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I don't think NSFW content is shown by default - it needs to be enabled in your account preferences.
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Corruption could happen in any case, but I still agree with having human oversight [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong
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In the article, she never directly states that hackers need to study the humanities. What she was basically saying - in the part about Vacca - is that there needs to be human oversight to algorithms that affect public policies (school distr
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FWIW, I think you all mean disclosure, not disclaimer.
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I assume the higher than (I) expected dislike for C# is because of the Microsoft ecosystem, not the language itself. It will be interesting to see whether that remains so over the next few years as .NET Core and VS Code mature.
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throwanem and jordanb: The growth rate numbers are from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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It's been used state-side for a few hundred years as well. I learned about it in my high school American history class. Colonial era tobacco farmers experienced deleted soil conditions, so they turned to 4 crop rotations. My dad had a
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> Web is very very far from solving the browsing problem. I may be a rarity, but I still miss Blockbuster for this reason.
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We do have civilian control of the armed forces. The question of past experience in the service, though, is the same as experience in any other leadership position. Also, in England's case, the big red flag was his close ties to the de
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Out of curiosity, I looked up who was Secretary of the Navy in 2003. It was tumultuous year, with 3 different people holding the office. Only one of them had any military experience (in the Air Force). Gordon R. England held the office at t
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"Men" - 29% likely to be perceived as toxic "Women" - 34% likely to be perceived as toxic Google gender bias confirmed. Seriously, though, I think this tool itself is toxic. I think it's more likely
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Below are links to the two other images from this poll (only images are provided, no raw data or polling questions). All 64 countries polled: http://gallup-international.bg/images/Fight_0515/2.jpg Variations by re
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Google was still a fairly young company at that point. Reddit is 12 years old and had a $1.6B valuation prior to this $200M infusion. They've already achieved growth. I think the investors' motivations are non-financial, akin to h
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In my neighborhood, most of the houses were built from a fixed number of designs sourced from an architecture firm. Wouldn't the floor plans be the IP of the architect?
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Really? I use Firefox with UBlock Origin and never see pop-unders. The only time I see them is when I use Chrome.
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> Many 40+ year olds have families or other life obligations outside of work Why is this a (seemingly) common belief? It seems backwards to me. I had a lot more obligations outside of work in my 20's and 30's when my kids were
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This article from 2013 puts it at D+7.1 overall for the House: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/01/who-gerrymande... What surprises me, though, is how little attention is given to caucuses in the US
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Plus, other researchers are skeptical of the results due to the low sample size (n = 20).
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> if you want to legalize government propaganda Some argue that the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 already did that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization...
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Yeah, that's what the rest of us were thinking as well.
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The only relevant quote in the article is: > DHS said in a statement to The Daily Beast: "No final decisions have been made on expanding the restriction on large electronic devices in aircraft cabins; however, it is under considera
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> [...] officials briefed on the matter said on Wednesday. In context: > is reviewing how to ensure lithium batteries stored in luggage holds do not explode in midair, officials briefed on the matter said on Wednesday. "reviewing
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> DHS spokesman Dave Lapan said Kelly "hasn't made a decision but we continue to evaluate the threat environment and have engaged in discussions with airline representatives and other stakeholders about the threat." So,
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I graduated from Oregon State in '92. The less-tech predecessor to this process was that they would sell homework packets at Kinko's for $20-30. I've often wondered whether a legal case could be made against universities for
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Depends - where do you live? You might be a crawdad or crawfish: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2013/06/r-and-language.h...
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Well, there is the L in URL. You can carve out your own location on the web.
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Look around at all the businesses in your area. Are they all unique? Of course not. Software isn't any different. Don't get fixated on the idea that a new software product has to be one of a kind.
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I was surprised by that. Since Microsoft has been pushing Azure hard the last few years, you'd think Amazon would battle back and come out swinging with a C# template.
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Google search got a lot worse for me after that. I relied on the + operator quite a bit.
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CBO reports are done within the confines of the request, opening them up to a garbage in, garbage out scenario. The reports are supposed to be non-partisan, but a report request can be crafted in such a way that it's essentially weapon

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