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by waisbrot 9y ago
> Google proved that all you need is a colorful logo and a stupid catch phrase ("Don't be evil") to get people to treat you as an infallible, altruistic entity - regardless of the fact that your actions tell a completely d
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by waisbrot 9y ago
And this isn't a Google-created group where you'd dig into their founders/records a little and be able to see that they're a Google PR firm. It's just that Google (among other companies?) has successfully given them
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by waisbrot 9y ago
The article wasn't suggesting that Google has to fund its critics. The article was describing how a theoretically independent think-tank was compromised by Google. First Google offers you money for the work you're already doing. O
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by waisbrot 9y ago
It sounds like the study was poorly designed. Having an actual PI would have helped. The IRB probably would have seemed a lot less painful with a better-designed study and an engaged PI.
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by waisbrot 9y ago
The first concern is that not all services are alike. Probably nobody cares if I'm able to deduce how many Alexa users in NYC want to know about the weather forecast. But I think people would be creeped-out if I was looking at their ho
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by waisbrot 9y ago
That's a pretty weird assumption. There's not any direct relationship between the number of software engineering jobs and the number of (e.g.) housing construction jobs.
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by waisbrot 9y ago
This is better than the story link, I think. I found it impossible at first, but after a few rounds there were some clear clues like the block of imports at the top of a Java file or the distinctive shape of functions in functional language
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by waisbrot 9y ago
> One preset that I would love is "maximum privacy while user initiated outbound still works". So my browser would work because I initiated it, but everything OSX or apps do in the background are blocked. I don't know how
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by waisbrot 9y ago
> Serious question, does free speech apply in these situations? You have the unalienable right to speak your mind and some people may be offended but that is not illegal. "Give me all your money right now or I'll stab you with
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by waisbrot 9y ago
The court order says that Uber was talking with Levandowski about buying his company _while he was still working at Google_: > Meanwhile, emails between Uber executives on January 12 and January 13 showed they had prepared a document tit
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by waisbrot 9y ago
Simplistically: people can either work or not work. Nearly everyone will chose "work" because it's nice to feel useful, even if that work doesn't pay a living wage. If people are not earning a living wage, societies can
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by waisbrot 10y ago
Yikes.
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by waisbrot 10y ago
> Unions do kill jobs. That's simple economics - if you force an employer to pay more (and that's the reason you need a union), less jobs would be available at higher rate. Simple economics is right. In _real_ economics, things
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by waisbrot 10y ago
The judge is the one who determines what's "proof". In the story, he decided that name & birthdate was enough to not dismiss the case. She could have hired a lawyer and spent time fighting the case and maybe won, but she
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by waisbrot 10y ago
The issue is that she wanted to be able to drive before a (possibly months away) court date. Or that she wanted a job that needed her record clean within a week. "Presumed innocent" means that at the _end_ of the trial, if the pro
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by waisbrot 10y ago
You can run your own git repository (it's really easy). And most of the Git-service providers offer an "enterprise" version where you can self-host.
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by waisbrot 10y ago
It was a thing at Radio Shack while they were in their death throes. Then they made a big deal about not doing that anymore.
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by waisbrot 10y ago
What do you call that giant banner that drops down on Medium (and other sites) every time I accidentally scroll up a pixel? I hate that thing.
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by waisbrot 10y ago
The claim here isn't that computers couldn't solve this, just that they currently don't . In general, computers and humans play the beginning and ending of chess games with some strong heuristics -- there are too many poss
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by waisbrot 10y ago
I've seen people who can whip up a nice solution to an interview problem but can't plan out a larger system. Or they have some cool way of solving the interview but then it turns out they want to write 100% of their code as monkey
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by waisbrot 10y ago
Yes, this sounds like agreeing to a police interview without your lawyer present -- there's almost no chance that it will help you (are they going to hear "Alexa, tell this person who is not James to stop murdering me"?) and
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by waisbrot 10y ago
But it's interesting to see that "capitalism" is becoming a dirty word, when in the cold-war era it was the opposite of "communism" which was a synonym for "evil".
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by waisbrot 10y ago
Famous example: http://www.businessinsider.com/hyman-rickover-interview-tech... I don't know if it's actually useful when interviewing for a job with lives on the line, but I would guess that it creates an effect
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by waisbrot 10y ago
They've worked so hard to present themselves as a honest, law-abiding company. Where could all these negative stories be coming from? It is really surprising that this is happening! But seriously, what surprises me is that they've
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by waisbrot 10y ago
It's easy to find evidence that it's a scam/bad idea. It's also easy to find evidence that it's not a scam and that the place that told you that it was a scam is the real scam. Just having access to a lot of infor
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by waisbrot 10y ago
If you're just throwing your resume around and hoping, I think you're better off submitting it to every recruiter you can find. They're professionals at the resume-submission game. But either way if you're in this positi
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by waisbrot 10y ago
> They say former employers can only verify dates of employment I don't know who "they" is, but this isn't true at all. Many large-scale employers are only willing to verify dates of employment, because they're
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by waisbrot 10y ago
Meetup.com sends an email to (all?) members that says "... after the recent executive order aimed to block people on the basis of nationality and religion, a line was crossed. At a time when core democratic ideals feel under attack, we
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by waisbrot 10y ago
If there weren't these rules about not killing pedestrians or ramming buildings I could make a robot car myself! Another small business smothered in the crib by government overreach.
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by waisbrot 10y ago
If I pay you $5M and your job is "work at this hellish call center" then yeah, you probably will take it as a lottery ticket and get out. If we make the CEO miserable (every day you must call each board member individually and exp

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