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by jcheng 3y ago
According to the complaint, "the project" was FB Archive, which Dr. Donovan came up with the idea for and was the only person in the room with the actual source material. The Public Interest Tech Lab was the organization actually
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by jcheng 3y ago
I was not nearly clear or explicit enough in my comment, apologies for that. In sections 25 and 26 (page 14), the whistleblower report talks about the origins of the project. Dr. Donovan acquired the entire archive of the Facebook Files, an
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by jcheng 3y ago
Not sure why I decided to spend so much time on this on a Monday morning but I've read to page 35, and the picture is much more muddled. It looks like the FB Archive project gains momentum and launches but Dr. Donovan and the TASC get
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No, but everything about that story sounded like MIT around the time I was there! Thanks for sharing, took me back.
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Was this at MIT?
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For 1), what about requiring an ES module that doesn’t itself use top-level await, but imports another ES module that uses top-level await?
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by jcheng 3y ago
> The very _complexity_ of it somehow feels subtly wrong, like doubling down in the wrong direction. This made me think of modern jet fighters being designed to be aerodynamically unstable, making them all but impossible for human pilots
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by jcheng 3y ago
Can I ask what you would "easily" do after you "send the data to Python"? What Python framework would you use to easily build interactive real-time streaming data apps? I'm asking because I work on Shiny, a reactive
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by jcheng 3y ago
I think it's actually seconds, which is why this improvement is so important.
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Nominal interfaces can still be useful though, as they convey a stronger sense of intent than structural. For example, java.io.Serializable is a completely empty interface that classes “implement” to signal that they are safe to serialize.
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by jcheng 4y ago
What about Chief Compliance Officer or Chief Risk Officer? (Granted, not an awesome moment to be arguing that those are effective...) Or Chief Security Officer?
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> But if my_func reads from, say, B1, it will not automatically re-run when B1 changes. Is that a conscious design decision, or a technical limitation? I would definitely have expected it to automatically rerun by default.
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Agreed, I’m really surprised at all the comments defending this behavior. I suspect there is a non-obvious reason why it’s this way, but “you should’ve read the docs” and “but why wouldn’t you hold your own strong reference” are weird tak
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by jcheng 4y ago
I think you mean that Pandas does require your entire data to fit in memory? https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/user_guide/scale.html
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by jcheng 4y ago
Nice find--the Twitter video wasn't loading for me, but your link did. The relevant part is at 52:30.
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Technically a loan requires even more paperwork, I think? And you have to charge interest, even if you then forgive it (which also counts as a gift) you are required to first go through the motions. https://www.schwab.com/le
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by jcheng 4y ago
Doesn't the CEO (i.e. yourself) pay income tax on the $200K? What was the point of this again?
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It may happen, but it’s not legal, it’s called inurement and the IRS can hammer you or strip the organization of its tax exempt status if it finds out. This applies not only to ridiculous salaries but also use of the charity’s assets for pr
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by jcheng 4y ago
Not taking any equity is a pretty important distinction.
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Author is Bertrand Meyer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Meyer
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What you're saying resonates with me intuitively and anecdotally, but it's hard to square with the historical overall US homeownership rate, which peaked right before the Great Recession: https://fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2
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by jcheng 4y ago
Public Benefit Corporations are one solution to this dilemma and they can be publicly traded. https://www.natlawreview.com/article/public-benefit-corporat...
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Not sure why, but now I really want to know how this turns out!
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by jcheng 4y ago
This is a much more interesting and inspiring story than OP. Wow.
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The US Dept of Education has a College Scorecard website/dataset that has a lot of good information (though 3 years out, not 10 years). For example, here is a page with median earnings for different majors at USC: $109,271/yr for
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by jcheng 4y ago
From his LinkedIn: > Launched a global health software nonprofit, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focused on using smartphones to improve rapid testing in low-income countries. Granted that is 3 years out of a 20-odd y
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by jcheng 4y ago
> Panorama wanted to see if logs from primary forests cut down by logging companies were being transferred to Drax's Meadowbank pellet plant. The programme filmed a truck on a 120-mile round trip: leaving the plant, collecting piles
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What part of the world are you from?
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Sounds a lot like Lotus Notes!
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by jcheng 4y ago
> According to the visitors' guide to the Chateau de Josselin "As evening fell that day, the victor, Captain de Beaumanoir, returned the prisoners to Josselin and had them executed." Yeouch Edit: Or maybe not? https:&#x2F

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