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by ffssffss 3y ago
In this context "Roundup" means "collection". None of these studies are about the herbicide Roundup.
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by ffssffss 3y ago
You changed the context pretty substantially by moving it to the end of the piece and putting it in scare quotes though. I also read it as intentionally pejorative. You might want to edit the post if that's not what you meant.
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by ffssffss 3y ago
Yeah, you know, the Substack IP address. You look it up in the Yellow Pages.
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by ffssffss 4y ago
I think the goal of avoiding false positives is actually more important for smaller companies. A bad hire at a startup can significantly shorten the company's runway, while a bad hire at a bigger company tends to get isolated and manag
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by ffssffss 4y ago
It's not a bad post per se but we've been reading similar, anecdotal blogs like this about making the interview process kinder for decades. Yet the only companies in a position to do a rigorous statistical test - large tech cos -
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by ffssffss 4y ago
And the WSJ piece says the CIA is undecided! I wonder what explains the different assessments.
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by ffssffss 4y ago
It's more about connections to acquaintances and mutual friends... maybe you just had to be there in ~2009 but there's really nothing like it today. For better or worse.
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by ffssffss 4y ago
With what money? For this to work the way you want, the company would have to be trading at lower than the book value of its assets, in which case you might as well liquidate it. If you get the money from debt, now you have to focus on serv
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by ffssffss 4y ago
The top 1% by household income in the US is about $500k a year. There are more than 100 million households in the US, so that's conservatively at least 1 million families who could afford to support a 5 figure microtransaction whale. T
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by ffssffss 4y ago
And uptime is important, so you want to have that secondary running and ready, with a proxy in front of everything so you can switch as soon as you detect a failure. That's three hosts, plus your alerting has to be separate too, so tha
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by ffssffss 4y ago
What's a situation where Earth is destroyed and Mars is habitable? It isn't climate change, since we could just use whatever Terraforming Magic Technology we used on Mars to fix Earth. It isn't an alien attack, since they&#x2
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by ffssffss 4y ago
What's the citation for the ice core stuff? I found two papers that investigated this and neither found evidence to support the impact theory, so it seems ambiguous to me, but this isn't my field so obviously I might just be faili
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by ffssffss 4y ago
Why "probably"? A union is whatever its members make of it, and most engineers at any given tech company have relatively little seniority. It's hard to imagine them voting to join a union that would so obviously not prioritiz
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by ffssffss 4y ago
Check out the "Moral perspectives" section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_the_Beanstalk I think you're both right, the 1807 version published by Tabart added the moral justification for the kill
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by ffssffss 4y ago
Indeed, the bar is (supposed to be) very high for this kind of thing. But at the same time, it feels like exactly the kind of "gotcha" that rarely flies, because the situation was so deliberately constructed. But without any (pu
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by ffssffss 4y ago
Judges in regular courts really don't like "one weird trick" style legal arguments. I'm guessing judges in secret national security courts like them even less. Hence the skepticism that, in this circumstance, they wouldn
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by ffssffss 4y ago
It's a little sensational but I feel like she's pretty up front about the limitations. The problem with representativeness is admitted, not really engaged with (I'd expect a more thorough study to compare with older results w
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by ffssffss 4y ago
I posted links to this survey on my social media, primarily twitter and reddit, with some indirect advertising on fetlife and discord; these made up 74.4% of my results. Another 22.4% reported ‘other’ from the list of sources. The last 3.2
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by ffssffss 4y ago
Sadly, assumptions of good faith are easily exploited by bad actors (the classic term for this is "just asking questions") but I suppose you're right, I should not have assumed malice.
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by ffssffss 4y ago
What's the point of such an incendiary comment? No, you aren't understanding it right. At worst you are offering a deliberately misleading interpretation. Here's what the link says: The Boston housing prices datase
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by ffssffss 4y ago
Well what's the other explanation, that he'll cut his GPS monitor off, stowaway on a ship bound for Africa, and take the money out as gold or something? Knowing that this means his parents will lose their house? For a few hundred
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by ffssffss 4y ago
His bail terms specifically restrict him from doing transactions larger than $1,000 without government approval, so he is actually restricted from doing this. Presumably his supervisors are investigating. I think a more reasonable explanati
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by ffssffss 4y ago
No it goes way back to the 80s and 90s when radio consolidated. You had guys like Limbaugh reading off lists of men who died of AIDS and laughing at them. Same grift, different generation.
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by ffssffss 4y ago
I think this is the paper it's all coming from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S031508609... They've found some tables of similar estimations, which apparently match the results y
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by ffssffss 4y ago
> incidents where the body damages itself I don't think this is right, isn't the etiology of Alzheimers still pretty much completely unknown?
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by ffssffss 4y ago
If anything I would intuit such an implementation is sacrificing performance for security, since it rules out some classic vulnerabilities.
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by ffssffss 4y ago
The styling looks really dated now too. Look at a Tesla next to one of the new Mercedes or BMW EV models. It's not good.
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by ffssffss 4y ago
Sure, it's kind of like really crappy penny stocks that are in danger of being delisted and probably doing fraud. But real companies have cashflows and assets, get audited by real auditors, hire real employees instead of teenage "
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by ffssffss 4y ago
GPT-2 output detector flags it bright red (which is interesting since this was presumably done with GPT-3): https://huggingface.co/openai-detector/ I have a feeling we're going to have to stick this kind of thing
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by ffssffss 4y ago
This is all accurate (well the technical bits, I don't know much about biblical history or its historicity) however I will make one maddening correction: archeologists conventionally use the word "sherd" (short for "pots

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