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by verteu 10y ago
I appreciate the suggestion! I will check them out tonight :)
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by verteu 10y ago
Thanks for the recommendation :) Unfortunately I've already seen several physiatrist MDs and gotten 2 epidural injections that didn't help.
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by verteu 10y ago
A service to fix my chronic back pain. I already spend 1-2k / month on useless physical therapy and alternative medicine.
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by verteu 11y ago
A student is considered a "rising senior" during the summer between junior and senior year.
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by verteu 11y ago
Looks like there's a bug in the quotient rule. Last I checked, the derivative of (x/1) is not (1-x)/x^2 . Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/bYiDjAZ.png Fix: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=NfBiqia0
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by verteu 11y ago
It's probably a dummy value. I doubt there's a sinister scheme to plant "John Doe <test@me.com>" in a victim's address book. [1] [1] https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-common/blob&#x2F
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by verteu 11y ago
The author addresses this issue by wrapping the script [1] in {} braces: { # Prevent execution if this script was only partially downloaded # installation code here } # End of wrapping I'm not sure if this is a bulletp
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by verteu 11y ago
"Part One" of the informal proof is trivial, for the reason you've described. But "Part Two" is not: It shows that if the "pivotal voter" from Part One votes B>C, then B will beat C in the election, eve
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by verteu 11y ago
An amusing anecdote which illustrates why independence of irrelevant alternatives is desirable: After finishing dinner, Sidney Morgenbesser decides to order dessert. The waitress tells him he has two choices: apple pie and blueberry pie. Si
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by verteu 11y ago
The article is true -- large companies often hire through non-technical recruiters, who aren't qualified to judge applicants. But I find it disingenuous to single out tech, which is one of the most meritocratic industries. What does th
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by verteu 11y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_%28legal%29
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by verteu 12y ago
> people can go years slowly dying from something that they could fix with a few pills from the corner pharmacy, if a doctor would deign to "tinker" rather than working from theory. This is a principal-agent problem. Doctors do
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by verteu 12y ago
Thanks the response -- I really enjoyed your article. The results of the cross-validation you mentioned would be interesting as well.
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by verteu 12y ago
> Due to cost limitations we had to limit crafty to 2 seconds of analysis time per move A grandmaster with standard time controls could defeat a 2-second limited Crafty. So how do you know you're finding true blunders, and not simpl
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by verteu 12y ago
California judges, for example, have consistently ruled that IQ tests are "racially and culturally biased": http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/30/us/court-upholds-ruling-on... .
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by verteu 12y ago
> Asking scientists who specialize in Spearman's g whether g is real is like asking astrologers whether astrology works. Climate change deniers use the same argument -- "Of course people who professionally study global warming
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by verteu 12y ago
The scientific consensus on intelligence in 1997 was quite clear on this issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_Intellige... . (See conclusion #3.) Has the consensus changed since '97? I frequen
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by verteu 12y ago
The "pay gap" statistic does not control for occupation, age, or education. What's the purpose of such an apples-to-oranges comparison?
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by verteu 13y ago
I'm glad to see this language has first-class hashtables (Association). Does it have any other data structures that Mathematica was lacking (e.g. trees)?
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by verteu 13y ago
Why not keep the game up and give the money to charity? Removing a good that people want to pay for destroys value. It's like wasting millions of dollars' worth of food.
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by verteu 13y ago
This is terrible news. California is full of people who are structurally unemployed due to technological incompetence. The vast majority of "licensed teachers" know nothing about coding. Why obstruct hackers who teach valuable ski
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by verteu 13y ago
One reason is that as technology improves, the value of a person's time ("productivity") also increases. Thus although manufactured goods get cheaper, services get more expensive (due to opportunity cost).
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by verteu 13y ago
> I have a family to support, so I can't take a super small salary and eat Top Ramen. This may be a subtle way that older founders are discriminated against. This is not (harmful) discrimination. Ceteris paribus, people with financi
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by verteu 13y ago
Exactly -- I've found SourceTree and the Visual Git Reference ( http://marklodato.github.io/visual-git-guide/index-en.html ) very useful to teach beginners.
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by verteu 13y ago
New users find Git difficult because it has extensive hidden state. The effect of "git commit/diff/reset" is completely dependent on the invisible state of the stage/branch/history DAG. A competent user always
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by verteu 13y ago
This armchair psychology fails any basic sanity check. If the SV rich worry they'll become poor, why wouldn't they support more public safety nets? And why anyone fear a day when they are "not white"? A startup failure d
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by verteu 13y ago
Profit = marginal revenue - marginal cost. You've counted all vehicle maintenance as a "cost of Lyft driving". For people who already own (and maintain) a car, this is not the case.
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by verteu 13y ago
> [The claim that] "bad at math" was a thing — probably even genetic... was all a lie. I disagree. Math ability is highly genetic: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2913421
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by verteu 13y ago
If the male candidate got several job offers and the female got none, would you consider this evidence of gender discrimination? Bayes' Law says you cannot rationally hold both beliefs simultaneously.
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by verteu 13y ago
Discrimination imposes an extra cost on the discriminator. In a free market, firms that engage in irrational discrimination will be driven out of business. This is a central thesis of "Capitalism and Freedom" by Milton Friedman.

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