dls2016

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   by dls2016 5y ago

   Raising taxes, primarily. Or at least force donations to public institutions to be no-strings-attached. Many years ago when I attended UCSB and this project was in its infancy, someone told me that UCLA has a long-term development plan wher
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   by dls2016 5y ago

   > Charlie Munger does not decide "what to build", he decides whether to participate. Sure, this is a convenient way to look at this particular situation. Yet I google "strings attached donation university" and see man
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   by dls2016 5y ago

   It’s a public university, and in my opinion the public should decide what to build… not unelected, unaccountable twits with a lot of money.
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   by dls2016 5y ago

   There are actually many UCSB students living in hotels due to a severe housing shortage.
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   by dls2016 5y ago

   About those judges…
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   by dls2016 5y ago

   Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the disk.
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   by dls2016 5y ago

   Of course he avoids discussion of any topics with a direct material impact on working class people and instead engages in the same “culture war” crap he’s trying to rail against.
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   by dls2016 5y ago

   I’ve heard of IT departments who place USB sticks around the building and then send nasty-grams to whoever plugs it into a device on the corporate network. (I don’t know exact details.)
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   by dls2016 5y ago

   My guess is socialization. The people I have in mind have found above average success in life and probably got good grades themselves. They have internalized the "fact" that education = worksheets + tests + grades. And this is the
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    My big problem with licensure/curriculum standards are that they create a pipeline for the Pearson's of the world to siphon public dollars in the name of "teaching". School boards concerned with choosing a standards-conf
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    I’d go one step further and say a whistleblower is by definition an activist. The entire point of leaking is to instigate change.
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    Isn’t a whistleblower by definition not neutral? I’m not even sure what a neutral whistleblower would look like. Should her motivations be questioned? Absolutely! But if you don’t like her stance, just say so instead labelling her an “activ
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    > I think they're fine Perhaps if they weren't on twitter.com. The site is impossible to use if you're not signed in, especially on mobile. This is probably 85% of the problem, IMO. > I'd prefer something long form
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    The exact same was true in the military, re: vendors. The haircuts weren't free, at least as an officer. Sure I was being hyperbolic, but the point is legitimate. They used benefits to get people willingly to sign up for a lifestyle, t
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    Also they were giving employees haircuts. Having been in the military and watched enough documentaries on the subject… any group that gives you a haircut is probably a cult.
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    And of course Gauss discovered the FFT even before Fourier published about heat transfer.
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    And FFT is “just” a special factorization of the DFT matrix.
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    I agree but it also suggests that anyone above the VP level who sticks around for any length of time is infallible (otherwise they’d be gone).
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    I agree they aren’t elites, which is why I’m suggesting the term “professional” instead of “scientific elite” in the GP post above. The professional class are the foot soldiers of the elite class. I subscribe to the view put forth in “Disci
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    Sounds like the mafia.
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    You could replace “elite” with “professional class.”
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    And remove the word "that".
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    Earth ground, signal ground, digital ground, virtual ground…
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    Using an AWS security group. I'm a basic b** as the kids say.
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    Didn't know about ufw, but I'm not on the same network as the RPI and don't have a static IP. And the RPI was already uploading data to an AWS instance.
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    I’m currently in a low-user situation and can lock that down AWS instances by IP. My concern is that I'm running an experiment and don't want things corrupted by some script kiddies simply because I'm not a great network&#x2F
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    I setup an RPI in a field at my dad’s w/ 900MHz internet bridge and wanted 24/7 remote access but didn’t want to pay for and configure VPN. At first I opened a router port but the RPI showed access attempts every few minutes, whic
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    I mean, the PSP was formed to replace the more violent coal police and break strikes... police protect capital... same crap, different decade.
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    Ok you convinced me.
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    by dls2016 5y ago

    Be my guest, go to a small town fire hall and see how “well off” the volunteers are compared to the median HN poster.