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Bluntly claiming someone's post is false is rather rude isn't it? particularly on a subjective philosophical topic.

Governments are never "givers" they are just different systems of trade-offs, which can also be in terms of services and freedoms. For example, you have a right to justice if you are wronged. Society can either step aside and let you seek it yourself, or, if that behavior (vigilantism) is outlawed, then they are obligated to instead provide you with a system to seek justice within. Or they could come up with some alternative to allow you to protect your right. From this perspective, your right is not an entitlement and you don't have to postulate a new entitlement every time the govt creates a new program for (ostensibly) helping people achieve their rights better.

well if you're just an everyday introvert, then you need some promting, or else to summon the courage on your own to overcome your aversion to social situations. (digression, but the internet is a big help for this nowadays. you can watch youtube videos that walks you through how to ride the bus or whatever, for people too scared of embarrassing themslves to try).

On the other hand if you have a social anxiety you probably need some kind of stronger help to be able to function.

Either way the alternative of avoiding much of the world and relying on oehters to get by probably isn't preferable.

What about giving a more lenient sentence if the person is remorseful and admits what they did was wrong? Because that's effectively the same thing as a plea deal. Even innocent people would still sometimes admit guilt and apologize, destroying their chances of winning at trial either way, to get a shorter sentence.

The legal system destroys people. It's what they do. The noticeable difference here is how much other people care and how much the person had to lose. How well would you bounce back from a felony conviction and jail time? There was some random teenaged idiot where I grew up that did some stupid miscief to the wrong category of property, and ended up committing suicide too.

There's also a distinction between rules that were created by the legislature, possibly motivated by emotion as you describe, and rules resulting from interpretations by courts. While the former has no limits on their reasoning process, the latter is supposed to stick to the intentions of the law, which would preclude emotional decisions.

Presumably the rule is there to subsidize child-rearing. When the child is gone (kidnapping, death, ascention to heaven, etc), the law would logically not apply any more, so there will be details about where the cuttoff falls. If people wanted want to give cash to unfortunate parents, judges interpreting the laws should tell you to pass another law for it.

I think it was a joke.

I think it's hilarious. when I was in school, microprocessors were 8-bit. Then as the world got digitized it was 16-bit microprocessors. A least in my narrow world. Then 32 bit and floats came along and finally double floats. Each step was a big product effort and launch we sell as better technology. And just as we are finally got past the need to always make both 32 and 64 bit versions of everything, we turn around and head back down. Though I saw someone (Qualcomm?) with a press release about their next gen microprocessor supporting 32 bit floats! Not sure if it counts as another U-turn or they're just a straggler.

You can be a "liberal arts" professor yet get paid like a professor in a professional department.

Many schools have CS under engineering which pays a lot more.

Many liberal arts schools pay everyone like they are liberal arts professors. So they have impossible time hiring people in valuable professional fields like CS and statistics. They still can get solid students though. Disproportionately locals and by offering scholarships. Also prior hot areas like "data science" and security indeed led to a lot of insane starting salary stories ($300k+) for merely-above-average students from meh schools with exactly the right skills. Even the median starting salaries in hot areas have been surprisingly high for a while.

> If CS PhD's are an exceptional class then I think it's only by virtue of supply & demand. There are a larger # of opportunities in industry, and they often pay better.

Well of course. What else would it be? Doesn't it always work out in life that the jobs you can get are the ones where they need you more than you need them?

With buses you will on average end up waiting longer than the average rate when there's heavy traffic because sometimes they get stacked up right behin each other, and two (or once I had three) buses arriving at once is the same as one big one operating at a fraction of the rate. I remember this being relatively common when I used to take the bus.

> It’s a excellent example of optimizing for metrics instead of optimizing for people.

It seems like the opposite. The change directly led to less complaints from people. It's more like optimizing for human comfort rather than giving people what's supposedly best for them via an objective metric. Though I'd say even more specifically (assuming the story is even true) it's optimizing for keeping the small percentage of squeaky wheels comfortable.

The point is, whatever is happening, is shockingly bad. Please accept our cookies and click on 'read more' to load more ads and outrageous facts.

It pays the landlord if they sue you and win. That's why they require it commonly.

Some landlords even require tenants to cover them with your insurance as additional insured (I think this is stupid). Though it is common for business leases I believe.

Are you saying the syllabus was deliberately obfuscated as part of the game?

How much of your class typically emails you to ask things listed on the syllabus, however clear it is, such as the final exam date?

No it is not an extaordinary claim at all. Moderators on any random forum can set these tools up.

And yes I literally had my post shadowbanned for a benign statement that apparently had the wrong keywords in the wrong arrangement or something. So yes in that sense I have evidence.

There's an important nuance in between though, such as defending freedom of speech while still objecting to what someone says.

It might be hypocrisy if the MP calls for a govt intervention (assuming he was some kind of free market advocate), but it was the poster here calling for breakup.

I don't think they're talking about just getting the most likes, or whatever but rather censorship via shadow-banning or outright deleting posts. I have seen it happen, and suspect there are those that work to "poison" the algorithms to get them to shadow ban the political side the hacker doesn't like.

People I know take about four weeks a year. 8 weeks seems nuts. Do their managers push back all the deadlines related to their projects since they take a lot of vacation? I'd imagine managers don't even consider it and plan deadlines according to a typical (e.g., 50 weeks a year) worker output.

I was thinking of windows too when I said all platforms.

That or the pharmacist made a horrible mistake and would be headed to court and possibly jail. Also newsworthy and also a relatively unlikely explanation.

yes it is prescribed for people in severe chronic pain.

With opiods people build up a tolerance and then progress to stronger stuff. They end up regularly taking dosages that can potentially kill them, even not as a mistake. It's a very dangerous thing to do and hard to imagine being legalized to the extend addicts would want.

> Another creepy thing is the new "feature" in iOS where it recognizes text in your photos...ummmm no thanks

I think all major platforms do this by now. Certainly for files in cloud storage, perhaps even the search indexers on your local storage too.

I think the point is that it isn't a "myth" so much as an extremely simplified model that can still be very informative and useful.

I agree that one single metric like APR is not sufficient to compare all possible cases of lending without making some options to look worse than they really are.

But if you were a safe enough borrower to even get a $100k loan, then you're sfe to loan $100 to for a tiny return also. Payday loans probably tend to be for people who can't get better loans of any size.

Yeah but the point of withdrawing cash is to buy stuff.

Credit card checks can also be used in many cases where credit cards cannot, and those don't always have the fee or immediate interest of cash advances.

I don't see the benefit to a major retailer chain to even buy insurance. Are we sure they do? Insurers would simply look at Walgreens' specific loss amount and charge them that same number plus overhead and profit.

I remember Fry's used to have cops visiting daily to pick up the shoplifters they had detained. I think policies tended to be more along the lines of try to detain them, but if they become dangerous to let them go.

Just watching a thief pocket something and walk out the door without saying a word to them seems nuts. I still have difficulty believing this happens in most of the country, apart from urban areas. Certainly where I live there's lots of employes working in stores and no homeless around. meanwhile downtown the stores all seem to have minimal staff and incidents seem to be pretty common.

The whole point, though, is that incarceration rate is (assumed to be at least) a trade-off against crime rate, which is what really matters. And the US is not the highest there.

In a class what is it that finally motivates the unmotivated? Fear of failing the exam. You already got this scary motivator with standardized testing. If you're talking about self-study versus a taking a college class to learn something, then I'd agree with you. Also of course, preparing for a general test is easy review material you don't need a skilled teacher to coach you through.

As I understand it, the difficulty with IoT is it tries to combine together millions of small markets into one big one. But you compete with specialized products designed with expertise in those niches, or else you're trying to sell general technologies to specialists who have no idea how to use them. I think the consensus is largely that IoT hasn't overcome this yet. Aren't they trying to rebrand it with new names now?