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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Perhaps, alhtough "person who you get an an argument with intermittently downvotes you posts" isn't exactly a "conspiracy theory". It's just a thing that does happen in internet communities, and that anyone who
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> If you take away that assumption, then what would be your argument? The argument is that the civil and criminal proceedings are considering largely similar statements of fact. The burden of proof is lower in the civil case, of course
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Oh, pretty much every single comment I make gets at least one immediate downvote as soon as I post. I assume I got in a flamewar with the wrong person some years back or something. Don't really care about internet points on VC-sponsore
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
So, here's what I sincerely don't get: why is she allowed to spend a bunch of money on her criminal defense while there are civil cases working their way through the courts, and after she's basically admitted she doesn't
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> Does a bankruptcy eliminate a civil judgement? It depends. In the Holmes case, the plaintiff, if they win, will probably argue that at least part of the settlement should be nondischargeable because Holmes committed fraud. > Why
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> His distortion seems exactly like every pop-sci article today The distinction is that pop-sci articles are just journalism. Most academics take pop-sci journalism in their field with a grain of salt at most, and usually a hard eye-ro
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
As society changes, what it means to be maladapted to that society also changes. It's amazing how many people will agree with that statement (because... duh) and then freak out when someone points out it's impossible to talk about
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
You suggested a tax-funded news outlet that could focus on publishing well-sourced stories instead of keeping up with the hourly news cycle. What you are asking for already exists [1]. In fact, the article we're commenting on is about
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
>> I'm thinking the bottom 90% doesn't own much stock due to lack of funds. Not because they don't know how or because transaction fees are too high. > People making $180k a year lack funds to buy stocks? Yeah, t
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> These tests include fuzz testing, as well as running a “shadow build” in Stripe’s CI that runs over every pull request to the monorepo, but reports failures only to the Sorbet developers, instead of to the PR author. What a great ide
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
You can watch the Macneil-Lehrer News Hour (now rebranded as just PBS News Hour), the program that Jim Lehrer hosted for the better part of his professional career and the reason people care about his opinion on journalism. It still runs ev
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
We already have some obscure bureaucratic infrastructure in place from the 70s called the "public broadcasting service". It's funded and everything. Could just re-purpose that I suppose. Perhaps the public broadcasting servic
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> ...we read it when we're young and naive and our eyes are opened... First, you're projecting. Second, it's not at all surprising that you're young enough to have first read Manufacturing Consent when you were &q
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Just because there's no proof that organic is healthier doesn't mean there's no victim. If for some reason a lot of customers want to pay extra for milk that's hand-milked by a milk maid standing on her head, we can of c
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Fascinating! I always wondered where the convention of putting toilets in the same room as the shower came from.
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> this was a _brilliant_ hack of the system Jesus fucking christ. He fucking ran MD5 on some shit he pulled down from a web crawler. Over-training a model on the validation set would be a lot more "brilliant", and even that i
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
There's a "canine good citizen" test: https://www.akc.org/products-services/training-programs/cani... It's a pretty low bar for any dog that doesn't have major behavioral issues; I'd
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Without very careful contest design, the best performers are obviously going to be over-fitting. Especially if the entire distribution is public. That's exactly what this team did. This is true of academic contests in general, btw, e
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> Not sure if that was completely appropriate. He has only been at h20 for a few months. He was almost certainly hired at least in part because of his participation in the contest.
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
to future readers: namecheap will let you do 9 years.
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> What are we really expecting here? Perfection? No, I don't expect perfection. However, I do expect very careful implementation of access management for very large databases containing lots of PII and other sensitive customer inf
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Wow, I didn't realize the standards stuff is also done by volunteers. > The only people paid at conferences are the registration people. ...if by paid you mean "free labor from local organizers and their students, plus some
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
This is an excellent teaching resource. I really like these sorts of well-written, short-but-not-too-short deep dives on accessible topics. It's a great way to help students learn how to read math and build up confidence in their abili
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Can't you say the same for financial fraud? "It's fraud, but only in the sense that we don't have the profits yet. With some investment we'll surely be able to make that much profit and more." Also, it's n
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
The big bucks are in patents, not in The Proceedings of the Fifth Annual ACM Intergalactic Conference on Subsubsubsfied. Doing something about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act seems way more importan
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
And the "apply" link in the top right is for jobs, not for a closed beta.
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> such effing rent-seeking That was also my take-away regarding this idea. 20% cut? For match-making on private music lessons? Fuck that. Our local music store charges less than that for renting an hour in a soundproof room! And the
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> ...or what you personally learned in college I went to a bad No-Name University for undergraduate and then Top Tier University for phd school, so I have an unusually representative view here. I do agree that, for CS, the no-name univ
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Yes. From his GH profile looks like he's a competitive applicant for ML engineering positions or perhaps a fellowship/residency/PhD program. So, a junior researcher at the level of a decent second or third year PhD student. A
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Yeah, assigning open/recently solved problems seems to be relatively common in graduate theory/aglo courses, at least relative to other subfields of CS and math. Not sure why. It always struck me as not the most productive use of

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