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The elephant in the room is legal liability. If something happens with a criminal employee then the question is raised "what precautions did you take from letting this dangerous pe…

> This is where institutions like universities, governments, etc. come in. Science was doing pretty well before it became institutionalized in the early 20th century. It's not with…

Of course rare books are valuable. The point is that if you want to buy a physical book you probably will pay $10-15 more for the nice version. The market for the cheap entry is sm…

Your value to your company is also not a linear function of your time there. There are high fixed costs to training, liability, insurance, etc. They are paying you to always be ava…

You actually don't need any of that stuff, you can just write .js files and run them in node. The node.js standard library is quite extensive.

Would you be persuaded by more examples of headlines using this technique?

The individual is using the same reasoning as the headline. They weren't getting the fund they wanted and noticed there was a donation recently. They are speculating that that's th…

Either make it clear you are speculating about two events being connected, or get evidence that links them.

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We can do polynomial regression of data sets that looks equally plausible, but it's not real data.

Curating and presenting facts is a form of narrative and is not at all objective.

The sky is not one color and changes color depending on weather, sun, and global location.

> but if you watch how they act, how they vote, and how they discriminate it could not be farther from the truth. This is a low quality and bigoted comment.

"wow our software is so powerful, it's going to take over the world!"

It was your idea. He suggested it was a universal temptation, you suggested it was a personal problem. If it's personal, there is a community of people with that same problem.

> because you personally couldn't handle a tiny bit of welfare. If there was a segment of the population who "couldn't handle" welfare, where do you think we would find them?

> What would a "good" tech economy look like? Producing goods and services that real people buy and benefit from.

> women are less likely to die in childbirth This one has been debunked many times. US healthcare attempts riskier births that would otherwise be aborted.

I chose mine because he was a reasonably guy to work with and talk to. What I did not know at the time was that he was very junior in the department and needed to please other prof…

Yep, so now your sort function isn't just a sort. It's a sort with a unit test at the beginning. This burden is placed on EVERY use.

> If I'm reading the article correctly, the user can be informed at runtime with little to no performance impact. It's not possible to verify a function is a strict weak ordering w…

Agreed. And I think that's a good idea to do. It's still possible to do wrong.