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by tsally 17y ago
I can confirm that this just happened to me as well. In fact, if not for this thread I wouldn't have known to go back to check if Buzz was silently enabled.
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Or eye-care professionals.
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There's a big psychological difference: you have faith in the determinism grading computer but not in your English professors. The funny thing is that an English professor is more qualified to say whether your paper is a good paper than a
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by tsally 17y ago
When there are automated tests, you can predict how your program will be graded with much higher accuracy than you can predict the grade your paper will get, even if you are very good at evaluating papers. Of course. This is the same as
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by tsally 17y ago
A program that doesn't compile is not the same as a paper with a typo in it. A program that doesn't compile is like a paper that never got printed; there is no finished form for the grader to interact with. Regardless of discipline, no c
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CS is not like an English paper where you can just turn it in and there’s not a way to say if it’s a good paper or not... at 3 a.m, you can be looking a program and definitively say that it’s not going to work. The ignorance I encounter a
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That's a link to a presentation of his from Blackhat DC 2008, not the one he just gave at Blackhat DC 2010.
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A lot of smart, well connected people read Hacker News. In addition to reflecting poorly on you, your comment reflects poorly on your academic institution (RIT). I doubt the people at RIT would be pleased. Try to put a little thought in
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As an educated person, obviously I'm aware of this. I'm not rejecting the possibility of designing a government that can handle immortality; I'm merely remarking on what I perceive to be great difficulty in designing such a system. I have
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100-200k deaths per day. All those that die won't come back. Lifes saved by curing aging are actually saved for real, we don't just delay their death by a few years/decades. So you're talking about immortality? I'm not sure we're capable
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Please at least read/see those before making the same "it won't work/wouldn't be a good thing" arguments that everybody has made a thousand times when first introduced to this. Thank you. I will do that. Thanks for your informed post.
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Ugh, I had to reply. :-p First, that's an incorrect (or at least not complete) definition of a private good. A private good is rivalrous OR excludable. Education is non-excludable because raising the education level of economic actors ben
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My school district spends ~$7000 per student. I'd say I got a pretty good education. Vouchers would not have to be ridiculously high to provide a quality education as you imply. Not everyone is going to get a gold-plated education, but the
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Well there is no good way to compare them by ranking. Here are the public school rankings: http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/high-schools/2009/1... But where are the private school rankings? They don't take the accountability tes
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Consider this. Money is directly related to the quality of education. New Trier is a school in the area where I grew up. It is one of the best high schools in the nation. New Trier spends more than $15,000 yearly per student, compared t
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Just an intuitive understanding that if we decrease infant mortality we will net the human race many more years of life than anti-aging research. Spare a few cents for a vaccine anyone? As opposed to dumping a bunch of money into theoreti
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You seem to have misunderstood Sukotto's comment. He's not protesting linking to the thread. He's protesting a comment posted earlier by a user here on HN that speculated as to the identity of the AMA poster.
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Education is guaranteed under article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which the US signed and helped author. Not providing a public option for education would mean redefining what we believe to be fundamental freedoms. How
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Right so let's violate the privacy of every interesting person who posts things online. Oh wait, that's what was done with _why. Seemed to work out well, didn't it? I don't even want to think about how many interesting Ruby innovations w
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Where to hang out with other people interested in rational philanthropy with maximum utilitarian impact per marginal dollar As far as the human race is concerned, pretty much everything you listed (cryonics, anti-aging, preparing for AI t
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Just noticed that the version posted on Hulu has a flight from Delta Airlines come up in search. The one posted here has a flight from American Airlines. Seems that Google put some effort into remaining airline neutral.
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When a lot of money is spent on politics, a statist sees a restricted government. The statist wants to free government from spenders' influence. The statist wants to give the government more freedom to act... Under this framework Lessig is
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by tsally 17y ago
Your analysis is spot on until your last sentence. Not only do you misuse the word statist in a structural sense (government statist is redundant in this context), you incorrectly apply it to Lessig's politics. You're points are valid wit
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I understand this line of thinking, but I think it oversimplifies the issue. Some companies have a market cap larger than a small country. Some companies sell weapons to foreign militaries. Tools of different power need different laws gov
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First, thanks for the specifics on "legal personhood". Definitely helpful for me. I do not believe that restrictions on corporations violate the individual rights of the owners. Aren't the owners are allowed to participate in politics ind
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Excellent question. It would certainly violate free speech. I am not trying to make the claim that money is not related to speech. Instead, I am claiming that since money is related to speech, any government regulation of money is regul
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You can be pro-free speech and against an absolute interpretation of the 1st amendment. Similarly you can be deeply religious and still object to a literal interpretation of your sacred documents. I do not believe I misrepresented jsyedid
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You misunderstand. There is no side I disagree with. The only thing I disagree with is using strict constructionist interpretations, whether such interpretations argue for or against campaign finance reform. Similarly, I am opposed to li
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Consider sin taxes, which Time Magazine calls "an established tactic" to reduce consumption of popular vices [1]. The hostile takeover argument isn't even necessary to make my point. Consider the fact that a corporation can own another cor
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I always yell at people who blame themselves for not being able to figure out a technology, whether it be the UI of a program or the physical interface of a device. People tend to assume stupidity on their own part; instead, I tell them t

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