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by unishark 6y ago
It seems likely India has the most total cases already. But India has a much younger population so I don't know if that really translates to twice the deaths that they report.
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by unishark 6y ago
The US is not an outlier in per capita deaths. It is at the higher end of the range, especially among developed countries, though many countries have similar rates (such as most of Latin America). And this statement captures all the info on
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by unishark 6y ago
Funny story but the public defender jumped at the chance to "go out back and fight". And the judge got first sanctioned then lost his job. And I rather doubt the 85 percent is dominated by innocent people accused of first degree m
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by unishark 6y ago
Or the law will have exceptions for special emergency circumstances. And the government will operate under a permanent state of special emergency circumstances due to the threat to their safety (whatever it is that particular day). Meanwhil
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by unishark 6y ago
Sort of the government version of Poe's law.
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by unishark 6y ago
Trademark infringement can be viewed as fraud and a criminal matter with an actual victim (the person scammed into buying the fake Android phone). Patents are a different story, since the idea itself is the value, and different people can c
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by unishark 6y ago
The curse of knowledge problem remains for the expert, though. A long learning curve just means you need to be clear what the 1-year student can teach you. Namely they will be better specifically at helping someone get from year zero to yea
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by unishark 6y ago
People generally pay for products in order to get a benefit. It's still genuine. The difference is the seller gets to share some of the benefit.
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by unishark 6y ago
Seems none of the responses to your question was a true enough scotsman. Hiring isn't a competition to find the smartest candidate, silly Google interviews notwithstanding. Companies want the "good enough" candidate they can
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by unishark 6y ago
>Yes it is, read the article. Assuming we are talking about the same tiny article, you are oddly confident in your interpretation. The "conditioning access" quote is not directly about Facebook. The 400-page linked document tal
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by unishark 6y ago
The issue isn't with being forced to use social media, it's being forced to use only facebook's network. Privacy is a separate issue. They could just make Oculus also connect to other social networks including facebook's
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by unishark 6y ago
It's more like dumping a great business making a lot of money to focus the company on the sexy hot thing with higher projected growth that will hopefully attract a much higher stock valuation.
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by unishark 6y ago
The time to process applications is indeed on the order of months. https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/historic-pt I believe the I-140 is for employment-based green cards. The long wait times are due to annual quot
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by unishark 6y ago
> How many of your fellow citizens do you know who have the skills to get a good job and don't get one because of foreign competition? It's kind of a chicken and egg problem. I certainly know people with skills to do what used
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by unishark 6y ago
I'm not sure I follow your point. Of course technologies mature and opportunities dry up. The people that do technology (e.g. us here?) need to move on for greener pastures. Audio had a lot of problems to solve as digital signal proces
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by unishark 6y ago
You have to navigate the same basic issues to convert each csv as it comes in to xls as PHE did in the article. They could just as well have converted them to a consistent csv format and stopped there.
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by unishark 6y ago
> Take a moment to contemplate out how Coke and Pepsi (ostensibly commodities) can dominate their channels in a supposedly free market - it's a little bit similar. You're comparing beverage companies with a market share of 30-4
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by unishark 6y ago
You can actually do much of the exact same research at industry labs as at a university. You can even compete for the same government grants. In many fields the highest-cited authors with the most publications actually work in industry. You
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by unishark 6y ago
So your company engages in sales practices that would be foolish without IP. That doesn't prove it is the only way to sell, or that it true for all fields. For that matter, why are the big fish able to continually have so much margin i
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by unishark 6y ago
I believe their point was that the response proved disunity exists, not any value judgement on whether disunity is a good or effective thing in itself.
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by unishark 6y ago
There are so many laws because what started out as rule usually gets expanded out into detailed regulations that cover vastly more than just illegal behavior. Perfectly legal things that fulfill the spirit and letter of the law are nonethel
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by unishark 6y ago
That's why both are described as "rule of man" rather than rule of law.
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by unishark 6y ago
If the instructor says you can't do it then it is cheating. It's common for professors to not allow students to keep exams for this reason. Students in such classes do a "brain dump" by writing down all the questions the
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by unishark 6y ago
> If this was Sean Parker with Napster or Zuck with early Facebook, we’d be celebrating their initiative. I'd say those are both very controversial examples, certainly not heroes. As for "growth hacking" and generally the
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by unishark 6y ago
This is more a story about a particular subset of unemployed that follow a rather stereotypical pattern, not the norm. They fizzle out around college, then practically never do anything which requires initiative after that. It seems like ju
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by unishark 6y ago
Wouldn't be surprised if both are on the list. Alcohol based mouthwash has a warning label about causing cancer too.
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by unishark 6y ago
> It is slowly fading away and being replaced by the capitalist "growth hacking" which I'm not sure is a lot different. There's definitely a blurry line there. I'm not completely clear what "growth hacking&q
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by unishark 6y ago
I thin it's more that we're operating in a position of extreme simplification, and don't understand most biological details well enough to apply them in our own systems. But biological motivation is quite common in neural net
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by unishark 6y ago
Getting a paper into nature and being a top-ranked school almost certainly says it was a high-pressure environment. But there is certainly a process for handling advisor-advisee issues at a big school like Stanford: https://deano
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by unishark 6y ago
> Different cultures definitely consider different things to be acceptable / polite / etc in the same situation (e.g., do you take your shoes off when entering another person's house?). I've heard that there's gr

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