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by macksd 5y ago
Well what I'm concerned about is that I think he was told "we have too many people, so we had to make the difficult decision to part with one of our great employees", and I effectively told him, "dude there's no way
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by macksd 5y ago
Studies repeatedly show that almost all currency is contaminated with traces of drugs.
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Yep - a guy I shared an office with walked in and told me he had been wondering if he was going to get laid off. I comforted him and told him that I couldn't see why there would be lay-offs - we had tons of work to do. He picked up eve
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by macksd 5y ago
This is a really cool idea. I tried a few technical queries I did on DDG today and didn't get amazing results - hence the warning in the About page about this engine giving you things you didn't know you were looking for, rather t
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I don't think Crichton intended to imply a cause. But I guess it's just a bias toward believing the media and forgetting the isolated experience. I suppose there's an opposite effect at play regarding the media's treatme
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Nothing. That's why they don't have to keep it on their books.
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This was the biggest lesson I learned during my first pre-IPO quiet period. Seemed like everything I read that was inferring things from the S-1 or forecasting the future were immediately wrong or turned out to be wrong in the end. I suspec
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by macksd 5y ago
It sounds to me like he's claiming credit for ideas behind weather modeling used as much as 20 years earlier, and fractal curves that were being clearly talked about in the previous decade.
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Oh that's interesting. I'm very curious if you're able to share the actual wording of the clause?
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"indemnify" does not actually mean "we will sue you" so I feel you need to add some more context to what you're saying - it sounds like you've been caught in a bad situation, and while I'm very sympathetic
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Scientists Can Now Assemble Entire Genomes on Personal Computers in Minutes(phys.org)
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But it does mean that AI models trained on data might end up just perpetuating racial correlations even when you don't think it's aware of race. It's another example of why interpretability is important: the model might end u
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by macksd 5y ago
Unless you're the US government, then ethnicity refers to whether or not you're Hispanic, and race encompasses all other distinctions.
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I'm usually in the "regulation is bad" camp but one thing I find myself saying more and more is that you can't have an ideal market if people are allowed to lie about and hide their prices. It's one of the reasons h
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I've known many homeschooling families very well, and it's a spectrum. There are families where the answer is "they don't", and those children seem to invariable end up with major life skills missing from their repe
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by macksd 5y ago
In New York, the taxis with "medallions" are required to take you to places within the metro area. I'm not sure at what point that requirement sets in, whether it's hailing, or once you're in the cab, etc. but it&#x
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by macksd 5y ago
Black Mirror has a number of similar premises and yeah - it's among the more "twisted" scenes I've considered.
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Thank you! I appear to be an hour out of sync and my OS is on Mountain Time
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I thought we weren't able to chart their orbits and thus know their orderings until the last few centuries. I'm sure we recognized them as being brighter than stars, visible as more than points of light, with non-sidereal motion,
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How much existing advertising technology works seems to be questionable. Lie detectors aren't admissable in court for good reason, but they are still considered useful to help lead investigators in the right direction, especially again
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by macksd 5y ago
Consent in a medical context honestly means nothing to me anymore. Do you know how many times I've been asked to sign an electronic pad without seeing what I'm signing, asked for the form beforehand, and be told they can't gi
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by macksd 5y ago
There may not have to be, as far as we know. From the Wikipedia page[1]: Many theoretical physicists believe these fundamental forces to be related and to become unified into a single force at very high energies on a minuscule scale, the P
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by macksd 5y ago
A lot of context in his own post here, and the reply from Dr. Hinton is linked: https://people.idsia.ch//~juergen/critique-honda-prize-hinto... I stopped reading at [backpropagation] "wasn't created by &
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by macksd 5y ago
Yeah - sounds like probably around 40 customers wanting stuff like that. No one's saying otherwise.
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The author links to a much more detailed list of mistakes in comparison functions. It's worth reading: https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/cpp/0509/
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by macksd 5y ago
There is evidence that the vaccine significantly (and not just "statistical significance" - I mean really significantly) reduces the risk of severe infection. Many hospitals (including the 3 closest to me, in a state with 70% vacc
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by macksd 5y ago
>> Unmediated transactions of a certain scale don't require any government oversight What is this scale? As far as I know you only get away with this because no one knows or cares to enforce the law in that case. But police have
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If one believes in the theory of free markets, this moves the labor market closer to the ideal market by forcing more transparency. I don't like government overreach because it usually makes the market less efficient, but in this case
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by macksd 5y ago
Well yes, public wikis are one thing. But before you were talking about protecting internal secrets.
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Nit: I wouldn't say "originating". That's where this specific exploit is coming from "most recently". But it would seem to not be script kiddies and they're listing like 8 countries. I would assume the bad

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