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by glesica 13y ago
Literally the only "local" searches I do are on Google Maps, after I have navigated to the place I'm interested in. I have absolutely no use for a search engine that tries to cram local results down my throat. If I want local
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by glesica 13y ago
Searching for these sorts of things is the one thing I still use Google for. Even when I'm not logged in, Google still does a better job with somewhat ambiguous queries. That being said, it does a better job for me . When I search for
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by glesica 13y ago
Because Google's location service might be the best, but other components might not. What if someone doesn't want to use G+ to "organize [their] friends", they just want a service that provides locations? The way Google
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by glesica 13y ago
I'm not really interested in whether the FISC is constitutional or not. My objection is that you appeared to discount the popular outrage over the FISC. This is actually one of the reasons I didn't go to law school, I'm much
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by glesica 13y ago
Huh? I have never known someone whose employer demanded to see a transcript. Not saying it doesn't happen, just that I don't believe it is as common as you seem to imply. Graduate schools want transcripts, yes, but they are genera
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by glesica 13y ago
> I agree. But so far as I can tell, even the the most strenuous credible arguments against the FISC don't argue that its judges have the "final say" over surveillance issues; FISC judges issue warrants which can be overtu
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by glesica 13y ago
Or claim copyright over the cookies they set in your browser...
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by glesica 13y ago
That's fine, I'm not saying Palantir is poorly run, just that we should be suspicious of their actions. Money is a powerful motivator, especially big money. Even the strongest principles can collapse under the weight of enough zer
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by glesica 13y ago
As far as the company's contracts with the government are concerned, yes, those should be totally transparent. Otherwise it is stupidly easy for the government to do an end-run around transparency: just pay a private company to do your
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by glesica 13y ago
Just as we should approach Palantir itself with a great deal of skepticism... A company that profits from violence and war really can't be expected to be terribly trustworthy. I realize this community loves the idea of Palantir and man
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by glesica 13y ago
I think it can be easily inferred from my comment that I'm not talking about frictional unemployment.
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by glesica 13y ago
Keep in mind that the analogy isn't exact. We're talking about workers, not dogs, and jobs, not bones. Workers are productive. They produce when they have jobs. So 92 bones, in this case, means that 8 workers out of 100 are idle.
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by glesica 13y ago
The real problem, then, is to figure out what is wrong with our system that it only consistently produces 92 bones...
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by glesica 13y ago
Still sucks for workers though. College is about acquisition of general human capital which, in theory, can be used in a variety of jobs. Thus the higher wages commanded by college graduates: they can go elsewhere. A certificate, on the oth
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by glesica 13y ago
I'm not saying that burying your head in a book on ancient philosophers constitutes an education. I am certainly a proponent of a truly liberal education. However, I get quite annoyed by arrogant STEM-types who pin the problem on what
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by glesica 13y ago
You implied that public funding is not a worthwhile undertaking. This means that the whole system gets thrown out. We don't fund certain programs, we fund universities. Beyond that, I think that training people to think about the probl
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by glesica 13y ago
The type of thinking the humanities and social sciences teach is the type of thinking that asks "should we be doing this?" or "what will the repercussions of technology X be?". These are questions that STEM graduates don
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by glesica 13y ago
Boy, if only I had worked harder, I could have had well-off parents too!
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by glesica 13y ago
Just because there are some majors that you object to ("get off my lawn") and deem worthless that a handful of students choose, you're willing to throw out the whole system, including making STEM degrees just as difficult to
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by glesica 13y ago
Actually the loans may very well have been a better deal for you. You have sacrificed three years of income (assuming you finish in seven years instead of four). If you would have been able to command $50,000 per year, but instead made, say
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by glesica 13y ago
No, GPA is not generally a priority in graduate school admissions. You need a reasonable GPA, but a 4.0 is totally unnecessary. GRE scores and other factors like letters of recommendation and research projects with faculty members during un
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by glesica 13y ago
GPA really isn't all that important for graduate study. GRE score, personal statement, letters of recommendation all matter more, provided the GPA is reasonable. This is, of course, also dependent on the program you are applying to. Bu
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by glesica 13y ago
This has most to do with the student. If the student wishes to acquire knowledge, most American universities can provide the student with a great deal of knowledge. If you are not at such a university (unlikely, though some schools are sign
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by glesica 13y ago
This may be satire, but it is also 100% accurate, in its own way.
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by glesica 13y ago
The real problem here isn't that the government is going to haul away random people, though that can certainly happen. The problem is that the situation described in the article, combined with prosecutorial discretion and plea-bargaini
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by glesica 13y ago
So then what's the point of the right-hand sidebar? Is it just there to annoyingly push the scroll bar into a weird position?
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by glesica 13y ago
So if spying on people in power is good, who spies on the people in charge of the NSA?
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by glesica 13y ago
I find quartz painful to interact with. I generally skip links once I realize they go to Quartz. The problem is that it tries so hard to be simple, but just isn't. It's actually just what the author of the article seems to have be
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by glesica 13y ago
The fixed header is a complete waste of space. Why is it necessary? It's frames all over again, it's like a web design straight out of 1998. Also, is the right-hand sidebar supposed to contain ads? I can't think of another pu
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by glesica 13y ago
Personal anecdote. I am a student. In the town where I live, university students (and faculty and staff if I'm not mistaken) can ride the municipal buses for free. This has had an enormous impact on my behavior, even versus a very smal

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