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by antt 8y ago
That to normal people sounds as ridiculous as the idea that Trump and Assange are Russian assets.
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The Clinton show isn't over until Sanders gets the Democratic nomination.
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I absolutely agree with you and him. What I find distasteful is that the people who were cheering him on when he was doing it to Republicans are now calling him a Russian asset for doing it to democrats. And vice versa for the Republicans.
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by antt 8y ago
Clinton was predicted to be the next president by everyone. If you had to choose the target of your limited efforts the person who was projected at winning with 70% by the most conservative estimates, and had already turned the middle east
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The jobs created in the last 20 years have been worse paid and less secure than the jobs that were destroyed. The granddaughters of the 60s secretaries are baristas, nurses, cleaners, retail workers and other jobs with terrible working cond
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by antt 8y ago
He editorialized that video to hell and back, removing audio which humanized the chopper pilots, condensing 40 minutes into 2, and a whole bunch of other editorial tricks to make the people getting murdered more sympathetic. The only differ
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by antt 8y ago
The only unfortunate thing is how many people turned on him when he started exposing people who they liked. Turns out that all the people who I thought were on the side of truth in the Bush years were just on the side of Democrats.
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>Programmed Inequality by Marie Hicks [0] is a great introduction to some of the history. That's largely bullshit. The position of 'programmer' today would be that of a systems architect from 1960. The position of 'pr
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by antt 8y ago
What happened to the women in tech is that the clerical jobs were all replaced by computers. I'm still not clear how office work has improved by me not having a secretary. The two hours a day I waste on email, meeting planning etc woul
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by antt 8y ago
Because Australia is part of the 5 eyes. Any backdoor put in place would have been blessed by some three letter agency from the US already. Any firm that can pay the wages I expect will have a government contract and lawyers on staff who un
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Not in the US and not for the type of company that can afford me.
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The Australian tech community will just leave. The ones that stay here are either the sentimental ones or the stupid ones already. I know I've had much better offers from overseas that I have ever gotten here and I will more than likel
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by antt 8y ago
I always use those as a way to test a new language/paradigm/something. I'm naturally lazy and this is a wonderful way to get new knowledge. >Sorry I want to write an extension to emacs so I'm solving your problem in e
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by antt 8y ago
>I came here to make the same point. The real test would be to take those same Lisp or Smalltalk programmers, and have them work in Java. I’ll bet you see the same increase in productivity. It’s the people, not the language. They write a
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Plumbing is not what you read in your textbooks about. It has always been the case that the majority of programmers are plumbers. As a fraction of people I would be surprised if we do not have more people working on blue skies problems toda
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by antt 8y ago
>My criticism applies to them as well, and as far as I can tell, they are also banned from Facebook. Again, I can't link to either of the documents because censorship but the facebook group of the mosque that was shotup in Christchu
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by antt 8y ago
Standard espeak at 1000 wpm on the setting I put on the other comment. eSpeak NG text-to-speech: 1.49.2
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I've played around with the internals a bit, but I've not been able to substantially improve understandability past 1200 wpm no matter what I do. The settings for that text snippet were $ espeak -p 100 -s 1000 -v male7 That's
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by antt 8y ago
Typical meatbag voice. The future belongs to formant synthesis, I can easily get to 1000wmp without any loss of coherency and the sound is fundamentally inhuman. https://ufile.io/9905a
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>Through all of mankind we had strong mechanisms to form consensus, including social repercussions. And throughout history people lived to be 30 and died of plague wallowing in their own excrement thinking the devil did it. If your ideol
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by antt 8y ago
I absolutely have during the Dakota pipeline protests.
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When I say that we should send every non Indian person back to where they came from and create an all Indian North America I'm also being civil and nonviolent. Yet I don't see facebook banning that type of speech.
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There are also Muslim groups who say as much. "We will just out breed them" is a common tactic used to great effect in Kosovo and Western Macedonia by Albanians. The shooting in Christchurch referenced a video from the Mosque in q
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by antt 8y ago
>The notion is that the history of European colonialism and imperialism "justifies" black and Chinese nationalism as a countermeasure to white supremacy. One could equally well point the the anti-colonial resistance in the Balk
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>They wouldn't do that, because there would be justified public outcry. Luckily, as moral agents, we humans are capable of differentiating "general political party" from "white nationalists", and can target the l
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by antt 8y ago
Depends. The one hot day this year Victoria and South Australia has large load shedding events so we don't know what peak demand looks like currently. But probably closer to 60GWh if you don't shut down industrial capacity on a 40
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1). The number is the current demand, it's 12am here. 2). Australia is larger than the EU. That there's sunshine in North Queensland is all well and good but you need power in Victoria and South Australia. The links between the st
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The total demand for the last 30 minutes, you sum up all the individual state markets, minus WA which is on not connected to that grid.
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It is also under cutting the price that gas fired power stations need to be profitable. Since South Australia doesn't have coal or nuclear baseline generation any more we may see what happens when a state goes 100% renewable pretty soo
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by antt 8y ago
It won't and it can't. Rather it can at the cost of ~20 trillion dollars (23GWh [1] at 900 million [0] for GWh for the Tesla battery). You need all that energy storage for when it's not sunny (like at night) and not windy and

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