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by ambrozk 5y ago
The situation is very much analogous to South African Apartheid. In both cases, an insecure population at the helm of an ethnostate sought to further deprive their state's already-disenfranchised co-residents of legal rights, in an eff
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by ambrozk 5y ago
What are you talking about? The fact that an uprising involves terroristic tactics does not make it less of an uprising. Trying to prevent people from calling the Intifada an uprising (which is the literal translation of the word) is play
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The three incompatible scenarios are: 1. The accused was nowhere near the scene of the murder 2. The accused was at the scene of the murder, and in fact committed the murder, but on accident 3. The accused committed the murder on pu
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by ambrozk 5y ago
There is a joke I love that illustrates the concept: "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, my client was nowhere near the scene of the murder, he didn't mean to pull the trigger, and that son-of-a-bitch had it coming!"
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by ambrozk 5y ago
A lot of research into plasma confinement is completely empirical. No theory at all. The scientists try new settings, see how they work, and draw a line on a graph extrapolating from them to higher power settings. That's why you need a
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by ambrozk 5y ago
> Could you elaborate on what you think the benefits are? Very simply, I don't want people driving around New York with blown-out mufflers. I have to deal with these people all the time. They are a constant, low-level annoyance that
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by ambrozk 5y ago
I can definitely see these systems being used illegitimately, but this has nothing to do with whether you can face your accuser. A software company telling you that you cannot validate the methodology of their measurement instrument is defi
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by ambrozk 5y ago
This is normal crotchety "kids these days" silliness. Most IntelliJ autocomplete suggestions are things like: * syntactic constructs (e.g. 'v' -> 'void', 'p' -> 'public'). * variable n
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by ambrozk 5y ago
You can face your accuser in court. The camera isn't accusing you. The city is. It's using the camera as evidence.
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What are you talking about? It's completely clear to someone who isn't coming at this issue with an axe to grind. Meta's ability to serve European customers is under threat. In other words, the regulatory framework is making
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Some of the information is public. Who knows how much there is behind it?
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Okay. Hold your grudge from the 90s. No one can stop you. It's pretty weird not to care about his enormous efforts in philanthropy, though.
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Melinda Gates is trying to get the best possible settlement from her divorce. The Epstein issue is obvious leverage. Melinda loses nothing by Bill being embarassed in public, and she gains a lot at the negotiating table.
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The guy's work has directly prevented the deaths of enormous numbers of poor people worldwide. That trumps everything else in my book. Also, don't fall for his wife's PR team. You have no idea why she's divorcing him. Cl
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by ambrozk 5y ago
Why? He dedicates huge amounts of money to worldwide public health, and is giving away the vast majority of his fortune over the course of his life. Why shouldn't I hold such a person in high regard?
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This is a very dumb meme that people use to avoid learning anything about the actual hurdles that are currently being faced by fusion researchers. At some point, fusion will be much less than 30 years away, and at that point, I guarantee yo
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by ambrozk 5y ago
But what about all the ghosts who're reading this who might have also been victims of tragic sexual abuse?
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I enjoyed it, and I'm happy when writers practice their craft with a bit of humor.
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As you say, going from what we have to what they have will be no simple matter. It would take decades of reform at the very least. In the meantime, it doesn't make sense to just stop improning people for minor crimes.
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by ambrozk 5y ago
Just use sci-hub. It always works, and it's very easy. There's no good reason to give the journal your money to read an article they had no hand in writing or funding.
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by ambrozk 5y ago
It is absolutely true that a good percentage of my candidates fail due to stress. As an interviewer do everything you can to decrease the level of stress, but there's no way to eliminate it. I often note, in interview feedback, my subj
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by ambrozk 5y ago
This conversation makes me crazy. People talk about the merits of unions in the abstract, with no reference to the actual, very specific union at hand: the Alphabet Workers' Union, or "AWU". AWU is not a traditional workers&#
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by ambrozk 5y ago
This conversation makes me crazy. I was at Google when its employee union, a.k.a. "AWU", was trying to get off the ground. I formed my opinion of it completely independent of company propaganda. AWU is a political advocacy organiz
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by ambrozk 5y ago
"Mathematical fundamentals" is a sliding scale. You have to define your end goal. What do you want to understand, that you are currently unable to understand due to your incapacity with mathematics? If you want to understand compu
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Ask HN: How do you approach salary negotiation going from a FAANG to a startup?
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I do not think it is possible to weed out all or even most of the completely incompetent programmers on the basis of resume screening. My reasoning is, I frequently conduct technical interviews, and a good percentage of those are with candi
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I frequently administer technical interviews. For candidates who have passed an initial recruiter screen, I have ascertained no correlation between resume quality and code production. Many, many candidates with extremely impressive resumes
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by ambrozk 5y ago
You're right that if you refuse to accept any excuse for not performing [habit], the chain rule could be demotivating. But this is just a misapplication of the rule. The sensible reason to use the chain rule is to prevent a failure of
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by ambrozk 5y ago
I've written a statement to be issued by the reporter in question: "If the State DA is stupid enough to help Mike Parson prosecute me to avoid blame for his own incompetence, it will be my pleasure to face him in court, make him a
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by ambrozk 5y ago
Without criticizing your Fibonacci Streaks idea, I don't think that your pessimism regarding chains is actually accurate. I think that voluntarily performing some practice every day becomes increasingly stable past a certain threshold

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