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by junkscience2017 9y ago
The NRA is no longer seen by many gun owners as a pro-2nd amendment org...they have become a mouthpiece for the gun INDUSTRY and will periodically support curtailing rights in favor of increased sales for gun manufacturers I don't know
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
the ongoing hypocrisy of luxury resorts draining the wealth of a generation so professors can espouse socialism is an important, if not essential facet of our Hunger Games world at Stanford, a blade of grass cannot deviate by a millimeter,
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
this is petty pandering and moral grandstanding. if he thinks his gains are truly ill-gotten, he can purify his money by giving it to charity. instead he is buying bespoke suits.
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
The Apple Campus is not intended to be discarded after eighteen months of use. Your phone is.
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
This is a popular response whenever the topic of education is brought up...I hate to trot out the now-hackneyed term "privilege"....but really. Very few people in society have the privilege of treating education as a route to beco
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Why do people assume HSR will not have TSA lines? All it will take is one credible threat. Indeed, given the inevitability of a threat emerging, it seems obvious that a TSA line will be part of the model from day one. People will probably e
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
okay, well if you really believe this...why the article?
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
nowhere did I claim that only engineers were numerate, logical or analytical
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
counter example: the world economy, most of which is still kept running with the threat of repercussions
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
so I am either a lifelong academic physicist or I am an idiot? Who takes out your garbage?
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
#1 flows from the strange rationalization that regardless of anything else in life, studying humanities for four years in college turns one into a great abstract thinker....while studying engineering for four years permanently transforms yo
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
author cites the problem of motivating a sales team...anywhere I have worked, this has been the quintessential "objective" process; meet quota, get bonus. fail to meet quota thrice, adios.
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
these are so contrived...the correspondence of highbrow book <-> endorsement is just too well-aligned...I would find these lists more amusing and insightful if they included trashy sci-fi fantasy pulp, The Far Side compendiums purchas
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Go is impoverished compared to Haskell but not when it comes to concurrency. The Haskell analogues for these concurrency primitives seem laborious...and they were even moreso prior to the advent of the `async` library.
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
surely less impactful than the collective trash heap generated by coastal technocrats replacing their phones every year
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
not surprised the subjects of the story are in their 70s...seems like a huge bore unless one's notion of a good life is reams of idle time surrounded by fawning servants
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
no you can't. take the absolute highest resolution images you can buy, and take 100 of the best mathematicians and using only maps you won't even be able to guess within 20%...analysts can already estimate within 1% of expected ea
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
I don't blame the practitioners, I blame the business people who foolishly believed it was easy to shake billions out of their data if they applied enough wizardry. for most, Big Data has been a sham, but it was very profitable for clo
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
I am absolutely saying that the expected case for data science is writing basic sql
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as the tools become more sophisticated, the more rote the work will be if a cloud vendor deploys a tool that derives some canned results very quickly at the push of a button, business leaders will prefer those to magic deep queries that tak
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
probably some realization that 99% of their actual job is ORDER BY, GROUP BY, SUM...not a bunch of cool math scrawled on a whiteboard I tried warning people off of this field given that they would be doing sql query monkey work and drawing
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
look at the last "who's hiring?" ...every month I see more and more listings outside of the Bay area
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
zero surprise that the Atlantic staff would free up time to do a hit piece on the Midwest. It's not like anyone had previously thought that UW Madison would match Yale in the endowment Dept. Atlantic loves doing cultural victory laps o
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
skyscrapers are mostly about making a statement....there are very few places in the world where land is truly so expensive that absolutely everyone, even the wealthiest corporations in the world, must build up. Apple's new campus for e
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
I love it. We do not live on Coruscant, space is not at such a premium even in London or NYC that you must push higher and higher. Skyscrapers are sterile; nothing happens at street level. The entire purpose is to isolate. The landscrapers
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
okay, no more complaining about not being able to afford houses
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
Whenever people fantasize about some mysterious fourth "regional" level of government in the Bay Area, it is always assumed that this plays to their advantage...that someone from San Francisco will hold sway over the suburbs and i
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
If you look at who actively votes in local elections, this is already the case.
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They thought that in Vancouver too. They didn't bank on wealthy foreigners who would gladly keep condos vacant. You will see the same thing happen in the Bay Area...there is no law that requires new construction to be allocated to &quo
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by junkscience2017 9y ago
The Perl6 Advent calendars are great year after year. The language is a huge beast that demands a curious mind. You won't arrive at Perl6 if you are just looking for just a tool. If you are interested in what a modern dynamic language

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