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by unishark 6y ago
> ...throwing things at the problem and see what sticks and is fast. That generally isn't enough to get published nowadays though, at least in a simple sense (in a broader sense that process might describe all research, of course).
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by unishark 6y ago
I once negotiated with an employer that tried to use these exact kinds of cost-of-living stats to compute an adjusted "matching" offer to an offer from California. But it's a bad deal because those high california prices are
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by unishark 6y ago
I read the requirement as not applying to free apps. You can either require people to give you info to monetize or you can charge a fee, but not both.
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by unishark 6y ago
You are suggesting HR is amoral but in fact they are actually evil.
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by unishark 6y ago
There are definitely studies criticizing ML publications similarly. As a kind of statistics (but often without the rigor), screwups make ML methods appear better than they really are. Hence the literature is packed with screwups. Other CS s
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by unishark 6y ago
> Publishing your own weak papers is one thing, but citing other people's weak papers? This seemed implausible... This is practically required by reviewers and editors. If you wade into a topic area, you need to review the field and
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by unishark 6y ago
I think of it as the legal version of the observation from psychology that some tasks (e.g. recognition of images) are performed by the brain without conscious understanding of the process.
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by unishark 6y ago
> I don't think anyone would consider someone taking a picture in public to run afoul of this law. I guarantee you someone will. But my point was about the first amendment being applicable to the topic of photography, not about a st
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by unishark 6y ago
Aside from the rather odd argument about hardware, letting authorities decide whether someone's use of photography to record events counts as legitimate journalism sounds rather unsettling. Also photography can directly be considered
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by unishark 6y ago
One can be a tiny bit more charitable and say many of them provide a nearly worthless service (slapping your manuscript on their fly-by-night website) while misrepresenting themselves as providing a much more valuable service (peer review,
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by unishark 6y ago
In other words, protestors are harassing, assaulting, and robbing reporters because they might otherwise be unjustly framed for minor crimes.
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by unishark 6y ago
Outside of the major cities, houses in New England aren't a great investment. In many states the population is shrinking and property taxes are increasing to compensate. I would think you can pay that loan off in a couple years working
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by unishark 6y ago
Even if it just for one person (which does appear to be what they asked for to me), asking for their entire search histories from all their devices seems like fishing. Particularly since they used it to charge him with new crimes (lying to
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by unishark 6y ago
I'd like to see polls on that. From what I've seen, people who worry about their privacy do things about it (like avoid google, pay cash, etc.) while people who don't care about privacy put evidence of their own crimes on fac
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by unishark 6y ago
Unfortunately, building a case in FBI terms often means entrapping someone in a crime related to the investigation itself, when they can't get any proof of the actual crime they are supposed to be investigating.
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by unishark 6y ago
> arguing, effectively, that America is too comfortable and therefore must be destroyed? I wouldn't describe the author's definition of decadence as synonymous with "comfortable": Sterility, poor response to covid, a
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by unishark 6y ago
> Some things are just inflexible in any workplace, both from an employee's and an employer's perspective, and a legal one. They're just shifted from official numbers to some form of hidden cost. The economic situation is
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by unishark 6y ago
> Your responsibility is to arrive at the entrance, ready for work on time (or clock in). This seems circular, like saying you shouldn't get paid for working on a project at home because you agreed to be responsible for completing t
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by unishark 6y ago
Online classes aren't generally considered any easier to teach. And preparing them in the first place is often completely left to the teacher, who's entire workflow just got thrown out the window. And the materials provided with t
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by unishark 6y ago
They are still probably holding class meetings online. And the effort of converting everything to online in the first place can be pretty overwhelming.
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by unishark 6y ago
I believe private lenders require cosigners or else proof of income. I don't see how they can win here. You'd have them discriminate in giving loans based on some kind of lifetime prediction of someone's earnings? I'm su
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by unishark 6y ago
Eh I think many companies will go an order of magnitude higher than that before they start viewing it as "real money".
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by unishark 6y ago
I would assume the algorithm predicts the actual type of crime, or at least category (e.g. violent versus theft versus moving violation). Then it's still up to the department which crimes to target (which I really hope would be the cri
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by unishark 6y ago
The best is when your computer crashes with a blue screen right in the working on something, then adds insult to injury by doing updates for the next 45 minutes after the restart.
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by unishark 6y ago
Well there's alt-tab.
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by unishark 6y ago
> A couple of countries have worldwide / citizen taxation (i.e. the US). A US citizen that lives in Singapore will pay tax to both Singapore and the US. They pay tax to Singapore and can claim a tax credit on their US tax return. Th
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by unishark 6y ago
Yes but where does this observer come from in the first place? Some theories do presume the thermostat experiences the temperature, just in a less-sophisticated form of consciousness. If an "observer" is nothing more than neurons
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by unishark 6y ago
Individuals aren't generally the target of class-action lawsuits or giant billion dollar judgements to force a collective behavior change (or just outright bankruptcy) of every driver in one judgement. They could do this once big comp
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by unishark 6y ago
It's hard for me to feel scared about the control a company has over a product I can choose not to buy. Of course I do think you should have every right to jailbreak/root your device and vendors should have every right to cease up
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by unishark 6y ago
Theoretically you still get the capital, assuming you can sell the stock well enough yourself. A DPO just avoids paying the million(s) to an underwriter.

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