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by deong 9y ago
I was in line behind a girl flying from Schiphol to the US a couple of years ago, and they told her she needed to throw away the unopened bottle of water she'd purchased from a shop in the airport. She was arguing that she'd bough
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by deong 10y ago
Everyone agrees they have a right to say it. They can buy a domain name and a hosting account and go just a crazy as their racist little selves can be. Both the alt-right Milo crowd and I agree on that. I also think that Twitter has the leg
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by deong 10y ago
And the government is welcome to investigate. But they can't compel a third party to help them conduct the investigation just because it would be easier on them. I doubt there's a legal basis for saying that these "alt_X&quot
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by deong 10y ago
In teaching a bunch of discrete math classes over the years, I've very rarely found someone for whom the "imagine it's 1000 doors" version helps at all. The only way that gives any insight is if you've already inter
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by deong 10y ago
I'm especially partial to sitting there with a 4+k screen with nothing open, opening two finder windows to copy a file, and having them spawn on top of each other as tiny little 500px squares in the middle of a vast ocean of unused scr
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by deong 10y ago
I think what you're describing is a need that's filled pretty well today by a master's degree. I don't think the PhD is so much archaic as just overused. It is intended to signify that a person has demonstrated that they
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by deong 10y ago
Indeed you can. It's much harder though. If you have a full-time job unrelated to your research, you need to self-fund a lot of expenses. You need to convince your boss to let you take time off to go to that conference to present your
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by deong 10y ago
I generally stay current in my research field, but that's a different thing than actually contributing. The free time is one aspect of the problem, but there's also the problem of attending conferences regularly. I could pay the e
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by deong 10y ago
I've been out of academia for a few years now, but I think my university took 40%, and the department took some more on top. The total was probably 60% or so.
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by deong 10y ago
> I suppose you could make the authoritarian argument that the experts know better than you and should be allowed to force you take the classes they think best. I'm not sure that's especially authoritarian rather than just prac
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by deong 10y ago
The thing that always infuriated me about computer science (my field), is that I don't actually need the big research grant. There are people who do, of course, but I could do most of what I found interesting and useful with a high-e
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by deong 10y ago
And you're going to be in the position of having people under you frequently disagree with one another, and they're going to try to provide the best argument they can as to why you should pursue their preferred strategy. If you do
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by deong 10y ago
It doesn't have to be binary there. It can be merit-based and heavily dependent on having friends in the club. And that's not a special property of the MBA folks. That is to say, you might be good enough to be a lead engineer at
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by deong 10y ago
True in the abstract, but I suspect that it's fairly easy for Uber to argue that there was an honest intent behind all but the most idiotic of paperwork they might have signed. "We were buying a technology company. Of course we di
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by deong 10y ago
I really doubt it. First, the Constitution places limits on the government; not so much on contractual agreements between private parties. What you and Comcast agree to just has to avoid depriving you of basic human rights (i.e., you can&#x
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by deong 10y ago
It's not like the article is attempting to coin a term to characterize people as "deletionists". That term has been in common use describing wikipedia editors who favor more exclusionary policies for at least ten years. Here&
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by deong 10y ago
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying "rewrite it in Rust (or whatever)" isn't some silver bullet that fixes security problems. It's always about assessing risk -- both risk of security issues as well as
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by deong 10y ago
It's almost as though you can't solve the problem of programmers making errors by having a different set of programmers whom you tell to not make errors.
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by deong 10y ago
Well, the general point still applies. The bug occurred using code that was written in a safe language and compiled to C. It's just that there are multiple ways for that to go wrong. The generator could have had a bug -- it's so
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by deong 10y ago
Do you really think more people tap the Safari icon and then type "facebook.com" in the URL bar than just tap the icon for the Facebook app? I can't imagine that ratio is even remotely close to 1:1. I'd bet a good dinner
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by deong 10y ago
I don't think that quote means much of anything other than it's very difficult to legislate efficacy. Suppose you had the absolute dream of a public education system -- one that existed solely to provide a real education for the c
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by deong 10y ago
He's not arguing against trade schools. It's a fairly explicit endorsement of trade schools -- just accompanied by lamenting that that's not the actual world we live in. The article isn't presenting the two nephews as th
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by deong 10y ago
I'm 41 and get a pretty consistent flow of recruiters emailing me. Maybe if I went on more interviews, I'd run into the kinds of problems you're describing, but as I usually decline, all I can go on is initial interest. Also,
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by deong 10y ago
I'm not arguing that they're wrong. I'm arguing that it isn't in any way a solution to the problem of paying for dental care.
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by deong 10y ago
I'm going next week to have one removed, and it's about $500, plus some extra costs that are covered by my medical insurance rather than the dental insurance whose deductible I haven't hit yet.
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by deong 10y ago
The problem is that poor people need cash for lots of things. If you're poor enough that you can't go to the dentist, you're poor enough to be hurting in any number of ways. If we give you $500 and say, "now this is for
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by deong 10y ago
Pretty much everything in the article is simply unworkable for nearly every company on the planet, but to be fair, there's a huge difference between what the article is talking about -- doing actual company work for a few weeks in the
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by deong 10y ago
The problem is that if our brains are not "magic" (essentially making this a religious argument), then they're operating via some algorithmic principles. If our brains are "algorithm generating algorithms", then I c
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by deong 10y ago
Context is important. For a general question-answering bot, you have to synthesize information and make a decision. The answer to a question posed by my uncle on Facebook isn't necessarily the same as the answer to that question posed
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by deong 10y ago
Google isn't just an algorithm. It's a corporate entity with user-facing software, and while the algorithm has no notion of "trust", I would argue the company is demonstrating trust in any source that it presents as an a

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