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by nmrm2 11y ago
> they must be made of high quality semantic components, which you simply mix together > the problems you're talking about are nearly impossible to run into. If you mean this in any non-fluffy sense, such a property would dep
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by nmrm2 11y ago
As someone who has freelanced and is also criticising (I guess, although I'm not critical of the business overall, just one way in which it lacks transparency), I don't think financial advisor is a fair comparison. The assumption
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> They seem to have a useful product that a good number of people could benefit from. I'm skeptical. Even if the algorithm is designed solely for the benefit of customers, there's very clearly some value extraction going on.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> You can't infer anything about the cost of a particular car by knowing the cost of the seats. Oh man, my car analogy isn't accurate ;-) > Cars and Big Macs, like pretty much anything, are priced in no way according to t
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by nmrm2 11y ago
The difference here is that Uber had a lot of happy customers (taxi riders with better UX and a cheaper ride) and not-terribly-unhappy employees (erm, independent contractors). In the Uber case, regulators had to stare the absurdity of thei
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by nmrm2 11y ago
The algorithm is a key component of the actual product they are selling to their customers. It's reasonable for customers to ask for a reasonably complete description of that product (note: your parent isn't asking for source code
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Just from purusing the author's personal websites: Avigad's Ph.D. is in Mathematics (from Berkeley) and he is a professor in a mathematics department. More to the point, Mathematical Logic is a bit of a term of art referring in
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Or, more likely, publishers would allow print-on-demand ordering of any book in their collection. Either way, it's win-win.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> It's not exactly "forgetting" Unless you count forgetting high school math. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=infinity+-+1
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> It's not exactly "forgetting" Unless you count forgetting high school math :-) > "Sonny wanted the term of copyright protection to last forever. I am informed by staff that such a change would violate the Cons
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by nmrm2 11y ago
You don't have to be omniscient to realize an action might have a consequence that wasn't intended. I don't go 100MPH on city roads because I don't have to be omniscient to realize I might end up killing someone even if
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Regulators who don't take into account possible unintended consequences of their regulations should be stripped of regulatory authority.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
If you have (root) access to a router, what's to stop you from circumventing software blocks on higher channels / power settings? Don't try to enforce hardware behavior in software, especially if you're concerned with se
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by nmrm2 11y ago
So that deployment is "just" git pull. I don't get it either.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I meant really "going into industry", not "going into the industrial portions of academia". As in, becoming a software engineer at Google et al. You won't be able to net a position at a top R1, but plenty of univers
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Outside of post-doctorate positions, there's neither funding nor desire for the kind of research that you need to further an academic career. At least in Computer Science, the alternative is to simply go into industry at a compa
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> you took a photo of the art piece while it was on display at a public gallery, then used your own photo commercially. Find me a single example of an artist successfully suing for trespassing in such a situation. CL's only plau
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by nmrm2 11y ago
"the policy of 3taps with regards to Craigslist data is that any sourcing of that data for insertion via our API be done without scraping or visiting Craigslist at all ." (original emphasis) Obviously, I don't know whether t
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by nmrm2 11y ago
(I think my other post about trespass being a red herring in this case is by far the more important point, but figured I would follow up on trespassing as well. This reply is a bit of a digression from the article, but I think still germane
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by nmrm2 11y ago
(I am going to assume we are still talking about the article.) First of all, trespass is a red herring in this case. Defendent used Google's Cache -- NOT the Craigslist website -- to gather data. Craigslist's claim is that acces
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by nmrm2 11y ago
One reason to prefer the Medallion system is that both of the latter two options end up disproportionately impacting low-income people. The goal is to limit the number of cabs on the road without creating unreasonable barriers to other econ
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Sorry, I really didn't mean that as hate toward your company at all! The parent was offering general advice for working with companies, and I was offering a general observation about that advice (namely, don't admit to technic
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I've been able to replicate this on test account abc@123. I'd leave that out unless you're confident the company isn't going to screw you. Speaking from experience.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
(edit: just read geofft's post instead) I think parent is referring to the fact that the author of the article seems to feel as if her experiences as an autistic person are invalidated by the dominant feminist narrative in tech, and th
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Unfortunately you have to have a license to use Ham Radio. Fortunately, amateur licenses are easy to get and you can do most of what you would be able to do on a modest budget with an amatuer license (with some exceptions) :-)
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> the amateurs should have the basic good sense to leave the airwaves to the professionals That's pretty unfair. Amateurs often help out with communications after natural disasters, and historically have often been the first to se
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Birth control was readily available by 1970. 1. Singling out access to birth control is a red herring. Mainstream gender norms and mainstream social pressure to have a family have changed a lot since the 1970s. Especially in more
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Indeed! That's (part of) what I meant by access to medical care. I think that people also tend to not view having a child in your mid 30s as unnecessarily risky, which I think 20,30,40 years ago was a more common belief/concern. T
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by nmrm2 11y ago
The quoted comment does not contain the concession you seem to think it does. On the contrary, the quoted section of my previous comment simply states that people in their 20s today have it at least as hard as their parents and grandparen
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by nmrm2 11y ago
>...in a way that it isn't today. I submit that you're comparing unmarried and childless people of today with married and child-bearing people of yesteryear. Do the other comparisons and you'll find that you are off base

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