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Yet again, our government ignores the national security threat from foreign terrorists. The State serves only itself.

"Company pays" means "customers (taxpayers) pay", since Canvas is effectively an monopoly

Paying terrorists must be made illegal. Senior Managers must be held liable for damages to customers.

18 lawsuits filed already: https://www.pcmag.com/news/canvas-developer-apologizes-for-b...

The government pays farms to burn crops. It's not the destruction that matters; it's the promise not to distribute that matters. For uniquely identifiable data and objects, a reputable extortion business will honor their promises to earn new customers
Re:Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @03:27PM (#37500632)
It doesn't matter whether NSO are genius hackers or their freelancers are. They are still outsmarting Apple all day long.
Re:Rubber Hose Animation on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @08:42AM (#37495980)
Much better article that actually explains the form

https://blog.displate.com/rubber-hose-animation/

Re:How large that number in the Law of Large Numbers is? on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @09:59PM (#37491285)
You can't simply ignore the base rate, even if you don't know it.

In a purely random world, 5% of experiments are false positives, at p=0.05. None are true positives.

In a well ordered world with brilliant hypotheses, there are no false positives.

If more than 5% of experiments show positive results at p=0.05, some of them are probably true, so you can try to replicate them with lower p.

p=0.05 is a filter for "worth trying to replicate" (but even that is modulated by cost of replication vs value of result).

The crisis in science is largely that people confuse "publishable" with "probably true". Anything "probably better then random guessing" is publishable to help other researchers, but that doesn't mean it's probably true.

Re:How large that number in the Law of Large Numbers is? on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @09:50PM (#37491217)
What's a reasonable number of categories? 10?
On Android, the Learn More links aren't present, so the privacy invasion is not disclosed at all, beyond the deceptive first-page "summary".
Re:‘Friends’ and ‘Seinfeld’ knew the cure for loneliness on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @09:11PM (#37490911)
Sounds like regular parks in my city.
Re:Why not punish families? A challenge for consequentialists on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @09:00PM (#37490831)
Hmm? If "we feel a need to do it" makes it morally praiseworthy, then mirder, rape and thievery are morally praiseworthy.
Strange that people are so strongly opposed to accurate facts.
50 of the town's 700 residents.
At least $4M was cancelled (due to false income statement on the application). I suspect more was cancelled.

https://www.nydailynews.com/2012/06/15/judge-cancels-4m-life...

Re:The Mind-Bending Math Behind Spot It on Saturday September 09, 2023 @05:34PM (#37450516)
Parent didn't say "Euclidean"

It's finite.

The same "point at infinity" also exists on circles (like a clock) and spheres (like the Earth) and toruses (like a bagel).

Re:Leaked Google Pay Data Unfolds an Ugly Truth on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:19PM (#37435651)
There's no way that's true. It may be "reported" as a typo or troll in the document.
Re:Leaked Google Pay Data Unfolds an Ugly Truth on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:18PM (#37435640)
> The leaked salary data from Google reveals that employees with longer tenure with the company and who held higher-level positions tended to have higher salaries.

And Women and Black people are underrepresented in higher level roles.

Saved you a click on barely English articles.

Re:Leaked Google Pay Data Unfolds an Ugly Truth on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:16PM (#37435600)
No, the article headline and body incorrectly capitalize Pay
Re:Every Software Project Is a Startup That Will Probably Fail on Thursday September 07, 2023 @11:49AM (#37420762)
Even a gym subscription is a startup that will probably fail.

Almost everything new is hard.

The sponsors already paid.
RT is an industry shill site, fine.

Worse is that Web Search Engines promote it as authoritative gospel.

FTC.
What gives you that feeling? Educate us.
Re:Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @11:04PM (#37414268)
Sure, if you create a larger object it can contain two smaller objects.

But that construction is so general that it contains all proofs of the from "There exists X that does not have not property Y" that proceed by constructing something that lacks the property, and stuffs the proof into the diagram.

Re:Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @10:38PM (#37414083)
No, it's not like that at all. It's just an algorithm that contradicts itself, like Russell's Paradox.
Re:Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @10:37PM (#37414076)
I tried to comment that on the article. But they use Disqus which is hostile to people making comments.
Re:Is this duplo train track under too much tension? on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @02:31PM (#37409128)
It's a real world problem, but one constrained by toy objects.
Re:Is this duplo train track under too much tension? on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @02:24PM (#37409065)
How is that different from the solution on the page?
I don't think that matches. In your version, "before" implies that something happened that affected the goodbye-saying.

In the song, "before" is an adverb referring to the current time in the story, which does not impact the goodbye-saying.

I can only make yours scan if I interpret it as "She said goodbye too many times before... I stopped taking her back.

That's what the question is trying to figure out

Actual native speakers are all dead. It's poetry, not conversational. The answers looked to poets.

How very postmodern.

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