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by unishark 6y ago
Is this because you haven't confirmed your identity? I presume that is for stopping the alleged bot campaigns trying to affect elections. Or is there a setting somewhere to block political-looking posts? Because this would be awesome.
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by unishark 6y ago
I think Snowden was just a general reference to needing whistle-blowers to bring accountability because the rest of us are in the dark. But I think the point doesn't apply as well here. People measuring censorship thought of that alrea
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by unishark 6y ago
Apparently Apple doesn't agree that this is covered under warranty since they have denied wrongdoing (at least last I saw as of the $500M settlement, can't access the latest one).
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I think modern "censorship" is about how the self-described victim feels about the information, not its inherit value or the intention of the person sharing it. There was a story a couple years ago about students complaining some
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by unishark 6y ago
After the first try the attacker has to defend from multiple attacks too.
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by unishark 6y ago
I think phrases like GTD/GID predate these systems and bring that connotation already. No one uses them to describe a person who constantly makes progress "doing stuff" but doesn't accomplish anything impactful. The phra
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by unishark 6y ago
I've always found linear algebra to be far simpler than any other advanced mathematics. It's basically just a lot of book-keeping and consequences from that. Yet I know smart people who failed it multiple times and had to change m
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by unishark 6y ago
58 percent (closer to 59 percent in fact) can only be described as a blowout. Maybe if they spent less it would simply have been closer. Meg Whitman spent something like $180M for the governor's race, and still lost badly. You can&#x27
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by unishark 6y ago
In the US, the govt outlawed the software contracting industry in the 80s because they suspected people weren't reporting their earnings when they filed their taxes. forcing everyone to become employees of companies that were better mo
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vaporware
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Certainly you need to consider both supply and demand, and how fast both are growing. Ignoring any of these variables turns your prediction into luck. You need a way to assess their relative size. Looking at how successful others in the mar
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by unishark 6y ago
> Or if you think that's too inconvenient you can take on all the risk if the borrow later disavows the debt. They are already required by law to assume the risk for fraudulent charges. It's just a mess and hassle for consumers
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by unishark 6y ago
You're basically saying the equity is too low. Any decent exit would make the founders and investors a lot of money. If they wanted to motivate employees to make that happen, equity needs to be good enough to make the employee a lot to
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by unishark 6y ago
As opposed to where? I am not familiar with any cultures where the "nice guy" wins out over the aggressive "type A" personality who prioritizes winning over empathy. Even in very polite asian societies. It seems like it&
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by unishark 6y ago
there is an expatriation tax: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/expa...
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by unishark 6y ago
and you need to have been earning even more than before leaving plus have a net worth in the millions to be hit by expatriation tax for renouncing.
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by unishark 6y ago
> In an unfortunately rare case of reason conquering madness, a VW exec (Oliver Schmidt) was extradited and convicted over the diesel emissions scandal, instead of the engineers taking the brunt of the punishment. Side note but I think
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by unishark 6y ago
Are you comparing average doctors or lawyers to the highest-paid and most career-motivated and personal-life-sacrificing programmers? Because other professions can be strategic too. E.g. the median income for patent lawyers or many medical
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by unishark 6y ago
Are you counting the FAANG stock performance of the last few years as part of that "no risk" alternative? Because that's hindsight. Stock is always a risk (apart from same-day sales, which only net a small percentage and may
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by unishark 6y ago
> I guess that really depends on what you consider a "1-1 military battle." Gentlemanly warfare used to be people marching and staying in formation and going straight at each other until they died. With that battle strategy, th
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by unishark 6y ago
It's easy (even a bit fun) to grade and give feedback for good students. Meanwhile it's a huge pain to do for the weak students. You need to first figure out what they heck they're trying to do before you can tell them how to
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by unishark 6y ago
One third of the students on my last exam cheated (at least, these were the ones that gave an identical answer to one of the problems, including identical minor typos). I was using the tools described in the article, but apparently I was be
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by unishark 6y ago
I think it can be automated in the more basic courses at least. But wouldn't solve the problem of students getting someone else to do the project for them anyway.
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by unishark 6y ago
I think the point of the question is not what are the literal facts, but rather what do they mean in practical terms for applicants.
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by unishark 6y ago
you mean the good ole days when Microsoft paid 50k for quickdos before making billions from it?
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by unishark 6y ago
Yes I've always found this off-putting. People in HR departments are literally earning six figure salaries in return for making job ads advising people to do a bunch of unpaid labor which, by the way, the company benefits from.
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by unishark 6y ago
It's the same old problem with getting only one side of the story. Omit a key detail or twist the facts in a slight arguable way and it can totally change things. Having said that, I don't know that the above hypotheses are enough
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by unishark 6y ago
Overall I agree with you that Apple cares far more about the headaches they get from being blamed for aftermarket parts (which in my experience are really really mixed and low quality, especially batteries) than making a few bucks from appl
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When you're a giant target you need to be careful, but you often don't need to steal either. Meanwhile, in my experience there are amoral and desperate small businesses on every streetcorner stealing anything they can get their ha
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by unishark 6y ago
It is pubmed, which is a NIH indexing service for healthcare articles. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/about/ They do only include limited journals, not garbage generally. Though I'm not sure where the line is dra

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