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by vajrabum 5y ago
Likely because most public companies are mostly owned by funds of one sort or another which either don't hold the stock long term or own the stock because of indexing. In the former case, the incentive is to select for CEOs who raise t
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by vajrabum 6y ago
Here's a couple of thoughts. Sometimes not following through might not be about feelings or at least not directly. If you do a project to learn some new tech then the project is not about what it does but about how to do it. So make s
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by vajrabum 6y ago
Less smart Americans often have little respect for their smarter compatriots or their smarter compatriot's opinions. That isn't new. Ever hear the term egghead? Modern propaganda about climate and infectious disease have exacerbat
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by vajrabum 6y ago
Professors frequently write their own textbooks. Sometimes these are only used in their own classrooms. That's pretty close to their own enjoyment. It allows them to have a book that exactly matches the way they want to teach. As far a
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by vajrabum 6y ago
I'm think I'm not able to read this story without paying. Medium seems like they are becoming increasingly a pay to read only service.
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by vajrabum 6y ago
In this particular case there's pretty good evidence that Parler's moderation is/was anything but even handed. Parler may be a lot of things but a neutral platform provider doesn't seem to be one of them.
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by vajrabum 6y ago
Because close to nobody is ever charged with voter fraud and multiple investigations after 2016 launched by folks at the federal level looking for it, failed to turn up cases. In the recent election, the Trump team has repeatedly alleged vo
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by vajrabum 6y ago
Notice this comment is from Peter Norvig. ^^^^^
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by vajrabum 6y ago
How many people are buying Oracle ERP as a new purchase these days? Isn't that pretty much a legacy techology?
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by vajrabum 6y ago
Some folks think NZ is paying a price for this but it appears to be a lot cheaper than the price the US is and has been paying, certainly in lives but also economically. Here is the relative performance of the US and NZ in 2020 according to
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by vajrabum 6y ago
I also notice that if you search on that community there are lots of references to it on Twitter, Wikipedia, and other places.
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by vajrabum 6y ago
I got curious about it's current, banished form because I'd missed that bit of the story. It's about what I'd expect except they have a non-CCDA compliant cookie notice with no opt-out. Makes me wonder if that's bec
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by vajrabum 6y ago
Those methods were invented by Judea Pearl, a computer science professor at UCLA who won the Turing Award in 2011 partly for that work. He's written several books on the topic. The most recent is The Book of Why. See here for previous
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by vajrabum 6y ago
Click on Nana2Tetris in the link above. You'll find out a good bit about it. Modern CPUs are enormously complicated. Machines from earlier eras tend to only be of only middling complexity.
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by vajrabum 6y ago
The 2-sigma challenge refers to Bloom's research finding that one on one tutoring using mastery learning lead to a 2 sigma improvement in student performance. The article is in part a discussion of whether this conclusion is justified.
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by vajrabum 6y ago
If the DG Nova, which is the overlooked mini in the title, is overlooked, it's only because the people doing the looking weren't around when they were popular. By the standards of the day Data General made a lot of them. See here
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by vajrabum 6y ago
Falling Man seemed to me to capture what happened to the American psyche post 9/11 better than anything else that I've read. As far as I can tell we're collectively still falling.
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by vajrabum 6y ago
Literally every psychiatric drug on the market has a clincal trial or study. In order to be FDA approved any drug has to have large scale double blind studies to prove it's safety and efficacy and those studies are public. That's
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by vajrabum 6y ago
They have the same kind of evidence. There are double-blinded studies demonstrating their efficacy or they wouldn't be on the market. When used properly most vaccines are highly effective and protect the large majority of people who ge
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by vajrabum 6y ago
The reason for the controversy is there are indications that Zero Hedge may be an outlet for a state level actor. See here for one perspective. https://newrepublic.com/article/156788/zero-hedge-russian-tr...
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by vajrabum 6y ago
I seem to remember seeing something of this sort of thing on Usenet in one of the alt groups maybe 25 years ago. Just blocks of numbers if I'm remembering correctly. I suppose that was less likely to be a government and more likely to
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by vajrabum 6y ago
Here's another website which shows a work that he made after he stopped making the drip paintings he was famous for. http://www.writingfordesigners.com/?p=17930
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by vajrabum 6y ago
Love the website. I'm not sure how I missed that when it came out. this site shows some of the evolution of Jackson Pollock's work. In it you can see him moving from imitation of the masters of earlier 20th century art to his own
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by vajrabum 6y ago
Same thing in California. I've been doing my DMV business at AAA for more than a decade.
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by vajrabum 6y ago
The law restricts the public from getting this information precisely because of stalking. The Drivers Privacy Protection Act was passed in 1994.
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by vajrabum 6y ago
Or, perhaps, the particular SDK you use to access their API?
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by vajrabum 6y ago
I love this bit: Google Ownership Counter 202.345.117 Years until GWEI fully owns Google.
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by vajrabum 6y ago
Here is the tutorial that goes with that code. Unfortunately the School of Haskell is now read only so they aren't dynamic in the browser anymore. https://www.schoolofhaskell.com/school/starting-with-haskell...
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by vajrabum 6y ago
That's cool. It'd be easier to use if in addition to the mouse enter and the arrow keys were handled. That tree gets kind of deep.
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The average temperature on earth is 57F and the pressure at sea level is 32 psi. The average temperature on Mars is -81F and the atmosphere is .095 psi and mostly carbon dioxide. Mars has a gravity of 0.376 g. Visiting sounds like a fine id

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