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by _Nat_ 6y ago
Dunno how a CoC may've been material to resolving this situation. I mean, say there wasn't a CoC, then couldn't the accused still have written a blog post about how they were kicked out for merely saying that someone else wa
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
I get the sense that Dijkstra would've agreed with you and perhaps had harsh words for that interview process. Sometimes these interview stories sound like selecting a professor of mathematics by picking the one who can calculate the s
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
Good read! That said, I don't know about self-mockery. A good line from the linked lecture transcript: > The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
[A study]( https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09761 ) posted 2020-10-19 challenges the claim that phosphine was detected in Venus's atmosphere. [The original claim]( https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
> My definition of a sound-byte is a conceptually thin phrase that sounds good, but does not contain much content. Yeah, same. And to my eye, this whole thing's paper-thin; it tested my suspension of disbelief to not dismiss it as
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
That example ( https://research.google.com/bigpicture/attacking-discriminat... ) isn't particularly compelling. As their example shows, there're two traditional approaches: maximize profit and group-unaware. *
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> Longer term, the company may offer to audit customers’ AI systems for ethical integrity, and charge for ethics advice. If Google'll act as any other company in a free market, then this'd seem like a neat offering. Maybe it&#
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
It can be nice to open up a book and flip through the pages to get a quick look at it. By contrast, book-previews on sites like Amazon.com can be obnoxious with blocked content and inconsistent behavior. I think I'd have a dimmer view
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
> Finally, kids books should be physical, forever. I don't let my kids read on a tablet or other device, ever. That's an interesting position; would you mind commenting on why? That said, if we're talking about things in t
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
> Amazon made provide a very good service now but once all competition is gone what incentive is there to provide the same level of service? If a single business comes to dominate an entire industry, that's generally handled by anti
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
I suspect that you misread my post as this seems unrelated to what I was saying. The rent-seeking issue was related to folks worrying about the loss of local jobs due to bookstores closing down. My personal preference for digital media&#x2
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
It's always weird to read a story where someone's rooting for something like old bookstores to remain in-business. The thing's that I don't mind the economic shift nor the format shift. I don't particularly care fo
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> I don't believe that anymore. The emergence of body cameras are amazing because they show just how bad we're constantly being lied to. YouTubers like Donut Operator really opened my eyes. Definitely agree that body cameras ca
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
Depends on the job. If you've got a simple, mechanical job that a trained monkey could do if monkeys were more intelligent, then, definitely, you'd want folks who'll slavishly adhere to whatever task is assigned -- the folks
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
This ISN'T a social-justice article. Picking the top applicants backfires because people game it. For example, consider Students A and B who're mostly identical except Student A likes to binge on Wikipedia while Student B spends
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
If that became a big business model, then we might start getting meta-criminals: 1. They infect a major institution with ransomware. 2. They demand, and successfully receive, a major ransom. 3. They DON'T immediately release the key, d
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
Did you read the article as critiquing the belief that some suspects have superhuman strength and imperviousness to pain? I mean, I Google'd " drug-induced strength ". Among the first few hits were [this video][1] and [this
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
If you want to say someone's toe hurts because they stubbed it, you can refer to it as " stubbed toe pain ". Even if " stubbed toe pain " isn't an official diagnosis in some health organizations, that doesn&#x
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
Seems like a quirky-fun sorta project! If you've got an SSD connected by a power cord, presumably you could insert an electric-current-meter to see how much power it's drawing, then hook up a speaker to make corresponding sounds.
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
> What should an essay be? Many people would say persuasive. That's what a lot of us were taught essays should be. Yeah, essays written for a class on persuasive writing should be persuasive. Because that's what the class is a
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Looks like that author prefixes the month with " M ". Dunno why. Sometimes DD-MM-YYYY and MM-DD-YYYY can be confused, such that if one of those formats is used, it could be helpful to clarify. However, YYYY-MM-DD is typically pr
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if some life saving drugs would be developed and used in practice faster because of sci-hub. Seems like it'd be difficult to precisely estimate the effect of open literature on advancing education, r
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That's not a particularly scary scenario when buying from, e.g., Amazon.com, as it'd seem like the unit could just be returned for not being the advertised product. I'm curious, though, why would anyone bother with a scam lik
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
This worked for me on Chrome with JavaScript disabled: 1. F12 for developer tools. 2. Found <div id="page-content" style="display:none"> and changed it to <div id="page-content"> 3
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
This story's worrisome in that it makes the Navy sound very vulnerable to electronic warfare. I mean, if overall operations are so hazard-prone that they're not reliable in the absence of hostilities, how could they possibly be re
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Weird! It's given as [third in their " Recent questions "]( https://ankuj3.wixsite.com/website-5/q-tech ), but StackOverflow appears to list both that [question and answer]( https://stackoverflo
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
I checked one of [your samples]( https://ankuj3.wixsite.com/website-5/q-founder-us ), > Q. We are 2 co-founders and directors of a company. There is a valuation of 8M and we finished the seed round. However we cannot
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
> If you look at the scatterplot excluding the four countries at the bottom right (Algeria, Turkey, Tunisia, UAE), you get basically a circle and (to my eye anyway) the trendline is horizontal, meaning, no correlation. Their hypothesis d
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
> Of course I can choose to not use my phone/internet at any time, but it's so much harder that it loses its entire allure: Instead of just disengaging I'm constantly fighting the urge and telling myself "No!". O
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by _Nat_ 7y ago
Looks like you have some good questions for [SE.Physics]( https://physics.stackexchange.com/ )! @knzhou's profile shows that they're a member there. Short version's probably that we don't quite have enoug

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