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by troupe 3y ago
There might be some information that could be combined with other data in ways that would violate the privacy of students and their families. Obviously discipline records with student names shouldn't be public, but what about records w
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by troupe 3y ago
It doesn't seem entirely unreasonable that if a school system gives a researcher access to data that isn't shared with the public, the researcher agrees not to use that information to sue the school system. Such agreements would a
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by troupe 3y ago
> Then, out of nowhere, they just implemented it themselves! If I'm understanding the timeline and details, it isn't that Shopify came out with a better solution which lost them customers. Shopify banned them from adding any ne
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by troupe 3y ago
Interesting. I'm not sure I fully understand what you are saying though. Can you expand on that?
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by troupe 3y ago
Well if you want to take money from the general population and give to people whose ancestors were harmed by slavery, you need some way to differentiate between ancestors who were harmed by and ancestors who benefited from slavery. If that
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by troupe 3y ago
> However, what is the societal problem here? I would say yes. I think we need to place a lot more value in publishing research that isn't surprising. Research that simply replicates (or fails to replicate) other research should be
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by troupe 3y ago
I've never seen it as something that was thought about as part of any reparation ideas.
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by troupe 3y ago
It is very possible to have someone with dark skin today who is descended equally parts from former slaves and Africans who were responsible for selling the slaves to the Europeans.
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by troupe 3y ago
It is also easy to forget that the suppliers of slaves were African nations that practiced slavery themselves. They found the Europeans to be great customers for their slaves. So descendants of the Ashanti and others benefited from the sell
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by troupe 3y ago
Also most of what "software engineers" are asked to work on are not engineering problems. There are of course exceptions, but the vast majority of positions labelled "software engineer" aren't doing anything that wo
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by troupe 3y ago
> It's like getting an astrophysics degree in hopes of getting a job in the telescope industry. If you just want to build telescopes, then you don't probably need any degree. If you want to engineer telescopes, then astrophysic
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by troupe 3y ago
It might depend on who you follow. For the small number of people I follow who also have a small number of followers, it means that people who are more invested in Twitter show up at the top of the replies. So it hasn't made it any wor
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by troupe 3y ago
The fact that the calculation would take 47 years on a classical computer is only a break through if the calculation is something we actually want to do. Otherwise it just means that we have created an unnecessary problem designed to be sol
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by troupe 3y ago
Apple tends to be good at getting technology into people's hands and then iterating based on the use cases that emerge. The iPhone without being able to write apps for it seemed like a really bad idea at the time, but they were able to
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by troupe 3y ago
Did it give you any significant discount? A few people I know that did something similar ended up saving $2 per year. If you bought a phone I'm guessing your discount was much higher.
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by troupe 3y ago
> only so valuable because the only fathers that stick around are the ones that care. Last time I looked at data about this, it appeared that even a poor father who was present was better than no having a father in the home. If I remembe
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by troupe 3y ago
Xbox controllers are regularly used by the military for controlling all kinds of things. I've seen them for UAVs, submersibles, equipment on subs, etc. Using off the shelf components like that is common so I'm not sure why this is
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by troupe 3y ago
If you are referring to the stock price, I'd guess there was a lot of run up anticipating an unknown great announcement. Once it was announced, the "fear of missing out premium" went away and the stock went down just a bit. T
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by troupe 3y ago
Yes, but that doesn't seem to be what is happening in most places.
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by troupe 3y ago
If there is value in interacting in the office, hybrid work that has people coming in on random days seems almost like the worst of both worlds. If the value is to get face time with your teammates, then the in office days need to be align
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by troupe 3y ago
While I understand what you are saying, I would disagree. Saying that something is completely safe when it isn't (as you say nothing is completely safe) makes it appear that people are being lied to when someone does have some type of
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by troupe 3y ago
mRNA vaccines are completely safe - Obviously false just like it is false for any vaccine since there are always going to be rare side effects in some members of the population. They very well may be just as safe as any other vaccine, but t
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by troupe 3y ago
The surgeon said one of the reasons men were getting the procedure was because: > Others, who had been considering the procedure for a while, were apparently spurred by a concern that vasectomy could be outlawed next. Is this a common co
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by troupe 3y ago
> is popular software mature enough and regulated enough yet to be worth distributing to 100 million users? I think the answer is overwhelmingly "no". Well it depends on the alternative. If you had to choose between Linux and T
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by troupe 3y ago
What I've found fascinating about the refrigerators I've had recently is that the refrigeration process rarely is the part that breaks. However the plastic shelves decompose right about the time the warranty goes out. My guess is
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by troupe 3y ago
We still have variation in vehicles and some vehicles are known for being of better quality than others. Dollar for dollar the ones that are produced in the millions are more reliable than the ones that are produced in the thousands. With s
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by troupe 3y ago
> Humanity didn't get good at building houses by building the same house a million times. The amount of quality variation that we are willing to accept in our houses is much greater than what we are willing to accept in an automobil
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by troupe 3y ago
You might consider starting with learning the open strings, then the first fret, then second, etc. The way it works now requires a level of expertise beyond what beginners are likely to have. But the idea looks great!
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by troupe 3y ago
> Improve conditions? It seems like there might be room for improving conditions in ways that will help prevent them from being back in prison later. Education and working in a way that develops skills are two ways that come to mind.
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by troupe 3y ago
> A software change in my prison-issued electronic tablet ate up my drafts I didn't realize that prisoners were allowed tablets. Evidently there is a business that will give prisoners tablets at no charge, but then basically charge

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