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Why would that make more sense than profit per employee or (sub)contractor per hour if we’re trying to measure efficient use of human capital?

Not at all. The Soviet Union was a self-proclaimed multi-ethnic state that was only Russian in the sense that the Russian soviets were the largest and dominated political life.

(From the article) Trains need sand, water, coolant, and other materials for normal operation. These need to be regularly resupplied (at depots). Hence, a typical system would be to dedicate each locomotive engine to a stretch of track (the length of which was constrained by how long the train could go without a resupply) between two depots. The train would stop at the depot, move the cars to another engine, send the new engine along, resupply the old engine, and have the old engine take new cars from yet another train along the track in the opposite direction (to the depot it originally came from).

Civil engineers also have professional associations and certification boards backing them up in most jurisdictions whereas we do not. We don’t have anything to appeal to when we go to our boss with ethical concerns besides, well, our sense of ethics. If the order has already made it down the chain, that sense is probably not shared.

I'll concede that the story is different when you're relying on commercial software that you've purchased to implement an algorithm correctly, but in the limited case of replicating results (whether they're flawed or not), the onus really should be on the user to record what version of software they're using and how they configured it. The article does a lot of gymnastics to make software correctness and research reproducibility feel like the same issue.

Hasn't Foursquare been doing this and nothing but this for ten years now?

Maybe that’s where the spike came from

Why should we assume that being one or two generations removed from subsistence farming implies that a user is naive? There are plenty of naive persons worldwide who grew up in middle class households in the West who are just as naive. I don't think the connection is that clean.

Who really won though? Does anyone buy tablets anymore? I feel like I haven't seen one since 2015.

I doubt iOS devs are very high up on the list of parties to please with this move

This seems exceptional for Velodyne to come out with a statement like this directly from a spokesperson. I would expect a supplier to be more restrained before throwing a large (and growing) customer under the bus like this.

I interpreted "the workplace" as him referring narrowly to white collar work (either in an office doing clerical/technical work or in a mobile setting like a salesperson).

I've never really understood why this is hard for people, especially in the era of Github where anyone and everyone can open an issue or pull request and generally be taken seriously.

That seems like the only way out of this mess. Reading this, there's not a good reason to not sell user data to interested third parties if the only consequences are getting your app removed and your account suspended.

None of these should conflict with Anaconda (or at least Continuum conda, I'm not that familiar with what else is out there) unless you put the conda root bin directory on your path.

I'm not sure how much I buy most of what you're saying beyond in loco parentis causing a ballooning in staff and legal costs. Title IX related activism is a relatively new phenomenon, and I don't think we can attribute older trends in college cost growth to something so nascent (at least in its current form).

He's using "product" to contrast derivatives and more exotic exchange traded instruments (that are often developed like products, i.e. with marketing and salespeople) with more traditional instruments like stocks and bonds.

The broader point he's making is that people bought complicated, high-risk instruments that they may not have understood (or at least treated as something other than what they were, in this cases, vehicles to bet against macro volatility) and lost money on them, and then blamed the losses on something other than the actual downside of that risk.

I bet what OP is seeing is in response to that. Detroit is likely a much more common search, so to keep that populated, they just collapsed all of Dearborn into it.

This also isn't necessarily true. Take the example of TensorFlow. You build a representation of the computation you want to run, and then you can run nearly the whole thing end-to-end in native C++ using Eigen data structures, with occasional shuttling of data back into PyObjects (rare) or numpy (common) for metrics tracking.

Cython is a much more powerful tool than I think the author of this article realizes.

I think massive endowments (foundations, trusts, universities, etc) are pretty clear effects of a large wealth divide

Funny, that was exactly his criticism of American liberalism in his interview on Chapo: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-65-no-future...

I feel like you're missing their point. You can make the case that a gender studies degree prepares you for a mostly academic career only insofar as companies aren't creative enough to find a way to use the unique skills that someone with a gender studies degree has developed.

Maybe Uber wouldn't have had the toxic culture they ended up with if they had hired conscientious people who have spent time studying things like how gender power dynamics play out in the small - and empowered them to speak - instead of relying solely on business graduates.

I don't think the Mercatus Center is the best place to look for good or sincere ideas on how to distribute resources in an equitable way

As in more reboots than they had been experiencing before applying the updates

You can only stay for ninety days at a time on a tourist visa (the point of which is to prevent you from taking a job and sticking around)

So you build that and then do some sort of full scan over the pixels to figure out what's hidden? Sounds really slow

I feel like that'd be a terrible user experience on non-malicious sites

Read two posts above you. We were talking about how one of the founders is a public racist, but how Vice's current editorial approach seems to have move passed that.

I don't think it's controversial that sexual misconduct is persistent across the political spectrum.

Letting sources be anonymous doesn't preclude you from being diligent about the veracity of your sources' claims. The sources aren't anonymous to the journalist.

I think you're coming into this with a lot of baggage. "Vulnerable" isn't necessarily subjective, e.g. "poor populations are vulnerable to diabetes" is a statement that evidence can be brought to bear on.