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by trendia 10y ago
I just signed up and they advertised that it cost $1 to get a report. BUT they sign you up for a $22 / mo service. It is not very obvious that they did this, and it's somewhat difficult to deactivate your account. (I imagine peopl
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by trendia 10y ago
Conversation on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/51yxv1/wikileaks...
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by trendia 10y ago
The pip package doesn't build for me either. And I even reinstalled Ubuntu to get a fresh Python installation
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by trendia 10y ago
Thank you so much. I tried 3 times in the last week to get it working with Cuda 8.0
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by trendia 10y ago
In this case, though, there are way more than 6,600 people in the US that would be able to get do that data engineering job, including: 1. physicists 2. Wall St. quants 3. game programmers 4. PhD statisticians So, the problem is not that th
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by trendia 10y ago
Anecdotal: there are times when I have been unable to access rt.com [1] through Comcast, though I could access it through my 4G connection just fine. [1] yes, I know it's propaganda, but I was accessing it for research purposes
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by trendia 10y ago
I think people's opinions are polarized this year because of the election. If Wikileaks had only released information on the Malaysian Prime Minister, for instance, I doubt that we'd be seeing the same kind of strong opinions abou
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by trendia 10y ago
I think comparing releasing of personal information to civilian deaths is a bit of a stretch. Especially when Wikileaks may have the potential to increase transparency and make politicians more reluctant to allow such civilian casualties.
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by trendia 10y ago
I think you're taking Assange's words out of context. He was talking about the release itself, in that it showed how the DNC actively worked to hamper Bernie's efforts despite being a "neutral" organization. (Neutra
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by trendia 10y ago
OK, let's use your hypothetical that if we accept everyone, that they will have equal graduate attainment (regardless of test scores). Then, we would expect that there would be little correlation between testing scores and outcomes. Es
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by trendia 10y ago
What I think you're trying to say is that intelligence is irrelevant to getting a Doctorate because test scores, not intelligence, are the factor. But of course doctorates are based on test scores. That's because test scores are
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by trendia 10y ago
People with graduate degrees have higher than average IQ, but people with higher IQ do not necessarily have graduate degrees. That is, intelligence is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition to get a graduate degree in STEM. The other ne
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by trendia 10y ago
IQ measured while young predicts income later as an entrepreneur. http://imgur.com/a/huYKk http://ftp.iza.org/dp3648.pdf
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by trendia 10y ago
There were five different features that they plotted vs. SAT score [1]. All five rely heavily on intelligence: 1. any doctorate 2. STEM publications 3. STEM doctorates 4. Patents 5. Income in the 95th percentile A person in Q4 was 60% more
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by trendia 10y ago
> “A high test score tells you only that a person has high ability and is a good match for that particular test at that point in time,” says Matthews. If Matthews is correct that scores are transient, then we'd expect test scores to
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by trendia 10y ago
The majority of Americans do NOT support broad NSA spying activities. [1] More than three-quarters of likely voters the poll interviewed opposed related aspects of current surveillance authorities and operations. Eighty-two percent are “c
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by trendia 10y ago
When you say those are the programs that they're "supposed to run", I ask, who gave them that mandate? Specifically ... Who gets to determine which programs the NSA is allowed to run? And who gets to determine what civilian d
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by trendia 10y ago
I was converting her text into math-ish notation. She's saying that P(SAT Score > 700 | 1970) > P(SAT Score > 700 | 1980) is inaccurate, and that we should instead use: P(SAT Score > 700 | cohort, 1970) ~ P(SAT Score > 7
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by trendia 10y ago
The problem with most of these is not adjusting for cohort changes. For instance, in the SAT example, the author writes: > In the 1980s, the Reagan administration seized on a report called A Nation at Risk, which claimed that the US was
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by trendia 10y ago
It'd be a LOT more difficult for the Russians [1] to manipulate our voting machines if we used paper ballots and some sort of voter verification. [1] or whatever is the boogeyman of the day
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by trendia 10y ago
That argument would be irrelevant if we just made drugs legal in the first place.
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by trendia 10y ago
There is no such thing "national interest." There is only the interest of individuals. Sometimes they align with the majority of people, sometimes they do not.
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by trendia 10y ago
You are making the assumption that spying is common, so it is justified. Or even that if spying results in favorable outcome, that it's justified. But I ask, favorable to whom?
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by trendia 10y ago
The NSA is spying for a reason, and it's not just because they enjoy the challenge. Rather, they want to effect change. How can spying effect change? 1. Providing knowledge to the US to improve our decision making 2. Providing intellig
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by trendia 10y ago
The point of the "game" is to induce a chilling effect on private conversations to limit the available discourse about decisions. The French President becomes afraid not to just make a particular decision, but also to even disc
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by trendia 10y ago
Honestly, the perception of libertarianism as inherently racist is, to me, more of a useful political tool than reality. I have a hard time understanding reconciling that perceived view with actual libertarian perceptions. (And of course, r
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by trendia 10y ago
Didn't want to imply that posting this was malicious! However, there are several aspects of politics that make "logical debate" rather difficult. The biggest aspect is that there is a LOT of money spent in political campaigns
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by trendia 10y ago
I think that Tor, like Bitcoin, will always be vulnerable if a particularly powerful entity is able to obtain a majority of nodes. (Or, in the case of Bitcoin, a majority of hashing power). And the more troubling aspect is that the courts h
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by trendia 10y ago
Tor is no longer secure; the U.S. government paid Carnegie Mellon (CMU) to research ways of de-anonymizing users by inserting specially designed packets into Tor user data at controlled nodes. [1] Nearly a year-and-a-half after CMU canceled
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by trendia 10y ago
What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

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