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by cauthon 6y ago
They have a voice. They have a congressional representative, two senators, and a vote in the presidential election. What they do not have, and will never have in the USA, is the right to overturn an election they lost with violent force.
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by cauthon 6y ago
The user you’re replying to was banned for creating an account to troll. I wouldn’t consider their comment in good faith. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25711525
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by cauthon 6y ago
I’m not the user you’re replying to here, but I apologize for making unconstructive comments earlier in the thread instead of flagging. Thanks for all the work you do to moderate this community.
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by cauthon 6y ago
I didn’t think “don’t lynch the Vice President” was an extreme position, but maybe I’m out of touch
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by cauthon 6y ago
I’m confused. You don’t think social media platforms should remove posts inciting violence, because the posts will get removed by the platform?
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by cauthon 6y ago
No, I’m saying don’t call CRAN a “threat to reproducible science” and then make your solution a CRAN package
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by cauthon 6y ago
This title is an exceedingly hot take for someone who wrote a new package manager. Also, it appears that Groundhog is itself a CRAN package and the author recommends installing with install.packages(). So is the author committing to never m
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by cauthon 6y ago
As someone who enjoys chess, I don’t think the point or the general appeal of the Queen’s Gambit was watching chess games play out.
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by cauthon 6y ago
It sounds like we’re confusing two things. What you’re describing in this comment sounds like a consortium. These often an embargo on publication of independent manuscripts until the primary paper(s) have been published. However, once the d
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by cauthon 6y ago
Having worked at three large academic institutions and been part of the submission process for about a dozen manuscripts, I have never seen or heard of a requirement for an internal administrative approval. IRB approval for study designs, y
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by cauthon 6y ago
Not OP, but I’d imagine to stop idiots from stumbling through the desert and either fucking up the surrounding nature or getting themselves lost/injured
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by cauthon 6y ago
I agree. This doesn’t seem like it’s going to fix dependency management in python, just replace the existing problems with arguably greater ones. For example, this seems like _terrible_ behavior. Even more, it’s inconsistent with the philos
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by cauthon 6y ago
> literal Nazis Is it all the swastikas? Maybe it’s all the swastikas. It’s disingenuous to suggest that far-right extremists aren’t dominating the messaging from the right, and that Donald Trump isn’t amplifying them.
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by cauthon 6y ago
What’s the advantage to this over a csv in excel? I track my blood pressure similarly. The entry is simple and I can read the csv into R/python whenever I want to visualize it.
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by cauthon 6y ago
Buy whatever makes you feel happy. I agree with gambiting that anything you choose won’t limit you
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by cauthon 6y ago
Don’t the impossible/beyond meats still have a higher environmental impact than poultry?
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by cauthon 6y ago
The Remains of the Day might be my favorite book. It does have my favorite quote, which I won’t spoil for anyone who hasn’t read the book as I think the emotional impact is lessened out of context. This book gave me the sense that the autho
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by cauthon 6y ago
I mean, there's a difference between "impossible" and "impossible today". and when an md/phd says something is "impossible today" and a salesman who thinks biology is a "software problem" sa
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by cauthon 6y ago
> “I was stupid enough to sell them rights to the whole bunch,” Sapkowski said at the time. “They offered me a percentage of their profits. I said, ‘No, there will be no profit at all — give me all my money right now! The whole amount.’
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by cauthon 6y ago
It's not a tiny minority. 11% of Americans and ~25% of black Americans don't have acceptable voter ID. I'd suggest reading through the ACLU's article on voter ID laws to learn how the disenfranchisement is targeted in pr
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by cauthon 6y ago
You can also change the default directory where screenshots are stored, so they never end up on the desktop in the first place. I have mine set to ~/Pictures/screenshots
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by cauthon 6y ago
Dubba Jonny made a whole track as a semi-satirical "tutorial" on dubstep production back when it was at its peak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJzfTZlEl40
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by cauthon 6y ago
Hello :) You are also 100% right that I could have been more positive and constructive. I did intend to be lighthearted rather than mean, but tone is difficult in plaintext. I see a lot of these types of comments on hn/reddit/twit
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by cauthon 6y ago
If only there were a section of scientific papers devoted to explaining the Methods used to obtain the Results. It’d be especially great if it came after an Introduction explaining the context and was followed by a Discussion of the merits,
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by cauthon 6y ago
This is reductionist. The academic jobs OminousWeapons is talking about are not likely to be filled by domestic workers because they're severely underpaid. NIH annual stipends are ~$25k for graduate students and $52-65k for postdocs [1
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by cauthon 6y ago
It's complicated. The kids whose parents pay for full tuition (or for a new building) subsidize the cost of attendance for the rest of us. I definitely couldn't have afforded to go without my financial aid package. And that's
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by cauthon 6y ago
I got into an Ivy on merit. White male, not legacy, not an athlete, not rich. Just good grades, good SAT score, and luck. I promise you the _vast_ majority of students I met who didn’t deserve to be at my school (academically speaking) were
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by cauthon 6y ago
What channels do you recommend watching? And how do you find out about tournaments?
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by cauthon 6y ago
I disagree, I don’t think there’s any meaningful benefit. For example, lets say we iterated over strings as follows. for char in my_str.chars(): foo() That wouldn’t sacrifice any ergonomics, being consistent with how we already iterate
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by cauthon 6y ago
I still don't understand why that can't be solved by putting everything in /opt/nix/store

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