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by not2b 4y ago
Journalism is paid for by ads, mostly. For online journalism, unless people click there is no money to pay the producers. Hence clickbait. This is a problem but there are worse problems.
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by not2b 4y ago
You do not recall correctly, not even close. See https://www.livinginternet.com/u/ui_alt.htm (and I knew Brian Reid and John Gilmore in those days).
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by not2b 4y ago
Just as in modern Reddit, the culture was very different from group to group. Some were like that, others were much more polite.
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by not2b 4y ago
The old Usenet had social groups and discussion groups for almost every interest you could think of. New groups were created multiple times per week, and when the backbone maintainers tried to rein that in, the alt hierarchy was created and
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by not2b 4y ago
Title should be changed. Does not match the article, and "appears to violate the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights" is not analogous to "unconstitutional".
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by not2b 4y ago
I didn't mean to imply that a blockchain is a good solution here. And in a system where it's considered sometimes desirable to erase inconvenient history, an immutable ledger doesn't help with that.
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by not2b 4y ago
China's provincial officials are potentially adversarial parties vs the central government. Officially they must do as they are told, but unofficially they have considerable independent power as long as they aren't caught. Only a
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by not2b 4y ago
Evidently, according to the article, the plan is to contract with a drug manufacturer (so, "someone who knows what they are doing"). Since any new generic has to go through trials, I guess the state would put up the money for this
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by not2b 4y ago
Sorry, I meant to say that diabetics don't want the slow-acting generic insulin Walmart sells, which the parent was discussing (except as a last resort). My wife is type 1 diabetic.
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by not2b 4y ago
This was exactly the history of the American economy in the 19th century. Rapid episodes of deflation would regularly bankrupt farmers, who couldn't sell their crops for enough to repay their loans.
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by not2b 4y ago
Diabetics don't want generic insulin because it is slow acting and difficult to control. It takes a long time to start working and then a long time to stop, making dangerous highs and lows more likely. Generic fast-acting insulin is no
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by not2b 4y ago
If a Brit says that my presentation was "quite good", I know I am in trouble.
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by not2b 4y ago
There's a famous story about Gauss as a child (age 7 in some accounts) figuring out this trick when a teacher who probably wanted a break had the students add up the numbers from 1 to 100. He saw that you could combine numbers from the
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by not2b 4y ago
On the contrary, there is a very strong and completely invalid assumption: that Alice will type her name in exactly the way Bob typed her name, and vice versa, that neither will misspell it, that either both will use the official name or bo
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by not2b 4y ago
Who is a scumbag? Some police officers decide that some people are reputable citizens and others are scumbags based on prejudice, and arguments like yours are a great way to dismiss any criticism of them.
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by not2b 4y ago
But given the massive amounts of energy hurricanes release, it would seem that a similarly massive amount of energy would be needed to move enough water to have an effect.
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by not2b 4y ago
No, the idea doesn't make sense, because the energy released by a hurricane is a factor of ten thousand times that released by a nuclear bomb. The most you could do is maybe redirect that energy because it has to be released somehow. M
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by not2b 4y ago
Oh, I just realized what I missed. You can use the ratio, but if you do you need to take the geometric mean, since it is a multiplying factor. The geometric mean of 2 and 0.5 is sqrt(2 * 0.5) or 1. So the expected ratio is 1.
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by not2b 4y ago
The page Google saw might not be the one you get if you click the link they give you. This kind of thing is in the SEO bag of tricks.
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by not2b 4y ago
The right resolution is: suppose the two amounts are $50 and $100. If the envelope you have contains $50 and you switch, your gain is $50. If it contains $100 and you switch, your gain is -$50. So your expected gain from switching is (0.5)
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by not2b 4y ago
The "don't get a home warranty" advice doesn't always apply. When buying a house that you know has issues, a warranty that covers issues found in the first year almost always pays for itself, it has the last two times we
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by not2b 4y ago
It gets worse. A very long time ago a was working for a startup that was doing real-time speech compression, for telephony applications, using a DSP, with the compression/decompression implemented in assembly language. The code had two
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by not2b 4y ago
During the 19th century, the gold standard led to crazy inflation as new gold was found, followed by crazy deflation as the gold strikes got used up. Farmers were struggling because the money they borrowed to be able to grow crops would dro
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by not2b 4y ago
Back before a CPU could be fit on one chip, small computers were built out of multiple chips, often TTL on a board.
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by not2b 4y ago
TTL was digital logic, chips that do boolean functions or that implement simple registers and latches.
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by not2b 4y ago
I remember attending a talk by Walter Bright maybe three decades ago, back when he was known for his C++ compiler for Windows, and before that his compilers for DOS. He talked about his very paranoid approach to assertions; in addition to a
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by not2b 4y ago
The hardware world was doing fuzzing about a decade before the software world was, though they called it coverage-directed constrained random simulation: generate test vectors in a way that you cover more of the design.
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by not2b 4y ago
While this is true, it's also true that the people who are doing the less-than-glamorous grunt work are often unrecognized by management (which arguably is a management problem). I remember being at an all-hands company meeting years a
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by not2b 4y ago
Yes, the posted results are really good, but since we can't play with it we don't know how much cherry picking has been done.
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by not2b 4y ago
It seems you've got it backwards: "tendency for images portraying different professions to align with Western gender stereotypes" means that they are calling out their own work precisely because it is skewed in the direction

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