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> I would say that most attorneys could benefit from basic programming knowledge (e.g., simple scripts, macros, and SQL).

I would argue that this is true of nearly everyone. A small amount of knowledge can go a long way in helping to build simple tools that save a lot of labour.
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I sound like an idiot when trying to speak English and I'm a native speaker.

I don't know what my conclusion is; maybe speaking is difficult.
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>This analysis confuses cause and effect. Science became "leftist" because the right rejected the findings of science in areas like climatology in favour of its own pseudoscientific nonsense.

Academic institutions have leaned left since at least the 60s, back when leftism was an actual counterculture movement. This has nothing to do with climate science.

>Complaints about "gender studies" are mostly a red herring. Social sciences are not the same as geology, climatology, or biology and don't inhabit the same departments in most universities.

Gender studies is fully related to the discussion, because it is an exclusively leftist pursuit, intrinsically linked to modern "liberal" policymaking, and respected institutions tacitly enforce their pseudoscientific, sexist, racist, and classist drivel by allowing them space and funding, while making no such allowances to anything related to right wing politics. Right leaning ideas are effectively forbidden at the majority of so called elite universities in the U.S.

How can you expect scientific departments to be unbiased when their administration and sources of funding are openly and strongly politically leaning and active?

Further, and most importantly, do you really believe that climate science is immune to dogma and the statistical abuses that are responsible for the replication crisis evident in other empirical disciplines? Even asking such a question is career suicide - which unfortunately justifies some degree of right wing scepticism of modern academia due to politicization.
in the US, science has become a political act because science is inextricably linked to improving human welfare.

frequently, the prescription to improve human welfare is for other humans to take certain actions, or to refrain from certain actions. and so, by performing its fundamental mission, science makes enemies by constantly proposing alternatives to the status quo. these alternatives are frequently unwelcome by certain types of people to say the least.

speaking from experience, the anti-scientists aren't going to be convinced by anything a scientist says because science is alien, frightening, and, from their perspective, deeply tainted by corruption and abuse of authority to promote political agendas. for now, the right wing has the biggest and most deserved anti-science reputation. however, i can very easily imagine a future in which the left wing reacts in an identically ignorant way to some growing body of evidence.

so, how can scientists restate their value to a society which ignores, rejects, condemns, or doesn't understand their message? as terrible as it sounds, making a real and easily understandable major breakthrough that positively impacts human life would sure help -- but of course, science doesn't work like that, and most of the low-hanging fruit has been exploited already.

aside from that, i think one part of the answer is to keep a close oversight on science journalism such that it represents scientific progress with less hyperbole and with more context and more third-party/peer review input.
Amazon deliveries here recently transitioned from random guy's car to Amazon-branded vans. Maybe that will help.
I think the online educational resource availability follows from the field dynamics. Python is python no matter whether you're in India or Hawaii. Law is specific to geographies. Law schools generally either focus on their regional context or, at the very top, teach theory instead of practical law (e.g. Yale).

In that context of fragmentation, it's hard to imagine what an legal 'codecademy' would look like. You can't properly teach theory without a strong writing component, and the professors to review it would put you back into the cost structure of a full university (don't think a neural net would cut it, at least within the next decade). For a bunch of multiple choice on practical law, you would need to restrict your coverage to a specific geography, not to mention a specific field, limiting the market for such a service.

I guess you could start with the uniform criminal code + uniform civil code in the USA. Maybe common law principles too.

While it's generally great for people to learn to code as a hobby or for personal projects, I can't think of viable personal projects within law -- just as you wouldn't want to encourage personal experimentation in medicine. Likely the audience would be people trying to better understand their own problems with the law, which incentivizes Dunning-Kruger or law students, who are already in / will be law school. Unlike coding, law school degrees are absolutely required for the vast majority of legal careers.

I think the success of online legal resource providers like Clerky or LegalZoom is that they help non-lawyers navigate the law (outcome-oriented), rather than being a general educational resource.
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> Are the snapshots instant?

Yes. But you have to remember to delete the old ones at some point.
I don't understand this.

You have a product with a UPC. You have a picker with a UPC and a scanner. If the scanner scans the wrong UPC, the picker grabbed the wrong thing.

And yet I get sent the wrong item from Amazon multiple times per year. Ballpark of 1 in 20 orders. And not like I got the wrong order. More like I ordered spicy taco seasoning and receive regular taco seasoning. So a mistake that makes sense if you were matching on titles but why not match on UPCs?
Nope, Glimpse looks across many major sites to validate trends rather than just looking at search volume which often gives false positives.
It was always unclear to me why anyone who wasn't an investor or stakeholder should have cared that MoviePass spent/wasted a bunch of investors' money. If someone is selling dollar bills for 75 cents, who cares what their motive is, or if it's sustainable or whatever?
What's the problem with grand juries? They're supposed to determine whether or not prosecutors can charge you and have an official trial. In other countries, the prosecutor will just charge you directly. The point of a grand jury is to prevent an incompetent or malicious prosecution.

As for counsel for witnesses, they are allowed to hire lawyers. The lawyers aren't allowed in the room with them, but they are allowed to wait outside, and the witness is allowed to leave the room to consult with their lawyer, even after every single question. It's kind of silly, and I'm not really sure why that's the case, but it's hardly an absurd miscarriage of justice.

Also, Chelsea Manning would still wind up in jail over this if there weren't grand juries in the US, it would just be at trial instead.
No, it's the opposite: when subscriptions were for printed copies, it's not like Elsevier would send an agent to set fire on your archives as soon as you discontinued a journal.

In the 1990s, electronic access was seen as a cost reduction technique: some publishers would even provide it for free to their subscribers, others for a small fee; libraries would buy less copies of the same journal. Later, publishers offered to terminate the paper copies and replace them with electronic-only access, but libraries sensed a trap: what happens if we terminate access in the future?

By the early 2000s, most universities had learnt to include such a perpetual access clause whenever they switched to electronic-only access. (See EBLIDA advice in 2001: <http://www.eblida.org/Activities/Publication/Licensing_digit...)

All this work was not completed quickly: around 2010 I remember we (the board of directors) still had to approve some such conversions in my university. (Germany status in 2010: <https://www.mpg.de/230683/access__hosting_studie_e.pdf>.)

However, most of these clauses have never been used so far, and for some universities it's a lot of work to invoke such perpetual rights, track the back copies etc.
https://oadoi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2017.1383964

Not all universities have a self-hosted archival copy, either.
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Would you say a lawyer can make more / be more employable than the average lawyer if they can take software-related cases?
It would be great if nytimes really cared about these issues and used its power to convince people of the real changes that need to be made to society. Instead, they run pieces that side against those that are working hard to make these changes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/opinion/climate-change-gr...
> For those not aware of the background, the author is a wizard from a secretive underground society of wizards known as the Familia Toledo

Wow. None of this is plausible.
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In Germany Ordnungshaft (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnungsmittel) is the measure for refusing to testify. It is strongly regulated and can't extend longer than 6 weeks without going to a higher court.

Erzwingungshaft is incarceration for failure to pay fines or penalties.
> Something about how the delivery person ended up at the wrong location and didn't know where to go, versus bad actors.

That's still a "bad actor." A driver is ultimately responsible for knowing the area they're delivering to. Wayfinding is a very convenient crutch, but if it fails and the driver has insufficient local knowledge it's still a skill failure.

> 2. Why haven't delivery companies cracked down on this? Maybe they have, but I still hear about it a lot.

Because their contract is with the shipper, rather than the recipient. Even a complaint from the recipient is more a PR problem than an economic one.

Moreover, a recipient who accepts redelivery or goes to the depot for pickup doesn't even impose a significant additional cost on the delivery company.
> It's self-evident that most of the actions of the criminal justice system are cruel.

Imprisoning people who have committed crimes is not cruel. It's literally the job of every justice system to do that.

If there was some sort of abuse then sure, but there hasn't been to my knowledge.
Where and how exactly is traditional printing regulated? I can buy a high end typesetting laser printer and print anything I want on it- if it isn't child porn/top secret/libelous I can print anything I want that I've originated.

Can I steal other's content and sell it, no, but I would call existing regulations almost non-existent for original content.
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I have to subsidize them by maintaining the box so they can save labor and don't have to walk up to my door to deliver spam.

The spam is a profit center for the USPS, it's what allows them to deliver other mail cheaper than UPS/FedEx.
I think that "all universities across the board" is a bit of a high standard. Even something as low as 30% would be enough to be a big problem.

I think there's evidence of a fairly significant amount of bias being introduced.
If you had an infinite amount of time to learn, then there is pretty much no reason not to. But the time we can devote to learning something is finite, and you have to consider if learning coding is going to detract you from being better in your core competencies.

The value-add of knowing how to program is quite high, but a lot of that (IMHO) comes from the fact that we as developers have failed to make basic automation (such as what you get with shell "one-liners") more accessible to less technical users.
Not all papers are about achieving state of the art performance,but to explore the general viability of a new approach.
They do that too.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-donald-...
NowPublic did a tool like that in 2008 intended for the use of newsrooms but we never got a single subscriber, every newsroom we showed immediately wanted to acquire the company :D Eventually one did. It was a relatively primitive affair extracting information from the Twitter gardenhose with Stanford NLP and storing / retrieving with Xapian. There was nothing like that at the time as far as I am aware.
Given the ubiquity of programmable machines in engineering, commerce and art, I think algorithms and basic (not BASIC) programming should be taught at all levels of public education.

We teach math. We teach wood/metalshop and arts and crafts. Programming is right in there.
This article was pretty neat (How I Changed The Law With A GitHub pull request) https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/how-i-changed-th...
It was the opinion of a professional musicologist, presented to a jury, that resulted in the lawsuit being successful. At least with a jury there's a chance of calling bullshit, even though it did not occur in this case.
I keep coming back to the differences between OPENSTEP and Taligent and believe C++ isn't the best choice.
When I was practicing law couple years ago people were just sending around Word documents with redlines for changes. I'm sure there are companies that make version-controlled, share-editing tools for contract markups but I don't think they really caught on.
I mean, I would totally agree that the criminal justice system in our country is fundamentally broken and has been for a very long time.

I think there's a ton of opportunity to totally re-work the criminal justice system within the confines of the current amendments. I think that kind of change would be a lot more politically feasible in the near-term (as in, you could make such changes with 45-55% of the population's acceptance, rather than 65-80%).

The 8th amendment says "you can't be worse than X", but it doesn't put any constraints on how "good" we can make the system. I think the political reality is that we need to improve the system significantly before we can constitutionally constraint ourselves to that new bar.
Wasn't Amazon encouraging some of their warehouse staff to go start doing deliveries with their personal vehicles? Even helping them with their own little 'gig economy' delivery setup insulating Amazon from liability for whatever they might do while still guiding their deliveries via a provided terminal?
> I still need to see evidence that this is a fact for all universities across the board

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/11/the-d...

> and that it’s systematically introducing bias into research

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_Studies_affair
Are you implying distracted driving is unique to only Tesla vehicles? The link you posted implies that, and then you immediately generalize your argument.
Looks cool! I've definitely wanted an easy way to take notes from my browser and haven't found the perfect solution yet, will give this a try.
Perhaps I've missed something, but is there some unwritten expectation that developers will switch careers or paths by the age of 40? I'm in my mid 40s, tried the management track, and can't see myself ever leaving the world of development. It's not like we're doing something physically arduous in this field; I love to learn and this is a job where always wanting to learn is both expected and rewarded. Why would anyone look at me askance if I'm older than they thought a dev should be?
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What if, instead of publishing just the code, authors would publish intermediate results (e.g. tensors) of running the code?

So basically sprinkle the code with print statements. Then if a future researcher has difficulty reproducing the result, they know exactly at which step the problem occurs.
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Trump, on climate change:

"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."

"The whole climate crisis is not only Fake News, it’s Fake Science. There is no climate crisis, there’s weather and climate all around the world, and in fact carbon dioxide is the main building block of all life."

"Obama's talking about all of this with the global warming and … a lot of it's a hoax. It's a hoax. I mean, it's a money-making industry, okay? It's a hoax, a lot of it."

I can do this with any given Republican who's been in a leadership position.

I won't, though, because you're clearly dissembling and not engaging in good faith.
The three prairie provinces have almost 20% of the seats in the HoC, and rural ridings in those provinces have disproportionately more MPs than in urban ridings. Western farming communities are not an insignificant voting bloc on the federal stage. It's not in the DNA of any Canadian federal party, all of which tend towards "big tent" habits, to simply write off any area of the country. Even the Conservatives consistently made serious efforts to court Quebec voters over the past decade despite their leaders' backgrounds in the Quebec-hostile Reform Party.
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I believe it's even better to watch dubbed shows that you already know very well. I greatly increased my spoken German comprehension by watching dubbed episodes of the Simpsons. I had seen most of them a dozen times in English and knew much of the dialogue by heart. It can also help with your pronunciation if you speak along with the dialogue, but you have to be careful you're not mimicking a "substandard" accent. You don't want to end up sounding like Cleetus when talking to business partners.
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What the president says on Twitter affects me or the world, whether or not he uses a 9 iron or a driver to get the ball out of the sand trap does not.

You can't even conflate the two. Twitter is his method of communicating to us. He doesn't use the media like previous president's.
Alan Turing was a scientist, played a part in helping end WWII and ... wasn't treated kindly (I'll leave it at that).

Perhaps in the 50s there was more respect for authority figures than there is nowadays. I strongly doubt there was more than that though.
> often thankless undertaking

Why would i "thank" someone that puts unnecessary restrictions on how i can use the program i paid them money for?

> neither immoral

I see it as very immoral to deny me access and control to the software i paid for, especially when that happens because the developer treating me in a guilty-by-default way for something they have no idea if i'll do or not.
> why is a fully-proprietary Celeste.sh (a commercial video game) okay? Because Celeste has fewer privileges?

Because Celeste doesn't link into the kernel, there is a system call exemption in the kernel license to make it abundantly clear that user-mode applications are not considered combined or derived works of the kernel.

As far as ZFS.ko is concerned, there's already history of non-GPL filesystem modules being included in the kernel; namely afs. It's the same argument, AFS was designed for another UNIX-like operating system with a similar VFS layer and - rationale that Linus agreed with. It's really other maintainers at this point that are stonewalling ZFS.ko, an issue that will ultimately come down to what a court decides constitutes a derived work.
from what I’ve seen not every hour is 1:1. 15, and 30 minute tasks are billed at an hour. And projects handled that take special expertise can be billed with a multiplier. So reading and summarizing some document for 2.5 hours might turn in to being billed for 12
What era of mobiles do you have in mind

Probably in the early 2000's when small equaled good.

My wife had an LG phone that was so small it fit in the palm of my hand with my fingers closed. Sony sold a phone so small that it had a boom mic that swung down a couple of inches to pick up your voice.

I had a SonyEricsson t68i that was 4" x 1¾" x ¾": https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_t68i-325.php
Seems like consolidated stockpiles of weapons would make for easy targets of destruction if there was to be a type of civil conflict. Plus if there is a civil conflict, guerrilla warfare is a huge strategic capability for the side that doesn’t have all of the money and technology to utilize. Having to go check out guns at a local municipality not only puts that strategy at risk during the checkout period, but I would imagine surveillance technology would then quickly identify “dissidents” and allow the federal government to target those dissidents quickly and easily.
It is precisely because of this that there are thousands of songs based on the 'Amen Break':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break

By using it you can play safe and not be accused of accidental copying, even though copying is exactly what is being done by using the 'Amen Break'. Sing over the top of it and you are good to go, nobody can accuse you of being insufficiently creative.

As a consequence of this there are similarities between the thousands of songs using the 'Amen Break'. If you were a DJ you could play the longest set ever mixing them in.
Contact customer service and tell them you didn’t get it. You’ll get some credit and if this keeps happening they’ll either do something or you’ll get lots of free stuff.
> Amazon also keeps relability and transit time metrics on all of its shippers.

I wonder how reliable those metrics are. I've repeatedly been told by Amazon support that I need to wait for about 24 hours before complaining about a missing package, incorrectly shown as delivered. Sometimes the package has indeed shown up later, sometimes not.

But if couriers get a 24 hour grace period after marking a package as delivered, the aggregate reliability/transit metrics can't be very credible.
There are two ways to get people to do the right thing, however right is defined. You can convince them to do right, or you can force them. If you've decided that you don't care if you alienate them, then you've settled on forcing, and there's no reason at all to continue talking.

I totally understand that feeling I believe we all get when someone acts like a jackass and you don't mind alienating them, but every liberal democracy is built on a foundation of presuming that people can be convinced rather than having to be forced. That may not be true all the time, but it seems like we should at least act as though it is true.

If we're not going to act as though it's true, then we should call a spade a spade and say that it's ok to use authoritarian methods when they serve what we know to be right. Rule by strength of arms seems like a bad road to go down, though.
If your network security relies on promixity for ultimate security, you've done something very wrong.
Chuck Berry had one of his songs plagiarized note for note though. Sweet little sixteen and Surfin USA are the same song
The difference is that his golf swings aren't statements of government policy.
I am sorry, but believing in a magic technological breakthrough at this stage is just another form of denial, and another version of "but what impact do I make. Meh, I'll just sit and wait for the technological solution".
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Conflating gender studies with climate study is absurd. Pretty telling microcosm here of the validity of the Right's criticism of academia.
> It's literally the job of every justice system to do that.

This makes it usual or common, but it doesn't make it not cruel.

> Imprisoning people who have committed crimes is not cruel.

Imprisoning someone is absolutely cruel. It may be common and accepted (and it certainly is in our current criminal justice system). It may even be just and proper, but it is still cruel.