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by wjy 16y ago
I think it's more like breach of contract. It's not necessarily unethical, but if you violate the terms, they no longer are bound to provide the service. EDIT: Although it's unclear whether a contract was really entered into. Real contra
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by wjy 16y ago
Thanks for sharing that. How did you manage to stay calm and respectful in the face of all the condescension and threat of losing your children? Since my son was born, I've observed my own protective tendencies really ratchet up. The few
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by wjy 16y ago
It's especially mad since there's no copying taking place at all.
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by wjy 16y ago
I think many of us naturally feel that way. The problem is we rely on other species for our own survival. And the vast web of interconnected life is so complex we don't even know which species are crucial and which are not (we have an idea
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by wjy 16y ago
Maybe for some people, the point is to clean up the mess. To them, assignment of blame is less important than aversion of disaster. I'm not sure if I subscribe to that view myself, but I can certainly sympathize with it.
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by wjy 16y ago
But the article wasn't talking about pseudoscience, alternative medicine, or New Age beliefs. It was talking about women in scientific fields. Just because a word has multiple definitions doesn't mean you can pick one that doesn't apply an
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by wjy 16y ago
No, no no. If you're guessing wildly like that, don't bother. In this case, "woo" refers to the "softer" attributes often associated with women - nurturing, caring, feeling.
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by wjy 16y ago
I think the fact that one can go from doctor to doctor for 18 years and not get a proper diagnosis speaks volumes about medicine today. We collectively know so much about the human body and its afflictions, but yet so many doctors seem c
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by wjy 16y ago
The town I grew up in has annual snowmobile races on the lake in July.
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by wjy 17y ago
Can you summarize what safe harbor provisions were removed? It wasn't clear to me from Stack's writing what, exactly, technical folks were being exempt from.
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by wjy 17y ago
>I don't stop at a stop sign if I can clearly see that I can go without impacting anyone else. For me stop sign means "the other people have the right of way, don't impact them". I find following the letter of the law "all four wheels t
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by wjy 17y ago
Also, the financial aspect is just one part of the total consideration. I've been in my house for ten years, and we've made a life here. We have quite a bit of stuff in this house. It would be a huge pain in the ass to move, as well as
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by wjy 17y ago
The author refers to the distribution of values in the text. That graph is the distribution of leading digits of those values. It doesn't follow that the first digits would also be a normal distribution.
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by wjy 17y ago
I submit that the author is not finely attuned to teen boys' fashion in his area, and so presumes the nerds are dressed just as "well" as the popular guys. The difference can be made by the smallest things: shoe brand, specific hair style,
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by wjy 17y ago
There's also one other important requirement: it must be GROUNDED. So unless you're willing to wear a wire from your wallet down to the bottom of your shoe, this won't be too effective.
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by wjy 17y ago
Yes, it does. In a privately held company in the U.S., the shareholders decide what the rules are, so long as they're within the law. They have no obligation beyond that. Edit: grammar correction
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by wjy 17y ago
You make a good point. But I wonder, why would the scientists be paranoid? Why aren't they releasing their data and analysis algorithms as part of the package? I mean, shouldn't the process be something like this: 1. Gather data 2. Anal
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by wjy 17y ago
Don't kid yourself. It's much more primitive than that. There have always been, and likely always will be, those who torment anyone who deviates from the norm. Children can be especially cruel to each other. Kids in my school didn't yel
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by wjy 17y ago
Bravo. You have a gift for explanation. This is exactly the sort of explanation helpful for someone (like myself) who has been through all the foundations at one point or another, but sometimes forgets the big picture.
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by wjy 17y ago
"The temptation to help the person in return for a cut of the money" is not the same as "asking for help and promising a cut of the money". You're seeing intent where none is expressed. There's no appeal for you to do anything shady or stu
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by wjy 17y ago
A few well-placed curses can emphasize a point and convey emotion. It's all too easy, though, to use too many expletives, and communicate all emotion and no content.
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by wjy 17y ago
I'm not familiar with City of Heroes. According to the article, all the action took place in an area where heroes and villains are supposed to be dueling each other, but the social norm was to not do that. If that really is the case, why ge
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by wjy 17y ago
I think it would be much more effective to evaluate whether you're actually good at sophisticated mathematics.
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by wjy 17y ago
You're presuming that all couples want to have children. There is not "something wrong" with those folks' relationships.
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by wjy 18y ago
You're right. That was unnecessary. axiom, I apologize. I don't know what got into me.
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by wjy 18y ago
Yay you're smart. You get a gold star. Did you even read the part where he said his code was intentionally simplistic and not optimized? Making a fast/efficient simulation was not the point at all.
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by wjy 18y ago
Amen. That's exactly how it was for me. I think I was 10 or 11 when I got the Vic-20 I'd been begging for. I was hooked immediately.
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by wjy 18y ago
Umm, and remember there's no convincing reason to believe cryogenics work. Sure, we've cooled down some animals and brought them back. But keeping a head near absolute zero for years, and expecting to revive a consciousness? No evidence
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by wjy 18y ago
Please accept my apology. It seems I didn't read the final paragraph in your original post very well. I was not defending a weakness of Matlab, but instead misunderstood what you said. Indeed, I'm a pretty harsh Matlab critic myself becaus
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by wjy 18y ago
You're misrepresenting the situation a bit. Matlab was not stupid here. The evolutionary algorithm you implemented found a way to satisfy your constraints that you didn't think of. That would have happened regardless of the language you

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