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by bambataa 8y ago
The argument is that the baby boomers, by being a demographic bulge, have a relatively large electoral influence and so over time government policies have been disproportionately targeted to their changing needs. While 'directly respon
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by bambataa 8y ago
Not the OP but you can do a lot with the following: - view your site in lynx - try and navigate around it with only your keyboard - try navigating around it using your OS' screen reader
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by bambataa 8y ago
By that logic, governments shouldn't be able to impose meaningful punishments on any business.
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Isn’t that the same protection that you get with any permanent contract in the UK? You can still be laid-off etc but the assumption is it will continue indefinitely. Maybe I’m mistaken but I thought American tenure was a different level of
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by bambataa 8y ago
Is it not fairly trivial to link that to you? How can you make it anonymous?
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by bambataa 8y ago
Try 'Programming Ruby' (aka 'the Pickaxe book') https://pragprog.com/book/ruby/programming-ruby .
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by bambataa 8y ago
In emissions terms I understand that nuclear power is far from 'low carbon', once you include the emissions involved in construction and fuel generation. I think a lot of greens are wary of nuclear power as they see it as a front
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by bambataa 8y ago
But don't you find you learn things, get introduced to new concepts and so on? I definitely think that HN has improved me as a software developer, if only to show me how much unknown stuff there is out there. Reddit is a bit more quest
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by bambataa 8y ago
Out of interest, why do you say that Go is awful for systems programming in this context?
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I must admit I was a bit disappointed with Siddharta. Obviously the ideas in it are deep and very interesting but as a novel it doesn't really have much to hold it together.
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Maybe "may I have" is more appropriate then. However, this veers into the realm of teachers who respond to "can I go to the toilet?" with "I don't know, can you?".
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by bambataa 8y ago
I lived in Berlin for a little while and when I moved back to London I was shocked by all the advertising on the tube. I had sort of filtered a lot of it out when I lived in London and then got hit with it afresh when I returned. Berlin jus
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by bambataa 8y ago
Things like Cryptopals ( https://cryptopals.com/ ) are good. But surely it's going to depend somewhat on the language and what things are easy/hard to do in that language?
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> When I meet people I totally tune out when they say their name, partially cause I'm socially nervous, but also my mind is jumping ahead thinking about interesting things/questions, like what they do or the meaning of their t-
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by bambataa 8y ago
If I can remember someone but not their name I usually try and be quite frank about - "hey sorry I forgot your name but when we met you had that cool story about how you did X". It hopefully works ok.
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by bambataa 8y ago
Do you have a clear idea of what their product is and who their customers are? If they’ve been going for X years and they don’t have a lot to show for it then that’s a major red flag for me.
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by bambataa 8y ago
I've not had a spam problem with them, but I did set up a new domain at the same time so the addresses I'm using have only been around a year or so.
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by bambataa 8y ago
I use mailbox.org. It’s sligtly cheaper than FastMail but there’s probably not much in it. It’s been a good service so far. I have no complaints.
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by bambataa 8y ago
I’m sorry you have encountered environmentalists who made you feel that. For what it’s worth most environmentalists I know live very normal lives and are trying to make changes at the systemic level rather than blaming individuals. The way
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Well yes, but environmentalists usually also call for large reductions in energy consumption as they know renewables can’t provide a like-for-like replacement. Are the consumers of electricity not also to a degree complicit by creating the
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Do you really think environmentalists are the driving force behind this?
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The comments on that post are particularly interesting.
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I think my response would depend on how you phrased the question. If you said “here’s an address, how would you parse it?” it would feel like the purpose of the interview is to use this task to see how I could. Saying Google Maps then seems
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by bambataa 8y ago
My point is that, whether you want it or not, the choices we each make have impacts of varying directness on what choices other people can make. Whether you choose to acknowledge them doesn’t change the effect they have.
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Cool, how can I afford to buy a house in an area of roughly my choice and not work horrible hours? Oh wait I can’t do both. And you’d probably say that’s my choice to forgo living in a nice house in a nice area. But of course, if houses cos
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> Which leads me to wonder if there are any societal changes we could make in order to nudge salaries to reflect when a job is mentally abusive. Similar to how pay typically reflects when a job is physically abusive. A basic income would
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Do you know how that increased welfare spending breaks down? How much of the increase is going to pensioners vs poor working age people?
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by bambataa 8y ago
I’ve never understood the argument that the Councils are undemocratic. They are made up of leaders elected by each state. Do you also think that the UK Cabinet is entirely undemocratic and that individual ministers should be elected to each
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by bambataa 8y ago
That’s really interesting, thanks. Can you share any more about how you’ve applied permaculture to your daily life?
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> I was still stubborn and would not agree to believing in the almighty bearded creator in the sky, so one of the two shelters would not help me. I know it’s really common but it still shocks me when charities make receiving support cont

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