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It's arguably more fair. At least purely random scoring doesn't incentivize cheating.

That sounds like VHEMT; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_M...

You mean they might be committing acts of violence in the pursuit of political aims? You mean 'terrorism'? Should we really validate terrorism as a means of political protest?

I mean, there is an argument to be made there. If people are lashing out violently, they've probably run out of non-violent options and that's something that should be addressed. But I think it sets a horrible precedent to allow violence to shape political discussion.

The same arguments against doing heroin?

Oh they know. It's just that the expected value added to their car sales, even factoring in the negative PR and potential lawsuits, is >0

There are only two conditions for entrapment - government inducement of the crime, and the defendant's lack of predisposition to engage in the criminal conduct. [1] And I think this qualifies on both counts. The students were looking to get into the US, but the government pushed this visa mill on them indirectly, via the brokers (who wouldn't have had a dual-accredited fake university to pitch without the government's aid). Had these brokers not reached out to these students, it's unlikely that they would have sought out the same illegal method to enter the country. (This is assuming the brokers reached out the students, and not the other way round).

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-645-en...

I'd be interested to see how crows and dolphins fit in this ordering.

I think there must be a fundamental difference in the way Americans view privacy vs how Europeans view privacy.

To me, 'privacy' means that my actions performed at home (or in other places where I can reasonably assume to be alone or in private company) should not be under the scrutiny of others.

I should have the right to act how I want in public as well, so long as my actions do not affect other people. But I don't see how I could reasonably expect to have privacy in that case.

Do Europeans have a different view?

Censor: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable.

The reason someone's search results are considered 'objectionable' is because they consider those results private. The private citizen, in the case, is the censor. The french government is just the enforcing body behind that censorship.

I'm not getting why this is supposed to be impressive. It just looks like they lined up several tiny motors and used a small gear ratio. There's very little ant-like cooperation.

Edit: large -> small

This is such a risky game to play. Yes, I took a similar approach to HS with similar results. But I remember competing with another student to see who could do the best in a class without opening their book. I passed. I didn't do as well as I could have, but I passed. He wasn't so fortunate. By the time he accepted that he was behind, it was too late for him to save his grade. What I'm saying is, students should be taught which homework to do, not to just to skip it.

That hypothesis isn't falsifiable. We know "X effects Y" from experimental result. You're asking for proof that "X and only X effects Y", which is the same as asking for "There does not exist some X' that effects Y" where the set of X' is unbounded. No, that's not testable and doesn't need to be.

Just like we didn't need to know about the X' of Einstein's equations to know that the X gravity was the primary force holding you to the ground.

There very well may be an X' that effects observable biological features other than evolution, but that X' needs to be tested on an individual basis. So while it's productive to hypothesize an X' and test it, there's not much we can do to rule out all X' as a class.

Is there any way to hedge your investment in a SF house if you must move there anyways?

I feel like this post misses the point of the whole "technical debt" analogy. They way the author talks, it seams like their org. uses it as a catch-all term for complaining about the code base. But that's never been the point of the term.

"Technical debt" is the justification for process and development decisions that require more time up-front but will save time in the long run (especially as a term to communicate this to non-technical management). It only comes into play when you're talking relatively about two or more different choices.

Just as an example: when deciding to move ahead with less testing or to move more slowly and write unit tests for every function, you should consider the first to come with more technical debt. That doesn't mean it's the wrong decision, it just means that it should be a factor in your thought process.

A relevant comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2651

I think your definition of "thinking" is a bit too narrow. Certainly, there are humans with mental conditions which prevent them from communicating with "articulate language" (autism, aphasia, etc). Yet there's little doubt that they can still "think".

Yes, there's a danger of personifying animals. But there's also a tendency for us to picture ourselves as special (Geocentrism being the obvious example).

This is how I felt about the Math GRE. On the practice test, when I gave myself plenty of time to think, I was able to answer almost every question correctly. But on the real timed test, I scored very poorly. They gave you so little time to solve the problem there was no "thinking" involved, it was all rote algorithmic manipulation.

Starting out with a demonstrably false quote...

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jobe/2015/763680/

Understanding that different people have a different perspective on the world (or at least, grasping that on a gut level) is a key milestone in developmental psychology that normally happens as a very young child (<5yo). This is the first time that this has been definitively tied to language. 30yo's without adequate language to express these concepts were unable to understand them - not just express them.

DUATYADU, please.

You do know that anyone can edit google maps, right? They don't block editing in a region until after something like this happens.

https://www.google.com/mapmaker

It apparently has a data density similar to blu-ray. A better source: http://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/month/2014/10/141020a.html

It's possible that white collar crime is just hard to prosecute in general, but poor people have less opportunity to commit white collar crime. So what we really need to do is make white collar crime more accessible. /s?

What's the appropriate response as the interviewee in that sort of situation? They've completely turned you off to the idea of working for the company, should you just excuse yourself and end the interview?

He looks so confused in that picture. Even after they handcuffed him, he can't believe they're being that stupid.

Ah, the good old days. I remember in middle school when I'd set up my first webpage. I got my first and only in-school-suspension for going to that site during class. Just going to the website. I just wanted to see if it was up, since I had never accessed it from anywhere but home. My teacher's explanation was "It could have been anything! You can't go to websites I don't approve of!"

Now, this would normally have been something trivial I would have just shrugged off. But my computer partner also got in trouble for "not stopping me". What was he going to do, knock me out of my chair before I pressed enter? This kid was the stereotypical teacher's pet who always did his homework and was quiet in class, so I felt particularly bad for getting him in trouble. I even offered to serve two days of ISS instead of him getting in trouble - of course that request was denied.

To this day, I still cannot understand that woman's reasoning. How is "you could have done something bad," grounds for punishment? What kind of person feels the need to punish a child who's showing enthusiasm for a subject they're teaching?

I can't really picture a system where 20% of teacher are absent on any given day... and since I can't picture it I feel like I'm not really getting the whole picture. The article just gives a single paragraph to blame the unions and doesn't really dive into the issue. So I looked into it:

http://r4d.dfid.gov.uk/pdf/outputs/systematicreviews/Q39Teac...

The primary reasons for absenteeism seem to be personal/family health (which, granted, that could be bullshit if it was self-reported) and work related requirements (training, etc.)

Several studies showed correlation between poverty and absenteeism, which suggests to me that teachers who have less financial resources to deal with personal issues are going to miss work more often to go deal with those issues.

It was also noted that administrators were absent more often than teachers and the author suggested this as being a factor in teacher absenteeism.

complicated code base

So then the answer is certainly "yes" with the same level of certainty that algorias is claiming. Large, complicated solutions are inherently likely to have subtle flaws.

Wasn't the metric for calculating self control was how long you were willing to wait for an additional marshmallow? Seems like a proxy for measuring self control that would be biased towards people with a propensity for obesity.

They may have blacklisted your name because you're spamming them with applications. "I've left her 15 messages and haven't gotten a single response," sounds just about as crazy...