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by aaren 13y ago
The US would care if the baby-boomer/mainstream media tried, at all. Exactly this. Making people care about an issue is entirely a question of narrative. They aren't even narrating this story.
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by aaren 13y ago
The technology bit starts at 34:15. I'm paraphrasing here... I'm here to recruit you. To help turn us from cows to ants, to build awareness, to save this republic. This movement has enormous needs which you [tech] uniquely can
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Create IPython notebooks from markdown(github.com)
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by aaren 13y ago
In essence Zizek's trick is to make some notes to himself and to then edit them later. The result of this is writing. Here's the quote (IMDB): Slavoj Zizek: I have a very complicated ritual about writing. It's psychologicall
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by aaren 13y ago
This is really cool. Does it compute power along the trajectory as well? The problem I have is that I don't have a smartphone. Each cool app like this brings me closer to getting one though. Can anyone suggest an alternative to this ap
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by aaren 13y ago
I think the idea is more that following (2), introverts lose energy whilst extroverts gain energy. (1) doesn't really come into it. You are probably extroverted. But no it isn't necessarily a dichotomy, rather a rough label of how
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by aaren 13y ago
I didn't understand it before. I do now that I can see a working implementation. Words are wind, functional code is powerful :) At least there isn't a supplied list of ntp servers.
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by aaren 13y ago
Or distinctly inelegant and unable to scale to f *ing working for HN.
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by aaren 13y ago
David MacKay is Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change. He's been in this role since 2009. Without hot air is excellent. Look at this page [1] which shows the rough average consumption of a household in
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by aaren 13y ago
For a good few months I was doing for i in range(len(input_list)): v = input_list[i] ...do something with v and i... enumerate is much nicer! for i, v in enumerate(input_list): ...
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by aaren 13y ago
Use the else to let you know that something is going wrong, using raise or exit() or some die() function: if something: do_this() elif something_else: do_that() else: # hope we don't end up here
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by aaren 13y ago
I would add generator expressions: (f(x) for x in list_of_inputs) Just like a list comprehension, but with (...) rather than [...] and with lazy evaluation. These are useful when you don't need to evaluate all of the inputs at
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by aaren 13y ago
I like list comprehensions and to me dict comprehensions feel like a natural extension of this. It means that you can do things like {k.upper(): v ** 2 for k, v in zip(keys, values)} Or generally {f(k): g(v) for k, v in zip(k
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by aaren 13y ago
In this case, {k: v for k, v in zip(keys, values)} edit: As I mention below, this becomes useful when you want to do e.g. {f(k): g(v) for k, v in zip(keys, values)}
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by aaren 13y ago
Perhaps not everyone who is wasted actually wants to be wasted but they do it anyway to fit in and because there is nothing else to do? Perhaps some of the people who don't want to get wasted just stay away from the conference because
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by aaren 13y ago
The patient identifiable needs explicit permission from the patient in order to obtain - please could you link me to the official document that states this, specifically in the context of care.data?
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by aaren 13y ago
Same on Firefox. I spent a while clicking - it seemed natural.
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by aaren 13y ago
If you prefer, you can just write a letter to your surgery: - State that you wish to opt-out of care.data - Request that both the 9Nu0 and 9Nu4 codes are added to your GP records - Remember to include full names and DOBs (and your address i
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by aaren 13y ago
The correlation between people with attitude problems and those who make others feel excluded is unsurprisingly strong.
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by aaren 13y ago
Thank you. Sorry if I came across as condescending in my previous post - I'm writing to the thread as much as you and I was just trying to be very clear. Of course, if someone gets offended they aren't "right" by defaul
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by aaren 13y ago
There are threads like this one that become explicitly about gender. They aren't particularly inviting. Sometimes they make the front page, in which case there is a semblance of discussion. They aren't a great advert for hn as an
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by aaren 13y ago
In the absence of evidence either way, do you think that we should assume that people are being marginalised or not? Which is the more compassionate choice?
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by aaren 13y ago
I had actually taken 'bros before hos' as a reminder of the importance of maintaining your long term friends whilst romantically engaged, expressed through the medium of gender-loaded words that rhyme and assuming the heteronormat
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by aaren 13y ago
I disagree with you. If she wasn't interested, she should have stopped it immediately. - what if she didn't stop it but still wasn't interested? Where does that leave her then? You have to assume 'this is probably not
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by aaren 13y ago
I'm not going to run your binary if I can't see the source and compile it myself!
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by aaren 13y ago
where is the source code?
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by aaren 13y ago
Some men!
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by aaren 13y ago
Please stay. Don't let the vocal minority dissuade you. There are a good number of people here that do care. Gender is being increasingly discussed here now, which inevitably draws out this discussion. I really think that this site wil
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by aaren 13y ago
> Why not just say 'genes' or 'heredity' if that's what we mean? Because privilege derives from many sources and is much more complex than any one of them. It is unfortunate that it is sometimes used, or taken, t
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by aaren 13y ago
Indeed, you may not be as privileged as someone born in an affluent suburb of London. Hopefully someone that did have that background would take that into account when making assumptions about your past and motives. Different people can hav

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