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by defen 6y ago
You still haven't answered how a hack could find deleted emails?
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by defen 6y ago
The emails under discussion were on Hilary Clinton's personal email server, and had been deleted. So the two questions you should ask are: 1) How would a hack, initiated after Trump's statement, find those emails - even in princip
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by defen 6y ago
This is at the level of people who claim they saw Sarah Palin say "I can see Russia from my house". If it really happened, and "we all saw it", it should be trivial for you to produce a video of Trump asking Russia to ha
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by defen 6y ago
Zig's C integration story is pretty compelling - https://ziglang.org/#Integration-with-C-libraries-without-FF... You can call C code from Rust as well but it's not as tightly integrated into the language (and prob
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by defen 6y ago
Whatever your complaint about Gelman is, I don't think "he can't handle math" is very convincing.
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by defen 6y ago
Here is a guy who is fairly good at math saying that the polls did in fact fail: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/11/04/dont-kid-y... https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020&#x2
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by defen 6y ago
They haven't been, in the long view. Historically abortion was a Catholic issue, and sometimes liberal Protestant[1]. It generally wasn't an issue for Evangelicals, who were also mainly on the political left. Then in the late 60s
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by defen 6y ago
I disagree. I think we should generalize more, beyond codes of conduct: If you are building an adjudication process for resolving non-criminal personal conflicts (whether that be a Code of Conduct, an HR department, a Title IX proceeding, a
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by defen 6y ago
Imagine a 1,000 mph cab (perhaps you’ve been in one) - the driver would cover thousands of miles per day and get 2.50 for each of those miles. But the amount you pay for your trip is the same as if you were in a normal taxi.
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by defen 6y ago
The smart thing would have been to always filter by CC. And then anyone who can type # could just modify their source code a bit to adjust the filters.
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by defen 6y ago
const prevents rebinding a name but doesn't affect the variable's mutability. const foo = {}; foo = 42; //not allowed foo.bar = 'baz'; //this is fine
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by defen 6y ago
> But the most conspicuous feature of Theranos's cap table is the absence of Silicon Valley firms. Journalists were fooled by Theranos, but Silicon Valley investors weren't. Not really a good defense of Silicon Valley, consider
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by defen 6y ago
If you view codes of conduct as a form of entryism, an anonymous one at least indicates that the author is not directly looking to raise their own status.
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by defen 6y ago
Sometimes you catch them on camera https://apnews.com/article/ef3b036949174a9b98d785129a93428b
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by defen 6y ago
He seems to have made the typical armchair general mistake of assuming strategy can defeat logistics.
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by defen 6y ago
> I guess I just have a personal aversion to debt. I would never have guessed this was normal! Where do you draw the line? If someone offered you a 30 year loan at 0% interest, you'd take it, right?
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by defen 6y ago
I’m paying 2.5% on a 30 year fixed mortgage with no prepayment penalty. Genuinely curious what about that is insane - just the length? Because it sounds like almost-free money to me.
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by defen 6y ago
I don't doubt you, but it's surprising that there's really that much value / inefficiency laying around that many "medium sized" industrial enterprise can justify spending tens or hundreds of millions of dollar
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by defen 6y ago
I dunno, my take on it is how can we fight a large scale war if we can't even stay in our homes for a couple months instead of going out to bars / concerts / sports events. On the scale of sacrifices that is pretty small comp
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by defen 6y ago
Make a list of 20 ~40 year olds you know. Are you ok with there being a 2% chance that at least one of them dies of COVID?
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by defen 6y ago
The code explicitly referenced “DevelopmentConfig” though
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by defen 6y ago
The fact that the production db has the same username/password as the development one is perhaps more troubling.
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by defen 6y ago
What I find interesting about that is that it's presented as an originalist argument, by a presumably progressive writer, against the conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Usually it's the other way around, and conservatives
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by defen 6y ago
Maybe outcome is not the right word then...but I was trying to capture the concept of downstream consequences. In the same way that you could say that an "outcome" (or whatever word is better) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
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by defen 6y ago
The wikipedia summary ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC ) is pretty good. The government can't prohibit anyone (people, corporations, unions, etc) from making political speech, so long as it&#x2
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by defen 6y ago
> Somewhere along the way, the conservative majority has lost sight of an essential point: The purpose of free speech is to further democratic participation. Is that actually true? It seems critical to her argument, but this statement wa
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by defen 6y ago
I kinda disagree with her characterization of the whole "coup attempt" thing, which she presents as "totally fabricated", "without evidence", etc. Which is true - some people sitting in a room wargaming isn&#x2
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by defen 6y ago
"Explain the English Reformation in one sentence" is a pretty tall order, but it seems reasonable to wonder whether Clement VII would have allowed the annulment if Catherine of Aragon's nephew hadn't just sacked Rome and
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by defen 6y ago
Ernie Adams - Bill Belichick's football brain. He's probably a somewhat big part of the reason the Pats have been so successful for so long with other teams' "cast offs".
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by defen 6y ago
But this doesn't provide a justification for dropping the salary to match local COL of the remote employee. I realize that not everyone has this luxury, but more developers need to say "No, I'm not taking a pay cut". Fir

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