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by rrmm 11y ago
I would like to point out that it doesn't excuse her action: You have to abide by the rules even when they are dumb. But it's a tension between rules and human nature that comes up often. It's like telling teenagers the only
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by rrmm 11y ago
Previous SoSs didn't make extensive use of it, or like Rice, got exceptions. If the security apparatus doesn't allow people to get their job done, people will find ways to solve their own problems. For example, you could certainly
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by rrmm 11y ago
From my inside perspective, government IT is dumb. Not that that excuses her going off and using her own. The NSA should probably evaluate if the end result of their refusal was more security or less.
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by rrmm 11y ago
A commenter on the lwn page pointed to http://danluu.com/file-consistency/ which seems like a nice overview of file consistency issues in various os's. It includes links to papers on the subject as well. I found
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by rrmm 11y ago
Either can exert good and bad influences. Neither business nor government is your friend. Both can be large and unwieldy, and large entities often step on smaller ones even if inadvertently. Unfortunately, we just have to be vigilant and
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by rrmm 11y ago
It's fairly easy to do it without the diode drop if you use a mosfet, but you do incur the cost of a more expensive part.
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by rrmm 11y ago
Depositions aren't usually that fun regardless of what you have to hide. I'd probably want to avoid one if I had the chance.
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by rrmm 11y ago
Thankfully, you don't have to remember the integration by parts formula, just the usual derivative of a product and rearrange.
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by rrmm 11y ago
I think it's within the realm of possibility to tally or at least estimate the number of interactions (or perhaps just arrests) per jurisdiction. That gives you an easy way to see how widespread the problem is. It'll probably be
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by rrmm 11y ago
Significant and often are clearly a matter of perspective: what's significant and how often is too often? Realistically, there will always be some incidents. Ideally, they should be as few as possible such that law enforcement is stil
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by rrmm 11y ago
There still needs to be visibility. Only the recent ubiquity of cell phone cameras has allowed the public at large to see interactions between citizens and police. Before this it was easy to dismiss or just be ignorant of how often police
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by rrmm 11y ago
Nice sleuthing! I don't even recall where I first heard this story myself. The paper was an interesting read and still largely applicable even now in this 3rd or 4th coming of NN's.
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by rrmm 11y ago
This is where we break out the old Zawinski quote: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems. I actually had to tell someone this who wanted to bu
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by rrmm 11y ago
That's great! Btw, if anyone hasn't seen the scene from the Simpsons i was referencing check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xs... Simspons were ahead of their time apparently.
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by rrmm 11y ago
There are tons of anecdotes i remember from AI classes about neural nets learning something other than what you expected them to learn from your training set. For example, one story involved training a classifier to recognize an overhead im
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by rrmm 11y ago
I'm sure you can pick up more hammocks and some space-saving hammock solutions in the hammock district. You know, the hammock complex on third?
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by rrmm 11y ago
Math is for communication between mathematicians and programming languages are ultimately compromises for the purposes of precision and the limits of computers. Trying to carry the precision necessary for implementation throughout all nota
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by rrmm 11y ago
Agree. The things that are dying are older traditional forms and older means of promulgating art. Artists aren't too interested in painting new religious frescoes these days either. The other change is that there is less of a gulf be
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by rrmm 11y ago
I inherited an application from a person who was apparently taken with XML. The app's data and output was kept in his own home-brewed XML format with hand written output and parser functions. His understanding of XML was as follows: P
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by rrmm 11y ago
if the choice is "let's deploy software on AWS," vs "let's build an AWS work-a-like and then deploy software on it," it'll always be easier to use AWS. Managing physical servers is a pain. I've been
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by rrmm 11y ago
It also doesn't appear that the firms are constant year over year. It just takes the top 5% and labels those the frontier firms. So with just the info in the article i don't think it supports any particular conclusion without mor
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by rrmm 11y ago
It definitely depends on the invention in question. Consider the case of nuclear weapons. The first big leap is that the energy of fission can be made to be explosively released. Once you know that this is the case, most people in the fie
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by rrmm 11y ago
That's too low of a standard imo: just knowing something is possible and what that specific thing is, confers a lot of useful information.
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by rrmm 11y ago
If there is any issue, I don't think that is it. The issue that might arise is that techniques that are invented might never be openly published (since there wouldn't be protection for it). For stuff that is obvious, it wouldn&#x2
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by rrmm 11y ago
In my cursory search, I've not found any numbers for just how badly they cheated. Anyone know what the test vs defeated emission numbers were? I imagine there's gonna be a huge class action suit on top of everything. Edit: 10-40x
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by rrmm 11y ago
It seems like it's going on there more because it is conducive to talented/idea people being there in a big group rather than about tax structure. Boeing though just built a new facility in another state because of union issues (a
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by rrmm 11y ago
If they were in a Delaware situation, wouldn't they not get many of the secondary and tertiary benefits of the business? Ie, there would be a shell company there, but not many jobs, and therefore not many people's commerce adding
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by rrmm 11y ago
(I'm not a fiscal conservative, but) Do more taxes pay for more and better civilization? Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. The question should usually be about the right level of taxes. The problem is that the feedback cy
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by rrmm 11y ago
The legislators' assumption was that lowering the tax rate (eventually to zero) would bring business to the state. Ignoring arguments about the validity and applicability of the Laffer curve, what made them think businesses would want
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by rrmm 11y ago
I've run across stuff in mathematical contexts where they'll throw in a derivative (or other operator) just to get the expression in the form they want. It struck me as a bit odd, because hey, where's the change happening? Bu

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