johndhi

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by johndhi 3y ago
It is trained on books
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by johndhi 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying that in the absence of statistical significance, you should ignore the data you do have? I tend to agree that data-driven decision making is often deeply confounded and more associat
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by johndhi 3y ago
So everyone knows you aren't "top talent" when they see you in person? Ouch.
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by johndhi 3y ago
Agree
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Powerful realization.
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by johndhi 3y ago
Interestingly, actually, the "way of weighting the trustworthiness of a piece of evidence" is generally not the job of the court, but of the jury. Assuming the evidence is admissible (meets some minimum standards), the court syste
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by johndhi 3y ago
That's generally true: you "waive" certain defenses if you don't state them, at certain points in the litigation process. That said, at the most important moments, typically lawyers will focus on the 3-or-so 'best&#
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by johndhi 3y ago
I'm a lawyer. Lol at the other answers. It definitely carries penalties for the attorney. Each US state has passed 'rules of professional conduct' that govern rules that apply to barred attorneys. Lying to a tribunal, or lyin
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by johndhi 3y ago
I'm not an engineer. Can someone please specifically explain to me how this protects data and privacy more than Google? Does it use cookies and browser storage?
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by johndhi 3y ago
You can read the text of the consent decree here [1]. Looks like it just generally required them to have a 'privacy program' and to monitor and test their vendors. [1] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc
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by johndhi 3y ago
Well, the consent decree should then say: you need to do X testing, Y review. If they did that, it's still not a violation.
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by johndhi 3y ago
Genuine question: FTC is saying a "bug" caused the violation of the consent decree. How can a company ensure bugs don't happen that violate a commitment? I don't think that's possible. I'd assume the decree sho
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by johndhi 3y ago
What if it's really, really good and isn't boring, though? And feels soulful?
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by johndhi 4y ago
I'm a lawyer, not really understanding your points here. What is privacy data, and what do you mean it's usually encrypted? Tons of entities have access to raw personal data of pretty much everyone in the world. "Legal"
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by johndhi 4y ago
low key funny post
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by johndhi 4y ago
I am a lawyer. I guess it's technically true you (or more likely your company) can get sued if a manager lies about his reports' performance to their detriment (usually we'd call this discrimination) but the general notion th
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by johndhi 4y ago
I'm a new manager and am facing a conundrum over a supposed super star who joined my team but, at least from what I can tell, is far and away the least productive member of my team. Any ideas?
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by johndhi 4y ago
Welp that confirms it. I'll never learn another language.
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by johndhi 4y ago
Imo Katyal wouldn't meet the same stakes I'm suggesting are present for Grewal. Katyal is famous for being an advocate at the highest level - arguing zealously for his clients in high stakes scenarios. Grewal is different: he is
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by johndhi 4y ago
Technically I'd say administrative law judges are a lower rung than US Magistrates, but yes, fair enough. To be clear, though, Grewal was a magistrate in one of the most important districts (Northern District of California) on some of
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by johndhi 4y ago
That's the thing -- it feels risky (at least for me, a lawyer) because being a federal judge is like the most coveted position in the world, and lawyers are incredibly serious people about maintaining their reputations and impartiality
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by johndhi 4y ago
This story is INCREDIBLY interesting on a lot of levels. Here's one level: Paul Grewal, the 'head lawyer' referred to in the underlying articles, is a former United States federal (magistrate) judge. He was the judge who over
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by johndhi 4y ago
Why is the government well suited to declare what it and isn't misinformation though? Shouldn't we farm that out to a third party?
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by johndhi 4y ago
Good call. Ajanta caves in India had isolated rooms where monks supposedly spent long long times. I believe Mahavira (Jain saint) was supposed to have isolated for 12 years at one point..
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by johndhi 4y ago
This treatment works well for irritable bowel syndrome. Not for everything, of course.
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by johndhi 4y ago
I might have overstated it a bit. I'd estimate that ~7 bleeding homeless people have approached and interacted with me over 10 years that I lived there. Some not so terrible (lots of scabs and kind of meth-vibe of "I've been
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by johndhi 4y ago
Personally, I think my reaction to seeing extremely violent crime would be to run away and try not to get involved. I'm not going to watch the video, but that was my first thought. When bleeding homeless people have come up to me in SF
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by johndhi 4y ago
Why? I'm happy to blame the city official partially, but isn't it significant that SF, more than other big cities, was dependent on tech tenants who have largely gone remote?
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Open placebo studies are super interesting to me. One of the difficulties of pharma is proving efficacy over placebo... because placebo is a very strong factor! I feel like we could, as a medical community, leverage placebo to improve healt
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by johndhi 4y ago
"I care deeply about privacy" -- the first line of the article. As someone who works in the space, I find it kind of annoying that we use the word "privacy" to mean: asking and following up with tech companies to ensure

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