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Its peace is fortunate, conflict is unfortunate. Pointing out that someone is wrong is unfortunate. The fact being states is unfortunate because it contradicts the above post, implying a conflict. This is a fairly common use of the word unfortunate.
I raise you a service which gets it's configuration from a table on confluence page
How are you doing it at work? Would love to pick your brain about the workflows you're seeing for some customer research purposes :)
The Zume pizza robot is way overengineered. The Costco one is significantly simpler:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q0vk_fKDEo
It's one of the few fields where a bachelor's degree from a state school can pretty easily lead to a six-figure salary.
They ought to do more to at least make students feel less discriminated against.

The question is really how to add transparency and systemization to the process in a way that cannot be gamed. I don’t think everyone believes standardized testing is the answer, so what is it?

My personal opinion is that they will actually create separate admissions pools, under the cover of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The transparency will be about “Fine, for this specific program, we will simply admit the top 400 test scorers” or whatever. Each department will have its own admissions policy and students will be able to choose which to apply to. Everyone gets the same education, opportunities and degree. They will wind up with the same exact class but at least the deal being cut with students is more transparent.
Semelparity and Iteroparity
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/01/730386096/federal-judge-rules...

Also links to an SC case that will likely be cited should they decide to take up this one (which seems unlikely IMHO).
Thanks for posting that. Ruby or Go experience is required for backend positions.
So you allocated scarce resources to the best available candidate you could find? ...or there's something I'm missing...?
Your grandfather's family isn't the modern world that children today know. Incidents from a century ago are hard to relate to someone who knows only modern medicine and sanitation.
> Any broadening of rights after the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration is suspect. These are ploys to alienate the Hong Kong people from China (離間計).

If you by that mean that giving a place more civil rights and protections against human rights abuses makes it more unlike China, yes, I agree.

And as spacehunt said, British established the independent judiciary which the CCP is trying the dismantle now with the extradition bill and the British also made large scale election reforms, which the CCP rolled back out of fear for democracy.

And, when the CCP can't do anything with the current laws, they kidnap and imprison people for exercising their free speech in Hong Kong. We've waited quite a while now in Sweden for the release of our countryman, the CCP can lend some faith to their insistince that they support "one country, two systems" by releasing him. Anyday now would be nice.
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One interesting aspect to Simpson's paradox it that it's not straightforward which perspective is the more valid one, by groups or combined.

One example in which the combined perspective is the valid one is election results (it is possible to win a higher percentage of votes in multiple areas, yet lose the overall vote).
...and the extended version of that video shows how the protesters chased down that officer first, tackled him, and beat him on the ground (including the exact protester that was shot).

Full video: https://twitter.com/bbcchinese/status/1179082367337713666
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Because a bachelor's degree in CS from a state school can very realistically be the key to a six-figure salary. Most other "white color" professions either require significantly more schooling or have dimmer job prospects.
Sure. Anyone who is in business has an incentive to get the other guy's secrets...
There is a good chance the optimism was related to economic opportunity from the die-off of humans from the war. Similar trends in societal change (not the contents themselves, but the trends of the changes) can be seen in post-plague Europe.

Suddenly human capital was more valuable.
Scientific "Teen Beat" American... This is the worst kind of click-bait sensational journalism I have seen from Scientific American. Honestly, what a pile of scary hokum.
What is the problem with using GPS?
If it's an unmoving device fixed in place, I could see that capture from air wouldn't be particularly efficient.

But what if it's a device that already exists that moves through air with great speed, filtering through huge amounts of air? Like, say, a jet engine?
I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is something in Tso's statement that seems to me to be quite different from yours.

In your example, the fact that the first option is self-evidently correct even in a vacuum, is something of a cue that the second option isn't meant to be taken as seriously.

In Tso's statement, it's not immediately clear to me which of the two options he prefers. In fact, his use of the phrase "get over it" leads me to think that is actually his preferred variant. To me, that phrasing means if not an outright trivial and unworthy concern, then at least one that only needs the passage of time. There doesn't seem to be any indication that he's using the phrase ironically or anything.

Of course it is always possible that I'm just misreading or misinterpreting it. But that is why the first half didn't, and still doesn't, seem relevant to me.
Why would you agree to participate in a 7pm Friday meeting?
Virtually every industrialized economy since the Industrial revolution has developed in part by 'borrowing' or stealing existing technology. Not making a moral judgment here, but economically it makes no sense to reinvent the wheel.

You might be right that predictions of China's rise is overblown, but we forget how crappy Korean technology was just a couple of decades ago, and there's no reason it can't happen again.

Regarding the Ma/Musk debate, that seems like a strawman argument. Ma studied English in college and his strengths are his business and political accumen, not technical ability. There's plenty of people in China with a better understanding of the AI landscape.
GP is clearly talking about France, not Russia.
I know, but literally, it's what I wrote. Thanks for mentioning though!
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Probably better to think in terms of a "military philosophy society" or something like that -- the idea isn't to build a logistics chain for conducting combat operations (that is what a militia has to do) but rather provide a pro-social context for people to learn skills and safety and military history. In the event of a conflict, the members of such an organisation would join the military, not deploy as a separate group with their own colours or what have you (which is what a militia would do).
Thanks for your feedback. You definitely make some good points that I understand, but probably just don't weight as heavily as you do.

1) Gaining critical mass is definitely a barrier to entry for competition. I'm just less sold that Facebook's current popularity is not due to it's foothold in the space vs it's utility.

2) Economy of scale is what allows these companies to offer their services to me as 'free'. I don't really mind that Facebook or Google have taken something that is useless to me (my personal browsing history, locations, likes, etc) and found a way to monetize it if I get to use their platform for free in return.

3) I'm not sure that breaking up big tech would significantly discourage their 'moat maintaining' behavior. If anything, with additional competition introduced, wouldn't there be even more incentive to put time and resource into maintaining what majority they have?
This is a truly hard problem.

I read somewhere (citation needed) that if truly race-blind admissions were used in the UC system, they'd have 98% Asian students.

(As a dead white male, that's amusing. Just shows how culture affects outcomes.)
He sounds like a horrible boss but I’m not sure why you added a hypothetical sexual harassment charge to his already long list of bad traits.

The real problem we have is that there are many highly competent sexual harassers in workplaces and these issues get swept under the rug specifically because they’re good workers.
It’s location accuracy improvements in urban and indoor areas, which is notoriously poor.

UWB is supposed to let you know how far away other devices are, and in what direction. This will let you e.g. find your device if you left it somewhere in your house, or give you an UI to Airdrop to someone next to you (rather than just showing everyone in range), etc. Other location services are supposed to let you navigate indoors.

I don’t think there’s really “the next play” as much as there’s a bunch of marginal improvements, and a bunch of people who hope that there will be some killer app for location services that they can dominate.
During the depths of the Cultural Revolution there were incidents of cannibalism committed not out of hunger but out of a desire to prove unquestionable loyalty to the cadre.
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Most of the skill I mentioned above are that i picked along the way apart from my job. Always ready to try out new things and solve problems that directly affect business use case.
Yes, but for personal use, unless someone else already made those containers, I will still have to go myself through the trial-and-error process of finding the right combination of versions. Yes, second installation will be easier, but if I just want it on my PC it doesn't really help.
A question I've always wondered, and relevant here. If this is inter-company (and probably intra-company) communication, why don't these companies manually exchange one-time pads and use them? It's surely not hard for a courier to carry literally terabytes of OTP, and report if it was taken off them at any point.

I was thinking of tape or HD, but now you an have the courier carry a terabyte of OTP in a few USB sticks.
I subscribed to a few newsletters that would send me startup ideas and problems to solve on a daily basis.

But somehow that didn't do anything for me.

Some even would offer to connect me to people with the problem, but I had the feeling even with people who would say "I have problem X and I'd pay for a solution" the whole process was still too abstract for me.

I think this has more to do with the business side of things than with talking to potential customers and implementing a solution.

How do I start? What are good first steps if you don't know anyone, don't have a network etc.
That's interesting, what a ridiculous way to price discriminate.

I also found this conversation while trying to find out kind of HDD it is:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/8ghb0o/wd_mybo...
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How can one examine a couterfactual in cases like this? Barring access to Marty McFly’s time machine unless you have two identical copies of a state to experiment on how would you go about this?

Edit: legitimately curious, not trying to be nitpicky
Interest-ing - apparently it's enough to simply have all of that cash, like a savings and loan?
The great thing about business unlike monarchies is there is always more than one king. Go find another one.
Wow - this sets a bad precedent. This might now encourage companies to now discriminate against Asias in hiring as well.

There are already murmurs in the Valley about how there are too many Asians in tech.
Back in the 1930s there was pancake-making-robot outside the diner across the street from the apartment where my dad grew up on 72nd St in Manhattan. My dad loved to watch the thing work. He'd put in a penny and a mechanical arm would come out and pour some batter on a hot grill, then a few moments later another arm came out and flipped the pancake, then a few moments later an arm would come out and move the pancake to a paper plate, which then got shunted out to my dad. Sometimes my dad would put in a penny when he wasn't even hungry, he just loved the elegance of watching the robot move.

I often wonder why there are no such robots in Manhattan now? I have to assume this is simply a matter of fashion. Robots seemed very futuristic in the 1930s, and even something as simple as a pancake making robot helped a little boy feel in touch with the future.
I'm not the one who called you a Mexican
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GPS works poorly in urban areas (newer chipsets are better at this, but it’s still rough) and doesn’t really work indoors at all. GPS will tell you that your phone is at home, UWB will tell you that it’s on the dresser in the bedroom.
Quietly my ass. Both are promoting it as a way to make an estate or corner of earth internet-connected, rather than just a single structure.
Ask HN: Website / GitHub for shaming websites that do not work in Firefox?
Is there a list similar to Dumb Password Rules[1], but for websites that do not work in Firefox? The idea is to publicly shame companies for not testing their software across common browsers.

Live example:

Open Firefox 69 on Windows 10 1803+.

Set the web browser width to 1250+ pixels.

Open https://www.lmcu.org

Click "Online Banking Login"

Observe the orange "Login" buttons are pushed down slightly.

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I just figured that hundreds of years ago, everyone just agreed that democracy was a good thing, so let's define what we do as democracy. After some time the word's meaning matches what we do.

The first link implies that somewhat, but I would guess we need a historian to map the meaning over time.
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Apples approach seems far superior. Medium range stuff tech is already out there. See z wave and zigbee. You can hack that stuff together without much cost.

Precise location indoors has no real equivalent currently
He said "probably" and "I don't think" which seems like enough hedging for me.
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Alright, we've gone full circle. You're just repeating how super simple it is to avoid infection (it's not, otherwise no one would have guinea worm and it'd already be extinct!) and minimizing the impact this has on people's lives without actually addressing anything I've brought up.
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Like GPL, CCBYSA allows you —the licensee— to pick a future version of the same license. That is, if you receive a copy of work under v3, you can make it available under v4, no questions asked.

That's all SE has done here. Exercised a clause in the license. If you don't like that, don't submit content under licenses that allow it.
> seems to be the most relevant disaster of the time

Of course they were. Would the alternative be to worry about something else that is less of a threat or they don't know about?
> Being wrong about something does not cross the "intolerance" line if it's not followed by advocating hurting people (or excluding them from society).

A little historical context:

Treating black people as if they're "lower IQ" than white people has been the basis of hundreds of years of brutal oppression.

Which is why people are extremely uncomfortable giving someone who espouses those sorts of views any power whatsoever.

Oh, and fuck people who believe that. They're racist. They're wrong. And I don't want to be anywhere near them, personally or professionally. How's that for exercising my freedom of speech?

If that makes me intolerant of dumb racists, whelp, I guess I'm intolerant.
>>The question is really how to add transparency and systemization to the process in a way that cannot be gamed.

You can't make a system that can't be gamed if there's people making judgement calls involved. You can't build a perfect system that makes everyone happy. You just need to build a system you're happy with. No matter what you do, someone with a 4.0 isn't getting into Harvard, and they're going to be pissed about that.
This ruling is a travesty and I hope the Supreme Court overturns it when this is appealed. It is very clear that race-conscious admissions are systematically racist and discriminatory. Take a look at the distribution of students by race in the University of California system, where they're not permitted to discriminate in this manner, thanks to Prop 209 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_California_Proposition_20...) - it is very different (more Asians) compared to private schools like Harvard.