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Any discussion of computerized language learning is woefully incomplete without a mention of [0], which has an interesting combination of properties. It is: * A) run by people who suck at SEO and marketing * B) technologically and graphic-d
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>> "First of all, we love partitioning people into good and evil sets. If we can only root out and imprison the evil people..." Wiser men than us thought the same thing [0]: "If only it were all so simple! If only ther
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They exist, you can find them on e.g. the London underground.
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The usual tribal conflict pattern is to seize territory as a hunting ground. Note that for nomadic tribes, there is no village and therefore no fixed location to raid. E.g. the Comanches had a longstanding war* with the Apaches not because
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Just say you were born abroad, are not a US citizen etc and therefore don't have an SSN, you just happen to speak good English because you went to American school. But you're happy to give them your national ID number from your ho
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The thing about "fake news" is that nobody can agree on an objective definition of what it is. So people just train their models on controversial pages and hope for the best.
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Fine, but how can it possibly learn while I shave the beard off?
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Also, what happens when I shave my big beard off? :( Or grow it bushier?
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>> "...that Google does not share sensitive data with the Government..." It's possibly true that Google doesn't intentionally share data. But a nonzero fraction of Google's employees are actually working for
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This is basically what Vanguard does if they get suspicious about your account security. Basically you have to show up at a notary with photo ID and get a form notarized.
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I'm not the GP and I don't have a horse in this race, but AFAICT there's nothing in your comment that contradicts the parent's claim. It seems like his interpretation accords entirely with what you're saying.
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>> "...number of employees is one of the key metrics of 'growth'..." Measuring a company's success by count of employees is like measuring the skill of an aerospace engineer by the weight of the airplane he de
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>> "... lower peak power would be needed..." While it is true that you "nail the throttle" during takeoff in a little general aviation Cessna, the same is not true of jet-powered heavy metal. The big planes that ac
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>> "How does a company... plan to make more?" By charging a fifteen dollar CPM for ads shown on their videos.
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>> "...the last 60 years have been relatively peaceful for Naval warfare..." Overwhelming American naval power is a cause of this peace, not an irrelevant/wasteful overbuild. It's peace through superior firepower
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>> "The Brutalists always said that, but I never bought it." The Brutalists were disingenuous in many ways. You'll hear the trope "Oh 'Brutalism' doesn't mean the English word brutal, it's deriv
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Looks like you could just dismantle it with a pipe wrench or two.
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Any group like that is surely an HR honeypot, either by design or ex post facto.
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Can confirm, the headlines/summary articles are generally sensationalist/clickbaity. The actual document is more evenhanded than breathless journalists would have you believe.
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You'll also find that almost all reporters do the things you don't like. It's a mostly-inevitable consequence of the system of incentives and constraints that apply to almost all reporters.
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Uber presumably takes a fixed cut of the fare, so they have at least some incentive to look the other way during surge collusion. If the drivers do it simultaneously to both Lyft and Uber then both companies will be happy to see this going
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Why is this thing electronic at all? Why isn't it just a purely mechanical system where when you get a package, they drop the key to the big package-sized lockbox in your little letter-sized mailbox?
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Read https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002QX44IS The sibling comment's Mr. MM recommendation is better than nothing but not as good as a real book IMHO.
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>> "How do they get near without getting attacked and driven away?" The National Park service usually assigns the bear manager a herd of Jackalope when camping with the bears. These Jackalopes distract the bears from the pre
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It's interesting that people on that forum are calling him a liar for claiming to drive a Porsche etc. Reading it myself I was like "wow this guy is a liar, what a tall tale." But then in the indictment (or whatever the corre
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[0] is still funny and still true. "Employing Type A personalities to shuffle around amorphous blobs of questionable value is not called a “startup accelerator”; it’s called Investment Banking." [0] http://www.leveraged
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90th!? I don't go above 23rd, pretty sure 90th is like the Canadian border.* * Kidding, but there are people like this.
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Doctors know you're lowballing the estimates, and they apply a nonlinear corrective factor to whatever number you tell them. Not that this particularly changes anything, but they do know you're lying.
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"Breaking news! The sky is blue in Russia too!"
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Netezza but IBM bought it and killed it.

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