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Nice idea in theory; in practice, it might be tricky to have the organizational incentives aligned to make sure such a course is rigorous enough to be useful, rather than yet another worthless and trivial humanities requirement (at my large public research university with a strong CS program, faculty essentially compete for students based on how little work their gen ed courses are---no joke---and our required CS ethics class was similarly light).

Please don't confuse the US with our government! (or, rather, with the subset of people in our government who happen to be talking at a given time---there are many levelheaded, effective people working in our government who never enter the spotlight)

Google the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty. It makes it trivial for American entrepreneurs to move to NL

Yes.. GP is correcting _Egyptian_ to Palestinian

My networking lab class (at a top5 school) used AWS, with the reasons that it's more widely used and better documented than GCP or Azure.

Tip: You get more free credit (by like 50% iirc) if you sign up for AWS Educate via the github student developer pack than if you sign up directly

Pandoc doesn't go from PDF to anything afaik

My sister is in Tulsa and has a _very_ nice 4+2 (or maybe 3+2, idr, but it's a well-built, big house on an acre); it cost her $250k. Where I live (central Illinois, 200000 person metro area), prices are even lower.

Having two objectives (eg, offense and defense) doesn't preclude sometimes making decisions that trade a setback in one of the objectives for an advance in the other.

Thanks for the replies!

> Once you have an accurate model for a lot of classes it's much easier to add new ones with just a few samples.

This is pretty cool. Do you know of any good references for stuff like this? Not sure what the right topic name would be: online learning? streaming?

I know very little about US law and even less about German law, but I think GP was referring to contracts of adhesion, which are less enforceable in the US too, afaik; even if the laws are far stronger in Germany and have different historical origins, maybe there's at least some spiritual similarity between the protections?

"Real" is a technical term from economics and roughly means "after controlling for price increases".

A little off-topic, but clicking imgur "direct" links on mobile redirects you to the standard m.imgur.com URL now? Eww.

Regrettably, in the world as it is, we need--extraordinarily--competent people working on our weapons of mass destruction, too (in particular, nuclear command and control). Not a job I'd want, and not one I'm happy exists, but one I'm sure grateful someone is doing.

2005 must have been nice:

"Online, the answer tends to be a lot simpler. Most people who publish online write what they write for the simple reason that they want to. You can't see the fingerprints of PR firms all over the articles, as you can in so many print publications-- which is one of the reasons, though they may not consciously realize it, that readers trust bloggers more than Business Week...

Whatever its flaws, the writing you find online is authentic. It's not mystery meat cooked up out of scraps of pitch letters and press releases, and pressed into molds of zippy journalese. It's people writing what they think."

Check BOAZ BARAK's Harvard class for a references list

I think the sense in which GP is using the word is substantially stronger than that--or, maybe, it depends on what you mean by "rights" and "opportunities".

(You could probably find people who think it's egalitarian to have generous state-funded child care and uniformly high-quality primary and secondary school, but competitive university entrance exams, for instance.)

> Wouldn't it be better and less wasteful if people owned scooters?

Isn't the, well, _whole point_ of the sharing economy to reduce waste by not having everyone own things they only use some of the time?

If you type fast, you can probably get a whole username (or personal name, or street address) in without seeing the red warning. (That said, it looks like it _will_ show "not secure" by default, even before you type anything in, on HTTP; it just isn't emphasized unless you enter data.)

And, frankly, many strong undergraduate programs, perhaps especially ones which are also very large (my school has 500 person class size even in your second-to-last and last years, so you need to go above and beyond to distinguish yourself enough to, say, get a professor to write you a recommendation)

Clicking around a little on the OP site's gallery led me to http://blog.geocities.institute/

and, in particular, to the post on the front page as of today, "9/11 and Vernacular Web" http://blog.geocities.institute/archives/5983, which catalogs Geocities pages updated on 9/11. Pretty haunting.

The FT also publishes articles of extraordinary quality. Their political reporting is some of the closest-to-center out there. (But I agree the instant paywall is a bit rough.)

1/4 acre is pretty normal for middle-class neighborhoods in much of the US. A land tax would have to be pretty drastic to force people to knock down houses, split/combine plots, and build new houses repositioned to be more dense than they are now.

I think a better solution would be relaxing zoning/making new development easier in areas of high scarcity.

Translation: accept lower pay because you're doing interesting work in the national interest with good job security and benefits; go through a background check because that's part of getting a job like this

This is really cool!

I was able to hear the fundamental with its slider turned all the way down and the harmonics up using decent in-ear headphones

Lectures are great. Material is at a solid undergrad level (should be suitable for someone with 1-2yrs of CS background). No programming assignments, so I would go look at Phil Levis's website to find the "regular" course website and do the programming assignments from there.

Thanks for pointing that out! I had no idea it existed.

All movies are entertainment, but only good movies are entertaining

Makes sense - thanks! I was confused by the continuous plot.