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If you don't feel like reading the article: the guy wasn't printing bigoted content just to bring attention to the lack of security on printers, he seems to actually believe in this stuff.
Re:Why I'm leaving the R community on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @05:20PM (#11023151)
It's usually not considered wrong or sinful in the USA either.
No, it's an introduction to Machine Learning (without much neural network stuff).
Is it really true that Chinese money prefers SF? Chinese money definitely loves LA, perhaps its impact is just more pronounced on a smaller city like SF? My knowledge on this is purely anecdotal, I'd love to see some data.
Ideally, our government would be user-friendly enough to make this service simple.
Unless your whole portfolio is correlated...
> the bank has outperformed bigger rivals, not just by lending to fledgling firms but by taking small ownership stakes in them to help offset their higher risks

Doesn't taking equity in a company that you've already loaned money to _increase_ your risk, not offset it? Am I not understanding what's going on?

Re:In Atlanta, Schedule Future Lyft and Uber Rides on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @03:38PM (#9971076)
I've gotta ask - if people are going so far out of their way to request you in particular, why schedule the ride through Lyft or Uber? Is there some regulatory issue that keeps you from cutting out the middlemen?
Re:Match Group Buys PlentyOfFish for $575M on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @11:15AM (#9885524)
A dating site is only worthwhile if other people are on it. Obviously it's possible, but you need people on it to attract more people.
Re:Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules on Friday June 26, 2015 @10:25AM (#9784551)
The other 40% are not necessarily against it completely - they may want gay marriage but want to call it civil unions.
Neither does the US...
I don't think PaulHoule was saying it isn't a racist symbol.
I'm very comfortable with games that display the Nazi flag, why shouldn't the Confederate flag be different?
Re:On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech war on rats on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @04:26PM (#9541720)
Anecdotally I've been told that Alberta has some rats, they just keep on telling outsiders that they don't.
Re:The Price of Nice Nails on Thursday May 07, 2015 @02:37PM (#9507250)
Probably because there aren't many Vietnamese-Americans in NY, at least compared to Texas and California.
Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Sank the Japanese Navy in 1882 on Thursday April 16, 2015 @03:50PM (#9390366)
There's a lot of emphasis in this article on how that era's ideas of what constituted science and medicine blinded them from the truth and cost them lives.

What analogous contemporary ideas will people be laughing about in the 22nd century? What parts of how we view science and medicine are costing lives?

Re:A Field Guide to the American Sandwich on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @11:21AM (#9381541)
LA's "sandwich shops" are burrito trucks. As a Texan who used to live in LA, I much prefer them to any east coast sandwich shop.
Re:Tinder Cuddles Up to Instagram in Latest Update on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @09:55AM (#9380958)
Goddamn engineers, always counting from 0...
Did anybody else initially read this as "Kanye West Declared..." and then get really confused when they got to "...in 1982"?
Re:Living with a Computer (1982) on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @05:44PM (#9300115)
Perhaps I'm just glorifying an age I don't remember, but I'm somewhat jealous of a time when computers weren't black boxes - everybody who owned one had to buy separate components, do bits of physical maintenance, and write code.
Re:The 1980 Math Olympiad Program: Where are they now? on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @03:14PM (#9227986)
I imagine that's true once you get tenure, but not before.
Clever, but that gives you every nth row - you might want a truly uniform sample.
Re:Wait ages for a bus and then two come along at once on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @02:20PM (#9139934)
I'd imagine that the platform on most light-rail trains is built so that a ramp is unnecessary?
Re:Canadian 'freezeway' could let residents skate to work on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @10:05AM (#9100886)
Ya but those ideas are boring. Here in North America we prefer whimsical to practical.
Re:Many McGill Education Students Cannot Calculate an Average on Friday February 20, 2015 @11:27AM (#9081113)
Partly because it's important to society.

Partly because programmers love to talk shit about their peers who studied non-STEM subjects and had a lot more fun in college.

".. concludes the report which is stamped “protected/Canadian eyes only”

I smell a Canadexploitation ripoff of James Bond...

Re:Machine Learning at Stack Exchange on Thursday February 12, 2015 @02:04PM (#9040638)
I think you neglected to fix the last picture.
Re:Internships Abroad: Unpaid, with a $10,000 Price Tag on Friday February 06, 2015 @02:56PM (#9011156)
I guess that's legit if the purpose is language immersion. The article made it sound like she was paying to find out how much she'd enjoy selling clothes.
Re:Internships Abroad: Unpaid, with a $10,000 Price Tag on Friday February 06, 2015 @02:49PM (#9011127)
To be fair, paying for an internship might have higher returns than paying for classes. Although that doesn't mean an internship abroad is worth a whole lot more than an internship at home.

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