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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 eaters were the officers that actively pursued opportunities to be corrupt and spent a great deal of time on the job engaging in corrupt activities instead of police work. The grass eaters were essentially normal officers who would turn a blind eye or do things that had been normalized such as accepting or soliciting small bribes opportunistically.

In the words of the report, "the grass eaters are the heart of the problem".

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, the findings of the commission are broadly applicable. One of the major points of it being that corrupt officers correctly judged they had very little to fear from prosecution. There's this great table on page 250 showing the complete lack of prosecutions in the years leading up to the commission, driving home the point.

The reasons for that utter lack of prosecution leading to massive corruption is a microcosm of the broader circumstance to which you've pointed out.

Having read the Knapp Commission report, I am no longer of the view I have anything original to say on this.

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 orientation which puts a cardinal direction on top was inevitable.

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 control...

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 resources to buy up all the tickets, in combination with some fast and loose deals that enabled the logistics of buying every ticket but so far as is apparent no one was outright bribed or breaking a rule. They just weren't questioning things which weren't in their interest to question.

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 might be I have a meme template and I want to write text in it while still keeping a blank copy of the template.

There's a place for alias file pointers, but lying to the user and pretending like an alias is a copy is bound to lead to unintended and confusing results

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.

I've had a similar idea for a card game like yugioh but all the cards represent court instruments like affidavits and subpoenas and instead of mana points actions in game are measured in money.

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Packet ravioli

Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better, but the frog dies in the process.

Psst, the math joke here is that "the point at infinity" is literally the mathematicians version of folding in "this is an error case" with "valid coordinates". The "error case" in question being division by zero. Turns out there is good reason to do it, because it means the co-ordinate is always defined.