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by akuchling 6y ago
"the rules have to be the same for everyone" "The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." --Anatole France (I always
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by akuchling 6y ago
For another discussion of why banks are terrible for poor people: "Why It's More Expensive to Be Poor", from PBS's personal-finance channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLwRZibUqL0
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by akuchling 6y ago
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/783047584/leaked-emails-fuel-... "For almost three decades, Jared Taylor has been publishing his ideas about race at the American Renaissance magazine and now at a web
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by akuchling 6y ago
Alanna Mitchell's "The Spinning Magnet" is a good popular-level book on the Earth's magnetic field, how it was discovered and investigated, and what's currently known about it: https://www.indiebound.org&
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by akuchling 6y ago
I've also been running a nonfiction book club that reads popular science for 7 years now. It's always been OK in our group to only have read part of it, or to have watched an author talk or PBS documentary version. Nonfiction book
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by akuchling 6y ago
Nature had a nice graphic showing the different approaches being taken: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01221-y
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by akuchling 6y ago
"I would recommend not wasting any more time on the naming issue. (This is a recurring theme in my posts -- remember, I spent about 0.3 microseconds thinking about whether "Python" would be a good name for a programming langu
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by akuchling 6y ago
Excerpts from his letters were also set to music by Michael Nyman for a film project: for example, "O My Dear Papa": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN1xc0wqeBg Though the piece I like best from that film is &quot
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by akuchling 7y ago
1-3% is also the Bank of Canada's target range: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/indicators/key-variables/k...
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by akuchling 7y ago
The point of "privilege" is not that all white men have lives of luxury and pleasure, but that society is arranged so that people of type X get cut a certain amount of slack that non-X people don't get. Disabled white men ce
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by akuchling 7y ago
I've been surprised by the number of blockchain articles in Communications of the ACM and the more practical publication ACM Queue. I expect blockchain is a flash-in-the-pan topic that will get a lot of papers for a few years working
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by akuchling 7y ago
The boardgame review website Shut Up and Sit Down wrote the definitive explanation of why Cards Against Humanity is junk in 2015. It's at https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/review-cards-against-humani... Paul Dean: &quo
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by akuchling 7y ago
Here's a Twitter thread discussing the significance of the 2030 date: https://twitter.com/KHayhoe/status/1104833329587806210 It's more complicated & nuanced than most blogs or stories have time for,
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by akuchling 7y ago
Standard library packages can be declared "provisional": https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0411/ The PEP says "A provisional package is one which has been deliberately excluded from the stand
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by akuchling 7y ago
Yeah, but climate change rests upon radiation absorption, thermodynamics, and a bunch of other 19th century science that was largely unaffected by the 20th century's upheavals in physics.
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by akuchling 7y ago
At least https://www.reddit.com/r/MensLib/ takes a more enlightened approach.
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by akuchling 7y ago
Meetup.com is owned by WeWork. There could be substantial development there, although meetup.com's interface is still a confusing mix of new features that never get finished and old features that never quite go away.
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New NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World(nasa.gov)
4 points by akuchling 7y ago|0 comments
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by akuchling 7y ago
Yes, but will he step down from his role with the Free Software Foundation? I'm more concerned about that, since that's a more public-facing role.
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by akuchling 7y ago
One degree globally, perhaps, but then there can be regional variation that's larger. The Washington Post just ran a long story ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/climat... ) on a reg
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by akuchling 7y ago
Oh no, the Brain Eater has come for David Gelernter, and he's apparently swallowed a bunch of creaky old arguments. The arguments are: 1) not enough transitional fossils / http://talkorigins.org/indexcc/CC&#x
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by akuchling 7y ago
People often don't realize how old the science behind climate change is. There's an excellent discussion at https://history.aip.org/climate/20ctrend.htm#M_35_ ; quoting from that paragraph: "Returning
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by akuchling 7y ago
"I saw huge fields of farmed trees literally everywhere there [therefore] I don't think they are in any real danger of disappearing" is not actually an argument, though. There will continue to be huge fields of trees, right u
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by akuchling 7y ago
Linux Weekly News focuses on substantive technical content, like today's article on the Linux kernel's use of the switch statement: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/794944/a5770e282352a2e6/ Or today&#
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Elizabeth Warren proposes plan to build rural broadband networks(vox.com)
21 points by akuchling 7y ago|3 comments
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by akuchling 7y ago
According to https://history.aip.org/climate/simple.htm , a region of dark terrain or water getting warmer was first suggested in 1875 by James Croll. The linked paper (PDF at http://eisenman.ucsd.edu/p
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by akuchling 7y ago
A much faster way of increasing humanity's problems would be to increase governmental R&D funding, e.g. quadruple the US NSF and DoE budgets. That only takes an election or two, plus a year or two for the funding to get transferred
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by akuchling 7y ago
It can easily be "misunderstood" by people arguing in bad faith, but that's true of any term; "toxic masculinity" remains a useful phrase for referring to a particular set of beliefs and behaviours.
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by akuchling 7y ago
I thought this seems largely correct: "“Men don’t usually put the effort into maintaining friendships once they’re married,” Johnson says. “The guys at work are the only people other than me that my husband even talks to, so when some
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by akuchling 8y ago
Add '!psql' to your search. A full list of these is at https://duckduckgo.com/bang .

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