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by whymauri 6y ago
5. (Optional) Establish some Oversight Council or Committee, to be disenfranchised, dissolved, or declawed at the company's earliest convenience.
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by whymauri 6y ago
I miss when Reddit April Fools was fun :(
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by whymauri 6y ago
It wasn't until Killer Mike's speech in Atlanta that the gravitas of what George Floyd was saying while he was on the ground really hit me. >When a man yells for his mother, in duress and pain, and she is dead, he is essentiall
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by whymauri 6y ago
There's going to be an independent autopsy organized by the family. To be honest, I'm skeptical of the "we investigated ourselves and found this convenient 'natural cause of death'."
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by whymauri 6y ago
Every major city in the US is having huge protests, and several metropolitan areas are dealing with riots. Trayvon Martin was nothing like this. You have forty million people unemployed, many of which overlap directly with the demographics
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by whymauri 6y ago
Could we bank on the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis, distillation, or other model compression algorithms to make these models smaller?
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by whymauri 6y ago
> The Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment constrains governmental actors and protects private actors. To draw the line between governmental and private, this Court applies what is known as the state-action doctrine. Under that doct
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by whymauri 6y ago
100% agree - my mom's family is Wayuu and we speak a dying language. I didn't grow up in the same ancestral lands my grandmother did, but I do try to retain my very basic grasp of the language. And I will encourage my kids to lear
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by whymauri 6y ago
Yup, there's an entire field within metahistory concerning how entire peoples are essentially erased from historical records due to conquest and/or genocide. It's a formalization of the famous addage, "history books are
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by whymauri 6y ago
Same here. It's annoying that a technical aptitude test that I took when I was a freshman in college might now be publicly viewable as a benchmark for my skills. And I know the e-mail says that results will only be shared if you did we
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by whymauri 6y ago
To add to this, Linda Greenhouse recently wrote a good article on the internal struggle the SCOTUS is facing w.r.t. "legal cruft".[0] [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/opinion/supreme-court
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by whymauri 6y ago
And if you dislike the NRA, you can always rep an SRA sticker instead. Although it's probably less recognizable and the "S" in SRA may bring some issues. I'm not affiliated with either organization.
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by whymauri 6y ago
I don't understand why the firings are waves. Is this a logistics thing, or a morale thing somehow? Because it seems like it would negatively impact morale, more than anything. In either case, don't feel obligated to answer given
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by whymauri 6y ago
2017 through early 2018. I think (and hope) that they've changed the process.
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by whymauri 6y ago
I think universities are necessarily going to rely more on the "soft" aspects of applications to select students. It won't be a problem for top colleges - they could probably toss out the entire admitted class twice over and
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by whymauri 6y ago
Some companies, like Pinterest, use systems like "lytmus" to prevent cheating. It's a monitored VM box where you do the entire assignment inside the GUI VM. I'm sure certain trust factor guarantees prevent you from outso
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by whymauri 6y ago
>This is the belief that A.I. codes are recipes for automating ethics itself; and that once a broad consensus around such codes has been achieved, the problem of determining an ethically positive future direction for computer code will h
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by whymauri 6y ago
IIRC, the discoverer of the RING protein domain couldn't come up with a name so they called it Really Interesting New Gene (RING) which duos as a pun for a ring finger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RING_finger_dom
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by whymauri 6y ago
I think there was a small movement to have it renamed, but I don't know if it went anywhere or still exists.
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by whymauri 6y ago
That's a great point. On my end, I do all my tab management by maintaining separate desktops for different broad topics (school, work, personal). Then I'll have different windows (history seminar, security engineering). And then i
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by whymauri 6y ago
Wow, this is so much better than the original /r/subredditsimulator (which was Markov Chains). That's a very fun thread you linked - it's very believable!
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by whymauri 6y ago
I read this as 'luxury' brands (Neiman Marcus) becoming asymptotically indistinguishable from low- or mid-tier brands.
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by whymauri 6y ago
I used Azure DevOps while at NERD in 2019.
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by whymauri 6y ago
I know some people who use g̶i̶t̶ ̶g̶a̶r̶d̶e̶n̶e̶r̶ gitfiti to draw on their commit history. Like NES and Atari sprites, like Pacman or Galaga. It's just meant to be a funny subversion of people who take GitHub graphs a little too seri
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by whymauri 6y ago
J.P. Morgan's timeline has a forecasted second wave during mid-late winter 2020-2021. [0] [0] https://www.morganstanley.com/ideas/coronavirus-peak-recover...
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by whymauri 6y ago
I think Netflix has actually likened its engineers to a "pro sports team."
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by whymauri 6y ago
Huh? Curious as to why that is.
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by whymauri 6y ago
My older brother has founded two separate isotope dating companies, one for C-14 dating and the other for rare isotopes. At this point, he has about 15 years of experience in the field and a decent clientele. He believes the Earth is 6000 y
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by whymauri 6y ago
Wow! Just tried this and it works. Thank you so much.
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by whymauri 6y ago
My touch bar freezes every hour or so when changing volume. I then have to close the laptop, wait for a second, and then open the laptop again. It's awful.

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