naiveprogrammer

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by naiveprogrammer 6y ago
You are nto following the story, cleary. Not only some texts have been verified, they have a former business partner going on record, verifying the messages along the way. What else do you want? People involved in the threads are claiming t
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by naiveprogrammer 6y ago
You'd think that after 4 years of intense scrutiny by the media, with a 2-year Special Counsel Investigation, people would finally let this go. If you don't see the parallel between this pipe dream and the QAnons of the world, I c
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by naiveprogrammer 6y ago
Instead of blaming fake news and misinformation for the 2016 elections outcome, maybe the Democrats should look themselves in the mirror. I have yet to see a clear decisive causation link between the Russian interference (e.g. bot farms)
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by naiveprogrammer 6y ago
The media has been pedaling the Russian collusion story for 4 years and you don't seem to care because it fits your priors and political agenda. The bigger lesson here is that everybody is ready to accept censorship as long as they are
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by naiveprogrammer 6y ago
Excellent post, thank you. It does seem to me that blaming the whole situation on climate change is an exaggeration. However, it is a politically savvy move from Newsom et al. as west coast states are solid blue. They are pandering to their
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by naiveprogrammer 6y ago
I have no doubt that had TikTok been a Russian app and its ultimate stakeholder were the Russian government, some of you here would have no problem with the ban. I am really tired of the double standard. But most importantly, what the US is
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by naiveprogrammer 6y ago
Even if we accept the idea that CA was decisive to Trump's victory (I don't think it was, not even close), I think that you are absolutely on point here. I do think democrats were caught by surprise in 2016 and, instead of blaming
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by naiveprogrammer 6y ago
In other words, you pay what you pay to attend Harvard, to a large extent, because of its network effects. And that is really the reason at the end of the day. This is especially true in areas where network is expected to be a big factor --
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by naiveprogrammer 6y ago
And why is that? I am a certified C noob and this really confuses me. Why `alphabet_pointer = alphabet;` points exactly to the first element in the array? Why not the whole array? Why not the last? Can we have a pointer that accepts a whole
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
Seems like cherry-picking to me. Italy has an older population to start with. I don't think the US will remotely reach the chaos we are seeing in Italy.
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
When it is all said and done, we will find out that the mortality rate is very close to regular flu (around 0.1%). Italy, China and other countries with high mortality rate are not a great model because they were caught unprepared and their
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
Amen
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
I don't know whether this is a legit breakthrouhg. But technological progress is often a sigmoid (S-shaped) growth curve, it may take a while to get past certain steps but once you are through, money flows and more people devote time t
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
Sometimes I wonder if in some instances a low approval rating is endogenous to the company's employee makeup. I work in the HE sector and I can tell you that the lowest levels of student satisfaction comes from departments or disciplin
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
"play stupid games win stupid prizes"
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
> Vox's newsroom unionized, even though I would suppose that they are likely treated better than most journalists -- at least to the extent the business' economics allow. Better treatment also involves better pay. Being nice to
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
First of all, Greenwald did not steal anything, and he is being charged because he actively engaged in covering the hackers' tracks. That is criminal in Canada, Brazil or US... I am pretty sure that had Mr Greenwald been in Canada he&#
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
Just because Mr Greenwald is facing death threats as a result of his work doesn't mean he is 100% on his interpretation of the story. Also you forgot to mention that Greenwald's husband is a congressman which means they enjoy some
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
> However, as we now know thanks to Greenwald, this anti-corruption fight was corrupt in itself, and the person overseeing the investigation was cooperating with the prosecutors to strengthen their case. That is according to Greenwald. J
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
Absolutely. And there is a gap here to be bridged. In the current political discourse, I see a narrative of men and women being put as adversaries, as if they were competing for something whereas in most cases they are complements and their
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
There is certainly something to be said about the way stay-at-home mothers are perceived by many in our society. They provide one of the most valuable contributions to society and should be praised. The issue is: many females take this issu
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
I appreciate the author's piece but motherhood is not an alternative argument for why women leave STEM, it is THE argument. It is, in all likelihood, the strongest factor to influence women's decisions to leave the field. The evid
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
The benefit of extra speed in ballot count does not completely offset the risks of electronic voting. Not only the risks of massive tampering in electronic ballots and servers, but also the lack of clarity on how the process works under the
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
There are problems and problems. I think the reader needs to adapt to their reality when reading the blogspot. Sometimes the reader needs to do some work and contextualize a piece of advice. I think the blogpost made total sense to me, in t
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
But we need to strike a balance here. I agree with the person above that putting big numbers as to exaggerate and drive panic is not really a prudent approach. At the end of the day, it hurts more than helps for a very simple reason: people
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
It is not clear to me that poor countries are to experience human loss due to climate change since there is a trade off in place here. If developed and developing countries curb emissions to near net zero levels the world economy will suffe
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
The world is not going to end due to climate change in 2100 or 2200. Humans are capable of adapting to developing climates. The Earth is not going to burn to ashes, the most likely scenario are a few degrees higher which will absolutely hav
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
What you say makes perfect sense but when you transpose to the real world the story changes. See how the most vocal and powerful climate activists work day and night to stifle nuclear energy as a perfectly good solution to fight climate cha
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
State and local business tax incentives
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by naiveprogrammer 7y ago
Same. The moment I felt that my brain was melting over NSE and dplyr was the moment I started to phase out most tidyverse stuff from my work. I've switched to data.table and plain R for most of my stuff now.

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