asdfologist

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by asdfologist 13y ago
whoosh
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by asdfologist 13y ago
Am I the only one surprised by the choice of name "Soylent" for a nutritional drink?
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by asdfologist 13y ago
That just fills up space with no useful content. Imagine if everybody on HN did this.
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by asdfologist 13y ago
So what? It does a good service to future prospective employees by spreading information about what it's like to work there. It's like saying that citizens under oppressive governments should never speak up because doing so can only land th
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by asdfologist 14y ago
You don't get it - the parent's point is that your argument doesn't explain why Asians take a much bigger hit than whites. "Asian applicants have 67% lower odds of admission than white applicants with comparable test scores."
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by asdfologist 14y ago
By the way, what happened to MIT's probe into their handling of Aaron's case? They said it would take a few weeks but it's been almost 2 months now.
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by asdfologist 14y ago
1) You worked with the wrong recruiters. 2) Same as 1. Standard is 25-30%. 3) Some of the best hires at firms I've worked at came from recruiters. From the candidates' point of view, it's often a lot more efficient to find matching position
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by asdfologist 14y ago
The threshold doesn't apply retroactively.
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by asdfologist 14y ago
Not true. Many, if not most, programming jobs require a college degree to even apply, at least in the US.
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by asdfologist 14y ago
... like socialist countries? In this case it's definitely not "no cost"; people pay for these with high tax rates.
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by asdfologist 14y ago
You're taking that word way out of context. "Overeducated" here means getting an academic credential where it isn't necessary. There's nothing wrong with learning a lot, but that doesn't mean you need to pay $200K for a college degree.
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by asdfologist 14y ago
>Their tactics are both dangerous to freedom and to justice. You could say the same about the Justice department.
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by asdfologist 14y ago
Has any of these petitions ever accomplished anything?
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by asdfologist 14y ago
What about Google? They hire plenty of competent netsec people, and yet the Chrome bug bounties yielded discovery of bugs that even those folks couldn't find.
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by asdfologist 14y ago
I did interpret it to be symmetric, but now that I think about it you seem to be right that colloquially it does (generally) refer to conditional probability. I disagree though that everyone interprets it that way, based on the upvotes my c
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by asdfologist 14y ago
If the lack of it is almost perfectly correlated with failure, then wouldn't having it be almost perfectly correlated with success?
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by asdfologist 14y ago
... So you need to know what you're doing wrong in order to do something right. Groundbreaking.
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by asdfologist 14y ago
Well objectively MIT did play a role, but whether the role was ethically right or wrong is a separate question. So the letter by itself does not admit anything, and we'll have to wait for the results of the investigation.
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by asdfologist 14y ago
Say that to Aaron's family, who themselves blamed MIT and the prosecutors.
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by asdfologist 14y ago
It's a lot simpler to say "large initial library is necessary but not sufficient for widespread use".
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by asdfologist 14y ago
No metric is perfect. If you think it's so bad, why not suggest a better one?
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by asdfologist 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Strauss
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by asdfologist 14y ago
Um, I don't read any of that stuff, and yet it's common sense that FB, Google, etc. store your data. It's not that most people don't know -- it's that they don't care.
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by asdfologist 14y ago
His comment doesn't imply that causation happened in either direction.
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by asdfologist 14y ago
Just because a statement's meaning is clear doesn't make it easy to read. Even seemingly minor errors (such as mixing up "it's" with "its") disrupts the flow of reading.
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by asdfologist 14y ago
Why is this downvoted? He politely corrected parent's word usage and that should be encouraged, no?
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by asdfologist 14y ago
> I'll be downvoted to hell for this This isn't reddit. Stop.
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by asdfologist 14y ago
You must be new to FB.