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by nmrm2 11y ago
Sandwiches -- especially anything containing meat -- need fresh ingredients to be actually compelling. Seems like it'd be difficult to beat restaurants, especially with the "yuck/cheap factor" that comes with vending mac
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by nmrm2 11y ago
But "Scientists make incremental contribution to the state of human knowledge" doesn't have that nice click-generating ring to it :-)
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by nmrm2 11y ago
The US also has this; we call them poll watchers. My point was just that at some point, you have to trust that someone is paying attention. Paper doesn't magically solve that problem.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
All of these questions can be answered by "you have to trust the election officials, and the election officials have to do their due diligence." Which is true of paper voting as well.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Apparently the very concept of directional antennas is completely unfamiliar to this person. IMO that was not the disturbing part. I don't expect elections officials to know anything about RF. What's disturbing to me is tha
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Then just paying that developer will cost $1000 per box on a 100-box production run; paying a team of three such developers for two years would still cost nearly $700 per box on a 1000-box production run. That's not correct. Dev
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Absolutely this. Federal and State governments should stop using contractors all together for software projects. Instead, hire a very large shared bank of highly-qualified engineers and pay competitive salaries. Even if those engineers sit
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Chicago is midwest in geography and climate only. Someone who grew up in a typical small midwest town would feel as out of place in Chicago as in San Francisco, New York, or Paris.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Indeed, it's important to note that the answer to everything software engineers do is something like this. "If it's a bug in my application I can probably fix it. If the origin of the bug is the OS kernel I might need some
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Certifying a cellular end device is usually <$50K Suppose the author wants to (completely legally) use the phone he just built. Does he have to go through this "end device" certification? Or does "end device" m
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by nmrm2 11y ago
What's astounding is that the regional government can fund something to the tune of millions of dollars, then red tape it to death. Almost makes me wonder if the project failed due to the vicissitudes of political climate. Those sorts
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to disparage Law School. I assume it's valuable as well. But the barriers inherent in medical training are really far and beyond pretty much any other field -- you need a bunch of dead bodies and a lot of very
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Sure, fine, they were "only" upper class. I'm not really sure what the appropriate response here is when Gates went to the best private schools. Anyways, influence is as important as wealth: Mary Maxwell was a board member o
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> treat your children well The point the author was making was that Bill Gates' parents were extremely wealthy and also very influential, which gave Gates a uniquely preparatory childhood, the means to make pretty much whatever ri
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> you understand what I'm saying Obviously, I apparently did not. Therefore: > I'm disagreeing with it as a matter of principle. Please don't do that. Redefining words for yourself and then using your secret meaning
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Conditions would make them privileges. This is a common mis understanding. Rights are unconditional is the sense that they apply to everyone equally. But almost all are conditional in the sense that they don't give carte blanc
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by nmrm2 11y ago
No, I'm not. I was giving two conditional scenarios, and dismissing the "salary" one precisely because the people you're telling me I'm ignoring are unlikely to work in those locations. To reiterate: IF you are
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by nmrm2 11y ago
tl;dr: Inattentive driving kills. Alcohol can cause inattentiveness. So can texting. If someone constantly texts while driving except for when they're 0.081, then they're probably a safer driver drunk than sober. Which is to say,
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by nmrm2 11y ago
It's not really true in America, either. The (small) European cities I've lived in have far better transit than even major US cities, but any American city with a "greater metro area" population in the millions will ha
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Travel via the common means is a right, not a privilege Rights aren't unconditional. > That driving requires you make such promises is absurd. Here's why driving requires you to make these types of promises: http:&#x
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by nmrm2 11y ago
This makes more sense for professions that are "all books", so to say. E.g. law, where all you really need is a slightly longer test (or not even that). But this makes no sense for medical school, which teaches a lot that would be
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by nmrm2 11y ago
This wouldn't work. Motor control isn't the only (or most significant) problem with drunk driving. It's the combination with impaired judgement/attentiveness that can be so deadly. If you're in a VR driving sim with
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by nmrm2 11y ago
That's not really true -- there are multiple ways of approaching this. One camp says "collect any data that might be relevant, and then begin looking at the data to try to figure out what the hypotheses should be" The other c
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> I wonder what do people do when they read bullshit that they agree with. They agree with it (maybe while realizing it's bullshit). I think among people calling for content diversity, there's a mostly explicit assumption tha
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by nmrm2 11y ago
The vast majority of political content on Facebook is the variety of bullshit that shows up on conservative/liberal "news" sites. Most of those sites make the editorial pages of places like Fox and HuffPost look positively ci
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by nmrm2 11y ago
This is a silly argument. 1. Assume false. 2. Anything follows. For what odd-ball definition of "far reaching" is "anything" not "far reaching"? An assumption doesn't have to be an Axiom to have "far
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> And what's the problem with soundness? You can definitely not provide any guarantee for arbitrary DSLs implemented in your system, but claim you do. > I can even derive formal proofs for simple DSLs when I have too. Am I l
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by nmrm2 11y ago
This is a really hair-splitting distinction that only makes sense if mathematicians wrote proofs (e.g., about commutative group theory) while keeping ZFC's axioms in mind. But even then, it's not really an appropriate distinction
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by nmrm2 11y ago
The analogy is useless, but not for this reason. If it were just that the axioms of law are more complicated in the sense of being more conditional, then law would be extremely math-like. After all, theorems with lots of conditional prope
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Why? Because I care about soundness. And especially soundness for combinations of under-specified semantic models, because eDSLs are useful exactly when the semantic models at hand aren't 30-60 years old with mature implementati

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