Hawramani

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by Hawramani 15y ago
Why is the small number of women in science a problem? To call this fact a problem good evidence is needed.* Usually when this is called a problem it is done along with making the implicit or explicit suggestion that men in scientific fie
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by Hawramani 15y ago
It's ironic that many authors resort to using the blatantly sexist 'she' to avoid being called sexist. I would love to see any evidence that the usage of 'he' somehow harms females, and I would support any evidence-supported solution that i
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by Hawramani 15y ago
For the claim that 'there is too few qualified people in the US' to be a scientific claim, it needs to be falsifiable. In other words, what evidence do you need to see, in the future, to convince you that yes, now there are enough qualified
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by Hawramani 15y ago
While it seems intuitive that a more scientifically 'literate' population is 'better', is 'scientific illiteracy' really a problem? To me it would be a problem if there were lots of openings for jobs that require scientific skills without
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Or the fact that all ATT (and possibly Verizon) traffic goes through the NSA.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
To me things haven't really changed. The non-techy users never made good use of the freedoms of the PC-era, so to them their environment was just as restricted as the Kindle or iPad environment. As for the geeks, things haven't changed eith
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by Hawramani 15y ago
It seems because of the fact that American Jews are much better organized, and better focused on their interests, than any other group. They're probably the most politically active group in the US. I don't see anything wrong with the Jewish
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by Hawramani 15y ago
There is a book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (by two political scientists), that argues the Jewish/Israeli lobby is one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, in the US. From Amazon: "Mearsheimer and Walt, politica
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Thinking of this from supply and demand theory, programmers only build programs that have a market, and there doesn't seem to be a market for such a tool (there isn't a large group of people vocally demanding it). I'd guess that there is
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Wouldn't the perfect cloud platform be one that charges based on disk IO, disk space used, network IO, RAM space used, (Ram IO?,) and CPU used? Maybe there are other metrics I'm ignoring. Someone should start making this.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
After getting used to Chrome's silent updates, I started to find it breathtakingly ridiculous the way Firefox kept interrupting its startup asking about updates. When I start Firefox, it is because I want to go to a website. Giving attentio
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Was it suggested that all of the assumptions of the classical model are correct?
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by Hawramani 15y ago
@Steko: I saw a supposedly new, and saddening, photo of Steve Jobs in which he looks emaciated. Maybe it is the way he is dressed that makes him look so much worse than what we are used to. I found the photo: http://ll-media.tmz.com/2011/0
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by Hawramani 15y ago
What made Microsoft evil: They used to go into acquisition talks with small companies without planning to buy them. They'd learn about their technology and duplicate it themselves. Another example of evil is cell phone carriers giving users
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Building on Donald Knuth's definition of an artist (someone who does work that cannot yet be automated, such as a programmer), it seems like today the most efficient economy is one that automates everything that can be automated, so that al
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Wouldn't creating a patent alliance render the evils of this system ineffective? Members of the alliance would work together to acquire patents, and these patents will be used as patent lawsuit deterrents. Any non-member company who sues a
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by Hawramani 15y ago
I read that PGP did that in the 90's.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
I thought revenue was separate from expenses.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
The question is how the users feel about it. How the users should feel about it is irrelevant.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
I agree. I think overall Google behaves more like a grown-up than Facebook does.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Also, patents can function at the very least as patent lawsuit deterrents.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Can you mention specific issues with Unix permission management that Windows solves?
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by Hawramani 15y ago
If my understanding is correct that's not the issue here. Hashes are meant to be one-way functions, the developer can easily check if a user's password matches the hash, but it should be practically impossible to deduce the password from th
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by Hawramani 15y ago
My question was more like a survey. I was wondering what people on here thought were Google's options. [I have edited my question now]
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by Hawramani 15y ago
[Survey question] What are Google's options for monetizing driverless cars?
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by Hawramani 15y ago
I was replying to this: My view is that the biggest problem in civilization and our country now is the brain-dead, all-emotions all the time, dysfunctional, self-destructive nonsense of old media I don't think the state of the media is a
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by Hawramani 15y ago
I don't see any reason to worry that the masses are being 'dumbed down' because even if there is such a plot it doesn't seem to be working. The masses have kept being the masses, and the intelligent intellectual types seem to have stayed as
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by Hawramani 15y ago
It depends on the difficulty and complexity of the problem that the person is hired to solve. I wouldn't want an 'average' engineer designing a multi-billion dollar company's backup infrastructure if by average we mean someone who doesn't b
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Where do programmers learn about this stuff? Is it taught at schools? Can anyone recommend good books on proper security procedures?
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Some businesses use legacy software that depend on IE6 and therefore don't want to risk breaking them by upgrading.

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