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by murgindrag 7y ago
I don't think that's quite the argument. The argument is that the US justice system uses pressure of plea bargains to put millions of innocent people in prison, financial pressure to keep millions of people from getting justice, e
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Places like gitmo aside, almost everyone goes through a judicial process before they're locked up. China has judicial processes too. It's a question of the integrity of those processes. If you'd like to understand the integri
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The elephant in the room is that there are differences in screentime. If one child grows up on DragonBox, Scratch, and Logo, and another watches cartoons and plays Jewel Candy Crush, it's really not the same.
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One more reason, not mentioned above, is ability to fly in weather. CA airplanes have proper de-icing for wings, are big, and fly above the clouds. A lot of GA -- certainly anything under around $200k -- is a fair-weather activity. Planes c
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Commercial aviation is super-safe. General aviation is pretty dangerous. The statistics don't make much sense without those broken apart.
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I think my question will be ports. The article didn't say what they broke there. Will it only support Bluetooth headphones? Bluetooth monitors? No USB? No SD card slot? Especially for a 16" laptop, I'd like something without
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The concept seems good, but the picture seems odd. For this to work, you'd either want to: * Use fancy fluid dynamics, the way bagless vacuum cleaners do, where you separate clean and dirty air * Have some kind of filter Otherwise, you
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... I found them, and that's exactly what raised flags. If a faculty at HMS signed on, that'd be okay. If a ransom person with a degree from HMS does, that doesn't carry the same weight. I was pretty clear about "at&quot
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I'd be interested in seeing signatures from people at institutions I recognize and trust. There are a lot of people with degrees FROM credible institutions, but very little in terms of currently being researchers in the field AT credib
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As opposed to computers running Windows? or Ubuntu? More fragmented than Android. Continuous updates even for hardware from the year 2000 (a few paid along the way).
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Institutional racism is real. That doesn't make these programs right, or even a solution. Ivy+ schools carefully pick out minorities who didn't grow up in poor neighborhoods. Most of these programs act as institutionalized racism,
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I find the opposite. To build a personal brand, it's helpful to look very similar. Steve Jobs and black turtlenecks. I want audiences to recognize me and connect me from viewing to viewing.
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This is a legal nightmare. Whether you agree with the goals or not, this is just about the worst-written license I've ever seen. In legal terms, you want to avoid ambiguity. Otherwise, you have litigation (which the party with the deep
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I think the reporting, for now, is on the Media Lab, but the issues are Institute-wide.
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Universities did. You should see the internal mailing lists, all aglow with misdirection.
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Perhaps. I do feel like the universities are desperately trying to redirect issues into social justice, away from big dollars, widespread data fabrication, or other issues like this one. Once social justice activists come in, the landscape
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I love this saga! We're well on our way to having every article about MIT use the adjective-phrase "the Epstein-funded..."
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I understand the bounds of laws as written, but I think this is confusing several different issues: * "Free speech" is a broad human right e.g. written into the UN Declaration of Human Rights * "The First Amendment" is a
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It's a bit more murky than that. HN is a commercial web site. Colleges are funded by taxpayer dollars, charitable donations, and student tuition. Colleges claim to grant academic freedom, part of which is free speech. Would you be comf
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I think this is missing the big picture. For every Liebson, there are thousands who are threatened and intimidated. Colleges control your grades, your housing, your graduation, and in most cases, most of your digital information (most stude
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My point was that Newton's 3rd law isn't the right way to think about it. Newton's 3rd law means that if I throw a rock with 1 N-s of impulse, I will also gain 1 N-s in the opposite direction. It's a conservation law: &q
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I don't think that's quite how the physics works out. Speed of airflow is approximately constant. Extreme case is reeling it in at 1mph in a 200mph wind. Force is approximately fixed. Consider that I have an object with a fixed fo
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In personal life, I do the something similar, actually. I have a state-of-the-art digital camera circa 2012, a state-of-the-art camcorder circa 2011, and similar. I'm always around five years behind the tech curve. The cost is often 1&
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I'll contradict everyone here: You figure it out on a case-by-case basis. Generally, risks go down over time and with broad use. SQL, as a technology, is 100% risk-free, having been around forever, and widely used. COBOL is high risk,
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I thought this was one of the best articulations, though. All it needs is a CC-BY-SA license so it can be used outside of one blog.