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by steveeq1 10y ago
Sure they have something to gain - proof against frivolous lawsuits, for which they are often the target of.
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by steveeq1 10y ago
I'm curious. What are the pro arguments for the "American rule"?
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I know lawyers who do this on a regular basis and they, amazingly, think of themselves as good people. They even go to church, amazingly enough. I guess my point is never underestimate "incentive-caused bias"
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Never underestimate incentive bias.
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And what if "people of color commit more crimes" is statistically true?
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One can also make the argument that rap music and games like "Grand Theft Auto" encourages violent behavior in black youths.
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by steveeq1 10y ago
"Inner Game of Tennis" was recommended on Alan Kay's reading list: http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp he also touches upon it on a presentation he did in the mid '80s: h
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What about black and rich vs white and poor?
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snowden comes to mind.
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Why infamous? Aren't most pop songs based on this?
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Another way to interpret this statistic is "10% of software developers in the US work in Silicon Valley"
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by steveeq1 10y ago
#10 struck me. I'm doing work for one guy that seems somewhat litigious and I'm afraid it might bring the startup down. There's no such thing as a solid contract with a bad person.
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by steveeq1 10y ago
Yes, I was thinking this exact thing. They're making things better on one metric, but (possibly) making things worse on another. The article doesn't really address the issues of false positives.
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I'm hispanic.
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You're joking, right?
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by steveeq1 10y ago
By that same logic, I could say "visit compton sometime" and you would probably cry racism.
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by steveeq1 10y ago
Saying people in overwhelmingly white suburbs are racist is racist in and of itself. You shouldn't generalize people's behavior based on the color of one's skin!
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Pharo Smalltalk “Agile Visualization” book is out(agilevisualization.com)
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"The irony is that the ‘second Steve’ of the later Apple made and sold the equivalent of mental sugar water to all via convenient appealing consumer gadgets." Ouch.
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Satoshi can probably be revealed using these techniques. It's a double-edge sword.
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I don't get it, isn't the arbitrator supposed to be an unbiased third party? Whether or not he's chosen by the company should be irrelevant.
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by steveeq1 10y ago
Ok, non-lawyer here. I keep on hearing about arbitration clauses being a bad thing. Isn't arbitration kind of like a privatized court system that's also legally binding? Isn't this much faster than using the traditional court
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by steveeq1 10y ago
Ray Kurzweil seems to have made a passable song using a computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Neivqp2K4 Granted, I wouldn't say it's song of the year or anything, but it's definitely listenable. Does a
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by steveeq1 10y ago
There is also an app from the apple app store that has most of these mental models in book form: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/think-mental-models/id61236...
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There have been similar studies showing that shorter/uglier people tend to get hired less than their taller/better looking counterparts - for the same skillset. Yet society, in the United States anyway, seem to be less concerned a
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Straw man.
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emacs
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Such great software. If you are a programmer and have a big monitor, this is a MUST
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https://xkcd.com/936/
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by steveeq1 10y ago
Probably somebody's birthday. And probably part of a bot.

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