Safety1stClyde

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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Perhaps it would be better titled "Call for Haskell success stories".
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
> Robots have been racist and sexist for as long as the people who created them have been racist and sexist, because machines can work only from the information given to them, usually by the white, straight men who dominate the fields of
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Elon Musk is someone who wants to get his name into the papers as often as possible. If only there was some kind of regular expression filter where all articles with the words "Elon" or "Musk" could be auto-ignored.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
> Indeed, collectively, UK fishermen appear not to be very wise. My post at the head of this discussion made the point that continually repeating "Everyone who disagrees with me is stupid" turned out not to be a good way to win
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
> If the fishermen only look at Brexit through the lens of the fishing industry they cannot be expected to understand the effects of Brexit on all of society. This can be expanded to any group, even your classy ad hominem "remoaner
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
> Westminster is just as far away from most of the UK as Brussels. A mathematical impossibility. Wherever you define the centre of the UK to be, it's nearer to Westminster than Brussels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
OK, I probably shouldn't have used the word "remoaners", I'll edit my comment to "remainers".
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
We probably don't need more referendums, but a constitutional change like Scottish independence or leaving the European Union does warrant a referendum.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
> On the other hand, asking a large number of people to make a YES/NO decision on something they scarcely comprehend is like having a hundred school children who have just finished dissecting a frog collectively decide the best way
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
I searched in vain for a comment remarking on how computer programming is dominated by fads and fashions. So let me be the one. It's just a fashion. There is no theory or rationale or purpose behind the choice of any of these languages
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
> If societies - see Fukushima - wouldn't pay for the risks insurers don't take and heavily subsidize nuclear power profiting energy global companies, there would be no nuclear power. Nuclear power is much less subsidised than
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
There is nothing whatsoever in the link you've posted which contradicts anything in my comment above. What's more, some of that does not add up: > Most likely, it would have occurred in the same way if Germany had not phased ou
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Maybe for heat, but not to generate electricity.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
The Germans switched off their nuclear power "to save the environment", which is why they have to burn coal, because the solar and wind aren't stable enough to supply consistent power. They also had to switch off some of thei
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ Extremely low cost, shared hosting but allows persistent processes. Can use MySQL databases.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Interesting to play with that. Oglala Lakota county seems to have quite a few problems including neonatal and neglected tropical diseases. Nevada is high for cancer, atomic test related?
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
That was a smart thing to do.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
perl -C7 -ne 'print chr hex $1,"\n" if /^([^;]+);.*\bARROW\b/' UnicodeData.txt
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
It's just a typo for 29% of science researchers are women.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
For those who don't want to wait for this to be completed, there is already https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
> Republican politicians expressed fury at the time, accusing Assange of treason How on earth can Assange be guilty of treason? He is not a US citizen.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
How is that constructive, you are just being silly now.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Didn't Big Head have a similar plan which he explained to Gavin Belson? Look I found it using a Hooli search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jroQCyWwEgE
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
> Proposals for standards are rejected all the time by all standards committees. and yet > Standards are standards because there are many groups of people with many different, and changing, requirements using them. So on the one hand
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
If you're in the kitchen cooking and your hands are covered with flour and chicken, then it's handy to leave youtube on autoplay so that it can play back all your favourite Billy Idol songs without having to clean off your hands t
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
It's like "Calculus for dummies" except with pounds, shillings and pence, and Mrs. Ayrton's electrical arcs.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
I want to create it in four minutes, five minutes seems excessive.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
Virtually every business model involving the internet relies at least partly on Google, so while your comment may be true it isn't particularly helpful.
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
> Standards are standards because there are many groups of people with many different, and changing, requirements using them. That's why they get complex. This doesn't correspond to the information I have about SVG. As far as I
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by Safety1stClyde 9y ago
> You mean like they did in the preceding paragraphs? I don't mean to offend you in any way, but here's a quote from one of the preceding paragraphs: > Fulton T Armstrong, a research fellow at the Center for Latin American a

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