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by pannSun 4y ago
This forum thread documents that websites can be excluded for various reasons, including complaints by people other than the website/domain owner: https://archive.org/post/778/exclusions-from-the-wayback-mac
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by pannSun 4y ago
Yes - the Archive's refusal to provide a reason. They don't get to have both the privilege of opaquely excluding content, and the assumption that all exclusions are for the most faultless reasons.
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Previously in Nature: "Please don't publish anything that would undermine the liberal worldview" Advancing knowledge and understanding is a fundamental public good. In some cases, however, potential harms to the populations
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They use any excuse to move programs out of user control and onto the cloud. They won't even download fonts without blanket agreement to all of their "connected experiences" [1]. And the marketing is excellent. "Connec
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> the "what" could be: "A method of reducing the number of online sales that are attempted but somehow aborted". That's a good point. But it does open the door to patenting so many things it would make business i
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Thank you for the correction. I agree with everything you wrote, and should have known better and added a caveat regarding the difficulty of correctly divining the behavior of a C program, instead of assuming compiler writers are flawless o
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by pannSun 4y ago
Why is it Ask Jeeves and J.A.R.V.I.S, not Ask Eliza or S.H.O.D.A.N? A century of hard-coded sexism in tech, experts say.
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When people say "C is unsafe", what they mean is "it is too easy to create unintended vulnerabilities when writing C". The language won't catch your mistakes, and some of those mistakes are dangerous. "Safety&q
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by pannSun 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/twitter.com/Tayl... https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/amren.com Sorry. This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine. N
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> it may ask your permission to get design ideas for you. > get We're not worried about get , but about send . Funny how they managed to omit the most worrisome term from their permission dialogue, huh?
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> Except it wasn't: Amazon--like everyone else filing a patent--had a duty to bring the idea to market within the time frame that US patent law required, which they then did. _That_ is the how. That's not proof of non-obviousne
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By hiring only the like-minded, top-down decisions can appear organic. In the words of Chomsky: I don't say you're self-censoring. I'm sure you believe everything you're saying. But what I'm saying is if you believ
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That the terms were agreed to and the sabotage (sorry, anti-tampering ) premeditated does not make this non-malicious. A contract may shield them legally, but morally makes their actions no less vile.
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I buy an enterprise fleet of trucks for my company. Before purchase, the manufacturer, Toyota, notifies me they only work with Toyota-brand gasoline. My mechanics figure out that it's easy to re-fit them to run on generic gasoline, a
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Remind me, what happens to those disgruntled IT workers that sabotage company servers on their way out? But when Cisco sabotages the property of tens of thousands of consumers, it's okay because they're not your devices, they&#x27
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by pannSun 4y ago
> offensive content Can you be more specific? Which statements, and in which countries, would result in arrest? You mentioned the EU, so are you claiming that e.g. if I go to Paris and yell that Trump is dead and Kanye is my father, I wo
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by pannSun 4y ago
Notice how in this conversation, no precise program name or version was brought up. "The stock dialer on an LG", "the dialer on a Pixel"... On a computer (a real computer), the first words would be something like &quot
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by pannSun 4y ago
Their definition states which groups they consider under-represented, but not the criterion for under-representation. That this criterion is total US population (and not e.g. population with SAT score worthy of Stanford) is implied , not
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by pannSun 4y ago
In my post, I specifically defined it relative to US population. But what you are implying is correct - in general, "over-represented" is subjective. Had I used only US population with SAT score above some threshold, the numbers w
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> pledges action on steps to enhance Jewish life on campus It seems Jewish life is already thriving on campus - despite being just ~2% of US population, they are 7/11% of Stanford's undergraduate/graduate students [1]. To
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> Questions that are much more interesting to me are Sure, but it's still worthwhile to point out factually inaccurate articles and deceptive papers. If they want to argue for how the education system should correct socioeconomic fa
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It is my dream that one day, and one day soon, social media companies uncorrupted by having to appease the uneducated masses will, secretly, present entirely fabricated realities to some, placing them in an invisible prison, while magnifyin
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by pannSun 4y ago
Why don't you teach me? How are SAT scores distributed, that raising the mean by 175, from 966 to 1141, does not change the area above the Ivy League admission cutoff, but raising it by another 75 points to 1216, increases that area by
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by pannSun 4y ago
So the wealthiest nations need immigration or their elderly will eat dogfood. Then presumably the elderly in other nations simply die upon retirement? Since their nations are both less wealthy and don't benefit from immigration, what
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> Industrialized nations that have relied on continuous GDP growth need immigration Correction: the industries , not the nations, need immigration to continue their pace of growth.
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A very good point! We can also ask why whites are underrepresented at Addis Ababa University, and why there are so few Latinos attending Osaka University. Because each university belongs to the whole world, and none were founded to serve th
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There's no evidence of anti-Jewish bias in Ivy League admissions (the opposite, in fact), and polls also show friendly attitudes towards Jews among the general population, so I don't know what it would take to convince you. On t
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> Jews and Asians are overrepresented because they give the hard signal. Some absurd double-digit number of Asian students at Harvard have a perfect SAT score. That is why I included the SAT score in the table. Non-Jewish whites don&#x27
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It's the opposite. In a poll, WASPs gave Jews the 2nd highest rating (69, higher than Catholics, rating only themselves higher at 82), while Jews rated themselves at 89, and gave Evangelical Christians the lowest rating, 34. In other w
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by pannSun 4y ago
If culturally-discriminating WASP admissions officers were the main barrier, one would not expect non-Jewish whites to be the most underrepresented group in the Ivy League. Circa 2019, looking at non-international students only:

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