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by aaren 13y ago
To get a flavour for your privilege as a white male in tech, you could try starting with these checklists: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Privilege_checklist Reading these constructively might require that you at l
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by aaren 13y ago
! I should actually read the content of articles. That's enough internet for today.
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by aaren 13y ago
Is this the reason I can't access any *.github.io right now? Is there an equivalent to status.github.com for github.io?
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by aaren 13y ago
Your opinions are less valid when they make assumptions about the lived experience of other people. This is what the concept of 'privilege' is useful for - removing the unconscious bias that is loaded into your view of how other p
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by aaren 13y ago
How about Sunni / Shia muslims in Iraq under Saddam? The Shia population is by far the majority, but Saddam was Sunni. The Ba'ath party violently persecuted the Shia popluation. I think it is safe to say that you would be privileg
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by aaren 13y ago
From the [FAQ]: 4.I’m a straight white male and my life isn’t easy! My life sucks! Your “lowest difficulty setting” doesn’t account for that! That’s actually fully accounted for in the entry. Go back and read it again. This one’s a stand-in
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by aaren 13y ago
Thanks for the link to scalzi [1] - "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is". It was a really good read. [1]: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-th...
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by aaren 13y ago
WM's members don't suffer harms because they are a member of WM. They suffer harms because they are members of W. Women are a significant population in the uk. It has been shown that this population suffer some harms only because
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by aaren 13y ago
The set W of women suffer harms because of their membership of that set. This property is mutable. You could make a number of other sets like this (non-white, old, young), but the largest one (esp. in the UK) is likely to be W, women (50%
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by aaren 13y ago
You mistake the population of women for some arbitrary selection. I don't think that your N-Z population will be suffering from systemic oppression. Perhaps your interpretation of uk history under represents the achievements of women?
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by aaren 13y ago
We don't get to choose whether the queen goes on or not.
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by aaren 13y ago
I'd like to think that the uk web filter and the wider government surveillance narrative of the past few months is actually a ploy by our leaders to slowly educate the public in circumventing censorship and to stimulate the development
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by aaren 13y ago
Ah ok, it is just getting all of the info that a website could potentially get from your browser.
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by aaren 13y ago
Why does it need to run a java applet to do this?
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by aaren 13y ago
But not for ASICs mining bitcoin, unless they have a BOINC implementation that somehow uses sha256 as its core.
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by aaren 13y ago
Thank you for LiteDFM :) I just tried out the LiteDFM / Goyo combo and it is just what I was after. Worked out of the box for me and my mature vimrc.
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by aaren 13y ago
Then can't I find the function of bitcoin intrinsically valuable? You mightn't like my tastes but I don't like your gold necklace either.
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by aaren 13y ago
It has to be structured such that there is first mover advantage otherwise there is no incentive for anybody to get on board and make it a thing in the first place. The redistribution of wealth is something that we've learned to deal w
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by aaren 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore (Admittedly over a decade old now) I think the point is that our current voting systems require a measure of trust, where a blockchain based system could be trustless.
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by aaren 13y ago
I don't see how it is not the case that mining Bitcoins is throwing away energy. The 'work' is actually the verification of transactions on the blockchain - the reward from mining is just an incentive to do this (mining &am
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by aaren 13y ago
Can it display different data by playing with the url? e.g. I'm looking at http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-11.40,53.26,489 The only thing I can get to
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by aaren 13y ago
This. Even a little terrain is a lot more dynamically interesting than the ocean. There are also strong heat / surface moisture gradients on land (think edges of forests, cities, coasts), which play a big role in convection. By compari
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by aaren 13y ago
Can you estimate the density of that data in space/time? Doesn't this vary with the overflights of the satellites? The land data is scarce in e.g. the Sahara, but the density over western Europe is pretty high. The land based data
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by aaren 13y ago
I'm not even sure what it explicitly means. I interpret it as 'miffed' or 'vindictively annoyed', but I don't really know.
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by aaren 13y ago
There is a plugin to interface with gnome-keyring: https://code.google.com/p/pidgin-gnome-keyring/
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by aaren 13y ago
The python stack was running on the raspberry pi right? Or did you somehow get that going on the mac plus too?!
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by aaren 13y ago
If it turns out that the universe that we observe is just a projection from a lower dimensional space then this could radically alter the way in which we interact with that universe. Things that seem to be coherent in our space (the things
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by aaren 13y ago
Then engage . This is an issue that people feel strongly about, in both directions. Both sides make all kinds of strange claims sometimes but there is good stuff there too. I think the widely varying level of argument shows that this is an
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by aaren 13y ago
Consider the Anthropic principle: observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it [1]. We don't think things are garbled because we have evolved to make 'sense' of the chaos
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by aaren 13y ago
Two reasons: 1) Your 15mph wind would slow down the 45mph wind going in. 2) Retarding the exhaust in any way will reduce the power output of your turbine.

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