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by okaram 6y ago
Why can’t we wait? I’m not arguing we should, but I’m not sure we can’t. What I think is that we sorta can and sorta should; we need to figure out the trade-offs, as best as we can, and decide what measures we want to keep for another year
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by okaram 6y ago
That depends on how much we slow it down; after a vaccine (in a year), we DO drastically change the number infected. Other countries (South Korea, NZ, Taiwan) have changed the number infected, and will probably end up with much fewer infect
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by okaram 7y ago
With some luck, if we isolate long enough, we either get a vaccine or a somewhat effective treatment before everyone gets infected. At least we will know what doesn’t work, so you won’t get chloroquine etc unnecessarily
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by okaram 7y ago
Except that ... Benghazi was an error, no corruption ; the IRS did not target conservative groups, Obamacare did not mandate you change doctors in any way .. Normally I assume it is stupidity rather than malice, but now ...
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by okaram 7y ago
1. That is unarguably false. 2. There were other candidates. 3. Mr Trump also won the primary.
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by okaram 7y ago
What makes this even worse is that you have no info on false negatives ... How would the people you didn't hire would have done?
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by okaram 7y ago
About namespacing, they are doing something equivalent, but making theirs the default. If they make theirs nu.ls, many (most) people would type ls ;)
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by okaram 7y ago
Climate change is probably inevitable, but we humans will adapt to it; we will solve the problems that come from it; I actually see a high chance we will get basically unlimited free energy from renewables before we destroy the world. Capit
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by okaram 7y ago
I completely disagree. I learned a lot throughout my schooling, and made sure my students learned a lot when I was a teacher.
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by okaram 7y ago
IQ Tests ARE allowed in the US, as clearly stated in the page you linked ... "Broad aptitude tests used in hiring practices that disparately impact ethnic minorities must be reasonably related to the job." Technical interviews are
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by okaram 7y ago
You can say if it's acceptable ... but not necessarily good The problem is that you don't know the cost of the false negatives; you don't know whether the people you didn't hire would have greatly improved your processes
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by okaram 7y ago
'Obvious' != True Now we have some evidence that it is probably true; we still need a bunch more studies to make sure this is reproducible and robust for a variety of circumstances. Yay science !
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by okaram 7y ago
I'm not sure about ascribing desires to 'the system', but let me do so. The system does try to keep some/many people poor and uneducated in many different ways. If you want the most egregious examples, look at how we tre
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by okaram 7y ago
They will NOT be at a disadvantage for college; they will still be at an advantage, because of all the opportunities you have given them. They may be at a slightly smaller advantage than now; is that terrible?
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by okaram 7y ago
What do you mean by merit? Ability? Capacity? Effort? Worthiness? Ability at what? Are the SATs a good measure of that?
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by okaram 8y ago
We appear to have a 20-ish-year boom/bust cycle in CS enrollment; Eric Roberts (and some others in CS education) have been working on this for a while; there's a ton of resources at https://cs.stanford.edu/people&#
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by okaram 8y ago
It's not unfounded ... for whatever reason, it seems very few people are allergic to soy, whereas more than 1% of population (Americans ? not sure) have 'allergies' to gluten. My daughter has diagnosed celiac disease, so I&#x
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by okaram 8y ago
What is 'fair' is always debatable, but ... let me tell you one way I look at it. I see democratic governments as an extension of society; and their most important service is a reasonably stable, safe society (with a few exception
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by okaram 8y ago
CFA was not blocked for its religious leanings, but "based on the company's record widely perceived to be in opposition to the LGBTQ community".
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by okaram 8y ago
A few questions ... are you applying to places ? or just feeling locked out ? Are you in the USA ? In a techie area ? sometimes moving might help I'm assuming the front-end engineering is paid ? Think portfolio, not resume; why don&#x
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by okaram 9y ago
Actually, there is Microsoft Office for android now, and it is free (as in beer)
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by okaram 9y ago
Actually, he has claimed they didn't interfere many times ... for example: "President Trump said on Saturday that he believed President Vladimir V. Putin was sincere in his denials of interference in the 2016 presidential election
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by okaram 9y ago
BTW, they may be referring to what, for Americans, is 'extended family' ; that is, not your spouse and kids, but your brothers, parents, uncles etc :) It is great to have your whole family around; they will probably not move with
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by okaram 9y ago
I'm not sure how it benefits society at large ... but I can tell you, anecdotically, how it benefits me . 1. It keeps me aware, especially in domains where I'm a beginner, of how it can affect my self-evaluation of performance. 2
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by okaram 9y ago
Pensions make a lot of sense ... they spread out the risk (notice this also means they spread out the rewards :). Now, the actual level of pensions is a different matter ... Notice, also, that if you only give pensions for 'full'
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by okaram 9y ago
I think it is the Republican party showing its priorities :) Tax cuts for the reach are more important than anything else. Hopefully we get a repeal of the corporate cuts, with even an increase to compensate for the years it was cut.
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by okaram 9y ago
There are lots of gray areas, but the article does not cover any of them; these were not gray areas, but very very dark. I'm not in that field, and no longer in academia, but we should out those a-holes and fire many of them (we as hum
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by okaram 9y ago
The ipad is really nice for annotating PDFs(and the 12 inch pro should be amazing for this, although I don't own one). I think Internet explorer allows you to annotate PDFs, but don't have a Windows machine handy right now. MS One
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by okaram 9y ago
I always advocated for this when I was in academia ... Make proctored 'exams' (including oral presentations, projects, or whatever faculty thinks demonstrates knowledge), so that uni recoups, or even makes money (probably about $2
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by okaram 9y ago
Brown (and all other Ivy League-ish universities) are non-profit; they do not seek (or have) profit

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