dirtybird04

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by dirtybird04 7y ago
It's a great idea. It's unfortunate that it would get shot down almost immediately under the guise of "socialism", just like the the idea to nationalize the banks after the financial crisis of 2008.
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by dirtybird04 7y ago
>Americans on the whole seem quite nonchalant about their privacy I disagree, and let me elaborate. The CA scandal started two different conversations, which people get mixed up a lot. The primary one was about how shit Facebook's p
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by dirtybird04 7y ago
I've noticed this a lot too lately, and the more I thought about it, the more I find Netflix to be the main culprit here. They fund these "documentaries" which are beautifully done and paint a wonderful narrative, but are ul
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by dirtybird04 7y ago
1% of the testing population. Yes, you are rightly identifying a staggering large number of people, but the flipside is you're misidentifying an even larger number of people. Which is why the scandal was way overblown.
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by dirtybird04 7y ago
Michael Lewis (of the Moneyball and The Big Short fame) talks about Cambridge Analytica in his podcast https://atrpodcast.com/episodes/the-alex-kogan-experience-s1... . Long story short: the CA scandal was way overblown
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by dirtybird04 8y ago
umm two of the award recipients are Canadians
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by dirtybird04 8y ago
UW has an Online Masters in Applied Mathematics https://www.appliedmathonline.uw.edu/
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by dirtybird04 8y ago
Link for the uninitiated: https://3dpancakes.typepad.com/ernie/2005/03/re_phd_with_low...
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by dirtybird04 8y ago
My first question whenever someone pushes forward an idea, regardless of how smart or popular they are, is how much the person benefits personally from the said idea.
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by dirtybird04 8y ago
That's hilarious. I can totally relate. And don't pay any attention to these alcoholic fratbros. You be you, man!
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by dirtybird04 9y ago
A former boss once scheduled a meeting to discuss another meeting later that day. The subject of the meeting was "Pre-meeting discussion".
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by dirtybird04 9y ago
Just stop calling it cryptocurrency already. Call it cryptocommodity and everything about it starts making sense.
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by dirtybird04 9y ago
There's a fine line between physical and psychological addictive experiences. You can always delete Candy Crush from your phone, not that easy to delete opiods from your system
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by dirtybird04 10y ago
It's really not that hard, Canada seems to have it figured out. You get points for job offer, education, experience, language, and family. If you graduate from a Canadian school, you get an open work-permit, not tied to any employer. F
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by dirtybird04 10y ago
In Canada, you get an Open Work Permit as soon as you finish your degree. The length of the work permit depends on the type and length of the program. Once you get a proper job (full-time, related to your degree), you file for Permanent Res