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Sure, then complain that all you get to do is glue together some crappy middleware :)

Good luck getting people to follow someone who is not a narcissistic asshole ;-)

Not sure about Austria, but in my home country, Poland, the employee is liable for statutory damages. He will be ordered by the court to pay the employer an amount equal to his gross salary for the notice period [1].

For example, if you earn 10,000 PLN gross (7,000 PLN net) and quit without observing a 3-month notice period, you will have to pay your employer 30,000 PLN, i.e. over four times the monthly net salary.

Of course, if the employer believes they incurred a loss due to the employee leaving without notice, they can sue for additional damages of any amount.

[1] Polish "Employment code" (Kodeks pracy), article 61, https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...

As a matter of fact, it is normal for patent examiners to not even read the invention specification and focus only on the claims.

I was surprised to learn that from a patent attorney, but it seems to be common knowledge, e.g. [1]. Upon reflection, that's the only way it can work. A generalist patent examiner could never understand all the inventions given the volume of applications they must handle.

[1] http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2016/07/25/anatomy-bogus-alice-rej...

In the vast majority of cases, it doesn't matter. But I think it's ethically wrong for a company to have this power over an individual. Can't it lead to a situation where, for a few weeks, a person becomes an involuntary worker (i.e. a slave) - unless they negotiate or buy their own release?

I live in Austria, arguably the most backward-looking rich Western country, and my agreement requires me to give a four-week notice. While my employer is such that this will never become an issue, I believe that the "at-will employment" is one of the many manifestations of the "American freedom" that also give the US its competitive edge.

What happens if you change the question so that it conforms to Aristo's input constraints, i.e. is unambiguous and includes the correct answer among the choices?

I'm not sure I understand. Do you believe that the correct answer is "no"?

...and empty talk is cheap.

I think it's pretty cool.

  Question: Which nucleobase is not present in the DNA, 
  (a) thymine
  (b) uracil
  (c) adenine
  (d) guanine
  (e) cytosine

  Aristo's Answer: (b) uracil

  Confidence: 53.92%

  Justification Sentence: In DNA, the uracil nucleobase is replaced by thymine.

Did you not read the instructions? Aristo is designed to answer multiple choice grade school science questions, not abstract and cheap virtue signalling nonsense.

Go, short the stock. You will make a killing.

Is this the "short burn of the century" that Musk predicted at the beginning of May? (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/992388944774938626)

Did you get the extended license?

Finally, we will be able to use the same login for both Skype and GitHub.

Making a 15 years long commitment at 25 seems to me like a huge gamble with limited upside (the salary) and basically unlimited downside. What if you are unhappy at the DOE but have to stay there until you are 45?

PhD selection committees don't give much weight to grades (did they ever?) and instead rely on letters of recommendation. The corporate world doesn't care what one has gained from their degree apart from the social skills which universities don't grade for anyway. So who needs the grades to be rigorous?

Long-term rentals without the phone calls, in-person visits and dealing with shady brokers. Airbnb was almost there but decided to focus on the mostly illegal hotel-like short-terms.

This. We need farmers, not engineers.

Do most people learn well from traditional methods though?

If dropping out of a MOOC involved a big financial hit, social humiliation, and the loss of a great deal of personal freedom, the completion rates would skyrocket. Completely different incentives.

The reasoning that traditional education is successful because it has high completion rates because of external pressures is a bit circular, isn't it?

> If we then look to justify why bother, its a little hard to warrant hosting costs, etc. if you aren't seeing anything come from it

> If I ran a MOOC with a 95% fail rate, how can I label it successful.

How is the completion rate a better measure of value added than the absolute number of finishers?

Exactly. I completed 5 out of ~50 courses I have ever enrolled in. One of the courses I did not complete was instrumental in getting me into graduate school in a field unrelated to my formal background. Focusing on the completion rates misses the point.

I don't know how to stop it, but I think someone should go to jail for doing this.

> "It also seeks punitive damages and fines."

But there is no such thing as punitive damages under German law?

Yes! It's a new course that will be open for enrolment soon. I think it's exactly what most people here are looking for.

There is the financial aid and normally there is the option to watch the lectures and see the assignment for free. On the other hand, the cost of the courses rarely exceeds $50.

Sorry, everyone in the Wikimedia community is so obsessed with preserving their anonymity that "outing" myself here would put me at a significant disadvantage.

I don't think I am trolling. There are multiple tools to analyze the statistics, e.g. [1], and the female biographies stood out for me. Everybody checks the deletion discussion stats since a high accuracy (in terms of one's vote matching the consensus) is a de facto requirement to become an admin.

I don't think there is anything sinister going on, simply a few editors with extremely inclusionist views tend to patrol articles about females [2]. Since the average deletion discussion has only ~3 participants, this results in a bias.

[1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/afdstats/

[2] I kid you not, for example Megalibrarygirl, who's recently become an admin, is only involved in articles about women [3]

[3] https://tools.wmflabs.org/afdstats/afdstats.py?name=Megalibr...

The notability criteria are site-wide, not personal and depend somewhat on the source of notability of a given subject (e.g. different criteria for academics than for most other living persons). Check out [1] if you are genuinely interested.

Actually, I think there is a significant bias against things that lack sources in English.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

CSD A7 requires that there is no claim of significance. This is an incredibly low standard (much lower than notability) and does not have to be supported by a source. Basically, if there is anything written in the article that suggests the band may be significant, A7 is ruled out.

Nothing but anecdotal personal experience from participation in more than a thousand deletion discussions. At one point I analyzed my "Articles for deletion" stats (how often my vote matched the community decision) and found that in order to keep my match percentage high (~95%) I needed to use more stringent criteria for males than for females.

You seem to think that the (speedy) deletion criteria are much more liberal than they actually are. In fact, they are very narrow, so that only "obvious commercial spam" or otherwise obviously inappropriate articles get deleted in this way.

"We could not verify this fact" is not a valid reason for deletion, let alone speedy deletion. The requirement is verifiability (it must be possible to verify this fact using reliable sources), not verification (it's OK if the sources are not immediately available).

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_...)

The article has it backward. As a staunch deletionist, I can attest that articles about non-notable women are much harder to get deleted than articles about non-notable men.