nlew

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by nlew 13y ago
The plan is the outcome of the investigation. The point is to figure out what went wrong and how to prevent it in the future.
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by nlew 13y ago
For sure. Let's judge the entire community based on one incident from one person.
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by nlew 13y ago
Who is responsible for paying the fine if the self-driving car breaks the law?
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by nlew 13y ago
High school math is often taught as simple facts, without proper explanation of the significance or how it's derived. It's entirely possible to learn how radians correspond to degrees and what you can do with them without understa
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by nlew 13y ago
It's hard to take your claim seriously that people readily respect technical expertise, when I see "Twitter is just caching" repeated on this very site all the time.
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by nlew 13y ago
He's not generating bigotry. He is saying that people who are uneducated in politics on a fundamental level are trying to make the rules that govern us all. Not that they are valueless, or are in any way worse; just that they have no
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by nlew 13y ago
When you refuse to acknowledge the value of expertise in a field, you are effectively discrediting the entire field. You really think you know just as much as someone who has studied it for their entire adult life? The only way that can pos
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by nlew 13y ago
It's not really. The point is that the market is segmented and you need to target the segment for which your product is the right fit. People who already have a fully-featured tool which solves their problem and they are comfortable wi
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by nlew 13y ago
I expect you've only noticed one case of sexism. That only one case was overt enough that, despite being a man, it affected you. Many women in the field have countless stories of discrimination. The article I think you're refe
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by nlew 14y ago
If you're only doing one or two things, the value is a bit more vague. But consider even the simplest interaction: the config file for a service should look like X, and if it has to be changed, the service needs to be restarted afterward. O
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by nlew 14y ago
It's not about whether or not to use Watsi now, but a concern on behalf of Watsi. I'm not going to refrain from donating today because Watsi might go away tomorrow, but I'm certainly concerned about if and how it will still be here tomorrow