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by mhneu 8y ago
Source: “The Chickenshit Club” by Eisinger. Explains how DOJ and SEC have moved to civil actions because they’re easier to prosecute, letting individuals at corps off the hook for actions they’d be criminally liable for if they took them ag
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by mhneu 8y ago
But corporate culture can matter. And culture affects who gets hired and how the employees act, even when new people come in. If you ask biz school profs, culture is essential . To me the bigger problem about treating corps as people is c
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Do you think they’re paid?
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Summary: don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. And don’t overoptimize before you build something. Pretty good advice for any creative engineering discipline. The hard part is always defining “overengineered”. Is 1 day of design w
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I think unfortunately this is going to change with the advent of "AI" and related technologies, such as autonomous driving Yes, the potential cost of software bugs is increasing as software does things that no hardware interloc
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All three responses 'time is money'. Yes, security is a cost. There's a bit of tragedy of the commons effect here - many of the downsides are pushed onto others. I like Doctorow's general take on socializing costs of p
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Yes, agreed. What we've learned over the past few years that where algorithms exist, there are incentives to try to exploit them. Ad and PR firms: Google search algorithms, Twitter ranking algorithms. Political orgs: Youtube ranking
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by mhneu 8y ago
Time is money. Takes work to set up. Resources are being directed at development.
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Problem is downside risk: drones get hacked, or someone figures out how to make the drones fly into planes, or herd birds TOWARD planes. As a society we've been pretty cavalier about algorithmic control. Which can work well for a lot
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Yes, but note from the page: those unauthorized accesses were reported and the employees were sanctioned including demotion, etc. On the private side, it can be worse, because the governance structure is not always there. https:/&
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What we've learned over the past year or two is that everything we all used to worry about NSA doing, Facebook is ACTUALLY doing. I was also one of those misled, and now know the NSA has controls and a democratic governance structure a
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by mhneu 8y ago
A professor of mine once said to me that all teaching was a process of lying, and then of replacing the lies with successively better approximations of the truth. This is the opposite of what Feynman thought. He said, and I agree, someth
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by mhneu 8y ago
Megan McArdle has an agenda. I've never found she generates much insight for that reason. I apply the Two Papers Rule to her, and to B Stephens: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1017590957984735232 The
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A thoughtful point.
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This is a great comment. the lack of burden of worrying about how I would pay for X, Y, or Z I had the same experience of once worrying about that, and now not really having to. It's incredible. Imagine what it's like raising
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by mhneu 8y ago
YES. Security compromise is the huge achilles heel of self-driving cars - and anything that is algorithmically controlled. When you have 100,000 self-driving cars on the road, and someone figures out how to hack them, and drive them simulta
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It can be very hard to distinguish these two concepts. Instead, it is more useful to understand the agenda of the person doing persuasion. Do their interests align with yours? What are they trying to achieve? That's a good way to ge
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The issue is that America funds cities poorly. There is a federal subsidy from cities that goes to rural areas. Red areas get more back in services than they pay in taxes, and blue areas pay out more in taxes than they get back. So cities
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by mhneu 8y ago
Probably many people know this, but since it's important to know the owners of our media and information sources: Reason is published by the Reason Foundation which is funded by several right-wing donors, including the Koch Family Fo
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Why does DoD want generality?
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Just the authoritarian “conservative” movement that seeks to concentrate power. I am actually a conservative on many issues, including UBI, work rules, tariffs, caution when making new law and regulations, and appropriate pricing of risk.
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It's worrying. The groundwork was laid in the US starting in the 1970s. With the founding of Cato, Searle, Olin fnds. Murdoch bought the NY Post in 1976. Fairness doctrine was repealed in 1987 allowing Rush Limbaugh to go bigtime. F
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From the article: EPA is proposing to eliminate consideration of scientific studies unless the raw study data are made publicly available — possibly including participants’ personal, confidential, and private information — data that may be
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by mhneu 8y ago
Is it really _Trump's_ EPA that is the problem? Or is the underlying problem the party that backs him and supplies EPA officials? https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/3/10/14871696/sc...
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by mhneu 8y ago
Cory Doctorow has recently written an interesting piece on corruption: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/02/low-yield-crude.html It talks about how socializing risk and privatizing profits is actually the defini
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This is why representative democracies and rule of law are so important. It's important to make governments that are "about laws - not about men". Because if governments are built around single people, those people will conc
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Surveillance capitalism. https://plus.google.com/+GregLinden/posts/TWiGesiztbj (I'm not sure exactly if this is the present motivation. But it's the motivation for a lot of apps. Data can be sold /
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No no on measure theory. See below on Feller, Bersekas, Gallager. I think it's best to learn discrete prob first and skip the difficult math until you decide to become a mathematician or really need it for e.g. finance work. One othe
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Yeah, I personally don't love Papoulis. But it has been regarded as the standard stochastic processes text.
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If you're working through Spivek and Apostol, get Feller v1 and v2. Same level of rigor and emphasis on intuition. (If you're having fun after that, pick up Gallager's book on stochastic processes. Similar approaches, intu

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