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by bedobi 5y ago
The worst problem with almost all popular programming languages are null and shitty error handling, such that, when you call foo() where foo is String foo(){ blabla } you can get a String, null OR an exception/hidden error response, bu
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by bedobi 5y ago
I really want intermittent fasting and low carb diets to have the benefits claimed, but having done both for extended periods on and off for years, if I'm perfectly honest with myself, the truth is I haven't seen any benefit at al
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Progressive image loading algorithm can help you do and learn anything(gist.github.com)
2 points by bedobi 5y ago|0 comments
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by bedobi 5y ago
that post is very hard to read why? too many paragraphs I get it it wants to read a bit like train of thought but ultimately it just makes the message harder to get across
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by bedobi 5y ago
Is there any evidence mindfulness as taught and practiced by, well, those who teach and practice it, is good for anything ? Keep in mind (no pun intended) - if your example is someone who was already successful, and they remain successful,
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by bedobi 5y ago
Agree with this - I often write little Gists mostly for myself but every once in a while others will find them useful and some have even ended up being published publicly, eg this one about mistakes to do with RDS https://medium.
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by bedobi 5y ago
Yes! The Haitian one is the best!
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by bedobi 5y ago
The season on the Haitian Revolution is the best of them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR80t5Jg6Ec&list=PLn2IQnuuK7...
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by bedobi 5y ago
Thanks for the link, it was a good example of something worth clearing up. But I'm not sure things like chiropractics is comparable to your example - it's trash, we know it's trash and having a journal where people argue the
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by bedobi 5y ago
Within science, many ideas are "controversial" because they're demonstrably wrong. Such ideas should not be "published" in a "journal" in some misguided attempt to give them the exposure they're justi
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by bedobi 5y ago
Appreciate the encouragement, I've posted it now :P https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28135917
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by bedobi 5y ago
Thank you! It was just published here :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28135917
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Test Your Tests(medium.com)
1 points by bedobi 5y ago|0 comments
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by bedobi 5y ago
This is superficially correct, also completely disingenuous. The reason why there isn't a huge consumer market for indigenous languages is because they're overwhelmingly systematically unsupported by their respective governments i
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Gary Gensler, SEC Chair, specifically calls out wild movements in GameStop stock(twitter.com)
1 points by bedobi 5y ago|0 comments
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by bedobi 5y ago
Sounds reasonable but in practice it's a bit disingenuous to say that as the status quo is still that office is the default, often for no good reason.
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by bedobi 5y ago
I'm irrationally passionate about testing. Shameless plug: (rendered version at https://gist.github.com/androidfred/501d276c7dc26a5db09e893b... ) # Test your tests ## Summary: test interfaces, not implementations T
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by bedobi 5y ago
Are you sure? My understanding was that perturbations resulting from subatomic crevasses in multi-dimensional lattices would render the impedance greater than the Yui-Schwarz limit.
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You don't need to learn to code, and neither do your kids
6 points by bedobi 5y ago|4 comments
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by bedobi 5y ago
> Superannuation is essentially a payroll tax. Isn't the whole point that it's not a payroll tax? Ie instead of the government getting and using the super money to fund its activities (whether they be welfare or what have you
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by bedobi 5y ago
Australia's super is a good idea and other countries, eg Sweden, have very similar systems. Unfortunately and unsurprisingly the industry is fleecing everyone, but the idea itself isn't bad. I agree that rather than a blanket 10%
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by bedobi 5y ago
Again, should be true but often simply doesn't play out that way in practice. The stockholders may be very diffuse groups of people, or mostly represented by proxies (eg fund managers) that don't have any real incentive or ability
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by bedobi 5y ago
What you're saying should be absolutely correct, but in practice incredibly naive. First, I don't disagree the market and price discovery can benefit from shorting. But here we're talking about retirement accounts that are al
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by bedobi 5y ago
What you're saying should be absolutely correct, but in practice incredibly naive. First, I don't disagree the market and price discovery can benefit from shorting. But here we're talking about retirement accounts that are al
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by bedobi 5y ago
I don't disagree the market and price discovery can benefit from shorting. But here we're talking about retirement accounts that are already long the stocks in question. There's no world in which the owners of those stocks be
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by bedobi 5y ago
That stocks in retirement accounts are lent out to short sellers against a small fee is not a wild claim? It's ubiquitous and routine. And no, it's not at a price agreed upon by both parties. The owners of the stocks have zero say
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by bedobi 5y ago
> Do short sellers really do that much damage? Surely they're just part of the price-discovery mechanism for a stock? Imagine a small or midcap company that is a solid, profitable business, just hanging out on the market, doing it&#
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by bedobi 5y ago
That's a good question, ask them? If the borrow fee was enough to compensate the stock owners for the damage done by the short sellers, why would any short seller ever pay to borrow the stocks to sell them short?
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by bedobi 5y ago
As a holder of shares in a company for retirement, why would I want to in any way enable short sellers to artificially drive the price of those shares into the ground, or even bankrupt the company? Like yes there is a tiny fee to compensate
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by bedobi 5y ago
Surprised and disappointed the most obvious and worst problem isn't even mentioned: retirement holdings are lent out (for a small fee) to short sellers, a direct and blatant conflict of interest, and there's nothing the supposed b

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