Can you really send physical explosives down a pipeline?
Anyone doing sabotage is facing extreme amounts of blowback if it is discovered they did it, so I am skeptical of anyone being at fault. Obviously, though, someone did do it. Pipeline ain't gonna blow itself. EDIT That lawdog essay is pretty good and makes me reconsider and I do not even have the expertise to know if I am being snowed.
A lot of explanations seem to come down to "yes, my outgroup really is that stupid/evil/controlling."
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2yr ago
Oh okay sorry for wasting your time.
Devonshire
2yr ago
Yes, if you have two sorted lists, you can combine them into one sorted list just by comparing the next element in both and putting the smaller in the list. (Merge Sort implementations rely on this.)
I thought through my in-place implementation some more and I am becoming skeptical of it. It might be possible in place but I think it means having three lists to compare (the two original and a third you build up as you march along the line). Same big-O technically but might require twice as many compares.
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2yr ago
I think "free speech absolutists" are noticeably different from "right-wing posters," even if they feel some common ground these days.
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2yr ago
You reminded me of KF which I should have needed reminding of.
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2yr ago
There was the meme with the DeCSS AACS decryption key. A bunch of Digg users wanted it posted, Digg did not want it posted. I kind of get why Digg did not want to become a home to a bunch of piracy stuff, and I did not realize or had forgotten they had DMCA letter demanding its removal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy#DMCA_notices_and_Digg) but going to war with their own users at the same time of these other controversies killed the camel.
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2yr ago
I dunno why after a month people are still talking about the chess cheating thing.
The controversy over Hans has been building for a long time.
Devonshire
2yr ago
I am not sure how big the contingent of "wants to use slurs" is. Certainly I do not encounter people in my right-leaning spaces wanting to use the n-word. I guess I can think of a few if I try really hard, but I mostly think of examples of them being told to control themselves. Even the f-slur gets exasperated sighs.
Or maybe you are being expansive in your use of slurs. You can get quite a bit of power by declaring other people's arguments off-limits and you can do that by calling them slurs. Twitter banned the "NPC" meme because it was dehumanizing, and reddit banned the word "groomer."
RPG.net is very good at making people uncomfortable, because say the wrong thing and you are dead, and "lol just do not say wrong things" is hard when today's wrong thing was a normal thing five years ago. Was ResetEra running "smoothly" on their old server?
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2yr ago
verify() only really exists as an O(n) operation unless someone is trying to be dumb.
sort() can be done inefficiently if someone does not know much about sorting, but there is an O(n) solution waiting to be found; it can even be done in-place.
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2yr ago
If I am running Flagship Product with a team of 15, and I am successful at making Flagship Product work, I am going to be rewarded with a higher headcount.
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2yr ago
Poland does not like taking in economic refugees, and the fact that they are taking in Ukrainian refugees so readily is a measure of how much they dislike the entire concept of "Russia invades someone."
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2yr ago
I am the kind of guy who would not cheat in a class or on a test, but I can definitely imagine all my ethics getting cooked away to nothingness being in an environment of "this is an exceptional situation, just this once, actually they expect you to do it" that were present during covid.
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2yr ago
Your link does not work for me, mostly because their IT systems sucks and not through any fault of yours.
I took Organic Chemistry I my Sophomore year and I vaguely remember I was taking it late. (I passed after a rough start because I needed to figure out what to study, which should not have been as hard as it was to figure out, but whatever.)
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2yr ago
The immediate question was "how did they get in???".
The larger question you are want answered is "why are so many more failing now and compared to before?". And given the four explanations I laid out (plus my comment on the other sub-thread, I think #3 explains a lot of it. These are kids who were pushed the most through the rat race, not the ones who have intrinsic desires to study and learn stuff.
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2yr ago
This is very common experience at elite colleges and I should have added it. The kids blasted through the high school work simply through having a 130 IQ, and once put in a classroom that expects 130 IQ + hard work + study skills they get a gut punch.
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2yr ago
It is my prior, not my sure assessment of truth. It also fits the evidence.
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2yr ago
Why do you think people took this third year? Weed-out classes are often done first year or second year, to give students time to switch away. (One student quoted in the article who had already taken it is described as a current junior.)
I am trying to find their course catalog online but apparently NYU has lent its brand name to more things than Trump has.
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2yr ago
I kind of thought that the top 5000 high school graduates today have to be better prepared than the top 5000 from 30 years ago. Those are the ones who have been raised to do this since pre-K. Honors and AP classes all the way.
So either the "top" 5000 high school students now are those who resume-padded the most, and/or they have a learned behavior to just manipulate the system instead of doing actual work.
Devonshire
2yr ago
A fair number of high-achieving high-school students fall apart in college, sometimes from being overwhelmed or temporary mental illness or because they no longer have their parents pushing them or because they now have the freedom to smoke dope all day (maybe those last two are the same thing).
I think the most important factor is knowing that they have to put in the work. Tell anyone they keep getting paid or keep getting the grade if they stop working and most will stop. Once they see the light in the tunnel of "do no work and still succeed" many will go for it even if the expected value is worse than studying and/or dropping the class.
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2yr ago
I am steelmanning something I disagree with so you should not keep on asking me to explain exceptions, but there are places where you want enough plausible deniability to get through the day, including the ability to publicly declare victory to your homeland, which can be a valuable thing.
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2yr ago
I am not a fan of the idea, but to pull it off you need some kind of publicity about the deal anyway, so you would negotiate the deal and then leak rumors that it happened.
This sequence of events suggests that credibility probably does not exist as a useful concept, or that if it does it is so mercurial that expending significant costs to obtain it is foolish.
It seems that credibility is a set of expectations, and sets of expectations can be wrong when someone calls the bluff.
If a prediction market gives a low value to an event, and that event happens, that does not mean the prediction market is mercurial or stupid.
You talk about the changes in the past year as if they just happened by random, but Putin opened the box and looked for the cat that he was 90% sure was dead, and it was not. Had he simply continued a slow burn against Afghanistan people would still be fretting about Biden being too weak to follow through if Russia attacked.
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2yr ago
I think "the nukes do not really work" is a dangerous thing for the West to gamble on -- but that does not mean Putin can ignore it. If he sends a nuke and it does not go off, that is really big problem for both Russia as a country and for Putin's continued existence within the country.
Are you talking about the normal bug bounty market? It is a bit hyperbolic to call it "ransom" and I am having trouble thinking of times where it was an existential risk.
EDIT The point about ransomware is very good and what I should have thought of when given the word ransom.
Well, I was going to point out the similarity there is to African-American resentment.
The source of your resentment might even be 100% genuine and justified, but it is fucking tiring to listen to.
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