weber111

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by weber111 7y ago
Nice idea in theory; in practice, it might be tricky to have the organizational incentives aligned to make sure such a course is rigorous enough to be useful, rather than yet another worthless and trivial humanities requirement (at my large
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by weber111 7y ago
Please don't confuse the US with our government! (or, rather, with the subset of people in our government who happen to be talking at a given time---there are many levelheaded, effective people working in our government who never enter
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by weber111 8y ago
Google the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty. It makes it trivial for American entrepreneurs to move to NL
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by weber111 8y ago
Yes.. GP is correcting _Egyptian_ to Palestinian
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by weber111 8y ago
My networking lab class (at a top5 school) used AWS, with the reasons that it's more widely used and better documented than GCP or Azure. Tip: You get more free credit (by like 50% iirc) if you sign up for AWS Educate via the github st
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by weber111 8y ago
Pandoc doesn't go from PDF to anything afaik
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by weber111 8y ago
My sister is in Tulsa and has a _very_ nice 4+2 (or maybe 3+2, idr, but it's a well-built, big house on an acre); it cost her $250k. Where I live (central Illinois, 200000 person metro area), prices are even lower.
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by weber111 8y ago
Having two objectives (eg, offense and defense) doesn't preclude sometimes making decisions that trade a setback in one of the objectives for an advance in the other.
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by weber111 8y ago
Thanks for the replies!
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by weber111 8y ago
> Once you have an accurate model for a lot of classes it's much easier to add new ones with just a few samples. This is pretty cool. Do you know of any good references for stuff like this? Not sure what the right topic name would b
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by weber111 8y ago
I know very little about US law and even less about German law, but I think GP was referring to contracts of adhesion, which are less enforceable in the US too, afaik; even if the laws are far stronger in Germany and have different historic
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by weber111 8y ago
"Real" is a technical term from economics and roughly means "after controlling for price increases".
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by weber111 8y ago
A little off-topic, but clicking imgur "direct" links on mobile redirects you to the standard m.imgur.com URL now? Eww.
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by weber111 8y ago
Regrettably, in the world as it is, we need--extraordinarily--competent people working on our weapons of mass destruction, too (in particular, nuclear command and control). Not a job I'd want, and not one I'm happy exists, but one
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by weber111 8y ago
2005 must have been nice: "Online, the answer tends to be a lot simpler. Most people who publish online write what they write for the simple reason that they want to. You can't see the fingerprints of PR firms all over the article
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by weber111 8y ago
Check BOAZ BARAK's Harvard class for a references list
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by weber111 8y ago
I think the sense in which GP is using the word is substantially stronger than that--or, maybe, it depends on what you mean by "rights" and "opportunities". (You could probably find people who think it's egalitarian
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by weber111 8y ago
> Wouldn't it be better and less wasteful if people owned scooters? Isn't the, well, _whole point_ of the sharing economy to reduce waste by not having everyone own things they only use some of the time?
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by weber111 8y ago
If you type fast, you can probably get a whole username (or personal name, or street address) in without seeing the red warning. (That said, it looks like it _will_ show "not secure" by default, even before you type anything in, o
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by weber111 8y ago
And, frankly, many strong undergraduate programs, perhaps especially ones which are also very large (my school has 500 person class size even in your second-to-last and last years, so you need to go above and beyond to distinguish yourself
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by weber111 8y ago
Clicking around a little on the OP site's gallery led me to http://blog.geocities.institute/ and, in particular, to the post on the front page as of today, "9/11 and Vernacular Web" http://blo
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by weber111 8y ago
The FT also publishes articles of extraordinary quality. Their political reporting is some of the closest-to-center out there. (But I agree the instant paywall is a bit rough.)
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by weber111 8y ago
1/4 acre is pretty normal for middle-class neighborhoods in much of the US. A land tax would have to be pretty drastic to force people to knock down houses, split/combine plots, and build new houses repositioned to be more dense t
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by weber111 8y ago
Translation: accept lower pay because you're doing interesting work in the national interest with good job security and benefits; go through a background check because that's part of getting a job like this
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by weber111 8y ago
This is really cool! I was able to hear the fundamental with its slider turned all the way down and the harmonics up using decent in-ear headphones
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by weber111 8y ago
Lectures are great. Material is at a solid undergrad level (should be suitable for someone with 1-2yrs of CS background). No programming assignments, so I would go look at Phil Levis's website to find the "regular" course web
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by weber111 8y ago
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.04299/
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by weber111 9y ago
Thanks for pointing that out! I had no idea it existed.
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by weber111 9y ago
All movies are entertain ment , but only good movies are entertain ing
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by weber111 9y ago
Makes sense - thanks! I was confused by the continuous plot.

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