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Comment No changes wrt. RIPA 2000 (Score 5, Informative) 282

The government also says (on page 39) that the new law provides nothing more than what is already present in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000). It specifically refers to "the ability to remove any encryption applied by the CSP to whom the notice relates" (my emphasis), and not to end-to-end encryption.

Comment Re:Interview "Grilling" or "Testing" is Poppycock (Score 2) 227

If for each individual score < P Si > = 0, then < P (Mean of Si) > = 0. No correlation in the beginning ensures no correlation in the end.

Think of each as a function that take a candidate and outputs a score which is perturbed from the "true" score by an error function.

In this case, the individual scores are correlated to the performance, and the distribution of the mean depends on the expectations of each "error function". The expectation of the mean of Si does not converge to P, but to P + the mean of the expectations. The CLT reduces the standard error of the mean but does not reduce the bias.

Comment Re:Interview "Grilling" or "Testing" is Poppycock (Score 1) 227

[...] while there is no correlation between the scores that any individual interviewer gives candidates and the job performance post-hire, there is a strong correlation between the mean scores given by the four to five interviewers who interview a candidate and post-hire performance.

So, the performance does not correlate with the individual scores but it correlates with their mean ? How does this even work?!

Comment The original paper (Score 1) 529

The original paper tells a somewhat different story:

Importance of religion or spirituality, but not frequency of attendance, was associated with thicker cortices in [various cerebral regions], independent of familial risk.

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Comment Prelude to extradition request (Score 1) 616

Russia is also a party to the European Convention on Human Rights, so the Strasbourg court can prevent it from extraditing Snowden if he can face the death punishment (less certain about torture, since Russia failed to ratify the relevant protocol). Holder is simply preparing his extradition request to Moscow.
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$1 Billion Mission To Reach the Earth's Mantle 267

black6host writes "Humans have reached the moon and are planning to return samples from Mars, but when it comes to exploring the land deep beneath our feet, we have only scratched the surface of our planet. This may be about to change with a $1 billion mission to drill 6 km (3.7 miles) beneath the seafloor to reach the Earth's mantle — a 3000 km-thick layer of slowly deforming rock between the crust and the core which makes up the majority of our planet — and bring back the first ever fresh samples."

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