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eadler··on The Mathocalypse
That reminds me of this paper:

Chow, T. Y. (2008). A beginner’s guide to forcing (arXiv:0712.1320). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.0712.1320

> “All mathematicians are familiar with the concept of an open research problem. I propose the less familiar concept of an open exposition problem. Solving an open exposition problem means explaining a mathematical subject in a way that renders it totally perspicuous. Every step should be motivated and clear; ideally, students should feel that they could have arrived at the results themselves. The proofs should be “natural” in Donald Newman’s sense [13]:

> This term . . . is introduced to mean not having any ad hoc constructions or brilliancies. A “natural” proof, then, is one which proves itself, one available to the “common mathematician in the streets.””

eadler··on This Code Is CRAP (2011)
This talk.

What We Know We Don’t Know • Hillel Wayne. (2019, April 28). Hillel Wayne. https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/what-we-know-we-dont-know/

eadler··on Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent
I've read a fair amount of Foucault and while I could guess, what specifically were you thinking of?
eadler··on DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
Responding to you generally and not to this comment.

I want to thank you for explaining economic principles even if the OP doesn't understand them. As someone who has less econ background then they'd like — your explanations are clear.

eadler··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
Until the terms start including "mass arbitration" provisions limiting consumers ability to even use the psuesocourts the companies force.
eadler··on List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games
I agree with you to the point that I wrote this https://arbitrationinformation.org/docs/problems/
eadler··on OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury
NAL but generally familiar with law.

Medical (and especially therapy) notes, attorney/client communications, and a few other have privilege [1] and you would not /required/ to submit this. If the opposing side requested something that turned them up, and they were responsive, you'd include a response and include a reference in a "privilege log" [0]

What is privileged is subtle and often overstated. You can't just put "attorney/client privilege" and CC a lawyer — you need to be asking a genuine legal question. Google almost got in trouble for something like this [2].

Private notes, including diaries, are not privileged. I'd like to see some serious proposals for "diary privilege" but no state has such a rule.

[0] https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/creating-privilege-logs-a-... [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/privileged_communication [2] https://www.proskauer.com/blog/the-sound-of-silent-attorneys... — although they won later appeals. My point here is that its complicated.

eadler··on Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments
You may enjoy https://forrt.org/ and in particular https://forrt.org/replication-hub/
eadler··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
I never knew the name of that device.

Thanks

eadler··on JetBrains is shutting down "Code With Me" in all its IDEs
This is such a shame. It was the single best code pairing tool for the longest time and did not rely on mere screen sharing.
eadler··on Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE's Dilley Facility
I've read this before. The first time you posted this.

Your obsession with Obama and ignorance of current events are well known to me and everyone else who reads this site regularly.

Please make an effort to apply your purported critical thinking sklls and claimed integrity rather than reposting one article repeatedly.

Being unwilling to differentiate between two obiously different forms of badness—both in kind and in quantity—is intentional ignorance and is antithetical to the curious conversation expected of this community.

eadler··on Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE's Dilley Facility
... and if you can't differentiate between the badness of Obama and the badness of Trump you have neither integrity nor critical thinking skills.
eadler··on The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café
I appreciated several of these quotes and added them to my own personal tracker. Thanks for linking this.
eadler··on Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document
> You're reading research that says they're geniuses?

I didn't say this

> ...

Re the rest. Thanks. I had implicitly assumed we were talking about financial or white collar crimes rather than all crimes. In other words the types of crimes people generally assume that richer people commit (insider training, tax evasion, wage theft, etc.)

I think you are correct in the most general sense of "all crime"

eadler··on Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document
> The reason criminals commit crimes is that criminals are dumb and have poor impulse control.

What makes you believe this? Any data to support this claim?

It's inconsistent with the majority of research I've read on the topic but I'm no expert.

eadler··on Coinbase to reincorporate in Texas, exit Delaware
1. You called the judge an "activist" which I don't agree with. Further if there were legitimate concerns about bias they could have requested that the judge recuse herself. It also ignores the, rightfully, failed appeals which were not ruled by McCormick

2. This is covered extensively in the document I linked

3. This is covered extensively in the document I linked

4. I regret commenting on musk's politics. I have no idea if he actually voted for democrats previously and if so he he actually ever supported small-state libertarian values. They aren't relevant to the case.

5. 6. I'm not commenting on conspiracy theories

eadler··on The inconceivable types of Rust: How to make self-borrows safe (2024)
You might enjoy this video:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=D-XXZilkAXU

eadler··on Coinbase to reincorporate in Texas, exit Delaware
> * A single activist judge overruled shareholders

false

> * A high-achieving CEO was left with with zero compensation for a ten year period

false

> * Musk's compensation was agreed by a majority of shareholders both before and after the judge annulled it.

not usefully true because the voters didn't have complete information and the board was captured.

> * Musk has a conservative political worldview

false, but I'll admit that many people would call it "conservative"

> * The judge that annulled Musk's compensation was Democrat-appointed

no idea. Irrelevant

> * A man's political worldview should have no bearing on the compensation owed to him by his employer

true. Irrelevant. Musk's political worldview had no bearing on the court case of which you seem to have heard of but not understand.

You appear to be reacting to a simulacrum of reality rather than what actually happened.

I suggest reading https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=359340

eadler··on Chimps strike stones against trees as communication, study suggests
Yeah. Hearsay is an out of court statement provided to show the proof a matter. It has little to do with oral vs non oral. There are also exceptions, exceptions to the exceptions and so on.
eadler··on Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique
Is this actually the case? what about people who were promoted or moved positions?

Is this the case for all federal jobs or can it be longer for some roles?

eadler··on Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique
What do you believe "probationary employees" means?

What is their average tenure at the department?

eadler··on Ax falls on elite group of PhDs training to lead U.S. public health labs
The article states that the lawsuit was rejected merely on procedural grounds (specifically the doctrine of administrative exhaustion) . It does not come close to stating that the action was legal.

The actual court decison (which I have also read) is consistent with the article.

eadler··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
This is starting to happen. I had to do this for NIH recently.

Or it would be happening absent the recent chaos.

eadler··on Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets
The Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) precludes APA review amongst other relief (since it precludes district court jurisdiction entirely). That being said, this "termination" is likely invalid under the CSRA.

Please see Elgin v. Dept. of Treasury 567 U.S. 1 (2012) for details.

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2011/11-45

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep...

eadler··on No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones
I'd believe this in very specific contexts but I can't find any reliable explanation of what those might be. Can you point me to anything worthwhile to read on the topic?

I am fairly certain that consumer and employment pre-dispute arbitration agreements are strongly negative but I haven't learned enough about FINRA/securities arbitration to have a strong opinion.

eadler··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
Relevant Law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5103

Good explanation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanlewis/2017/04/18/what-is-...

Another distinction here is that a store is offering a contract. It isn't a debt until the contracted is accepted.

eadler··on C stdlib isn't threadsafe and even safe Rust didn't save us
This isn't true for the majority of operating systems.
eadler··on Trump sides with Musk on support for H-1B visas for foreign tech workers
Not commenting on any other part but a slight correction:

The morning after pill is not an abortifacient. While there are different types most (like Levonorgestrel) are antiovulatarory or anti fertilisation.

eadler··on Formally Modeling Dreidel, the Sequel
Related: some fascinating history about the origin of the dreidel.

Stephen Winick. (2022, December 13). The Truth Behind the Hanukkah Dreidel: Metafolklore, Play, and Spin | Folklife Today. The Library of Congress. https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2022/12/the-truth-behind-the-...

eadler··on Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter
Community notes was designed, implemented and released before the acquisition. Only the name is new. Previously it was called birdwatch.
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