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by s17n 9y ago
It used to be possible to have have a successful academic career without publishing much - for example, one of my philosophy profs in college (at a top 10 school) had never published anything after his dissertation (he got his phd in the ea
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by s17n 9y ago
Python is pretty much becoming the de facto language of academia (outside of CS). I wonder how much this is driving overall Python usage?
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by s17n 9y ago
The question that the article raises is, should the Amy Wax face professional repercussions for making a racist argument? I think that as a law professor, the answer is yes - she should be held accountable for incompetence in op-ed writing
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by s17n 9y ago
There are lots but who knows which of them are actually sustainable. Check again in 5 years.
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by s17n 9y ago
The cache architecture is open, so that anybody (eg, Twitter) can run their own AMP cache.
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by s17n 9y ago
The real crime against the open web is twitter (and google, and facebook...) replacing all their links with t.co redirects.
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by s17n 9y ago
Definitely true in NYC but Uber is global, in places like France they are lowering the bar for drivers' working conditions.
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by s17n 9y ago
The article doesn't mention providers dealing directly with the customer to avoid paying a percentage to the app. In any service business like housekeeping where you have a long term relationship between the customer and the provider,
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by s17n 9y ago
This video is not worth 50 minutes. tl;dr: A bunch of stuff about typing that you probably already know and for which there are better resources. He cites a couple studies showing that static typing doesn't improve productivity. His ow
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by s17n 9y ago
The last bullet is just a straight up error on the part of the developer. The third... isn't real? What browser doesn't save form state? The first two are fair criticism but they aren't nearly as detrimental to the user ex
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by s17n 9y ago
If you are looking for an elaborate explanation of what the phrase "shortest path" means, this might be helpful. Otherwise, I hate to be a hater but it's not really a great explanation of Dijkstra's algorithm. It certa
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by s17n 9y ago
This gets me thinking, if you were to design the perfect calculator, what would it look like? (The best calculator that I've seen is running Mathematica on a standard pc, but is there really no way to improve on that interface, assumin
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by s17n 9y ago
It will be fixed client side - Safari is rolling this out in ios 11
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by s17n 9y ago
AMP gives you preloading (that's the whole point of the google.com url) but yeah just making sites that didn't suck would give you 95% of the benefit of AMP. Unfortunately it's never gonna happen.
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To be honest, I'd feel better if it was willful fraud.
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I think most of the criticism of AMP is the URLs being messed up, which is something that will soon be fixed.
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Fewer than if we are all required to run Facebook pages.
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by s17n 9y ago
That is not what "unpriced externality" means. And if your vegetables being "contaminated in ways that you can't reasonably detect" isn't a case of you not knowing what is good for you, I don't know what i
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by s17n 9y ago
All of these companies do business in the EU, have offices and employees in the EU, etc. They are clearly subject to EU jurisdiction. They could shut down all their European operations, but that would cost them a lot more than 4% of revenu
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by s17n 9y ago
If you want to opt out of data collection, it's not that hard, just go to google.com/privacy
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by s17n 9y ago
The crux of the case against Microsoft was that they abused their monopoly position to prevent OEM's from using competing software. The analogy here would be Google forcing ISP's to sign contracts which require them to block Amaz
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Those are arbitrary categories. You could argue (as Google does) that buying products and discovering web sites are both just subcategories of "search". Conversely, you could argue that buying books and buying clothes are comple
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Amazon used its dominant position in books to enter a whole lot of other markets.
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what the fuck?
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by s17n 9y ago
Food safety regulation has nothing to do with unpriced externality and everything to do with people not knowing what's good for them.
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What could possibly go wrong?
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by s17n 9y ago
I don't think that the eu has considered the question of whether Amazon is a monopoly. Ironically this decision pretty much ensures that they will be, at least in the eu.
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by s17n 9y ago
I don't know most of my friends' email addresses, and those I do know, I wouldn't be sure that they are actually checking them. I'm 32.
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Play services exists to give Google a way to deliver updates that isn't subject to carrier or oem interference. If it was open sourced, that would defeat the purpose. To put it another way, giving the general public access to the sour
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by s17n 9y ago
> What are you measuring? The current autopilot already appears to be materially safer, in certain circumstances, than human drivers That's a good question. Clearly, existing self-driving tech is safer than human drivers on average

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