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Death Star Thinking and Government Reform(jods.mitpress.mit.edu)
2 points by xenocyon 6y ago|0 comments
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I'm not sure what the "genuine spirit" is in celebrating a man whose incredible brutality towards indigenous people was astonishing even for his time. Here is merely one atrocity from amongst the many he committed: "So C
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I can't speak to Idaho, but it appears this ISP also serves some areas in eastern Washington (which happens to be my state). As the article says, WA state net neutrality laws explicitly prohibit ISPs from selectively blocking websites
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Yes. A well-used pan is quite non-stick. In my anecdotal experience, immediately after stripping/seasoning is not the best time; it gets better after a few weeks of use as more oil/fat bonds to the surface after repeated use. If y
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Yes, boring in the conventional sense is desirable from a scientific point of view (because the preference for surprising results leads to the biggest problem science has today: most published findings are incorrect). The linked article doe
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> However, the lives lost in autonomous accidents will be a different set of people than those that would have died in human driven accidents. So far it seems that this is very much the case. Autonomous cars do relatively well in highway
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I've been a hiring manager as well, and I've never failed to inform interviewees waiting for a response. Treat it as an important priority, not an afterthought.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> But what's the alternative to looking at examples of success? Controlled experiments and/or causal analysis.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
There are different kinds of hydropower. At the risk of oversimplifying, "big" hydro (such as conventional dams) inflicts massive environmental damage, while "little" hydro doesn't.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Start backwards: what metric of "goodness" are you using? Then, once you have a goal in mind, you can decide on the best way to get there.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> You’re probably using a free software browser from a corporation right now? Free (as in 'free beer') is not the same as FOSS.
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This Person Exists(thispersonexists.net)
3 points by xenocyon 6y ago|0 comments
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John Brown: America’s First Terrorist?(archives.gov)
2 points by xenocyon 6y ago|0 comments
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by xenocyon 6y ago
That's not the entire explanation for Ng's use of Octave though. At the birth of Coursera in 2012, R and Python were already clearly established in the field of data science. R was the dominant open-source language for data scienc
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by xenocyon 6y ago
On this topic: I recently learned that if you possess a soldering iron, you have all the tools you need to weld plastic! Since a lot of household objects are made from plastic (or partially plastic) this is extremely useful. I had a couple
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Kudos to the Santa Clara DA for being willing to prosecute crooked cops in his own county. All too often DAs are afraid to proceed against local LEOs and justice is left undone even when there is clear evidence of wrongdoing.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> An insanely large portion of the CO2 is simply us and our livestock breathing. That is a remarkable claim - do you have a citation? Regarding heavy metal pollutants etc - I agree that those are a concern, but that is more or less ort
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> The purpose of a corporation... to maximize returns for its investors. That's a common misunderstanding. "In nearly all legal jurisdictions, disinterested and informed directors have the discretion to act in what they belie
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by xenocyon 6y ago
You misunderstand the reach of limited liability. It caps liability not merely w.r.t. consumers/vendors/employees etc, but to anyone whatsoever, even a person who has no relationship with a corporation and did not enter into a con
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Despite the communal nature of the pandemic, people are obsessed with an individualistic formulation of risk.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Ines Montani provides a counterpoint [1]. She doesn't address flying cars specifically, but she says: We didn’t build a machine to operate a broom – we built vacuum cleaners. We didn’t engineer wings for firefighters – we built fire e
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I'm not sure which field you're in, but at least in electrical engineering, the situation is very different from your description. EE academics are deeply enmeshed in real-world problems, and justifying real-world impact in public
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Right, the comment you are responding to appears to be conflating anarchism with cynicism (which is, ironically, a rather cynical take on anarchism).
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> it's going to 6 years (thanks Ansil) for the price to work out in favor of the Brother. 6 years is not a very long time. I've had my Brother laser printer for a decade now, am as happy as the day I bought it, and can easily i
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Since this isn't explicitly clarified in the article, it's worth mentioning that THD (or THD+N for that matter) is not always a helpful spec to compare two amps. You can easily have two amps where the one with the worse THD is act
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Realistic and Interactive Robot Gaze(youtube.com)
1 points by xenocyon 6y ago|0 comments
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> "Gandhism." Pared down: Assuming that your opposition is decent, responds to generous gestures, and can be convinced That's quite an oversimplification of Gandhi's philosophy, which evolved quite a bit over his life
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by xenocyon 6y ago
It is remarkable how much he contravened modern academic norms: no work to bring in external funding, relatively few papers, very little collaboration, almost no PhD students. It's not an exaggeration to say that a young researcher wit
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by xenocyon 6y ago
A judgement against a corporate entity after the owners have already cashed out is analogous to a judge ordering the return of stolen lemons, but the thief gets to keep the lemonade she's already squeezed out of them.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
That's not correct. 1. First let's get through the easy part: reinforcement learning (RL) is not unique in its ability to identify cause-and-effect - this was achieved long ago through the use of randomized controlled trials. RL

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