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by waps 12y ago
1) the milgram experiment was a case of academic fraud. 2) you'd think that on the 25th anniversary of the Tienanmen square massacre people would back off off the claims that the US is even a little bit totalitarian. 25 years ago this
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by waps 12y ago
Why not ? One of the main properties of neural networks, like the human one, is that many of them act just like a single one (provided they communicate), only smarter. In fact, your brain is not a single piece of brain matter. There are 3 &
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by waps 12y ago
> There's actually a hard limit. e.g. Retina displays are as good as you need because they are finer than the eye's ability to distinguish. I'm sure someone will see value in a gold retina display. And if we get that done,
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by waps 12y ago
Yeah I've been thinking that too. Next year, there'll be a new slide deck. Only it'll advocate a different language, and have one more page : Go(ne ?)
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by waps 12y ago
> as for the argumentation - it is again the same thing! instead of "whole company", you moved to topic into "individual branches", but it is still the same - apparently, a huge number of workers is employed in places
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by waps 12y ago
It makes management feel better if they can constantly spy on the people they employ because they have zero trust in them. And of course this immediately leads to the situation that the workers are out to exploit the company merely to rebel
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by waps 12y ago
> Its unpleasant, perhaps even inhumane for a large segment of the population, and unproductive for everyone but in a cause and effect relationship the bug is in the core values of the organization, that productivity doesn't matter.
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by waps 12y ago
Open plan offices are even more popular outside of America everwhere I've been. This is not an American phenomenon at all.
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by waps 12y ago
I hope he sued the company and got a $10 million settlement. Companies respond really well to getting sued even once.
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by waps 12y ago
This is not true at all, or at least it's only true from a narrow US view of the world : http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-31/obama-step-forward-... And let's not get any illusions. One of the main r
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by waps 12y ago
In other words, a HBS degree only has value because some powerful entranched people feel inclined to defend it because for them it's a sunk cost. In other words, if there is any actual value of the courses, it's beside the point,
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by waps 12y ago
You use the algebraic property that x y mod n will generate a shuffle of Zn if y and n are relatively prime (don't share any divisors). So if you then redefine "element a" to not refer to the index of the original array, but
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by waps 12y ago
This perfectly illustrates the difference in worldview between a capitalist and a socialist, and you so clearly see the problems with both. The capitalist argument is essentially that anything that saves time/money/... is worth it
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by waps 12y ago
There is also the simple fact that there aren't enough nurses, and there aren't going to be. Baby boomers just didn't have enough kids to ensure a decent level of human care. Look at the numbers. One thing's for sure : o
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by waps 12y ago
This was true for at least 80-90% of CS grads at least in my year in a real university. They were going for the degree and were smart enough to get in that way. Very few were interested in the material itself. But yes, once employed as a de
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by waps 12y ago
Heh. Whoops. I got the link from MIT Opencourseware originally.
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by waps 12y ago
Experience is more about knowing a million little tricks than it is about actual domain knowledge. Norvig's spelling corrector is an application of inverting the problem. Instead of attempting to correct a misspelling, he attempts to m
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by waps 12y ago
I disagree strongly with exception versus error codes. It sounds reasonable until you look at what real programmers (the kind that isn't perfect) will do and how it affects production code. Real life programmers don't know the sta
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by waps 12y ago
Teaching programming is like teaching constructivism in logic. It teaches rigour and produces working things, and a focus on algorithms, even if most people don't see what they're doing as having anything to do with algorithms. Ve
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by waps 12y ago
Well [2] ... I don't think they're kidding. Please note that oxygen, even if mildly purified from what's in the athmosphere is one of the most destructive substances there is. If you're standing in 72% or more oxygen, a
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by waps 12y ago
There's 2 (stable) kinds of heavy water : deuterium and tritium. Deuterium is perfectly safe, and it's heavier. Nobody's ever drunk it in even tiny quantities though, so there could be surprises. Tritium is only arguably stab
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by waps 12y ago
So the answer to pollution is to put clean air in disposable containers ? I think I see where the problem is here.
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by waps 12y ago
e.g. https://angelo.dinardi.name/2008/09/20/mailwrangler-and-the-...
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by waps 12y ago
You don't understand where that "social justice" group comes from. They are socialists, largely the left side of the aisle. Now if you look at who they historically supported, the pattern becomes clear : they support violent
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by waps 12y ago
One of the conditions of the apple app store, the single entry to any customer's smartphone, is that you don't directly compete with any apple app. What more do you really need to know ? If this isn't abuse of monopoly power,
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by waps 12y ago
There's a funny mention of this problem in "I, Robot". When will smith takes the wheel he is scolded for taking such a completely irresponsible risk. Given how those robots drive versus how he drives, we likely will have to a
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by waps 12y ago
They have loads of theoretical advantages : 1) spreadsheets are a purely functional programming language. When you point this out to management users of it (after explaining what it is), they wouldn't want to live without it. So in rea
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by waps 12y ago
You should note I make a difference between natural population growth and immigration. The EU's natural growth is nothing short of disastrous, and this is made up for with immigration.
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by waps 12y ago
Keep in mind, however, that medicine has been in this position for ~4000 years. Or at least, I did classical studies, and doctors did very well for themselves in the ancient Greek city states, in the Roman Empire (East and West), in the mid
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by waps 12y ago
Keep in mind that the wealth inequality in historical norms is spectacularly low. Yes, it was lower for a while due to WWI and, especially, WWII. The situation, in relative terms, is still much better (20-30% more equal compared to the begi

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