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by harryjo 11y ago
Are you saying that the site uses specially crafted music to trick you into believing that specially crafted music can modify your mind?
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by harryjo 11y ago
Amazon finally decided to stop losing a little on every sale and making it up in volume. This looks like a classic dumping strategy -- sell products below cost (and evading sales/use tax, wink wink) to bankrupt competitors, and then ra
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If he's like most people with income, eventually he'll get tired of being poor and start spending more.
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It is if you are a famous blogger pulling in lots of ad revenue.
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http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/29/9413655/apple-privacy-poli...
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by harryjo 11y ago
Whenever someone claims a one-dimensional measure of "accuracy", you can know they are lying. They cherry-pick one detail in their pipeline, not report the overall lift in performance vs other known methods of predicting the impor
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by harryjo 11y ago
There are two common interpretations of the "The pot calling the kettle black", neither of which is as you describe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_bla...
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by harryjo 11y ago
Microsoft's evil was on display in open court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents Hanselman's point was that they weren't as evil as you might think
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by harryjo 11y ago
The provincialism on display in this thread would be comical if it weren't so sad. CMU, CWRU, MIT, Duke, Waterloo, UWashington, UTexas, UMichigan, Georgia Tech, ... Microsoft's WA state employment is 3x Facebook's total emplo
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by harryjo 11y ago
Some of us went through school in the 90s-2000s and were trained by folks who never let go of the dead-end pure-logic-based systems.
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Is MCTS algorithmically interesting, or is it only powerful because it is embarrassingly parallel and so can leverage all the computing power as you have availalbe?
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That's because computer science (programming jobs) is getting lumped in with biology jobs that pay half as much and the same everywhere you come from.
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by harryjo 11y ago
For the most part, this opportunity is wholly irrelevant to undergraduates -- they aren't ready to benefit from it.
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Is UCB "elite"? It has a student population the size of the whole Ivy League combined.
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Impressive that Amazon can choose to serve a request at 2x the bandwidth you need, with no advance notice, and charge you double the price for the privilege.
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by harryjo 11y ago
Do citizens get to file damage claims against the government when a corporation harms public health and nutrition, or socio-economic development? No. The TPP is an agreement to guarantees foreign corporate interests are served at least as
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It's also not unusual for schizophrenics to be hospitalized, get worse , get over-medicated and locked up.
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What is the trend in terrorist attacks? How old are terrorism victims compared to the average of the 55million? Your version of the truth is as facty as the version you are refuting.
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> If you can't pull at lease a 75th percentile on your subject GRE, you probably shouldn't be trying to get a PhD in it. Your system, has, built into its design, a requirement that for each PhD student, 3 others must try to get
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by harryjo 11y ago
That joke article is a reaction to http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/12/03/harvard-professo... a 2013 article about Harvey Mansfield's war on grade inflation. What's funny is that Harvey Ma
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I can't decide if the state of the state of China is a cautionary tale for USA, or proof that USA is doing somethig right.
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That's an amazing display of hypocrisy by government leaders who usually keep right control over PR. I'd be unsurprised yet impressed to learn that the company that makes air purifiers for the ruling class, and then publicly adver
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by harryjo 11y ago
Article is from 2006 (or 2002? there are two dates). Is "Lights Out" lighting still used today?
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That's a high single-event number. Do the numbers sustain across the year? MLB and NBA have over 100 events per year (considering all the days games as one daily "event")
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> Don’t you think your electricity supplier would love to add “no disputes are allowed, I’m the final authority” to your contract, if they could? They do! https://www.google.com/search?q=federal+arbitration+act
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by harryjo 11y ago
You don't get to take "life". You get violent freedom, adventure, and a nasty, brutish and short life.
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Judiciary has no force. Only the Executive and the People) have force, so the Judiciary must make decisions according to a process that the Executive tolerates and that won't foment rebelling by the People.
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How do you pronounce that word?
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by harryjo 11y ago
"mere typesetting" is a rather offensive way to describe a document typeset in TeX, a system invented to free mathematics from "mere typesetting".
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Those people, including Mayer herself, are in it for the money and the power/glamour/fame. Look at Mayer -- a Google bigshot who has power over thousands of people at Google, who left because she felt overshadowed by the CEO. She

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