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So is what they're doing some sick joke? I doubt people couldn't care less about the damage done by functionally worthless companies. People are pissed at the perception of manipul…

Especially after "2^32 is all the space we'll ever need for ip addresses."

That's the very problem, in this case, it _did_ benefit the institution -- the hedge funds. By restricting buys, retail was unable to drive the demand and put shorts into margin ca…

While a cursory search appears to prove your point (given the constraint of "public funds"), the fed has bailed out hedge funds [1], I don't remember reading that all. Probably the…

This reads sort of tone deaf to me. There is a clear definition of what it means to be impoverished. In the US it's income relative to dependents, [defined by HHS]( https://aspe.hh…

This fact almost killed my Ph.D. I wrote a programming language and type system for biologists and chemists. But the PL theory syntax nearly did me in. TAPL was like banging my hea…

There aren't any formal rules that he lives and dies by, but read "Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist" by Lowenstein. Buffett -- or at least Lowenstein captures -- expre…

Have had 2 kids in CA. Can confirm[1]. They even write you a pathetic "don't go" letter when you file the paperwork to destroy the records. They allow all sorts of organizations to…

To ruminate about this a bit, let's assume our Congress critters never change. So Congress passes law "X" during Congress "Y". It is now 50 years in the future. Who do we ask about…

More generally this falls into a discussion of context-specific vs context-free grammars. Of which C++ falls into the former, Java falls into the latter.

Isn't this why the cosigner exists on student loans? Basically the cosigner is the one with collateral, capable of meeting the terms of the loan. While IANAL, my understanding of r…

I apply a bit of hyperbole here, but I'm convinced that "national security" is a monotonic function that will eventually encompass everything in the federal government.

I have a sneaking suspicion that xfinity does this. When signing up they said there were no password restrictions. So I generated ~64 character password using my trusty password ma…

I know Rahm Emmanuel was caught using on a hot mic at some conference.

Not sure if you have access to it, but reaxsys[1] is an amazing database for stuff like this. I've used it many times for looking for (un)safe reaction paths for particular drugs. …

Excel is the most widely used domain-specific language -- maybe even widely used "programming language" (if I'm painting with a broad brush, though it is turing complete) used to d…

My advisor pseudo follows this. He does his best to bring in pairs of students that will be on _similar_ topics. (of course they are both responsible for their independent research…

In this context, I'd be encouraging my children to do this (and certainly take the blame for them); false positives ftw! It'd be a great, teachable moment where I can discuss many …

Apparently I'm beyond the edit window of my original post. I mean the "world [in CS] is completely discrete[, in the context of mathematical modeling and abstraction.]" I did not i…

Oh, hey. Are you me? I am wrapping my time in CS grad program, and I also, never took calculus as a formal class. Now, I will say, save machine learning/AI, calculus isn't really n…

I've really loathed my time driving in socal coming from the midwest. The idea that I cannot turn left on green is one of the more appalling "features" of traffic management here (…

This is what I find so fascinating. Yes, it cannot be intercepted in transit. But nothing is stopping the keyboard on which I type or the text box in which I type from collecting a…

Yup, I self-cite quite a bit. But not to demonstrate productivity or some other arbitrary metric(s). I self-cite because the images I use in my research are really difficult to mak…

The best collection of resources I've found has been on https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmath/ of all places.