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IP addresses are not people


In this case they clearly are as the IP address was traced to a particular person.

I think it’s more accurate to say “IP addresses are not always people” but they frequently are identifiers and enough to be useful in these cases. So it’s a bit of an odd statement to make regarding a case where the ip address literally uniquely identified someone.

It’s like saying “fingerprints aren’t people” in a case about fingerprints linking to an individual.


They are when correlated with a timestamp and logs from an ISP


That may correlate to a given host, device, or customer connection, but none of those are natural persons.

Who had control of said device on that connection? Was a child using it? Remote-execution malware or a botnet? Was a criminal hacking their home WiFi?

You absolutely cannot map an IP address to a person, without additional forensic evidence that usually entails some non-technical circumstances as well.


This is a pedantic and pointless distinction given the fact that the law regularly does in fact map IP addresses to people without additional forensic evidence. People are successfully convicted on the basis of an IP correlation to a device owned by an individual.

Juries aren't going to care about this distinction because the CSI effect makes it seem like anything technical is basically an immutable fingerprint.


You absolutely cannot map an IP address to a person

Maybe you can't ... but people sitting on jury do this all the time.


Please don't misquote me.


I didn't and everyone can easily see that by looking above.


If you didn't, then your point is entirely invalid, isn't it.


Not at all. See post below for a more detailed explanation.


I'm assuming you agree the FDA shouldn't allow somebody to sell deadly nightshade to somebody that doesn't know that nightshade is deadly, but then how do you tell the person that knows the nightshade is deadly apart from the person that doesn't know that the nightshade is deadly?


I majored in EE and only ever had math and engineering classes. I had one class in philosophy that I took for fun but dropped after a week after realizing it's not for me. It didn't hurt my option to graduate in three years. What's the requirement for general education?


It's going to vary from school to school. Here's Caltech's requirements for courses outside of your major:

1. 2 freshman humanities courses, from 2 different divisions of the humanities. This will be 18 units [1] of humanities.

2. 2 introductory social sciences courses, from 2 different disciplines (e.g., anthropology and economics). That's another 18 units.

3. 18 units of advanced humanities.

4. 18 units of advanced social sciences in the same disciplines that you took in #2.

5. 36 more units of humanities and social sciences from any mix of humanities and social sciences you want, except no freshman classes).

That works out to 108 units of humanities and social sciences, which is 22% of your coursework if you do the minimum amount of other coursework to graduate. If you took a very heavy course load, petitioning to take an overload every term for 4 years, it would still be 17% of your time spent on humanities and social sciences. It's around 20% for the typical student.

Also Caltech has some breadth requirements for STEM outside your major. Everyone has to take calculus, physics, chemistry, biology, at least one lab course, and at least one other science course. Even if you go to Caltech to major in English (and yes, that does happen) you are going to have take those science courses--and they don't have some watered down versions of them for non-majors. You'll be taking the same physics for example that physics majors take.

I believe that MIT has similar requirements.

[1] A class that you are expected to spend N hours a week on (lectures + homework + labs) earns you N units per term, and there are 3 terms per year. Most classes are 9 units. 486 units to graduate. Normal load is 36 to 48 units per term.


>> I majored in EE and only ever had math and engineering classes. I had one class in philosophy that I took for fun but dropped after a week after realizing it's not for me. It didn't hurt my option to graduate in three years. What's the requirement for general education?

Which university did you attend? Almost every EE program i've seen has atleast some writing course requirements. Some social science reqs.


I can see value in tracking offers to see how negotiations are going. so if there's standard fields for this, then that's a way he could track comp data without requiring, and even get offer increase info which is probably even more valuable.


Does that really buy you anything though? If they're willing to rescind offers, they'll be happy to lay you-off a few days into your employment too.


That would at least trigger COBRA and unemployment, which having quit and not actually started a new job wouldn’t. That’s a better situation from my perspective.


COBRA is available regardless of whether you quit voluntarily or not. And COBRA isn’t free, you have to pay for it and it is extremely expensive.


This is exactly what happened with the last batch of major tech layoffs.


that would be another level of douchebaggery, although probably not unprecedented


I'd be careful using ChatGPT for this. I tried the same recently to bootstrap spot yields from par, which is a fairly common code problem with hundreds of examples online. ChatGPT couldn't do it. It produced code that looked right, but would fail my tests abysmally. I ended up writing it by hand. I hope you are validating their code with known data.


Yeah, I'm heavily testing everything it writes. So, I'm very sure it's correct or get it close enough and then code it. I've seen ChatGPT add imports, functions, etc that don't even exist in Go. What I've found so useful though, is not even coding, but asking it how to solve problems, and then having it code things up. With Google, you need to pretty much already know how to solve the problem then go looking for answers. With ChatGPT you can ask it how it would solve this problem. For algorithms and stuff it have been unreal. Thanks for the warning though. You're totally right.


interest rates have been falling for over 700 years [1]. I wouldn't bet against that over a single unprecedented year

1. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2020/eight-cen...


Isn't this cherry picking data?


It is more than a single year and this happened during the 1970’s and 1980’s stagflation era.

Of course worse inflationary crises have happened in Western history and while they returned on a large enough time scale that really didn’t matter all to much for all the poor citizens for whom their hard earned wealth was nukes from orbit.


Should probably replace the address in the sample postcard. While most here will probably get it's intent, I imagine your target audience will not appreciate any associations to "hackers"


I don't really see the problem, what's wrong with using a real address for the sample postcard?


OP didn't criticise the choice of address not because it's not a real address but because of the associations of the term "hacker" outside of spaces such as here.


The address is Meta HQ


Right. "both sides" have engaged in $787MM worth of fake news.


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