NoToP

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by NoToP 5mo ago
But I've saved so much time since I started using mturk to compose all my hn comments. I barely even need to read it anymore!
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by NoToP 6mo ago
"So, what do you see as your greatest weakness?"
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by NoToP 6mo ago
In the opening words of the 1972 Knapp commission report "we found corruption to be widespread"
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by NoToP 6mo ago
I like to express this as "if corruption is a price we all must pay we should at least get value for money."
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by NoToP 7mo ago
The 1972 Knapp Commission report is essential reading on the topic
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by NoToP 7mo ago
This is so incredibly useful to me right now for incidental reasons I am commenting to make sure I can get back to it.
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by NoToP 9mo ago
The 1972 Knapp Commission into police corruption introduced some really great vocabulary to express "the rank and file are complicit". "Meat eaters" and "grass eaters". The meat eaters were the officers that ac
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by NoToP 9mo ago
Recently I've been reading the report of the Knapp Commission, which was a 1972 inquiry into police corruption in New York City. That sounds tangential at first but it really isn't, the findings of the commission are broadly appli
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by NoToP 9mo ago
Umm, I think you may have been misinformed what the Nash equilibrium is in the prisoners dilemma
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by NoToP 1y ago
On account of the earth spinning, and all the globally universal constants that derive from this fact, from the magnetic field to the sun rising in the East, at the very least an orientation which puts a cardinal direction on top was inevit
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by NoToP 1y ago
Go forth and C
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by NoToP 1y ago
I had no idea Newton also pioneered British understatement.
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by NoToP 1y ago
"Is this really a bird I'm communicating with or is it just a statistical parrot?"
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by NoToP 1y ago
Every generation of parrots just parrots what the last generation of parrots said about them.
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by NoToP 1y ago
I once asked it to emulate being air traffic control so I could practice for a pilot exam. It generated a full transcript of a pilot character called "you" talking to air traffic control...
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by NoToP 1y ago
So from what I gather, it wasn't outright rigged, it was just not well designed in terms of the ticket combinatorics and jackpot which made it exploitable to anyone with enough resources to buy up all the tickets, in combination with s
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by NoToP 1y ago
Fascinating. It's learned to be unabashed.
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by NoToP 1y ago
I'm interested in this topic too, but am approaching it from an auditing rather than from an investing angle.
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by NoToP 1y ago
You can in fact use MetroCard on PATH though.
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by NoToP 1y ago
New Yorkers actually agreed with you quite vocally the last time someone tried to introduce a schematic map.
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by NoToP 2y ago
I refer you to the precedent of Snitches v. Stitches
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by NoToP 2y ago
The fact that copying doesn't copy seems dangerous. Like what if I wanted to copy for the purpose of modifying the file while retaining the original. A trivial example of this might be I have a meme template and I want to write text in
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by NoToP 2y ago
Now make it a musical.
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by NoToP 2y ago
Which in fairness, is a reasonable competency to test for in an interview
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by NoToP 2y ago
Tones in non tonal languages do this, which can make tonal languages very difficult because instinctively you aren't used to tones being used for in-band communication.
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by NoToP 3y ago
I've had a similar idea for a card game like yugioh but all the cards represent court instruments like affidavits and subpoenas and instead of mana points actions in game are measured in money.
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by NoToP 3y ago
Amazon mturk
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by NoToP 3y ago
Packet ravioli
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by NoToP 3y ago
Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better, but the frog dies in the process.
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by NoToP 3y ago
Psst, the math joke here is that "the point at infinity" is literally the mathematicians version of folding in "this is an error case" with "valid coordinates". The "error case" in question being divi

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