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by J-dawg 7y ago
If that referendum were to be held in simple yes/no terms it would be a mess for exactly the same reason as Brexit - all the 'yes' voters would be voting based on a different understanding of the outcome. (Note this is far fr
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by J-dawg 7y ago
I am reminded of this story of a medical reversal: https://www.badscience.net/2011/03/when-ethics-committees-ki... > This is not an abstract problem. Here is one example. For years in A&E, patients with se
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by J-dawg 7y ago
Assuming the predictive link goes the other way, does this mean that a referendum on the death penalty would be somewhat likely to go in favour of reinstating it?
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by J-dawg 7y ago
Got to admire the creative thinking involved in this. Are there any more "practical" potential uses? Some industrial process that requires lots of power but not too much other infrastructure?
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by J-dawg 7y ago
Took me a moment to get this, but the part I still don't understand is why he needed to encode the phone number like that? Does Airbnb strip contact details out of messages to prevent hosts and visitors from getting in contact directly
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by J-dawg 7y ago
I came to programming pretty late, a few years ago. So I haven’t been doing this my whole working life.
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by J-dawg 7y ago
Hi, Thanks for taking an interest in my question. It’s truly appreciated. I had to laugh at your comment about being down on myself as I’ve heard the same thing from several people, including colleagues. I was trying to steer away from from
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Ask HN: Have you moved to a less technical role after failing as a developer?
12 points by J-dawg 7y ago|16 comments
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by J-dawg 8y ago
The issue here is the eggs that are fertilized, to create the laying hens. The males are a waste product, and are discarded. The only way to determine the gender of a chick (until very recently!) is a visual check done after the animal is
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by J-dawg 8y ago
They are never born/hatched - the new method allows the sex of an embryo to be determined while it's still in the egg. Effectively they are "aborted". Some roosters would obviously be preserved as breeding stock, just as
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by J-dawg 8y ago
With respect, that doesn't really affect the point I was making. While I agree with you, the people/companies who supply those chickens to the local supplier still have no use for the male chicks. So even if you're buying egg
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by J-dawg 8y ago
Unless you're referring to the very new "no-kill" eggs [0] (which AFAIK are only on sale in Germany), all eggs involve harming an animal. And that's before we get to any concerns about how the laying females are treated.
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by J-dawg 8y ago
I was surprised recently to learn that general aviation aircraft still use leaded fuel. I wonder how much lead we are all still exposed to because of this? Is there some technical reason why it can't be removed?
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by J-dawg 8y ago
Your argument seems to be along the same lines as “my grandad smoked 2 packs a day and lived until he was 95”. On average, smoking is harmful. On average, women’s perceived attractiveness is highly tied to their beauty and youthfulness. It’
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by J-dawg 8y ago
This is very incisive comment. Indeed the woman in the article has had the opportunity to live her life according to her own agency, and it’s perhaps condescending of me to feel sorry for her. But on the other hand, I still think it’s ok to
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by J-dawg 8y ago
Just because somebody finds something offensive doesn’t stop it being true.
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by J-dawg 8y ago
It’s not true for men to anything like the same extent. I totally understand why you don’t have the energy for another kid. We’re the same age and I don’t think I’ve got the energy for one kid. But the fact remains that biologically you cou
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by J-dawg 8y ago
I agree that radiator is wrong to say “no hope”. You’d only need to find one example of a couple who met and had kids after 35 to disprove that, and I’m sure there are plenty. But I think both you and the parent commenter are deliberately m
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by J-dawg 8y ago
You’re right, and it’s happening throughout the western world. As someone who is definitely not in the top 2%, there are some difficult truths to confront. It will be a strange time when & if it starts happening out in the open.
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by J-dawg 8y ago
Of all the elephants in the room when it comes to modern tech-enabled dating, this is possibly the biggest and ugliest. The thought of ending up as one of those husbands genuinely makes my skin crawl. Imagine the woman you adore secretly re
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by J-dawg 8y ago
Sure. I used the word ‘feminism’ for brevity, and because I wasn’t really sure what else to call it. I’ll try to summarise what I mean. Women used to be under great pressure (cultural, religious, family) to find a good man and settle down.
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by J-dawg 8y ago
It’s politically incorrect, but I feel like feminism has sold a massive lie to women like this. Admittedly much of what she describes could apply to either gender, but it’s women who are hit hardest by fading looks and declining fertility.
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by J-dawg 8y ago
Looks like he’s written it. It’s surprisingly positive! https://www.cringely.com/2018/10/29/red-hat-takes-over-ibm/
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by J-dawg 8y ago
Freakonomics etc made us fall in love with that particular kind of story where the outcome is kinda counter-intuitive and surprising and clever all at the same time. For example - the legalised abortion and crime effect. I'm sure you c
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by J-dawg 8y ago
I've noticed a lot of smaller places have started accepting Amex because they use iZettle machines or similar. It's funny that many medium-sized business will reject Amex, while a little burger stand at a farmer's market will
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by J-dawg 8y ago
George Monbiot's comment on the article [0] basically makes the same point. If all meat farming was done this way, optimised for environmental impact and animal welfare, there simply wouldn't be space for it. We'd all have no
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by J-dawg 8y ago
> giving regressive people a platform Regressive by whose standards? > hurts progress Progress as defined by whom? I despise this sort of thinking. It just gives liberal / left-leaning people a bad name (and I’d consider myself o
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by J-dawg 8y ago
I am probably using the wrong terminology. I guess there are reciprocal agreements between countries to recognise each others driving licences. I'm not sure whether that counts as international law.
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by J-dawg 8y ago
Yep, this was always the main argument against them when I was growing up. Some of the older automatics were also hilariously bad, with clunky gear changes and noticeably long delay on kick down. Perhaps American drivers were more tolerant
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by J-dawg 8y ago
These are interesting questions! I don't know the answers, but I guess international law is often bad at dealing with edge cases.

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