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by mcguire 5y ago
" The current 5th edition has removed most of the parody aspects, and contains game mechanics written from scratch in order to avoid any intellectual property problems. " ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HackMas
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They can fire him for whatever reason they like, but preventing the publication of a paper should not be a corporate policy decision. The only question they should ask is if it reveals trade secrets, which I assume it wouldn't because
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" Google fired machine learning scientist Satrajit Chatterjee in March, soon after it refused to publish a paper Chatterjee and others wrote challenging earlier findings that computers could design some chip components more effectively
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One interesting thing about the green revolution was that food went from 1/3 of the average American household budget to 1/6. Oh, and to paraphrase Hitchhiker's Guide, programmers will probably the first ones up against the w
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by mcguire 5y ago
Extra thumbs-up: If you have any questions like this, check with your local state or county extension agents. They'll talk your ears off. They're lonely. :-) They can't always help, but they'll have good suggestions to t
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by mcguire 5y ago
From the link I posted above: " Fifty-six percent of all land used for corn, soybeans, wheat, and cotton was on farms that used no-till/strip-till on at least part of their cropland in 2010-11. "
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" Cover crops were in use on less than 2 percent of total cropland (for all crops) during 2010-11 (6.8 million acres), with adoption rates higher in some regions (e.g., the Southern Seaboard and the Mississippi Portal). Although the be
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by mcguire 5y ago
" Fifty-six percent of all land used for corn, soybeans, wheat, and cotton was on farms that used no-till/strip-till on at least part of their cropland in 2010-11: 23 percent of land was on farms that used no-till/strip-till
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by mcguire 5y ago
Be very careful when you see things like, " Rohl asserts that the New Chronology allows him to identify some of the characters in the Hebrew Bible with people whose names appear in archaeological finds. " It's likely that the
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There are ~260 million adults in the US. That gives 60,000,000 Twitter users and 28,000,000 daily users. (I don't think "active users" is useful---it's about readers, not writers. Further, many of the important writers a
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by mcguire 5y ago
The period between the Arab Spring and Jan, 2021, seems to argue otherwise, no?
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"Academic rank" is an awfully weird proxy for skill, though.
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According to his Linkedin link, Charlie graduated in 2012 and went straight to work for Google, where he worked for 7 years. My hypothesis is that essentially everyone he knows after graduating, he met at Google. Me, I've got friends a
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Tanks have always been vulnerable to cheaper weapons, whether that's an anti-tank gun hidden in rubble or a NLAW. This is why tanks require infantry support---to locate and deal with those threats while the tanks deal with things the i
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by mcguire 5y ago
Do you have a source for this long track record? Specifically, dealing with externalities?
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" Lead pollution in the air damages people's property. The owners of that property can then sue the lead emitters for damages. " Rather difficult to demonstrate any harm to an individual, no? In a case, the damage from lead
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This is, of course, the Russian take on the war. The Ukrainian version is significantly different. (And given the whole genocide thing, I know which I lean towards. I mean really, NATO, the West, and the Ukrainian government is responsible
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See https://purplestatesofamerica.org/ (Click on "Population".) And here's an interesting take: https://medium.com/matter/the-trouble-with-the-purple-electi...
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One might argue that their primary crime is having a few thousand ex-Cubans with outsized political power and a very long grudge. As far as I've seen, no one else cares about Cuba or sanctions.
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Some companies did offer benefits to their town, for roughly the same reason the FAANGs offer free lunches and dinners. Kind of a double edge gift. I have no idea where the "companies used to take care of their employees" commente
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True, to an extent, although I suspect in large part due to increased mobility---family members used to live in the same general area.
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" ...you could give your all to a company. " I believe the phrasing should be "had to give your all to a company." This is the time period when you would retire from the same company you started at, right? And if you had
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The neat thing about company towns was company stores, which were the only kind of stores in town. They were happy to sell you anything you wanted, on credit. The problem being that at the end of the month you owed more to the company store
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" Worldcoin says it eventually wants to erase the iris images to protect the privacy of those who sign up for its currency. If perfected, the company says the technology will distill the image of each set of irises into a unique string
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Worldcoin is absolutely collecting more information than iris hashes. " Worldcoin says it eventually wants to erase the iris images to protect the privacy of those who sign up for its currency. If perfected, the company says the techno
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" Worldcoin says it eventually wants to erase the iris images to protect the privacy of those who sign up for its currency. If perfected, the company says the technology will distill the image of each set of irises into a unique string
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" Worldcoin says it eventually wants to erase the iris images to protect the privacy of those who sign up for its currency. If perfected, the company says the technology will distill the image of each set of irises into a unique string
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by mcguire 5y ago
Imagine a world where everyone on Earth has their iris scans recorded by a Silicon Valley company in return for a voucher for a small amount of a cryptocoin that doesn't actually exist and may never have any value at all, much less its
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by mcguire 5y ago
" Why does everyone devolve into the same 'X entity is nefarious and they are trying to build a database to sell' or for x machine learning. " Because "building a database of biometric information in a nefarious man
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by mcguire 5y ago
Ok, so here's a general notice to the techbros of the world: Most people, when you say "X is true" believe that you are saying that X is true. Not that you are saying X will be true in the future, not that X might be true a

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