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Outside the Valley, people would hear this and say, "get a job."

Is it? I just get a blank page.

with JS, people who are opting-out should blame themselves No, I'm going to continue to blame that subset of JS coders who consume far too much of my CPU/memory resources. Thanks t…

How many tests did he run? What confidence interval did he establish? What factors did he control for and how?

Memorization is not learning. Neither is a subset of the other.

1. Reviewing everything submitted by users is unreasonable to expect. 2. People are upset that takedown notices are issued for works to which the issuer does not hold copyright and…

If they're going to take up scarce public resources (i.e. RF spectrum), then the public has a legitimate concern in ensuring such resources are used in a way that benefits the publ…

As a disclaimer to all of this, I was the type that had fun proving stuff in seventh grade and had already read through Spivak's Calculus by Grade 10. This makes your earlier claim…

So sales produces a prospectus that suggests this is a bad investment. Then they continue agreeing to package and promote these securities. Were there some information excluded fro…

I'm a stats-heavy computer scientist, but I'd argue the opposite: the ability to construct and evaluate a rigorous argument is the first thing lacking: one that plausibly analyzes …

All I could think of was making it difficult to find exactly what commit fixed/introduced what bugs.

From what I've heard, it's combination of time restrictions for reviewing a patent and penalizing rejections that later get overturned when the applicant appeals the decision.

On the other hand shadow work is exactly what empowers people: 1. Automation allows to DIY tasks that previously were too expensive to acquire in the market in exchange of a bit of…

nobody forces the creator to create [or distribute the work]. Of course not. We just want to encourage them to do so. Nope, somehow "creators" feel that the society is owing them t…

If distribution cost were high and creation cost insignificant, copyright would not be needed -- the creator can handle competition from other distributors of his creation because …

Nor does he seem aware of inflation (see his "grandparents" paragraph at the end). The site below suggets $7k in 1950 would be about the same as $65k today, and I would hope people…

Are you trying to make a compiler that targets multiple platforms?

From what I've heard from them, I think "better safeguards against regulatory capture" would cover a lot of it, though I have yet to hear that term specifically.

If you think Zuckerberg is evil and that we're all just going to try to screw you, there's nothing I (or anyone else) can tell you that is going to change your mind. Nothing you ca…

So Mark's gone from having an uninspired house interior and no way to pay the bills to having a nicely-decorated house and no way to pay the bills. Directly trading one luxury for …

That's an emergent property of the system as a whole, not the desire of the typical participant, and it is not based on any motivation for working beyond desire to collect a payche…

Or perhaps they do want to get into computer science and there are a number of obstacles stopping them. Most people would agree with this. Keep in mind when looking for the cause o…

Your argument broken down goes like this: "If you can't touch it, it isn't natural, therefore disregard it" It's more of an acknowledgment that our concept of ownership is derived …

In case my username didn't give it away... It's been a while since I last read TPM though.

Ever wonder why the private school teachers are content with their lower salary? Public sector teachers have to deal with all of the problematic students that private schools can r…