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   by onetimeusename 3mo ago

   There's a difference between textualist and originalist. There isn't a dichotomy between textualist and living-constitutionalist frameworks only but the two former may overlap. Also the same reasoning you are using applies to peop
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   by onetimeusename 4mo ago

   I don't think they are serious about privacy and even if they were I don't even want to distinguish between "children" and "adults" on the internet. Things seem to have worked fine up to this point, there doesn
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   by onetimeusename 4mo ago

   I don't know. I won't even comment on this because I have no insight besides personal observation.
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   by onetimeusename 4mo ago

   I have suspected the influence is real. For a reference point, the majority of students at top tier US universities are Asian at this point, broadly. Not every top tier university but there's a trend to have about 30-40% Asian American
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   by onetimeusename 4mo ago

   Honestly? I think it's because Elon Musk pissed a bunch of bureaucrats off by buying X and being more permissive about what was allowed. Then came claims that AI porn or something was on X which is a vague claim. People say it was Meta
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   by onetimeusename 4mo ago

   Because I criticized academia does not mean I support political types ripping up funding nor scrapping it altogether. My thought is that academia has had a reckoning coming for some time because their practices are not sustainable. It relie
7. 37.▲
   by onetimeusename 4mo ago

   Ya that's a big part of my point. I think there's very obviously economic exploitation going on which comes from putting degrees on a stick. There's that link to a (2006!) paper about depressed grad student wages.
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   by onetimeusename 4mo ago

   I am not arguing that all R&D must succeed. That's hugely different from someone who deliberately builds obscure nonsense and masks it behind publications and tenure. What you're saying is there is no waste in academia. If any
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   by onetimeusename 4mo ago

   They are about 50% of all foreign grad students. Can you explain why the disproportionate representation? Why aren't more US citizens in grad school for STEM if it is so valuable to us? The thing about the academic job market is it&#x2
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    by onetimeusename 4mo ago

    I think this is an offensive and self fulfilling view. Americans are too dumb to do science so we need to rely almost entirely on foreigners from almost entirely the same two countries to do it for us. There's lots of holes in this sch
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    by onetimeusename 4mo ago

    So you're saying that the median marriage was forced back then? I don't see why the same reasoning wouldn't apply to men as well or who was forcing people into marriages besides some vague idea about "the patriarchy or s
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    by onetimeusename 4mo ago

    I was surprised to find that just as recently as 1970 the median age of first marriage for men was ~23 and ~21 for women.[1] The average age at first child birth for women in 1970 was ~22.[2] There was a change that took place in the late 7
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    by onetimeusename 4mo ago

    I had the same thing happen when I asked it to summarize potential attacks on a cryptographic hash function. It said it refused to help because of the security importance of the function. It's really worrying. Whoever has unrestricted
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    by onetimeusename 4mo ago

    I'm not arguing that people should do things as hard of a way as possible, I think that's kind of a straw man. I am not saying we should tie stones around us, write things in Latin, and not use computers or something like that. Ma
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    by onetimeusename 4mo ago

    There is some of that but I wouldn't call it gatekeeping. Universities lately promote citations and publications so there's a sense that results are all that matters. Results matter, yes, but there's a human side too where we
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    by onetimeusename 5mo ago

    Sometimes. I've seen researchers who just churn out useless junk for citation mining and I don't see a lot of overlap between their work and what industry does. That's probably one of the most demoralizing things about academ
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    by onetimeusename 5mo ago

    Not just Princeton, my uni had a similar honor code and changed it a couple years ago to have proctors after a bunch of cheating events. I don't really get it either. Cheating has been going up exponentially since 2020 but it existed b
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    by onetimeusename 5mo ago

    Live streaming of class through Canvas is very popular. Quite a few people just watch from their dorms. So maybe people will have to come back to class, that will be entertaining. The class rooms are almost standing room only (sometimes the
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    by onetimeusename 5mo ago

    If someone on H-1B in California gets (ostensibly) terminated via email with the reason being given as money, but the company does not send over final pay stubs and instead wires a lump sum, but not for the full amount (no 401k payments dep
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    by onetimeusename 5mo ago

    So I imagine, with some irony, that she can avoid US courts because Russia doesn't have an extradition agreement. To some extent, it seems like content sharing apps are often Russia based. So evading shutdown in Western nations require
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    by onetimeusename 5mo ago

    I've heard that we could use zero-knowledge ID proofs to show someone is of age without revealing any more but I don't think that's the plan and the demand for age restrictions doesn't feel like a grassroots effort of co
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    by onetimeusename 6mo ago

    I've looked at some Show HN submissions initially feeling impressed and finding it's either not even working code or it's obvious AI code someone is trying to take credit for writing themselves. If GitHub is used now as a res
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    by onetimeusename 6mo ago

    AWS only requires a card from me. I tried registering at Hetzner and they wanted a picture of my passport.
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    by onetimeusename 6mo ago

    So in order to stop the next Nazis, promote racism against white people and then if they complain that is proof they were planning to become Nazis.
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    by onetimeusename 6mo ago

    > Young people, people of color, queer folks, activists, and organizers use Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook every day.
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    by onetimeusename 6mo ago

    This probably isn't just an HN problem (GH's model is broken now). It's so cheap to make software that the previous process of releasing something new associated with a person is probably outdated. AI knows what sounds impres
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    by onetimeusename 6mo ago

    How much of this was by AI?
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    by onetimeusename 6mo ago

    I suspect that if Palantir had the same exact business model but the CEO had supported Kamala Harris, this campaign would not exist. Or if Palantir had said it supported targeting "fascists" the same people denouncing it would be
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    by onetimeusename 7mo ago

    So some "homogenous political opinions" are superior to others right? Encouraging ethnic blocs is fine in one direction but not in the other I guess. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526112
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    by onetimeusename 7mo ago

    I think security became part of compliance so security recommendations got detached from actual security. It seems like a lot of security recommendations are just busy work that justifies having a huge compliance industry. So an example of