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by crusso 9y ago
But those costs only account for single-digit percentages overall How do you know that? It seems like a really difficult number to account for like the cost of medical lawsuits. Sure, you can look at malpractice insurance, legal fees, a
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Why would I spend my time discussing a political hit piece with weak science thrown in just to justify generating hits on a known-crappy web site? As I mentioned, I had a bunch more that I threw away while editing. To summarize, I mostly po
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by crusso 9y ago
It's not a political article You were correct in your other comment that I skimmed the article the first time. It set off my BS detector and I didn't bother to painstakingly scrutinizing it to see if it had some other value. Ta
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The article stated pretty clearly that its concerns were social/political, not scientific. It called Murray's conclusions "dangerous". What place does an accusation like that have in the assessment of his scientific fin
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by crusso 9y ago
Haven't we really put the nature/nurture debate to rest with twin studies, separated twin studies, adoption studies, etc? Bickering over the exact mechanism and arguing that our current ignorance of those exact mechanisms still ca
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by crusso 9y ago
Their combined influence is minuscule, the researchers said ... Keep in mind that all they were likely doing was correlating the presence of certain genes with intelligence. They couldn't begin to start determining combinations of th
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by crusso 9y ago
I write a lot of server processes that communicate with remote devices. Elixir has become my go-to language for whipping up new communication utilities. The syntax is comfortable, although I had to get used to a Functional Programming styl
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by crusso 9y ago
You mean unique IP addresses?
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by crusso 9y ago
The normal trick of opening wsj articles in an incognito window is no longer working for me. Here's a link that worked for me: https://qz.com/924167/ibm-remote-work-pioneer-is-calling-tho... Both WSJ article and t
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by crusso 9y ago
I wouldn't call the surface "self-repairing". It's just an idea to create multiple layers in manufacturing. When one layer breaks down, there are other pre-built layers that can be used. Not nearly as interesting as th
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by crusso 9y ago
It would be a good thing if they were releasing something like that asap, but the network effects of the existing attacks will continue to dominate for quite some time.
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by crusso 9y ago
Local, State, and Federal government spending as a percentage of the GDP continue to creep upward. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1900_2020... It's surprising that the closing of some library branch
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by crusso 9y ago
It wasn't punching a guy in the break room. If he was working on the web server or something like that but turned up email and financial records, there was digging involved.
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"That was February 2016. By July, Riordan says, he’d downloaded emails, financial reports, and other records from the network that he says showed the company’s namesake, Chief Executive Officer Mike Rothenberg, was using investor money
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by crusso 9y ago
Wasn't there an article the other day on HN[1] regarding how we're nearing "Full Employment"? How does that comport with the notion that somehow our increased automation is eliminating jobs? Shouldn't we see a tre
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IOT
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You know, darkness isn't something that just happens every day... wait...
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Why would it be so obvious if it understands enough about strategy to use subterfuge? When the US government unleashed Stuxnet, did it announce what it was going to do?
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Like we can justify all decisions made by super genius people who are extraordinarily good at concealing their activities when their cognitive processes and abilities on the Internet and with other forms of communication would be beyond our
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"getting closer"... that's not much to go on. If you read the article skeptically, there isn't any news here - nothing that hasn't been reported prior to the last 2 or 3 years. The big news will be when we can fabri
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by crusso 9y ago
The great thing about it is that it's a start. If it even begins to be used regularly to gestate fetuses for 25% of the gestation period, eventually techniques and technology will improve to use it for 30% then 40% and on and on. Foot
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Not all of them at the same time. It depends upon how many pilots are on the flight; but observing while auto-pilot is engaged only takes one person. The other people can relax, nap, read, etc.
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by crusso 9y ago
Because it could be concealing its actions until it controls enough infrastructure or military power to launch an attack or prevent people from being able to shut it down. What we don't know can hurt us.
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by crusso 9y ago
"And despite the fact that we would naturally require it to be sufficiently transparent about it's valuations" That's not necessarily true at all. Let's say we come up with a way to model neurons in silicon like a
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by crusso 9y ago
Would you imagine that a computer smarter than the smartest human and having the understanding of computer software that probably only a computer would have couldn't conceal what it's doing as it creates trojans and viruses that c
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by crusso 9y ago
Hence my question. So now if you allow industry-specific taxation, then you just craft a special bill that cuts taxes for large airplane manufacturers and Boeing gets a tax cut. Boeing has a lot to offer a state. They could put their prod
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by crusso 9y ago
Some years back, I re-evaluated how I spend my free time (not working, not with the family). I knew that I mostly surfed online or watched TV. I decided to only watch TV if I could be in the midst of a workout. I spent a few hundred buck
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by crusso 9y ago
If a state wants to offer tax incentives to green energy companies, that shouldn't be allowed?
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The US Federal government's role isn't to manage all commerce within the states. It's not a matter of what "federal law allows". Managing tax rates within states is not a Federal power enumerated in the Constituti
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I don't know what the perfect method is or if there is even a perfect method performable by all instructors and applicable to all medical students. I do know in my personal life that the "trial by fire" method of education ma

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