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by just_steve_h 6y ago
THIS is the Premium Content I subscribed for!
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
I believe that the data-collection should be publicly escrowed for safety-critical research such as for autonomous vehicles, therapeutics, and so on. It's too easy for employees to subtly edit or shape data to please their managers &#x
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
Would now be a good time to remind savvy technical readers that it's crucial to have a solid grounding in ethics? It can be hard to draw a line when you work deep inside a system.
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
No informed scuttlebut on causes yet?
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
I miss her voice. She was a singular talent. Toshi Reagon created a musical version of The Parable of the Sower that moved me to tears - highly recommended if you can find a video of the performance.
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
"… weirdos and designers buying type for their clients" – but, I repeat myself!
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by just_steve_h 6y ago
Folks - don't be obtuse. Police commanders know exactly what will happen when they escalate with tear gas and rubber bullets. Pro-police forces WANT mayhem. It makes people watching on TV afraid of the protests, and it changes the subj
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by just_steve_h 7y ago
It certainly does make one wonder who else in the worlds of high technology (and journalism!) May be – wittingly or unwittingly – working for Uncle Sam. I've seen some deep integrations that have made me despair of any organization bei
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by just_steve_h 7y ago
Do any of the folks writing these articles know anything about ARPA (now DARPA) and the US government's foundational role in funding the development of technologies like radar, transistors, microchips, the Internet...? Honestly, the Un
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by just_steve_h 7y ago
I can't believe no one has linked L. J. Hart-Smith's classic 2001 paper "Out-Sourced Profits" yet! http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2011/02/04/2014130646... It offers a detailed
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by just_steve_h 7y ago
"Went from?" No. Has always been.
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by just_steve_h 7y ago
Fascinating that an article with so much detailed information doesn't include a discussion of waste and the costs associated with handling and storing it safely for [checks notes] 10,000 years.
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by just_steve_h 7y ago
This is a very old argument. I got my bachelor's degree in psychology at Harvard in 1993, and was told repeatedly that p-tests are abused, overused, and not terribly useful. To my mind, the most hackable flaw is that the number of subj
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by just_steve_h 7y ago
This gentleman suffered for the entire day in order to bring us this excellent summary from today's extraordinary session of Parliament. He is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/IanDunt His most telling comment: "I
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An Astute Observer's Report from the UK Parliament – 3 September(politics.co.uk)
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by just_steve_h 7y ago
I'm grateful for walrus's comment. And yet I feel they are in the minority. We are long past time for real professional ethics in our professions. If we are so bold as to claim the title "engineer," where are our obligat
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by just_steve_h 7y ago
"Dhalgren" and "Stars in My Pockdt Like Grains of Sand" are two of the most revelatory, liberating novels I've ever had the pleasure to encounter. Neither is easy. Both reward re-reading. The man is a treasure!
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by just_steve_h 7y ago
Thank you gregmac21 for doing some uncompensated labor :)
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by just_steve_h 7y ago
Does anyone know the address ranges that are affected?
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by just_steve_h 8y ago
Right. The argument "not that many bikes, why build bike lanes?" is a bit like "nobody crosses the river on a raft, so why build a bridge?"
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by just_steve_h 8y ago
The subject was the complaints of drivers about losing on-Street parking to a bike lane. Not a straw man at all!
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by just_steve_h 8y ago
Actually the City of Cambridge installed a bike counter on one of the main thoroughfares toward one of the bridges over the Charles River into Boston. There are more than 1000 trips in each direction on a weekday.
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by just_steve_h 8y ago
Why do you find it worth asking why I mentioned his race? There is certainly a strong relationship among perceived entitlement/privilege, apparent race and ethnicity, and apparent gender. I shouldn't need to explain this.
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by just_steve_h 8y ago
I also wonder what all our resident PRIVATE PROPERTY enthusiasts think about on-street parking: what other of my 250 sq.ft. objects may I store on public property for free?
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by just_steve_h 8y ago
I've lived in Cambridge or neighboring Somerville every year but one since 1989. The cycling infrastructure is much improved and still deadly. Just yesterday, I approached an arterial Street from a side street at 6pm. Cars on the arter
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by just_steve_h 8y ago
Contents of the article aside, this for me was the hardest to parse headline I've read on HN in a long time!
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by just_steve_h 8y ago
Here's the design decision that puzzles me the most: MCAS commands nose-down trim. The pilot uses the trim button on the yoke to command nose-up trim. Why isn't that enough to disable MCAS and cause an audible alert? Think of an a
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by just_steve_h 8y ago
Fantastic article that sheds beautiful light on the core of modern digital computers.
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by just_steve_h 8y ago
"a glimpse at the wild life of America’s most polarizing tech superstar, underscoring the chaos of a year in which he savaged his enemies as idiots and pedophiles, smoked weed during a live interview and got sued by federal authorities
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by just_steve_h 8y ago
I'm so grateful to EFF and the iRepair folks and everyone else who is out there "fighting the good fight" on behalf of us regular end-users! Great news!

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