bayesianhorse

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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Still they make less money, bear the cost/burden of child birth, are more likely to care for children, are more likely to be physically abused by their partners, more likely to be killed by their partner, and the list probably goes on.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Long story short: You believe that feminism has already gone so far that women have more rights than men, right?
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
You don't need to be a feminist to want to make a programming community more "diverse". Often the lack of diversity is a sign that there is toxicity in the culture. Trying to attract more women, or people of color, or LGBTs r
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
And then people make lots of money maintaining COBOL and Java code. Or securing custom PHP applications...
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
All these factors don't matter if demand increases as it has done during the entire prior history of programming.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
I think this will change when there are so many programmers above 40 that companies can't afford to turn them down. Due to age pyramids I can't really imagine total age discrimination to persist in the future.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
I think for Denmark, the Baltic and Scandinavian states, the question is not so much whether you decide to go to war with Russia but rather when Russia decides to go to war with you...
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
The lesson here is that it is really hard to manage projects like the JSF program. Cost, conflicting interests, technical challenges and secrecy requirements in the worst possible package.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Most of what we know about the torture at Guantanamo and other places comes from the government itself. I'm not a US citizen. I really don't believe anything the US is doing should allow Australia to put people in camps that have
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Still, being allowed full access to porn does not seem as urgent to me as preventing thousands of children being physically and mentally harmed willfully by a supposedly democratic and elected government. So is torturing adult refugees to d
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
When using all these plugins, how is that better than using an integrated framework? I always thought the point of flask is that it is "lighter".
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Who says it's magic? It is, however special, because it restricts the ability of a democratic system to rid itself of democratic features. That's why it should be harder to change and be treated like a very delicate and serious is
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Well, the right to asylum, as well as human rights in general has been ratified by Australia and it's even part of the constitution. I brought the asylum issue up because I find this a much more extreme and urgent example of a human ri
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
From what I hear from afar about Australian politics is that the Australian government can essentially do whatever it wants, unrestricted by minor details like a constitution, citizens or international law. Surveillance, website blocking ..
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
I'm still more in favor of Django. There is more to learn about it, but almost all Flask projects that get beyond the weekend-project stage end up reimplementing stuff that is in Django, or working around that lack. The interplay betwe
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
That may be harder to achieve than you might think. Big sellers would have lots of employees inside Germany and smaller sellers may be reluctant to setup a multi-national business...
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
It may be impossible to enforce this ban completely, but that doesn't mean that major sellers won't follow it and the others, those who are based in Germany, will get fined. Could be quite lucrative actually... My personal thinkin
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
A couple of kilograms per drone can easily kill you if it drops from a couple hundred meters. A vehicle operated by human beings can deliver a lot more packages a lot faster, while their accident rates aren't nearly as sky-high.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
I think the main obstacle for drone delivery is that even failure rates as low as 1 per a thousand hours would result in lots of injuries and damaged property. Helicopters and planes are maintained to a ridiculous degree. Without getting th
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Sleep deprivation is one of the most reliable and strong antidepressants, but also one of the least practical. Some clinics actually make patients stay awake for a period of time. I don't recommend "self-medicating" on purpos
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
The paradox being that SSRIs have been shown to be beneficial for social phobia ...
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
I think it's more than hazing. It may be some kind of costly advertizing, to show off their ability and willingness to function under that kind of stress level. On the other hand this behavior also selects for candidates who are driven
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
because you didn't consider my statement. Specifically "Islam" instead of "individual Muslim" and "on European Culture", not that Muslims exist in Europe.
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
So they have the right to a good life because they always had a good life? I can understand that such thinking is convenient, but especially those who are afraid of outsourcing haven't done that much "building" at all. And ho
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Am I the only one that has any problem with the idea that citizens of a particular country feel more entitled to well paying jobs than comparably capable foreigners? I can understand the feeling, I just can't justify it by reason. It f
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
I don't like to think about the spirit/mind/brain being "broken" in case of depression. Depression causes problems, but often the only way to get rid of the cause is to alleviate the problems. Everybody, including t
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
"Big effect on suburb" does not become "Influence on European Culture". If these immigrants have their own culture, just by living it, they don't necessarily constitute an influence. Just like there being Millions o
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
If you believe you have a right to throw Muslims out of Europe, which is the only way to stop increasing Muslim populations in Europe (short of genocide), then that is only possible by believing in racist assumptions (often disguised by cal
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
My statement was that "Islam" has virtually no influence on Europe culture. First of all, that doesn't include everything a Muslim does, for me, Islam is a religion with values and rules. The mere existence of Muslims followi
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by bayesianhorse 11y ago
Well, if you voice small-minded arguments, you do run a risk of being called out as small-minded. There is this strange belief among self-styled "immigration critics" that the fact that they have a minority opinion, is somehow pro

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