pantaloons

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by pantaloons 15y ago
I'm not sure if you are being deliberately obtuse. The lazy workers are not performing adequately under the system, they are gaming it by focusing only on monitored metrics. This has real consequences for good teachers, who have to justify
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by pantaloons 15y ago
Did you read what he said? The bad teachers just "teach the test", the good teachers are far better off without state provided standards and equal outcome mandates rendering the entire exercise pointless.
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by pantaloons 15y ago
Indeed, “In the world’s eyes, I could never be seen as successful as him. My dad and mom always made that clear that was okay,” Howard was obviously not picked to succeed Warren on merit either, the chances of that are billions to one. Even
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by pantaloons 15y ago
You are correct although there are a myriad of reasons why this doesn't work in practice. Perhaps I should have said augmented overlays, task queuing (macros) and so on instead -- they better illustrate the point.
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by pantaloons 15y ago
Ignoring the security through obscurity mess, the more salient point is that there are classes of problems that cannot be solved at present without a locked down client. If solving such a problem is the entire function of the device I don't
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by pantaloons 15y ago
> Cheating would surely be rampant. Not at all, as it is anybody can modify the game binaries in the same way they would modify the source code (albeit with more difficulty). Cheating is prevented by having a central server validate all
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by pantaloons 15y ago
A bit of a shallow point, but will anyone ever actually implement this algorithm? I'm having trouble seeing the value of such a paper -- the size of matrices required for this result to have a clear advantage is significant, and that is com
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by pantaloons 15y ago
It creates an incentive for DDG to favor Amazon, or other affiliate pages in their rankings. A search engine where you pay for Ad placement is very different to a search engine where you (effectively) pay for rankings.
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by pantaloons 15y ago
People find culture fascinating and any show which can present new cultures and institutions in an easily digestible fashion will be popular. With the "easily digestible" part in in mind I would have to disagree that there is room for a sho
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by pantaloons 15y ago
I think he meant DNS zone.
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by pantaloons 15y ago
First they came for the fake merchandise sites... > The fact that the authorities have once again launched a large crackdown on “rogue” websites begs the question why this legislation is needed in the first place. Isn't the difference t
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by pantaloons 15y ago
The ethics aren't as notable here as the incredible mental gymnastics undertaken by the author to pretend that this isn't questionable behavior. Arguably we shouldn't expect advertisers to play nice, but there is still value in highlighting
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by pantaloons 15y ago
I'm curious where you get the idea that LaTeX is bug free. In my experience it is rare to find two packages that work together bug free, yet alone the collections of them needed to form even a respectable document.
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by pantaloons 15y ago
Bureaucracy is the price we pay for standardization. You imply that there is an easier way that could have standardized these technologies "long ago", I'd like to hear it.
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by pantaloons 15y ago
There's nothing that would delight me less than driving on the road with someone who has hacked their cars firmware. In any case this seems more like competitive advantage through obscurity than security through obscurity, for the same reas
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by pantaloons 15y ago
Regardless, the author broke the rules after being warned and received the punishment which he agreed to. That he should [and inevitably will] get special treatment for a post-hoc "internet access should be a right" post borne of no altruis