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by ble 9y ago
I'm sorry. My intent is not to insult, but to express a thought that only recently occurred to me: democratic societies need a basic legal "literacy" class in the education of every citizen as much as people who may need to
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by ble 9y ago
So IANAL but "an emergent pattern" (which doesn't sound as bad as, e.g., internal memos to the effect of "let's pay the gurls less hahaha") may be more than enough for the government to categorize Google's
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by ble 9y ago
Educated adults should understand: just because it's written in a contract doesn't mean it's enforceable. The viewpoint of "contracts uber alles" (which I hope nobody holds as anything other than a tactic to pursue
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by ble 9y ago
Sure. And they have enough money to hire a firm that specializes in e-discovery and/or assign clever employees who have experience doing good, challenging work to put together data sets from disparate sources.
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by ble 9y ago
Being difficult is indeed pretty normal in our adversarial system of law. Being difficult about something that should actually be pretty easy is a good way to make your judge ornery and, unless your resistance earns you the opportunity to
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by ble 9y ago
Nah, if gender-based wage discrimination is 'proven' in court, the people who got shorted are going be awarded some multiple of the amount of wages that can be attributed, according to whatever calculation gets used to determine
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by ble 9y ago
I used PhantomJS as part of a report generation pipeline which served no HTTP requests and contacted no outside servers. We made PDFs and ready-to-email, single-file HTML reports with some minimal interactive features. (Ready-to-email, si
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by ble 10y ago
The public release of the report (where the bounty hunter talks extensively about the right and wrong ways to fix the issue) is a nice feather to put in your cap, even if the cash is not a lot.
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by ble 10y ago
People who have memorized the "marketmaking is essential" arguments for HFT may disagree with you. People who dislike arguments from "does this serve its stated purpose for society" may reject your argumentation style.
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by ble 10y ago
Huh, under your logic, is there any amount of misconduct that Holmes could commit (which might harm others, including harm through being misled) that would make you feel more compassion for those harmed or potentially harmed? If you want to
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by ble 11y ago
The discussion in the article makes it seem like they are considering an adjustment for the fact that many users only view the front page, creating a somewhat artifactual disparity in votes received between front page and non-front page sub
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by ble 11y ago
Publishing non-replications really should be part of research culture.
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by ble 11y ago
Hypervelocity is very high velocity, approximately over 3,000 meters per second (6,700 mph, 11,000 km/h, 10,000 ft/s, or Mach 8.8). In particular, hypervelocity is velocity so high that the strength of materials upon impact is ver
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by ble 11y ago
Practically every form of debris removal is also a pretty good anti-satellite weapon. Additionally, a not-too-unreasonable interpretation of current international treaties would lead one to conclude that piece of junk, inoperable satellite
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by ble 11y ago
On what browser or browsers does a double line break in HTML turn into a linebreak for otherwise unstyled text? (cf. data:text/html,<body>hi%0d%0a%0d%0athere</body> )
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by ble 11y ago
Does it have to have a different domain or would a `src`-less iframe also work? You'd have to write the ad code into the iframe from the outer page, but that's not hard.
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by ble 11y ago
Meyer is trying to move up one level of abstraction; the `programs` he is talking about are synonymous with `specifications` so right away those words are being used in an atypical fashion. Calling them `progspecs` would be gross and newspe
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by ble 11y ago
If subject X is fundamentally about underlying subject Y, then reasoning using the tools of subject Y might help you to have powerful (fundamental) insights into subject X. I take your point, nonetheless.
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by ble 11y ago
Anyone find the definition of `functional` a little bit odd? Is there a reason why a "no-op" or identity function should be considered imperative? Or why a program must be imperative if at least one post-execution state is also a
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by ble 11y ago
I read, greatly enjoyed, and would recommend The Last Ringbearer. Only one weak part; when you get to the section of heavy, multi-layered intelligence intrigue, let yourself skip ahead if you find yourself wanting to.
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by ble 11y ago
From the article: > There was also strong incentive for us to promptly pay him, so he’d keep playing. I loved that line, because it's the converse of a casino player in a hole, thinking maybe they can make it back if they keep on pl
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by ble 11y ago
The alternatives: Using http://golang.org/pkg/reflect/#Select to build what you need; Or building something specific to your use case without the above, which seems likely to be... goofy and unmanageable. Creatin
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by ble 11y ago
Hah. I went to TJ and, at a gathering with a few other high school classmates, I bemoaned how unhealthy I thought the atmosphere was there. I'm not saying it was disastrous when we went there, but it was a divorced-from-reality, bare
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by ble 11y ago
Almost skipped it due to the playful paragraph clearly written with thesaurus close at hand, but this is interesting. Hate to be the guy complaining about design, but the fixed, vector-art background doesn't really play well with readi
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by ble 11y ago
The parts I can digest: Query complexity is about how much of the input needs to be read? Possibly about how many times each bit of the input needs to be read? There are different models of computation being compared: the familiar determin
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by ble 11y ago
Another option / the "traditional WSJ paywall sidestep" is to google the headline (copy and paste it from the paywalled article, e.g.) and then visit it from the google results.
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by ble 11y ago
Trigger warning: imminent rate hikes. Sentiment analysis bots, you might want to avert your eyes.
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by ble 11y ago
Love it! Running it on Chrome and switching to another tab causes a great effect. Not sure whether it's built in to the site or a consequence of some kind of throttling.
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by ble 11y ago
> It has generics, too, though I know they've been proven irrelevant by newer languages. Is it wrong to read this sentence as snarky?
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by ble 11y ago
Too computationally intensive for what? The Lagrangian approach is kinda great. If you can describe the potential energy and the kinetic energy of a system as two functions of whatever variables, Lagrangian mechanics allows you to derive t

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