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by stult 2y ago
30% of the population is plenty for making friends. If choosing not to watch a lot of TV makes someone non-neurotypical, that’s a pretty scary standard. 75% of the population in the US is overweight or obese. Are we defining people with hea
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by stult 2y ago
I’m sure most of it is trademark preservation. Trademarks are enforce it or lose it.
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by stult 2y ago
> They think - rightly or wrongly - that it's a more effective way to run their company, Well sure. Just because they think it's a more effective way to run their company doesn't mean that their understanding of "more
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by stult 2y ago
It's easier to launder money with services than goods anyway because you don't need to dispose of excess merchandise to make the books balance. Like if you want to claim to have sold 10000 cans of soda despite only selling 1000, y
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by stult 2y ago
I'd kill for units of measure too. It makes maintaining any kind of engineering or scientific code so much easier.
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by stult 2y ago
> Like a lawyer who advises you not to do anything ever. One of my most frequent criticisms of teams responsible for security is that they spend a lot of time telling people what not to do instead of proactively providing them with effic
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by stult 2y ago
Ireland was colonized by the vikings from the 8th century onward, who continued their long history of seaborne trade even after they abandoned the practice of raiding for which they are more famous. So they had the liquid wealth (primarily
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by stult 2y ago
Your argument is a variant of the object–relational impedance mismatch problem[1]. It's easier for us to reason about objects (or functions and types) than it is to think in terms of SQL tables, so it is much easier to develop complex
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by stult 2y ago
This doesn't seem like a workable standard. How will Wyoming distinguish between conservation bidders and commercial bidders that simply choose not to produce for economic reasons? Meaning, what happens if the prices of oil and gas cra
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by stult 2y ago
I think the greatest driver of liquidity in crypto is actually capital flight from countries with restrictive capital controls like China and Russia. So a tool for crime according to those nations but not a criminal use as far as most peopl
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by stult 2y ago
I simply don't think that I will ever be able to come up with anything even vaguely as comprehensive as the test coverage that Microsoft already has for ensuring their ORM behaves consistently across database providers. In my over 10 y
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by stult 2y ago
Worth being careful about how we are using the term bias, which means different things in legal contexts than it does in the ML context. Anything that has a legal requirement to remain unbiased will also clearly define what counts as bias,
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by stult 2y ago
One of the nice things about the .NET ORM EntityFramework is that you can swap a mocked in-memory database for your prod DB with dependency injection, so without modifying your code at all and theoretically without affecting the behavior of
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by stult 2y ago
If only we could bundle it with the world's most commonly used tabular data tool, it could run the entire world
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by stult 2y ago
> I think the whole point/perspective of science is that claims have to be provable with evidence Really, the whole point of science is that claims have to be falsifiable with evidence, which is more or less the opposite of provab
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by stult 2y ago
I've seen this in aerospace in cases where testing the software against ground truth isn't possible for some reason[1], so you need to generate an alternative version of an algorithm as a sanity check. [1] This is typically becaus
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by stult 2y ago
Sure, ultra-hazardous activities are regulated differently from other activities, including under tort law, but generic AI tools are not ultra-hazardous by nature. No piece of software is, until it is connected in some way to real world eff
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by stult 2y ago
> Preload a city's, county's etc. entire set of laws You would also need to load an enormous amount of precedential case law, at least in the US and other common law jurisdictions. Synthesizing case law into rules of law applic
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by stult 3y ago
Hence C laws
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by stult 3y ago
None of the positions seem to actually be remote, so this posting is deceptive. Really freaking annoying actually.
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by stult 3y ago
It would help if the legal profession (at least in the US) did not actively select against numeracy. The running joke in law school is that everyone who was a decent student but bad at math goes to law school because the LSATs do not have a
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by stult 3y ago
The US has developed both low-cost interceptors like you suggest and Directed Energy Weapons for a counter-UAS role. https://www.army.mil/article/268403/army_joint_force_work_to... DEWs are likely to win out in th
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by stult 3y ago
> Of course the only way to win would be by pushing your enemy back down the stairs and then with whoever is left above you, retake the entire castle. > Yeah, that’s unlikely to work out. > Frankly, if you find yourself in this pos
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by stult 3y ago
> For your particular usecase, yes. The use case they are describing is a standard web server or web application. That's a pretty important and widely applicable use case to dismiss out of hand as "your particular usecase"
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by stult 4y ago
IME there is a code quality/sanity valley of death between about 50-1000 people, with the lower bound shifting upwards a bit depending on the maturity of the company's founding/early stage technical contributors. You get more
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by stult 4y ago
What an incredibly, idiotically reductionist interpretation of cherry-picked data this is. First of all, he selected a fairly random, non-representative set of goods and services. I can immediately think of a glaringly obvious counter-examp
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by stult 4y ago
> Not rich enough to fly charter The growing backlash against the environmental impact of private jets may change this calculation a bit.
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by stult 4y ago
> Another example is when our rights were violated the lawyer we talked to said it was a violation but there's not a good case because the judges only care if there was significant financial or physical injury involved. It’s not tha
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by stult 4y ago
> Not drugs or mental illness, study says Meanwhile, in the actual body of the article, > Aldern, a data scientist and policy analyst in Seattle, and Colburn, an assistant professor of real estate at the University of Washington’s Col
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by stult 4y ago
> Not even sure what a formal education in this context would entail. An MBA. This is exactly the sort of material MBAs study and there really isn't any other formal educational credential that qualifies someone to evaluate strategi

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