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  1. Justin Fisher's avatar

    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

  2. Mark's avatar

    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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  4. Keith Douglas's avatar

    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

  5. sahpa's avatar

    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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Law School Grads with the Best “Standard of Living”

The National Jurist calculates this based on average private sector salary, minus average debt load from law school, and then taking into account cost of living.  Unsurprisingly, UT Austin comes out on top.  NYU comes out on the bottom, but that also isn't surprising given the purely monetary measures for standard of living employed.  After all, someone who loves Dallas would never trade it for life in New York, and vice versa.

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