flensortow

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by flensortow 7y ago
Yes, you can illegally discriminate in hiring if you choose to. Most major companies are very careful not to do this. In every case I have had a background check done on me I have asked for the company doing the check to send a copy and in
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by flensortow 7y ago
In the US, most states ban the use of an arrest that did not lead to a conviction for the purpose of excluding you for employment. Many states limit how far you can go back in considering convictions. I believe California allows background
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by flensortow 7y ago
I trust that they would be willing to cede control of several aspects to Facebook for the sake of being involved and having some cut of the profit for fear of missing out. Unless all the contracts are public you have no idea what kind of ba
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by flensortow 7y ago
Unless you can provide actual legal documents as opposed to whitepapers, your argument is unconvincing. Nobody trusts anything Facebook says, which given their past actions is completely reasonable.
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by flensortow 7y ago
I interviewed at Asymetrix at one point. They had the very strange idea they were going to take on Microsoft and Borland with their own C++ development system, which seemed to make no sense to me given the other things they were doing.
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by flensortow 7y ago
I pay for NYT and WaPo, so I have no issues with these. It is frustrating though that despite many alternative sources available there seems (from my perspective) to be a really large number of low-added-value postings of Bloomberg articles
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by flensortow 7y ago
My observation is that a lot of the MIT News and MIT Technology Review titles read like this. It seems to work to get exposure for work being done there.
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by flensortow 7y ago
I would like to see exactly zero regression from the current design. I think there is a very tiny but vocal minority, particularly in the tech community, who have issues with it. Most people have few complaints if you are talking about the
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by flensortow 7y ago
They’ve been fixed for a while now. I have used each generation of the new keyboard, and since the 3rd gen (released in 2018) have had exactly zero issues with keys that repeat or fail to register the keystroke. The feel on the butterfly ke
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OneOme RightMed – DNA-based medication selection(oneome.com)
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by flensortow 7y ago
Any news on Swift for Tensorflow? I’m skeptical of how much practical benefit it will provide but still willing to take a look at it. There doesn’t seem to be any mention of it here.
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Facebook will reportedly launch its own cryptocurrency this month(businessinsider.my)
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Apple announces SwiftUI declarative UI framework(9to5mac.com)
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by flensortow 7y ago
Over the past several months I keep seeing people trying to equate data science with machine learning, and it made me wonder if the people doing this are trying to salvage (or perhaps enhance) the investment they made in data science by try
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by flensortow 7y ago
I got two (real) checks from him from the newly re-typeset first volume in the late 90s. Someone else did a bunch of the typesetting work and it was relatively sloppy so I managed to notice them from relatively casual reading. Cashed both c
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The Philosopher Who Says We Should Play God(m.nautil.us)
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by flensortow 7y ago
If someone is not a threat to themselves or others, but has strange beliefs and behaviors, should we really take their freedom away just because we don’t think they are taking care of themselves adequately or we don’t like the sight/so
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by flensortow 7y ago
> (2) The claim that a 93 year old lacked the dexterity to operate the smart lock is spurious. A physical key requires more dexterity than pushing numbers on a keypad. In this case absolutely not. I've used the lock in question. It