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by ryeights 6y ago
Huh. I didn't know logins worked on archive.org
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https://web.archive.org/web/20200515102107/https://www.econo...
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>The regrettable fact is that this contact tracing app will definitely become a requirement for getting a job, and very likely at some point a de facto identity and civil passport for being able to access modern infrastructure and urban
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For anyone else who was out of the loop on "Black+", this is from their 2018 report: >Black+ includes all Googlers who identify as Black, plus those who identify as Black and any other race.
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I don't think it was intended as an attack, but rather the GP's own experience with YouTube time-wasting. It's certainly mine.
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That stuck out to me as well, but it makes sense as an incentive for companies to create better products. Why pour money into R&D to develop new products if you're restricted to charging existing prices? Might as well just develop
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Hmm. The idea is tempting, but I'm wary of the notion that most students (especially underclassmen) could make efficient use of their time trying to create a whole business from scratch in 6 months. Is this a reasonable assumption? The
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by ryeights 6y ago
More power to ‘em. Yearbooks are a racket
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The full report: http://ncirs.org.au/sites/default/files/2020-04/NCIRS%20NSW%... Key quote: >SARS-CoV-2 transmission in children in schools appears considerably less than seen for other respiratory vi
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“Industrial Society and Its Future”, Ted Kacynzski (the Unabomber) https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab... While the man and his actions were reprehensible, his manifesto was lucid and
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How else do you propose companies should assess new hires, especially young ones? And while the cost of tuition these days (IMO) outstrips the value of a college education, that’s not to say that value is zero.
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Thanks for your response, I'm glad to hear things are going well. Judging by your response, your son seems to be (relatively) young--do you have any plans to reintroduce him into the schooling system during his high school years, e.g.
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Do you have any concerns about your son’s social development? If so, how do you address these? Personally, I would be worried about accidentally isolating my kids and causing them to miss out on certain soft skills.
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Absolutely. The problem is that nobody gets promoted for slowly incrementing on an existing product.
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That’s fair. I find their COVID-19-related reporting to be fairly current, at least.
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For what it's worth, the rest of their reporting is still fairly high quality; from what I understand, newsrooms and editorial boards are entirely separate entities at most news companies. If you're looking for deeper analysis-typ
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by ryeights 6y ago
The WSJ's opinion page is mindbogglingly bad. Their pro-Trump stance borders on worship, and almost every article is dedicated to either promoting Trump or defending one of his positions (in this case, lifting lockdowns). The comment s
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signalapp/zkgroup(github.com)
1 points by ryeights 6y ago|0 comments
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by ryeights 7y ago
I can see how that would lead to an illusion of continuous subjective awareness, but I don't think it supports the notion that subjective awareness is entirely illusory. I think therefore I am, the existence of qualia [1], etc. [1]:
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by ryeights 7y ago
Good point.
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Then you have an Amazon scenario, where people complain that companies pay low or no taxes because they are reinvesting their revenue.
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by ryeights 7y ago
>they didn’t really choose to hold cash. I'm not sure what you mean by this, but if companies are going to hold large amounts of cash, it would be fiscally irresponsible not to seek the best possible tax treatment for it within the
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by ryeights 7y ago
In good times, people complain about companies like Apple "hoarding cash". Now, people complain about companies redistributing profits to their shareholders--many of which are ordinary people holding shares in their 401(k)'s
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by ryeights 7y ago
Well, the notion of depression as a chemical imbalance was brought into the fray to sell Zoloft...
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De-paywalled: https://archive.is/WaVOg
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Senate Passes $2T Virus Rescue Plan; Sends Bill to House(bloomberg.com)
2 points by ryeights 7y ago|1 comments
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>the re-encoding is usually not a problem, action scenes can get a little blocky but the quality is really pretty great. YMMV. This usually barely works for me, I suspect you need a really steady, high-speed upload to make this work.
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Most classes already post lecture videos, slides, review materials, and problem sets online. Yes, the quality of education will be degraded, but not severely so. Lab classes are a different matter entirely.
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I believe the Kent State shooting caused a similar cancellation of classes.
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>This is strange. Isn't the travel they are forcing quite possibly a cure worth than the disease? Many (most?) students already travel for spring break, so this shouldn't result in much more travel than usual. I imagine that is

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