jomamaxx

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by jomamaxx 10y ago
It's a conflict of interest wether you trust her or not. It's a very thin line, this game. Clinton should have recused herself from all Clinton Global Initiative issues a long time ago. The massive Clinton fund with millions in do
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" Who cares what she's currently working on if that's not why she was invited?" Because if you receive piles of money while running for president, and then pass on favours after getting it, we call that 'bribery&#x2
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"Most of the people listed in this article aren't politicians, and so can't enact any laws. " They are connected individuals who will provide introductions, lobbying and favours for the people paying for the speech. &quo
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Yes, there is definitely a problem. But 'lobbying' itself is not the problem.
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'lobbying' just means individuals or groups speaking to their government reps. There's nothing wrong with it. It's when there's a disproportionate power imbalance that we run into problems.
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Ah, yeah, if you have known-entities ahead of time it's no problem via serialization. Developing/experimenting/scripting is where it's painful.
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"Java is fine at decoding Json " It does the job but it's not nearly as nice as javascript or python. It's about double the code in Java and it doesn't read nicely. I think it depends on what you're doing.
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I think the problem in your example is mostly related to the fact that Java syntax is just horrible for dealing with JSON - not really an issue of typing. If Java were conceived of today - I think it might look a little different with respe
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"yet what do the people get for all this" Nothing? They get massive consumer surpluses. They get cars, fridges, air travel, tv, entertainment, healthcare - better, faster, cheaper (except the later). Anyone who is able to hold a j
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You guys make my point for me. There's no way on earth we'd be arguing about such a ridiculously trivial thing for most other languages. Nobody should have to look any of this up. Yeah, we work around it ... but it drives me crazy
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I wonder what evolutionary pressures caused humans to have these qualities? Surely the dopamine response in a crude way - but can we link the actual 'gambling-like' elements to human behaviours that might have been beneficial? &#x
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"Es6 and typescript fixes all this." ES6 doesn't fix any of it, typescript fixes some of it.
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"But another benefit of multiple different implementations is they are free to optimize for different things." Every language has that. There are different JVM's, different C/C++ compilers, different python interpreters.
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"1) Isn't it just (!isNaN(num) && isFinite(num))? I know that's pretty far from intuitive, but it's not as bad as you made it sound. That being said, i'd love an `isNumber` function at some point..." Yo
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Nerd Love.
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"Why would you consider JS to be a terrible language? " JS is kind of a 'bad language' because: 1) It's missing some pretty important things. Try to determine if a value is a number. Seriously. Look into that mess.
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I would argue most PhD students don't have the right kind of hustle to be entrepreneurs. Yes - the IQ, work ethic is there. But they are differential. All the succesfull business people I know have been 'hustlers' since grade
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Wolf - you can be sociable. Trust me. Anyone can. It simply takes practice. Popular kids have been 'honing' their social skills literally since they were 4 years old. They have been paying attention to other people. Notice how the
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
'Introversion' and 'Extroversion' are basically defined as where you derive your energy from, to put it crudely. If you like to be alone with your thoughts, and feel 'exhausted' after interacting with people -
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It's pretty rational to say that JS will have a 'hard time catching up' - all you have to do is look at the upcoming specs and see where it will be 'in theory' in a few years, and it's still far behind other la
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"The browser is an extremely well designed platform/environment. " Uh, it's an expansive platform, but it is not even remotely 'well designed'. The 'barrier to entry' is actually getting worse for bas
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Uhmm, yes, Javascript has limitations. But to say that we won't be using it 5 years I think is simply wrong.
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"The point is that there now exists backchannels between governments and corporations who control modern communication, and those backchannels are being used to censor anything." These backchannels exist between all governments an
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" It would, in fact, set a precedent that whistleblowers will get pardoned." The assumption here is that Snowden is a 'whistle blower'. Yes - in some instances, especially with respect to his release of information regar
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Stanford NLP - Professor Dan Jurafsky & Chris Manning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfoudtpBV68 It's on youtube.
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I'm not making a moral or ideological statement, in fact, I'm trying to pull the ideology out of it.
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The prof noted that it's almost all EE folks, with a few others, but didn't mention Comp Sci. Can anyone comment on why there were seemingly no Comp Sci people in this class? Wouldn't this be 'core' to Comp Sci?
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I 'took' the stanford NLP course online it was great. Doing this one now. Funny - I did Fourier in Comp. Eng. - but it was jammed together with so many other things, I felt overwhelmed by all of it, I did enough to do decently on
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I obviously understand the nuanced issue regarding the fact that he technically took his own life. But given that is death was absolutely imminent within a few minutes, I really don't think this is a case of 'suicide' in any
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The nations of Africa that have the most intact colonial apparatuses, and the most people with European ancestry - are the most wealthy. I'm not making a moral argument.

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