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But I've saved so much time since I started using mturk to compose all my hn comments. I barely even need to read it anymore!

"So, what do you see as your greatest weakness?"

In the opening words of the 1972 Knapp commission report "we found corruption to be widespread"

I like to express this as "if corruption is a price we all must pay we should at least get value for money."

The 1972 Knapp Commission report is essential reading on the topic

This is so incredibly useful to me right now for incidental reasons I am commenting to make sure I can get back to it.

The 1972 Knapp Commission into police corruption introduced some really great vocabulary to express "the rank and file are complicit". "Meat eaters" and "grass eaters". The meat ea…

Recently I've been reading the report of the Knapp Commission, which was a 1972 inquiry into police corruption in New York City. That sounds tangential at first but it really isn't…

Umm, I think you may have been misinformed what the Nash equilibrium is in the prisoners dilemma

On account of the earth spinning, and all the globally universal constants that derive from this fact, from the magnetic field to the sun rising in the East, at the very least an o…

Go forth and C

I had no idea Newton also pioneered British understatement.

"Is this really a bird I'm communicating with or is it just a statistical parrot?"

Every generation of parrots just parrots what the last generation of parrots said about them.

I once asked it to emulate being air traffic control so I could practice for a pilot exam. It generated a full transcript of a pilot character called "you" talking to air traffic c…

So from what I gather, it wasn't outright rigged, it was just not well designed in terms of the ticket combinatorics and jackpot which made it exploitable to anyone with enough res…

Fascinating. It's learned to be unabashed.

I'm interested in this topic too, but am approaching it from an auditing rather than from an investing angle.

You can in fact use MetroCard on PATH though.

New Yorkers actually agreed with you quite vocally the last time someone tried to introduce a schematic map.

I refer you to the precedent of Snitches v. Stitches

The fact that copying doesn't copy seems dangerous. Like what if I wanted to copy for the purpose of modifying the file while retaining the original. A trivial example of this migh…

Now make it a musical.

Which in fairness, is a reasonable competency to test for in an interview

Tones in non tonal languages do this, which can make tonal languages very difficult because instinctively you aren't used to tones being used for in-band communication.