WildUtah 11y ago
So if Americans from race A commit ten times more violent crime than others and the police consequently accuse and manhandle vast numbers of innocent Americans of race A, there's nothing unjust about that? The vast majority of citizens
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by WildUtah 11y ago
I enjoyed this comment.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
I had the great fortune to take a course with Gary Becker Lucky you. He was great. I never had the chance to take a class from him but it would have been worth a Chicago winter to have the chance.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
On a simple mathematical basis, this is false. Consider two groups of candidates for a scholarship, A and B. We want to select all candidates that have an 80% or better chance of graduation. Group A comes from a population where the chance
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by WildUtah 11y ago
There are dozens or hundreds of patents in force on in app purchases. [0] It's impossible to write any non-trivial software without infringing hundreds of US software patents. And as long as there are software patents, it will always b
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by WildUtah 11y ago
I wasn't thinking of religious groups, but yes. The Mos (and the Amish) are keeping it up.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is the specialized patent appeals court. It was created in 1982. Before that the regular appeals courts heard patent appeals. The idea was that subject matter experts and scientist-judges would b
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Google and Apple won't let you block your app from app store requests in Texas. Fixed internet connections can be traced by IPGeo databases so you can block connections from Texas, but mobile carriers obfuscate the IP with NAT so you c
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by WildUtah 11y ago
28 USC §1400 (b), the patent venue statute is designed to prevent places like East Texas from running national tech policy and to protect small companies from predation by troll megacorps. "Any civil action for patent infringement may
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Japan does very well in managing the land it has. The country is especially good at medium density urban development (about 150 per hectare). But the quality of life and access to wild land, open space, wilderness, forest, woodlands, park s
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Living in their own countries instead of America doesn't mean living in squalor unless they choose to make their own lands squalid.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"Marxist PLO members are screaming "Takbir!" and wearing Hamas armbands. I watched this happen in the US around 2003." You watched US PLO Marxists join Hamas in 2003?
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Iranian birth rates started falling rapidly around 1985 which should be counted as a major achievement of the current regime. Still, it was thirty years too late for the post-WWII liberal rebirth of Persian culture to survive. Maybe a retur
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by WildUtah 11y ago
We had two massively destructive events that devastated the human population in the twentieth century. The first was the development of reliable birth control and the second was widespread learning about fertility cycles. For the first time
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by WildUtah 11y ago
All US population groups other than post-1965 immigrants have below replacement fertility. If you really care about energy use, stopping mass immigration is the only choice -- reducing population growth among core Americans is moot. And the
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by WildUtah 11y ago
The Smithsonian article is bad. The writer doesn't even try hard to get her cat to do the experiment and has no results. Better story in the linked original article in New Scientist: https://www.newscientist.com/article
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Interesting usage here. "Alphabet's (formerly Google's)" calls back to the headline yesterday about Alphabet's Google's search engine. Some speculated that soon we'd be talking about Alphabet's Google
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Earth doesn't have too many people. The people inhabiting it are just, currently, quite wasteful with resources. What's the goal here? We could have many more people each living in misery, crowding, and poverty. Or we could have
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Popular incorrect use of a word doesn't make it acceptable usage, especially when it occludes an important distinction.
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by WildUtah 11y ago
App review is effectively a black box since the rules are applied so inconsistently, and working for weeks or months on something only to find out the Apple doesn't like it is a constant concern. Unless you're Facebook which has
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by WildUtah 11y ago
I hate this trope. There are thousands of professions out there, and most of them involve some kind of specialized knowledge/ability/skill. Do you really expect the head of your organization, the person least likely to have time
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Have you seen the shape of California? Did you know that Reno has been gerrymandered so far it's now west of Los Angeles? That has to be some kind of conspiracy. Otherwise it would just be impossible.
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Hydro is also relatively clean Hydro is the most environmentally destructive source of power. It ruins more natural habitat than strip mining coal, clearcutting forests, solar PV in virgin land, or any other kind of generation. And the ri
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by WildUtah 11y ago
A deep study of the technicalities of race and its sociobiological construction reveals a shocking result: asians aren't white.
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a near-complete political monoculture Not true at all. The Green Party is welcome to compete respectfully with the Democratic machine sometimes and even Libertarians are not complete exiles And I always suspected the animosity against the
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by WildUtah 11y ago
just pick a part of LA and spend a day or two there. Yeah. If you go to Paris or Tokyo or Mexico City or Seoul you can go to multiple parts of the city. Don't try that in LA. Cities with first world infrastructure make it reasonably

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