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by ronaldx 13y ago
One problem is that we have trained people to do (and are still training people to do) jobs which are being replaced by computers and technologists who can do the same job more productively. This is beginning to have a significant impact up
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> Your wording is one of the reasons people skip on vaccinations. Unfortunately, my choice of wording is not the problem... you are welcome to restate what I said, if you like. In the case of vaccinations, it is economically rational to
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Please note first that I am pro-vaccination. Vaccinations are a risk, which are designed to mitigate another (larger) risk. With this in mind, we shouldn't look at vaccines uncritically. The article points out that Japanese vaccinatio
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by ronaldx 13y ago
My point is that the author's conclusion is way more than a stretch.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Amongst applicants mentioning GPA: 30% have GPA 3.8 or higher Amongst job offers mentioning GPA: 67% have GPA 3.8 or higher Author's conclusion: GPA doesn't seem to matter Alternative conclusion: If you mention your GPA, 3.8 or hi
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Worth noting that Lewitt had draughters construct his work from instructions, as the students have done in this task. I've stood in a gallery and followed a different Sol Lewitt location drawing before and it had a similar error - an i
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I disagree strongly. Concisely: JS has many potential UI/UX benefits which should be used for the users' benefit: although they can also be used to users' disadvantage. If your (static?) website shows blank with no-JS, I find
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> Economic security and a mortgage are mutually exclusive for most people. Oh wow no. For "most people", a mortgage represents the only means of escape from throwing all your money into a rental trap. Having access to a mortgag
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Interestingly, your other argument does apply here. It's inappropriate to use the mean for world average income because it's inflated by very high earners. Very high earners (outliers) have a disproportionate effect on the mean th
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I rather read this to be a worrying signal that sysadmins are now expendable, and the NSA is happy to have an excuse to shed them.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This is a curious idea but I don't know if this solves any existing problem. The motivation of the employees is to choose the red dot (employees' choice) not so high that you have to overrule their choice, but otherwise higher tha
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Although your argument could be correct, I am unconvinced: Everyone sees their wages increase substantially, as they gain experience. This does not mean that wages are increasing. Inflationary effects should be taken into account - wages sh
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by ronaldx 13y ago
In some circumstances, yes, but in general, no: game theory doesn't say that. If the coalition's large parties have alternative small parties to choose from, the smallest party has to compete for entrance with the other smallest p
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Indian politics - at least the Lok Sabha - follows a FPTP system which largely forces politicians to coalesce into a two-party system (in this case, a two-coalition system). In most of Europe, PR systems tend to avoid permanent coalition.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Agreed: I found this offer a bit strange. It alerted my Ponzi-senses. I'm open-minded, but how can they afford to offer this for free? Will this offer be attractive paying customers, and why do they want to attract non-paying customer
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yes, there is a continuum of security, agreed. The correct place to draw the line is a place where the user has every convenience they want, and an attacker does not have any additional convenience. Revealing plaintext passwords does not co
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Tim Berners-Lee is correct. If I leave my desk to go to the bathroom for a few minutes then I take my chances with any malicious actors with access to my hardware, sure, we can call that "game over". But that scenario doesn't
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Agreed! In general this is a problem of defining and abiding by valid inputs and valid outputs of a system. SQL statements (unparameterized) have a poor distinction between what is an element of the SQL language and what is permitted data i
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> gives leverage to people who doxx others because of the possibility that personally identifying information might be revealed, anonymity should be forbidden? eh?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Please name and shame!
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> there were several times where we got you the right result... and you didn't even notice. 1) If I don't notice, then it's not the right result. 2) If I put a + in front of a search term, there's only one reason for
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Possibly, a senior front-end developer shouldn't be exclusively responsible for those higher stakes meetings?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Would you be kind enough to explain further why knowledge of closures is a priority...?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Great for you! I am reading this comment at 16pt.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Despite that, I believe this is already the most money ever pledged to a crowdfunding project? Pebble raised $10,266,844 Ubuntu Edge currently $12,243,447
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by ronaldx 13y ago
An effective implementation that works as it says: thanks for demonstrating this.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> I’m unfamiliar with some of the other languages... Any ideas on why these languages ranked higher or lower than average? The unknown languages may appear on the outsides just because of the statistics: smaller sample size => higher
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I find these fake progress bars a borderline-dark pattern: in general, the goal is to deceive users into waiting for progress that isn't truly happening, with the goal of holding their eyeballs.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Agreed! OS X users can choose when to show a scrollbar: it's one of the 'General' system preferences. Reimplementing the scrollbar for users who have not taken the option to show the scrollbar is deliberately going against th
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I don't see why paying him would necessarily have legal consequence: Facebook could make a discretionary payment while making it clear it's outside the scope of the bug bounty terms (indeed, by stating that he was doing something

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