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It would be nice if that's the case, but do you really think a global community of academics would welcome a paper with open arms that destroyed their entire life's work and careers? Come on. Plenty of papers and analyses have bee
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The only source I can find for those words is this article: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/08/23/tucker_ca...
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"Amoral" or just not convinced by the case made by climatologists for their predictions. Although many try to shut down all discussion of it, there are plenty of rational grounds for suspecting climate change related predictions a
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It appears that at the moment all this means is there will be an investigation and a report. Presumably, any action taken to block the sale will have to wait until after that.
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Brexit only fully happened a few months ago, so it is hardly related to this. Any considerations w.r.t. looking 'open for business' would certainly still apply. But sure, make everything about Brexit, why not.
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Huh. This quote appears to come from Tucker Carlson, not who I expected at all. If even the American right believes this stuff, that might explain why it's become so prevalent in Valley culture. What's interesting is, although the
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Which telco is that? Is it UK based by any chance? Article says things are different in the UK.
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Almost all spam is not profitable enough to pay humans to do every step manually, so if you make it that expensive, it's the same thing as winning.
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That's true for legacy MSI. MSI comes in two versions now. There is also MSIX. MSIX is actually quite good. Apps run inside a semi-virtualised container, so that writes to the registry and AppData are redirected. Uninstalling the app t
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Because the Russia link is so strong? Dude, everything you read about Russia in the American press is garbage. From the article: "They cleaned the crime scene so thoroughly investigators can't prove definitively who was behind it.
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Java has such a system but people write long class names anyway, because people don't like to have too many types with identical names distinguished only by namespace. You can do it but it's a bit questionable to what extent you
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Eh, any sufficiently large or complex codebases will get ridiculously long names at some point. Here are some from a famous C API (Windows): CoMarshalInterThreadInterfaceInStream D3D12_GPU_BASED_VALIDATION_SHADER_PATCH_MODE_UNGUA
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Linux isn't readable because of C. My god, just go look at the source code of most GNU projects like glibc or gcc if you want to disabuse yourself of that notion. Linux is highly readable because Linus imposes readability on it through
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The GC comment was true of older versions of the JVM but newer versions are much better. And by newer I mean versions released in the last 5 years or so. So not that new. There are one or two knobs left but those are fundamental to GC techn
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It's probably worth noting that Minecraft has an incredibly lackadaisical approach to Java and Java upgrades in general. They're still on Java 8 and thinking maybe about upgrading to Java 11 at some point, although the performance
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The USA doesn't differ in material ways in how it produces meat. They raise lots of animals and then kill them in various nasty yet efficient ways, which is no different to how European farms raise meat, not much different to how farms
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I think that stuff was not a reflection on forums or moderation in general but specific to the time that Slashdot was born in. Rob Malda had a very strong pro free-speech stance and so the site developed this odd sub-culture early on that w
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There are very few significant differences between EU and other parts of the world in regards to the environment, and the few large differences to do exist (e.g. GM foods) are pseudo-scientific excuses for defending local industry that woul
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Maybe. I agree that's a strong argument, but I think for both accountancy and law the standards are in both cases defined by governments, as the professions are largely about ensuring compliance with what governments require. The profe
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It's easy in theory: you create a competitor that differentiates through the quality of its content-provider service quality and how much money is spent on dispute resolution. But I am skeptical it would be successful. It might be, but
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Appealing and not hearing back doesn't mean the original decision was entirely automated, it means they ignore appeals. Plenty of people would love nothing more than to argue with Google employees all day about every decision the firm
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Because I worked there and back then, when Google claimed content had been manually reviewed, it had been. It might have been by a low wage worker in India or Brazil and they might have spent 20 seconds on it, but there was a person in th
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But AstraZeneca does work. The idea it doesn't is a fiction peddled by French and German political leaders, it's not based in science.
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Yeah, but which institutions would design such exams? CS degrees aren't ideal but at least they're designed by people who have CS training and are programmers. If a government decided to set such an exam it'd probably end up
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What's with the assumption here that there aren't humans involved in this decision? The linked post literally quotes Google saying: "Hi Sun Knudsen, Our team has reviewed your content, and, unfortunately, we think it violat
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No, Intel's cores are still core-for-core beating AMDs as far as I'm aware, likewise for the new server ARM chips (Apple is not hugely relevant, their market share is price capped). That's design. The actual chips are slower
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I don't fully get this argument. Trees are a very common thing to encounter in all sorts of programming and recursively walking them is also very common. I had to do it yesterday as part of writing some code to traverse a file system,
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Data scientists also do a lot of SQL queries. The point is that this guy appears to have explained why he's not getting offers in the blog post, possibly without realising it: maybe he doesn't have the skills he claims to have.
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What do you think a cs degree is? We don't use them as automatic proof of competence because lots of people get good degrees but cannot program, or enter the field in other ways but can.
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I think such a challenge would fail in any reasonable legal system. HN seems to be talking itself into a belief that these interviews have no relationship to actual programming work, but that's not the case and plenty of experienced en

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