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You're right that the faster you try to solve a problem, the more likely you are to solve it badly. Where is the right trade off? At one extreme lie revolutionary fanatics destroying lives. At the other, a gigantic bureaucracy that wat
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Hmm it does look like the other comment responding to you is correct: + is not always commutative in math: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/OrdinalAddition.html . If mathematicians are fine with that, I'm not sure what argu
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> We have nothing to learn from you I don't think you can use the word "we" to make your claim. Regardless if you meant to speak for the Americans or people from some other country, you don't represent their opinion.
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I understand the confusion it may cause to a new Python developer who comes from the mathematical background. Does it cause any problems beyond that? For example, does it interfere with some elegant patterns, or result in some bug prone cod
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Could you clarify your point a bit? When you (correctly) say that the books aren't under the purview of the FDA, do you imply that you would prefer if they remained available on Amazon? If so, how would you respond to the concern that
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Suppose you have 1000 such books today. Suppose each court case takes 1 year to resolve with 100% success probability (far, far too optimistic of an assumption). Suppose Amazon goes to court, and 1 year from now, all these books are taken d
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> On the one hand, it totally sucks Do you mean it sucks because you prefer the game to be supported only by donations? If so, why? Or did you mean something else?
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Ah yeah, this makes sense - thanks!
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> Some of the most outspoken skeptics of privacy protections in her class — the ones who once suggested that they didn't need privacy because they had nothing to hide — were stunned at how quickly they'd found out details of th
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It could be that the interaction between the two factors (poor safety practices by an airline and the lack of disclosure by Boeing) increases the risk. Suppose that steering in a new car model tends to drift from the straight line slightly
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Oh so it could imply that Boeing is responsible for two independent contributing factors: sensor malfunction and failure to disclose system changes, correct? Wouldn't Lion Air processes still remain relevant as a third contributing fac
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IIUC, preliminary investigation said Lion Air plane wasn't airworthy before its flight and basically blamed Lion Air for poor safety processes: https://wkow.com/news/top-stories/2018/11/28/lion-
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It depends on the context assumed about the audience that is supposed to understand the definitions. Do they have the experiences relevant to the word being defined? If not, what experiences do they have in common with the person providing
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That means IG will lose its value as people stop spending time on FB. So it would have to develop some independent way to monetize its users.
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If Instagram doesn't heavily customize the ads or the news feed, then how does it extract any value from the data it collects?
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Possibly. Although if I have to guess, the new crimes it enables are less destructive than the ones it catches. As an example, a mugger has a risk of killing or seriously injuring the person. On the other hand, someone who steals surveillan
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Oh you're right, I didn't think about it. I take it back, it's not that obvious that it offers meaningful safety benefits. Still, I suppose if the probability of being caught goes from 1% to over 50%, it might be enough to sc
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There's no convincing research that establishes causality on such complex sociological matters, since you can't create clean experiments, and observations are not useful since there are too many confounding factors. However, you d
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I wonder what the Chinese government's long term plan is. Do they expect to just continue on with this heavily antagonistic relationship with the Uyghurs forever? Wouldn't that cause an increasing risk of some kind of an uprising?
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> What I expect is that Chrome will be designed to block all non-Google ads alone, so that Google doesn’t get affected. I assume you meant: > What I expect is that Chrome will be designed to leave Google ads alone, so that Google does
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Ah yeah good point, ads isn't only a concern for privacy reasons but also for performance/annoyance reasons. I personally expect that, for purely selfish business reasons, Chrome will eventually kill all ads that are especially an
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Hypothetically speaking, suppose we didn't care about privacy at all. In that case, what are the disadvantages of a single browser engine taking over the market? I suspect one disadvantage is that it's harder to innovate. Specific
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For the specific example you gave: does an irregular schedule really create an obstacle for a homeless person who wants to make a trip from DTLA to Beverly Hills? What does it mean "more accessible"? What do you mean by "anon
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> LA's limited transportation infrastructure prevents DTLA's homeless from getting to Beverly Hills, Long Beach's gang-related activity from getting to Brentwood, etc. Gangsters have cars and don't rely on public tran
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If EA Board could snatch a CEO they like for $5M/year, they would. So why don't they? I'm sure there are thousands of professional managers with solid game industry experience who'd be ecstatic to be offered a CEO positi
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Thank you very much for sharing this info. It helps understand the context better. Can you clarify whether the manager's feedback is public info within Amazon? Also, there's gotta be people at Amazon who knew the author. Did they
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> At this point, most of the people who tolerate working there are indentured Indian H1-B employees because they’re stuck in the Green card queue I used to think so myself, and mentioned that to various people including friends and acqua
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The article is dated February 9, 2019. The court case is filed January 30, 2019.
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Why wouldn't a bot just use a proper browser (not headless), detect the "not a robot" box at the pixel level, and click on it using browser automation or some mouse movement script? At today's level of bot sophistication
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> what we were doing was actually quite unsophisticated, yet we dressed it up like the most complicated thing ever to clients. Doesn't this describe nearly all of the financial industry? Do you happen to know of any exceptions?

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