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by mlyle 2y ago
On the other hand, requiring taxes to be paid on something that is really hard to enforce for some segments of the workforce is also bad policy. IMO there's a need for some nuance here.
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by mlyle 2y ago
> By "common core methods", I'm lumping together a bunch of approaches where, in the words of the immortal Tom Lehrer, "the important thing is to understand what you're doing rather than to get the right answer&q
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by mlyle 2y ago
As said elsewhere, there's not really such a thing as common core mathematical methods. The main way they differ from what came before is that the CC standards expect students to be able to explain more of what they're doing and w
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by mlyle 2y ago
And what's there isn't too different from what's before, though pedagogical ideas that are now more in vogue (use of tape models) are mentioned prominently, and there's a lot more emphasis on students being able to exp
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by mlyle 2y ago
It's not seen as a spy thing; it's seen as a growing trend of employment fraud from North Korean nationals who are located in China. Of course, the fact that these people are being dumb enough to apply to a firm composed of forme
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by mlyle 2y ago
Don't ask about it in the interview. But it might be worth paying extra attention to any clues that they might not have lived in that place and have a falsified history. As he said, "we should treat each individual with respect an
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by mlyle 2y ago
Computerizing it all was a new thought about at that time. In early 1961, my dad was just implementing one of the first highly-computerized systems for demand deposits and commercial banking at MNB. Magnetic marking of checks had only been
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by mlyle 2y ago
Yes: I like your way of describing this. I think it's because of this: Bloom showed that students instructed 1 on 1 did about two sigma better than those learning in a classroom environment. There's a huge temptation here, to th
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by mlyle 2y ago
> that risk is priced into the interest rate. A degree of risk is priced into the interest rate. I still have a fiduciary duty to my lenders to not take undue, undisclosed risks. In practice, people get away with this except in the m
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by mlyle 2y ago
Many were. I'm not saying this is terrible-- these programs cost too much for private entities to bear all the risk, and most of the programs that SpaceX has gotten funding from have been well-run programs. COTS paid for vehicle devel
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by mlyle 2y ago
Yup, in the best case you have a truly secure container of keys somewhere. That takes things away from being effectively plaintext.
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by mlyle 2y ago
Yes, the data is encrypted in transit. But Telegram can decrypt the data. We can see that's true, because when I add a new device I can get into all my group chats. Only if I explicitly "Start secret chat" does something els
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by mlyle 2y ago
> Yeah, I don't doubt that it can be improved. There was no discussion of whether it can be improved. I was just telling you that it meets the established understanding of the term "effectively plaintext," which you were
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by mlyle 2y ago
> It's not. They use a split-key encryption system so it's not exactly the same as storing the keys where the data is. Yes, again, it all comes down to your threat model. No one can kick down the door and get to the keys. But
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by mlyle 2y ago
Data that is transmitted or stored along with the keys is effectively plaintext, which Telegram does. The data is effectively plaintext on my device, at Telegram, and on the group members' devices, even if it is not plaintext in-b
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by mlyle 2y ago
This is effectively plaintext, in that one entity has all of those secrets for everyone. That's one entity to subpoena. If that entity doesn't comply, governments will get upset and charge your executives with crimes if they get
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by mlyle 2y ago
The overwhelming majority of SpaceX's revenue has been government contracting. That is starting to diversify in the last 2-3 years with more truly private launches and with Starlink, but that's relatively new, and even so governm
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by mlyle 2y ago
Yes, but the world doesn't work better if everyone maximally leverages their way into every weakly EV-positive (or EV-negative) high volatility play. If everyone is maximally leveraged, any tiny negative disturbance wipes out all weal
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by mlyle 2y ago
> I do something similar with my investments. I borrow money and buy investments with the borrowed money. Yes, minimizing uninvested capital --- or the extreme case of it, turning that negative through leverage --- is great, until it isn
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by mlyle 2y ago
A primary way that computers could ultimately help is additional ability to individualize content and to provide students with spaced repetition of practice on topics. I am building systems in these areas for my students, but they're
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by mlyle 2y ago
Yah. I am a teacher and I'm deeply skeptical of ed-tech. There is no substitute for doing the work (as the teacher or as the student). I like that I have an automated gradebook and communications tool. I like that I can e-mail studen
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by mlyle 2y ago
Boeings choice to not sufficiently invest in its core products while pumping its stock through buybacks belongs solely to Boeing and Boeing’s board. The impact to their reputation was a predictable and ignored consequence. In Boeing’s case
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by mlyle 2y ago
If companies voluntarily choose to operate with lower cash reserves and then end up unable to weather hard times or make necessary investments in their products, do they have any fault for what happens next?
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by mlyle 2y ago
Twitter is loaded up with a ridiculous amount of debt from the transaction. Those costs are not down.
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by mlyle 2y ago
The radiation can't be detected even a couple of kilometers away from the discharge. China is >1000km away, so there's 6+ orders of magnitude more dilution by then. If I pee in the lake you're swimming in, that's kin
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by mlyle 2y ago
90% reduction in power.
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by mlyle 2y ago
> I think the best way is probably to check out the CVS repo on your machine, then run cvs log, and cvs diff. I've used cvs a bit recently. It's amazing how poor the performance is on large repositories, even on modern machines
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by mlyle 2y ago
Right around 1990, and I don't think the "really, don't say 'retard'" thing took strong effect until early 2000's. Our culture's imperfect, but there's a fair bit of evidence that it's a kin
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by mlyle 2y ago
> know that the candidate is a woman but still say "them" Actually, the he or she agreeing with "them/their" later in a sentence is old and widely accepted. So a fair deal of this usage is a linguistic oddity. &
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by mlyle 2y ago
It won't stop people from bullying the vulnerable person, but it will mean that the bullied person won't have to hear the same term in a bunch of contexts, and it will mean the bully will have less plausible deniability if confron

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