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by nmrm2 11y ago
Also, "simplify the tax code" is too often used as code language for wiping out progressive taxation (on the right) or wiping out corporate subsidies (on the left). Which makes the politics of the issue that much more intractable.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
TA: "The fact that the effects last beyond the time that you take the medication -- that's really a new paradigm in psychiatry." I have no doubt that psychedelics are capable of producing lasting changes in behaviors, habits,
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Have you actually been in a PhD program before Yes. The experienced discussed at the link you posted is atypical and abusive.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Exactly. The most devastating part of all of this for me (a US citizen) is that the German CEO resigns in disgrace and there are ongoing criminal investigations in Germany, but in the USA the CEO holds fast and blames engineers. It seems li
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Give me a call when you find a company that lets its employees work on whatever they want with minimal effort put into politicking/explanation. Plenty of excellent engineers take unpaid time off work between jobs for the opportunity to
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Right. It's fascinating how often I hear people saying that can learn by experience but wouldn't do a PhD. A PhD is a guaranteed salary for five years to do pretty much whatever you want (plus a bit of politicking to explain to so
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by nmrm2 11y ago
In CS it makes sense it pretty much only makes sense you're going from an unkown school to a top school.
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... or any job they could've gotten with a bachelors.
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> You will get a higher sentence for being remorseless. This creates really perverse incentives, though. How in the world do you maintain innocence without being "remorseless"? At base, this operates from an assumption that t
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Right. I think the reasonable complaint in these cases is that the damages should cover the cost of investigation that resulted directly from the breach, not the cost of fixing the original security vulnerability and/or auditing the
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by nmrm2 11y ago
A "Business Management Consultant" group focused on "cyber" security? You shouldn't have been surprised ;-)
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Nuclear would also make sense? AI might make more sense becaues nuclear seems like a hard place to do "heretical" research, but what do I know
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Furthermore, the obsession with mid-career salaries is misplaced. Four problems: 1. Focusing on the mid-career salaries can over-value college. Without longer-running longitudinal data, you're essentially just measuring whether college
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Most politicians aren't interested in money as much as they are in power. The money is nice, but for most there are easier ways to get it.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
You're massivley underestimating the impact that open sourcing would have because you're assuming that these software quality metrics whose utility is substantiated with correlative evidence will have any causal significance p
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by nmrm2 11y ago
The rising popularity of anti-debt politics is having a huge impact on the amount of pork amendments that are introduced in Congress. Meanwhile, amendments now serve the purpose of attaching valence issues (i.e. hyped up issues that turn vo
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> TPP is not irreversible I hypothesize that for many signatory nations, it is de facto irreversible. > just as they currently suffer them now. Obviously I don't have the text, but it would be surprising if TPP contained no p
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Now, if you really want to appeal to democracy, then it's pretty tough to criticize democratic sovereigns delegating their authority to other parties. The problem is that TPP is a one-way transfer of power -- the costs of (democ
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Mono-culturalism probably doesn't hurt, but their exceptional social safety net is probably more important. A lot of the problems that American students face very clearly start at their improverished homes. Also, AFAIK, the sort of ext
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Ah, I stand corrected. Sorry to hear that :-( This is one concrete way that something like Intelexit could actually make a difference -- find companies who are willing to hire people with intel backgrounds.
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> that people cannot receive any material or social (... respect from congregation, etc.) That seems totally impossible. People donate for social prestige all the time (those silly bricks with people's names on them, placards in
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I've heard first hand from academics who have this problem. It's less of a problem if a) you're doing something more applied/normal, like software development, where you can just have a conversation or work some problems
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> But forcing Microsoft to reveal their crown jewels (they sell software) vs car companies reveal how an internal controller works (they sell cars), is not comparable in any way. Its disingenuous to imply that. This makes two assumptio
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Full disclosure of found software vulnerabilities and mandating that companies provide access to source code are two entirely different things. One component of Schneier's recommendation is protecting researchers who practice full disc
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> But transparency doesn't magically reduce cheating or improve software quality, as anyone who uses open-source software knows. It's only the first step. The code must be analyzed. And because software is so complicated, that
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by nmrm2 11y ago
The parent's comment is accruate on the only important point here -- Germans don't like nuclear power. The phase out of nuclear power isn't the result of a coalition trying to appease a radical fringe component. It's bro
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Right. SUVs in this category are going after the need-a-van-but-want-a-sportcar market.
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It's also a matter of how much you're drinking. I take two weeks off from drinking coffee each year (not because of the coffee, it just works out that way). I had horrible withdrawal the first year, and switched from 3ish cups of
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> I'd argue that we should be doing a lot less for the gifted. They'll turn out fine with guidance and resources. There is a common perception that gifted students are "like other students, but smarter and better at scho
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> Common Core is based on a bunch of studies I'm not an educational researcher and I don't have a thorough understanding of the research methodology or the issues involved in designing those studies. Every Education researche

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