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by quirkot 9y ago
I guess the take away is that if you're offering a security to the general public, don’t break the law and you won’t get shut down.
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by quirkot 9y ago
It's effectively putting knowingly false information in your prospectus. I think that it is the crux, but IANAL
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by quirkot 9y ago
Yes, we are picking and choosing. We’re picking out individuals that are motivated to love unregulated financial instruments because it’s easier to defraud the populace and choosing to shut them down
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by quirkot 9y ago
most authors are paid by the word, even today
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by quirkot 9y ago
This gets at something I was taught in driving school. Slow =/= safe. Sudden stopping can be just as dangerous as any other tactic.
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by quirkot 9y ago
Agree. > A year ago, Mr. Bell’s team spent hours distributing hundreds of Excel spreadsheets to regional and unit leaders each month for planning and performance tracking of the company’s 415 U.S. restaurants, he said. Now the same proce
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by quirkot 9y ago
It's not my area, but it seems like if your application is deeply dependent on an API it might be a good idea to directly reference the IP address? Over 1000s of requests, wouldn't that save time?
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by quirkot 9y ago
> This may not be a winner-take-all market (I don't know honestly...) I think it’s important to distinguish service from tech. Once the tech is mature, you’ll probably have a handful of providers but the service will be wildly feder
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by quirkot 9y ago
There is a concept in philosophy called the Is-Ought gap, which is to say that you can’t tell what ought to be simply by looking at what currently is. This is something that applies to AI that I think is often overlooked. A computer can tel
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by quirkot 9y ago
I think BroadmmmQual has a nice ring to it (and far less misogynistic than the reverse)
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by quirkot 9y ago
Our plan of putting ethernet ports on lamp posts will disrupt homelessness!
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by quirkot 9y ago
tl;dr: deal is pending regulator approval of how many m's will be at end of combined company name
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by quirkot 9y ago
Agreed, "schism" is a better term in this instance
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by quirkot 9y ago
This is not a law, it's a regulation, developed by a governmental body whose head is appointed. There is no Senator a small fish like me can call to stop this madness
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by quirkot 9y ago
IIRC this started last summer edit: Actually Dec 2016 / Jan 2017 https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/22/14066082/us-customs-bord...
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by quirkot 9y ago
Can we leave the innocent bystanders out of this? As a US citizen this new rule is garbage
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by quirkot 9y ago
I envy your optimism. Consider me thoroughly carborundum'd by the illegetimi
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by quirkot 9y ago
> Why is Amazon choosing its second headquarters location via a public process? Because Foxconn got such an amazing deal and we want to get some of those sweet, sweet tax credits, too
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by quirkot 9y ago
> Is there a word to describe the maddening annoyance at something being so close, yet so far away, for objectively silly reasons? They call that the uncanny valley
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by quirkot 9y ago
This is correct. In another language we'd refer to the distinction with a different word
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by quirkot 9y ago
if not "provide" than "ensure" ... although if you feel that food, clean water, shelter, or health are human rights those are things you aren't necessarily born with.
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by quirkot 9y ago
The only things that can be "human rights" are the things a society can consistently provide for just about everyone. The "human right" nomenclature just means we're going to spend some effort to push it from 98% to
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by quirkot 9y ago
You do realize a cable that connects Asia to Europe could be like 6cm long, right?
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by quirkot 9y ago
you'd need 33 of 128 ancestors which is the level of the parents of your great grand parents' great grand parents
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by quirkot 9y ago
Couple thoughts: a. Copyright isn't about audience, it's about author. Ask if the person whose work your using would care, not the people seeing it b. copying is copying every time, not just after the n-th time c. credit acknowled
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by quirkot 9y ago
That’s a very interesting hypothesis. It needs a little expansion to address the reported “suddenly in 1984” aspect. I wonder if, around that time, there was a change in many colleges that required more advanced math (or some other topic) w
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by quirkot 9y ago
Oh wow. There is a not insignificant amount of software on my work computer that is apparently dead. Guess that makes corporate licensing cheaper?
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by quirkot 9y ago
Jellyfish zeitgeist, i guess: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/jellyfish-chips-climate...
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by quirkot 9y ago
This is pretty much the basis of contouring makeup
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by quirkot 9y ago
I’d say this piece applies outside of data science, too. It’s a nice reminder that technology can lead to culture change, but cannot drive it

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