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Very interesting statement, considering that Sargon (the guy Patreon banned) was directing his offensive language AT the alt-right (i.e., he is against the alt-right, not part of i…

I don't think "100% in-house techs" is right. I have Comcast Business and my line was recently cut (probably an accident by apartment maintenance). The tech who came out and put in…

Actually looking forward to MS's UX folk cleaning up LinkedIn. Along those lines, maybe they'll fix the very broken email alerts for group postings. For quite a while, my experienc…

I've found Vischeck to be helpful: http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/

Here is the breakdown for the quants at the bank I worked for in 1995-1999 (I may have forgotten a few people): Cornell physics PhDs: 3 Harvard physics PhDs: 2 Princeton physics Ph…

The fpr and fnr should be swapped (note: I haven't read the rest of the paper yet). Specifically, it should be: ROC curves plot (1-fnr) as a function of fpr.

For the few that I looked at, clicking the "Description" tab tells you almost nothing. Clicking the word "Help" in the upper right gives a much more detailed description.

DSL is available without telephone service, at least with Verizon in Pennsylvania. It is called "dry loop DSL." 3 Mbps / 768 kbps is costing me more than the price they are adverti…

About 20 years ago, when I was a grad student, I attended a colloquium where the speaker (a physicist, for better or worse) had computed the number of people that the planet could …

Neat. It would be helpful if you could go in the opposite direction (enter RGB values and get the name of the closest color). I find that when I'm making a chart or graph and I coo…

In a similar vein, but with physical mail, I made a donation to the local PBS TV station years ago during one of their fundraisers. They sent me a postcard with my name misspelled …

> Better Business Bureau link? Is lacking a BBB link supposed to be a bad thing or a good thing? http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/business-bureau-best-ratings-m...

Should we take 100k new users to mean 100 new Ashley Madison employees generating 1,000 fake accounts each? http://abovethelaw.com/2013/11/ashley-madison-should-take-be...

> Except I've never once seen such a claim actually made by any politician. So at the very least it seems likely to stand out. Marco Rubio made a claim like that on Meet The Press …

All of the C++ books by Scott Meyers are excellent -- very clear and insightful.

I (not original poster) have a Dell Latitude E5430 with the upgraded backlit keyboard and I like that keyboard a lot (vastly better than the standard one on my old D620).

Sidenote: I tried sending the link to my brother's work email and it was blocked by Symantec.cloud email filtering. I don't know if that means that Symantec is blocking links to sp…

it seems like it's a pretty important part of being a slashdotter to hate on the staff I wouldn't go that far. I was on Slashdot for a very long time and witnessed many changes of …

Not really (at least for the US -- I don't know about the UK). The unemployment rate is only low because so many people have given up on looking for work. The labor participation r…

The China market is pretty limited in reach; not many foreigners and not even many institutional investors How much money do Chinese investors have invested outside of China? If th…

Which is presumably done so that if you forward the newsletter to someone else they can't (accidentally or maliciously) unsubscribe you by clicking the link.