DFHippie

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by DFHippie 8y ago
You should use 'www' so you can say "sextuple-u".
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by DFHippie 8y ago
They're up a fraction of a percent after adjusting for inflation. Here's where I get that figure: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/10/q3-ends-with-...
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by DFHippie 8y ago
I don't think you're taking it at face value. Note the word "merely". There are typically many arguments for and against a particular policy, many costs and benefits. These costs and benefits don't hit everyone equa
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by DFHippie 8y ago
It is important to note that this isn't merely a matter of opinion. One can study the effect/presence of unconscious bias objectively and quantitatively. These studies have large error bars but they use conventional and accepted s
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by DFHippie 8y ago
Off-topic and a minor thing, but "predate" is what predators do to prey. "Pre-date" is what one moment can do to another. At least according to my wife, for whom this matter looms large (she is an editor).
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by DFHippie 8y ago
Try this: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-le...
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by DFHippie 8y ago
To be fair to Congress, their job is really to shape events in the public interest. Considering these hearings to be pure fact-finding is a category error. If they browbeat a celebrity, this shapes events in multiple ways: it affects fundra
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by DFHippie 8y ago
If he isn't deliberately omitting information that would lead to a different conclusion -- deceit -- or using emotional manipulation to imply facts not in evidence -- also deceit -- then he's simply wrong. In the case we're t
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by DFHippie 8y ago
> But this is just different sentiment. My point precisely. > Personally, I think that people are very skilled at identifying when they are being spoken to unhonestly or dismissively. How? By consulting their gut? Why do certain peopl
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by DFHippie 8y ago
In your example you are attempting to deceive. That is the immorality. Not the appeal to emotions.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
This is a fine sentiment (double entendre intended), but some people, enough to sway public policy, cannot be reached by a simple presentation of facts. If these people control policy, and one party to the debate has no qualms about control
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by DFHippie 8y ago
It's exactly 3.6°F, right?
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by DFHippie 8y ago
That's most of it, but note the mention of the "Pythagorean maxim". The fart joke is an aside, not the main thrust of the passage.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
My kids used to celebrate "holimoments" (after the pattern of "holiday"). These were occasions when they'd look at the digital clock on the microwave and see something that didn't quite look random, like "
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by DFHippie 8y ago
Or Welsh. You want a canonical form for "wnaethpwyd"? Try "gwneud"! Some regexes and an exceptions list isn't going to cut it. The more a language needs a lemmatizer for NLP the harder it is to write it.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
It's popular largely because of the convincing data. Read the article, or any of the many other articles by Kevin Drum on the subject.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
Imagine you are investigating a bug you find under rocks. You have a prediction about the subvarieties this species of bug comes in. But these bugs are really hard to find. You have to turn over 10^21 rocks to find just 1,959 bugs. And you
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by DFHippie 8y ago
Somewhere there is a contract specifying the amount the corporation will pay and the worker will receive for an hour of work. It is the violation of this contract which makes it theft. This is also what makes driving someone else's car
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by DFHippie 8y ago
I'm not saying there aren't legitimate reasons for writing scrapers. I've written plenty myself. It was just odd to see this disregarded entirely. As for the commonality of principles, game theory explains most of them, so it
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by DFHippie 8y ago
And I get downvoted as a norm breaker for mentioning norm breaking. Hacker News becomes Fight Club.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
I find it odd how little a basic principle enters into this: don't do something to someone when they make it clear they don't want you to do it.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
Whether $10k can sway you says nothing whatsoever about your wisdom. It is one factor in a multitude. Some people will like Vermont enough for other reasons that this is sufficient motivation. Other people will never have thought about it a
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by DFHippie 8y ago
From DC. DC has its advantages: free museums, good mass transit by US standards, lots of federal money being spent locally, a diverse ethnic mix with accompanying cultural and culinary diversity. The cost of real estate is astronomical, tho
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by DFHippie 8y ago
Try one of the towns along the southern Connecticut River valley. You're a couple of hours from Boston. You can take the train the NYC. You have urban/college town amenities and culture if you want it. You can walk to nature if yo
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by DFHippie 8y ago
This maybe isn't the only thing they're doing.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
It depends on where you are. It's fine where I'm standing. If you want to live in a dairy farm at the end of a dirt road you will have problems.
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by DFHippie 8y ago
I moved to Vermont to work remotely in DC without the $10K incentive. That was some 12 years ago. My quality of life and that of my family is vastly improved. I wouldn't have moved to New Hampshire, though I can see it from where I&#x2
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by DFHippie 8y ago
I love this project. I was disappointed that you don't see Saami in Finland or Norway, there are no aboriginal languages in Australia, no Ainu in Japan, and no Navajo, Seneca, Comanche, and so forth in the United States. It's weir
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by DFHippie 8y ago
Perl for one: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsub.html#Autoloading
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by DFHippie 8y ago
This argument comes down to "we can't regulate anything if we don't regulate everything". You could use the same argument to say everyone should have nuclear weapons if they're allowed to have toothpicks. It's

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