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I see the problem as you own 80%, if you own %80 of what I do what motivates me?
heapcity··on Why winners become cheaters
Driving Uber; its pretty predictable that wealthier people are less likely to rate you well.
heapcity··on State law: You can't say bad things about a business
Maybe this law could protect lawyers, like those exposed on 60 minutes this week, from further sting operations on their money laundering business.
heapcity··on U.S. predicts zero job growth for electrical engineers
People with Engineering / Comp. Sci. Degrees are not in short supply. Exceptional engineers and programmers are. Its almost like the difference between kids who want to play football and the people with talent to make it.
heapcity··on AKATSUKI preparing for orbital insertion around Venus
Much praise and glory are due to the people of Japan for such a courageous and expensive undertaking.
heapcity··on The youngest person to be cryogenically preserved
Some might call them zygotes.
heapcity··on John McCain wants to outlaw encryption that the US government can't crack
Sounds like a good pretext for putting anyone politically inexpedient into prison.
heapcity··on Stop-And-Seize Turns Police into Self-Funding Gangs
Making a call from the jailhouse is exorbitantly expensive too.
heapcity··on Stop-And-Seize Turns Police into Self-Funding Gangs
I was arrested while hiking and acquitted because I did nothing wrong. But the police never returned my expensive sun glasses or my expensive optical water purifier. "We don't have them."
heapcity··on The New Intolerance of Student Activism
If the students articulated a reasoned response instead of acting out an emotional catastrophe; they would be ignored. The real issue is the 'viral promo' culture which encourages ridiculousness and outrage.
heapcity··on A Student Loan System Stacked Against the Borrower
Laws preventing bankruptcy on student loans is tantamount to indentured servitude imho; ergo a violation of Thirteenth Amendment. See Debt Bondage.
heapcity··on AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services
What is happening to stock price? oh; its sunday; forgot we can't trade.
heapcity··on Understanding Hitler’s Anti-Semitism
The idea that a 'nationalism' with particular ethical values in conflict with Judaism, like Catholicism has moral and ethical values which conflict with Judaism, as a source of anti-semitism was refuted and replaced with Darwinism versus Judaism and the notion that the absence of ethical value was directly opposed to ethical value.
heapcity··on It’s expensive to be poor
Poor people often have a smaller proportion of income available for their 401k too.
heapcity··on The Effects of Computer Programming on the Brain (2012)
What is the neurological explanation for the excessive desire to find the 'optimal' algorithm, language, database ... to solve a problem rather than just solve the problem. Do we just answer 'dopamine' to any question involving behaviour motivation or could seratonin be at play? Anxiety about work product solution not being as good as it could is perhaps different than 'yay it works without an error!'
heapcity··on New York Department of Financial Services: Virtual Currency Regulations [pdf]
Who does it apply to then?
heapcity··on China Sells U.S. Treasuries to Support Yuan
Ever do the jiggle with another person walking in the opposite direction? China & Fed past couple weeks.
heapcity··on Ashley Madison was mostly men
1492 women checked messages; 9700 women responded to messages.
heapcity··on Intelligence, creativity and bipolar disorder may share underlying genetics
Bipolar disorder may exhibit symptoms of 'racing thoughts.' Q?E?D?
heapcity··on Facebook Should Pay All of Us
While it is possible to capture some value from data; like heat; most of that data does not actually have value until it is captured.
heapcity··on What does it take to make Google work at scale?
what time is it anyway?
heapcity··on Oliver Sacks: Sabbath
Mathew 5:48 'Ye shall be 7'
heapcity··on Many of the NSA’s Loudest Defenders Have Financial Ties to NSA Contractors
Pres. Eisenhower gives dire warning: 'We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether saught or unsaught by the Military Industrial Complex' (Jan. 17, 1961) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY
heapcity··on Texas college professor tries to flunk his whole class
I flamed out on cheaters once by telling students they could decide for themselves what their grade was. "Go ahead live the rest of your life with the false assumption you understand statistics."
heapcity··on What If Students Could Fire Their Professors?
I'm an abrasive type teacher who gets polarized response distributions. Once when I substituted for the most highly rated professor at a local cc in my subject, I received a most memorable compliment: 'Finally, a real teacher.' ... I quit teaching after one too many interventions from administration and parents about crying kids who could not possibly make less than an A.