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Yes. Fundamentally product manager is a generalist role that spans across disciplines. These roles are always hard to fill because they don't have a standard template. Moreover, at the point when an organization attempts to formalize s
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The Persian Philosophers of the Silk Road really were an impressive group and perhaps more relevant to the modern world than their remoteness would suggest. I once traced the Mathematical lineage of Fields Medalists and something like 2&#x2
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What’s wild here isn’t that the list is totally bogus, but how little money it takes to game the system. People spend $150k on an MFA in creative writing when $60k will buy a consulting service to land you on the NYT best seller list.
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We have been increasing funding for 50 years and the problem has not been fixed. America currently sets the record in science funding (in raw amount and percentage of gdp) for any society in History and it seems to have these issues. Even i
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That’s because that information is not available. The ACLU is working on finding that. The law applies to every one equally on US soil. Visa applicants can often be located in the US so they would have standing in a US court.
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Before we fall for the flame bait, it is unclear what is happening from the article. The ACLU is suing DHS to get an explanation of how the DHS is using a service that collects and analyzes social media data on Visa applicants. The company
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Maybe someone can offer a richer history but to my knowledge the first suggestion of word vectors was lsa which originated the idea of dimensionality reduction on a term/doc matrix. They just used svd but the more modern methods are al
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A link tax is fine in principle and can be good policy in a number of situations. In practice such a tax needs to be set in such a way that all parties make money for their efforts. The rates given in the Canadian and Australian taxes were
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The laws in question are more or less devoid of any fiscal definition of fairness. They operate on a vague sense of envy that someone might be making more money than a preferred class. If the distribution of revenue were still profitable to
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It is a very bot level post, but the link goes to a real book (a scan so not that accessible) and it does at least give a bit of relevant summary on the topic to save a Google search (assuming you trust it). It could be better but I don’t t
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Lonely Planet travel guides are fantastic value. If you are going to spend >$500 to visit a foreign country/culture, spending $20 to learn the basics is cheap. And the practical knowledge can easily cover the cost of the book. I rec
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The sentiment that the other side is crazy goes both ways. 60% doesn’t mean your favorite 3rd party candidate, it means 20% want Trump, 20% want Bernie and 20% think that exhuming Ross Perot and running his corpse is still better than anyth
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Ranked choice is one of those policies that people on the internet and the academy are really into that is less rosey in practice. I’ve seen a number of elections where a candidate wins without a clear mandate and a lot of people have a sen
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It only works because the overwhelming majority of the population and all of the political and economic power lies on the east coast of China in a single time zone. I doubt that the people in Urumqi are happy to have the sun rise at 10 am,
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It's actually 2020 for cite 2 which appears to be the source of this.
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The article is repacking content from here: https://www.velvetshark.com/why-do-brands-change-their-logos...
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The name Computer Science itself is a marketing ploy to convince people that it is a real science (and not just another branch of engineering). Seems to be working for CS, and I can easily imagine people on this forum would be happy to defe
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It's in a book published by his widow. Seems like a credible source for this information. https://books.apple.com/us/book/make-something-wonderful/id6...
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I first saw this email in the recently released book "Make Something Wonderful". It was curated by his widow Laurene Powell Jobs. She would definitely have unprecedented access to his archives and maybe some incentive to persevere
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User growth and profits are not the same thing. A company as big as Facebook is going to have different groups with different objectives that often do not see eye to eye or even know about each other. A company as profitable as Facebook is
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This is a pretty juicy tabloid story. Naturally the Daily Mail has the coverage you would want: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12597887/Airbnb-gue... Some highlights: * Tenant is a Harvard Alumna. * Tena
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No. Those are political and diplomatic considerations and not legal considerations. Pressuring countries to adopt treaties and comply with American law is a diplomatic and political act and it is ultimately up to the governments in question
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Please don’t misunderstand. Most countries (all that I am aware of) apply their laws to all people within their territory and to their citizens globally. The Indian Law in question applies to non-Indian citizens outside India. That is a b
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There are two differences: First, American law does not apply globally and makes no demands to apply globally. If companies do so it is a matter of convenience and not policy. While companies may petition the US government to apply pressur
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False Negatives and False Positives are always connected. On the other side of the equation, there are plenty of bad actors who will casually flag their competitors to score a quick win. Crime doesn't like to go uphill - raising the st
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The motivation was greed and the means were treacherous. If someone was helped along the way, great, but don’t be naive enough to think that there is any altruism. Saying that all people matter just as much as any other is an absurd platitu
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Plus you get to watch it in 9:16 portrait aspect ratio, just as Martin Scorsese intended. I would imagine the reason nobody has sent any DACMA notices or stepped up enforcement yet is because this method of piracy is almost too stupid to ta
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Perhaps you run in more criminally inflected circles, but I have never seen anyone committing insider trading, and if I did, I would be more than happy to report it to the SEC. Insider trading is a crime that is definitely enforced and come
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What hell is this? Private security can try to detain and deter people who are acting out of line but they are not equipped or legally able to deal with lethal force. That is a job for the police. This incident highlights just how rare it i
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Joe Biden was one of the longest serving senators in history. He showed up in the wake of watergate and was barely over the age threshold. History and politics are strange and complicated. The parties didn’t switch so much as they evolved,

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