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by unishark 6y ago
This explanation can be used to justify anyone breaking anything. You might as well argue no project ever needs to care about backwards compatibility.
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by unishark 6y ago
> And humans are pretty good at negotiating context. In politics? I think people are pretty bad at understanding context about people they see as having different values. The way you handle uncertainty is to fill in the blanks with prior
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by unishark 6y ago
I'm guessing their complaint is not about whether it is technically true, but the hypocrisy of the people saying this when they are the ones who create the consequences. Like if your boss tells you you are free to say anything you want
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by unishark 6y ago
hence the "...but".
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by unishark 6y ago
> There's no reason the number of humans dealing with these problems can't scale alongside the number of humans creating them. I would think the attackers are using automation also, to spam attacks as in other areas of fraud.
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by unishark 6y ago
I also got stuck on C++. It was (and remains) such a disproportionate pain to compile, which was just too high a hurdle in the days before you could search for your cryptic build errors on the internet. I was able to fool around with BASIC
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by unishark 6y ago
> Really? I don't think so. They may be referring to the fact that it is increasingly becoming an issue of political correctness. But science is pretty clear about the risks of obesity and the medical professions follow that. https
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by unishark 6y ago
> Business models, tech, intelligence, smartness, timing all means jackshit. The only thing that matters is networking (and persistence) I'd say there a self-selection process here. Certain companies possibly wouldn't have succ
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by unishark 6y ago
> This "every man for himself / kicking down the ladder behind me" attitude is exactly the reason to leave America. The "ladder kicking" part misrepresents their point. I see nothing they said which would preclud
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by unishark 6y ago
> The article talks about whole unsolvable exercise needed for full credit, which is a trap. You say this like full credit is required to pass. A perfect score is often practically impossible, and at least a big achievement in most of hi
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by unishark 6y ago
The professor can simply give the final grade as a percentage of the 95 points rather than 100. Just like if they made a mistake with a bad question.
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by unishark 6y ago
At my school an instructor cannot prevent a student from leaving an exam to go to the bathroom if they insist. Keep in mind these exams can be four hours long. Don't recall for sure if it's a CYA policy or the state law, tend to t
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by unishark 6y ago
> And where there are, a fee schedule is published, publicly, in advance. So you're saying the patient is responsible for the payment when the service is not covered...
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by unishark 6y ago
It was for 200 people. Works out to about $3k per person on average.
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by unishark 6y ago
> One of the most unfair characteristics of US healthcare is that if the health insurance company does not cover a claim, then the patient is responsible for the payment. As a general rule this is not an unusual characteristic. Get a pro
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by unishark 6y ago
> If they could, they would eliminate dog/kid photos entirely because they don't make money off that stuff. They just show you enough of your friends dogs and kids to keep you around to view the profit generating crap. Therefo
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by unishark 6y ago
> This is completely true -- something that many outside of academics don't understand -- but I'm not sure it really makes the situation any better. Indeed in some ways it's worse. When the money is insufficient, the estab
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by unishark 6y ago
Well you guys are pulling me to an extreme position here. Of course I love good textbooks too. And review journals like signal processing magazine are my favorites. I'm sure many people do them for great reasons too. Let's not for
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by unishark 6y ago
If you can hack something together easily that can earn a lot of money, others can too. So that value will drop. Once upon a time you could slap together websites with html and make six figures. Now you'd probably be lucky to make 5. S
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by unishark 6y ago
> These are often very valuable, more so than yet another 1% improvement paper that never gets reproduced. It's not an either-or. And one should always read and accurately describe the contents of what you cite, meaning of course yo
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by unishark 6y ago
Of course they are useful, as is google scholar and the search field in various journals. Or some blog that tells you whats was new in the recent conference. That doesn't mean they deserve to be cited over the real sources. They are ci
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by unishark 6y ago
It's pretty outdated. In research schools you need to win funding or die nowadays. And while publications do help you, say in getting hired and promotions, your publications are dug into pretty deeply. They don't want to be tricke
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by unishark 6y ago
Reviews are especially bad. You can tell which people work at schools where citations count in their pay (and reviews are allowed in citation counts) by the ratio of reviews to original research papers they write. Some schools/govts r
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by unishark 6y ago
The problem with research is similar but even deeper. Researchers are supposed to show feasibility or existence of some result, then applied scientists and engineers take this off into industry or elsewhere to build on it. But there's
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by unishark 6y ago
> Amazon could easily require sellers to provide some basic transparency about these listings—disclosing where these manufacturers are located, how long they've been in business, and which other brands they own. This might make it e
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by unishark 6y ago
Amazon's competitors get those benefits too, so they can't make profit from it. They have to cut their prices relative to what they'd charge in that hypothetical anarchy where they need to provide everything themselves in ord
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by unishark 6y ago
Technology doesn't make resources, it uses resources to produce wealth. Improving technology improves the efficiency with which this can be done. Stopping growth in the technological improvements doesn't mean we go back to zero, w
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by unishark 6y ago
"Good" is a subjective quality but I'd say there is inherent value in deep thinking and one would generally be better off doing more of it if they aren't doing much.
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by unishark 6y ago
> It’s not because a subject is interesting only a small niche that there is no freedom of “debate”. Did I suggest otherwise? It may be hard to do accurately, but that doesn't make it hopeless. If both sides want to exclude "cr
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by unishark 6y ago
That's what set Steve Jobs apart. Your typical executive could take months between rejecting your idea and proposing it as their own. But Jobs could compress this down to a week.

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