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by strlen 14y ago
Yes, you are correct. I wrote the comment too hastily. To expand a bit on this, the heuristic Thomas follows is "did the government simply do what a reasonable parent would do under the same circumstances?". Thomas' argument in Brown was th
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> Clapper was a very sensible decision. The plaintiffs in the case couldn't even prove that they had been harmed! Seems very sensible, compared to how difficult the search for a plaintiff with standing had been for the case that became
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Supreme Court doctrines aren't about left vs. right in the conventional sense. The justices are very solid about the principles they claim to stick to (standards of judicial review, what constitutes limitations on commerce clause, etc...) a
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(Note, this is an honest question on my behalf -- I don't have a preconceived opinion on this matter.) Do you have any data points about Keynesian deficit spending being effective in more recent times? I was under impression that it hasn't
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> Jews in the USSR would go to a top flight school in the USSR, get their diploma, then immediately go to Israel or the West and get paid a high salary. Complete and utter anti-Semitic horse shit: my dad was prohibited from as much as l
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As a counter point, I came to the United States in 1996 -- my dad and brother had H1-B visas and my mother and I had H4 visas. These are all non-immigrant issues, much less non-refugee. We have since obtained green cards and naturalized. My
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As an example, my mom was not allowed to defend her Ph.D. dissertation (despite having done the research and having finished her dissertation!) because of an informal, ill-understood Jewish quota. This wasn't even Moscow State: this was in
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[Edit: wrote the comment hastily, had to fix a bunch of grammatical mistakes.] [Disclaimer: Soviet Jewish immigrant to the United States. We immigrated to a heavily Asian community (Cupertino) when we moved to the United States, so I'm also
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by strlen 14y ago
Ah, so apparently I learned something new: there's a FPC attached to FCI Lompoc, which I am guessing is where Mitnick served time when he was at Lompoc (for his earlier convictions, rather than the most infamous one) as well as Captain Crun
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by strlen 14y ago
I am not sure about the district Swartz is in, but I've known folks who went to FCI Lompoc (for non-violent felonies -- albeit ones with actual victims and non-trivial monetary damage, i.e., they did deserve to go to prison fair and square)
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by strlen 14y ago
Teens are an example of a group that has mobile phones and doesn't have credit cards (or bank debit cards) and there are other examples. There is also a group that has bank cards, secured credit cards (i.e., requires up-front payment), but
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by strlen 14y ago
As a former Yahoo employee, I would say the answer is obvious: talent. Yahoo had an inconsistent talent bar: some teams had a very rigorous interview process and managed under-performers out, others did not do either. Autonomy requires trus
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Most personality traits follow a normal distribution: half are more socially awkward than average, half are less socially awkward than average. I found it surprising and even counterintuitive, but empirical data suggests that on average h
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"Art Institute of X" where X is not Chicago usually implies a for-profit institution owned by EDMC ("educational management corporation"). Academy of Art (in SF) is quite similar, but perhaps more known regionally: in both cases they seem t
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This can not be under-emphasized. I was in my late teens/early 20s at that time and a lot of my friends who were nerds and into the rave scenes had stories that started with "Oh wow, I met Captain Crunch at a rave, we'll get to hang out soo
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> We are lucky in the states that we have so much land and resources that we really have a lot of choices; this isn't as true for the rest of the world. South Korea has much less land and much fewer resources, yet (relative to the res
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>Tell me more about how you read the GoF book, and applied the patterns in a language that does not even have interfaces or type-hinting. <tongue in cheek> If you're interested in examples of GoF patterns implemented in a lang
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That's what I'm seeing too. I support Thiel's ideas in general (and have worked with and can vouch for at least one Thiel Fellow), but this case appears to be a guy dropping out of college... to promote dropping out of college. I am not say
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You're covered as a part of Group D, the most dangerous group: content with at best an "enlightened hedonism" (work diligently, but only so that you could afford that 60" TV), while groups A-C strip away your liberty and safety.
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by strlen 14y ago
Indeed, spoofing reverse DNS is not hard -- and spoofing reverse DNS to appear like an intelligence agency is straight out of every 1990s IRC script kiddie's cookbook.
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by strlen 14y ago
The only relevant piece of advice here. This is, after all, Canada: if it is indeed CSIS who setup backdoor the OP's computer, there is a paper trail. Lawyers know how to obtain this paper trail. I don't know Canadian law, but the worst I c
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There's something to be said of IITs and the way they've done a remarkable job of taking people out of extreme poverty and into (both Indian and American) upper middle classes. The SATs have initially had this effect in the United States as
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Good luck, Senator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Entertainment_Merchant...
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From what I read there are several causes of suicide: * Legitimate reasons, e.g., you're a French resistance fighter captured by Gestapo and if you speak under torture innocent people will be deported to Auschwitz (okay, had to "Godwin" thi
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Tangentially, this reminds me of something else: the grandparent studied another STEM discipline (aerospace engineering). Yet he's not only been able to master programming well enough to be employable as a core software engineer, is able to
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Unfortunately a lot of undergrad programs don't cover it either. I didn't quite grasp type systems until working getting ahold of Prof Pierce's books: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/ (It is very amenable to self-study) and then:
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Ssshh, don't tell anyone that UT Austin is a top 10 CS program :-) I would strongly encourage any potential competitor to never recruit from UT Austin (or any UC school, U of Washington, UWisc Madison, Waterloo, etc...). Oh, and amongst I
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I think if school attended influences on the job performance, that's a failure of the hiring/interview process. It is fine if school attended influences interview performance, but if it influences it too strongly that may allude to a failur
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> The reason some firms hire only top school kids is (apart from ego) they know that whatever test/puzzle/interview they give their decision in hiring candidates will still be fairly inaccurate. For young firms in software industry, thi
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Along with other commenters, I think our society redefined happiness to mean something it doesn't. I normally dislike self-help books ("The only way to get rich from a self-help book is to write one."), but on someone else's recommend I pic

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