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Not sure that I'm right, but I have the impression that for companies that are strongly driven by "shareholder vale" (like Intel as it appears), if before the pay cut it is thought that cutting jobs would give a net benefit (again in terms of shareholder value only), shortly after the pay cut they will think so again/still think so, even if the pay cut was justified by being able to avoid layoffs in this way.

Your comment only says that it was mostly in RSU, and since the stock had been going down it will likely be worth 1/3 by the time it vests. Even so, 25% of 1.1m is pretty much negligible, certainly compared with the 5% normal employees get cut

I like the quote at the end, I would change knowing to learning though

I don't think you deserve the downvotes. I think it is obvious that just like this (or its future iterations: higher resolutions, shorter delivery times) could enable many valid and useful applications, it can also be used in many undesirable ways. At some moment that will have to be addressed

I first read that you were talking about the consumer as the one planning a break-in (for whom this would also be a useful service for sure)

You can ask your phone's browser for the desktop site, which works, though it is clearly not optimized for mobile

Do the multispectral images cover (part of) the infrared range? That might allow to detect heat loss through the roof

I will be checking out the ones I don't know, because the ones I do (Weeks, Arnold's classical mechanics and Spivak's differential geometry) are fantastic IMHO

My intention was not to be aggressive at all, sorry!

Just a side remark, but "most philosophers are white" should probably be "most philosophers you heard about"

Wouldn't it be possible to design an open source license that obliges bugs to be reported when used commercially? Maybe hard to enforce in practice, but it would protect about this kind of situations.

This study was conducted in Switzerland

What I additionally like of Kobo readers is that it is very easy to install mods and new software

Actually the programming rubber duck is extraordinarily effective

Maybe his intellect was due to a mutation that he didn't pass on...

I'm currently using a pi-hole, but run OpenWrt on my router. I see that both adblock and AdGuardHome are available in its repos. Did you have any particular reason to go with adblock?

That looks interesting. I'm using a pi-hole now, but it seems that AdGuardHome can be installed directly on my (OpenWrt) router. Does anyone here have experience with that?

Not really, because they host apps for incompatible devices (I also noticed this actually, it would have made more sense to say that each controlled over 95% (or 85 vs 100 or whatever) of the total app market for the platform)

I understood that rather than appointing the most capable persons, she had appointed the ones most loyal to her

I cannot access the paper, but in the introduction it also says that only 40% of new members are women. The most likely conclusion is probably a convex combination of

1. Most of the time it is quite clear who is the best candidate and no gender-based tie-breaker is required

2. Publication- and citation records (which anyway are a lousy measure for scientific merit) are very heavily gender-biased (this was asserted in another comment)

3. The AAAS and the NAS use saner criteria than those publication- and citation records.

My guess would be that 3. has the highest weight of these.

In the article it says that the (compensation awarded for) legal fees were 585 euros

Except for India being on top, the next highest were totally unexpected to me

I think the point was that even these cheaper consumer laptops worked fine with Linux

I am not the person you are reacting to, and while I guess your interpretation of Orwell's intent is correct, Churchill's patriotism can at most be considered tame and healthy when directly compared to Hitler's. It was deeply rooted in a sense of superiority that not only nowadays is considered extreme, but even then (not by all obviously).

Probably these names were actually prohibited half a century ago, when only the (Castilian Spanish) names of Catholic saints were allowed

Yes, it was this! Thank you!

I vaguely recall having read, some years ago, also via hacker news, an account of the institute during the Nazi occupation. I think several employees had locked themselves in to safeguard the seeds, maybe also feeding on them

Interestingly, the article computes the odds incorrectly: "... hit the same number on seven consecutive spins [...] the odds of which happening are 114billion to one...", which actually are the odds of having 7 consecutive 19s or the same (unspecified) number on 8 consecutive spins.

The article shows that the qualitative claim, that low scoring people tend to overestimate, and high scoring people tend to underestimate their ability, is nothing but a statistical obviety.

For the Dunning-Kruger effect to have psychological significance, you must quantify this, and show that they overestimate their abilities more resp. less than expected.

Regardless of how you set your expectation/null hypothesis, the absence of the effect would mean that the lowest scoring quartile would on average estimate their abilities to lie at 50% or below. It is found however that people in the lowest scoring quartile position themselves in the third or fourth quartile.

I'm not saying that this is necessarily deep or unexpected, just that the article only shows that the qualitative statement is true regardless of any psychological factors, and not that the Dunning-Kruger effect doesn't exist

Occam's razor is a very useful guiding principle, but it still is a philosophical principle, not a requirement for a theory to be scientific. Observation of course is, and in fact string theory (potentially) is consistent with observed phenomena. Its main problem is that it is too difficult, if possible at all, to determine if it actually is, and in which form. Actually the same Sabine Hossenfelder wrote a book about that as you probably know