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by chalst 5y ago
It's a lovely visual. Iceland and Finland are in first place; Afghanistan last place. I haven't seen a happiness study whose methodology I judged valid, but I don't immediately see a particular problem with this instance of t
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by chalst 5y ago
Excerpt for the "John Gruber; Didn't Click" types: ----- Here’s how utterly clueless Speiser was about getting into bed with Facebook. In June 2016, he told The Wall Street Journal there was no reason for publishers to be ner
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Online Publisher Dependent Upon Facebook Shuts Down, Blaming Algorithm Change (2018)(daringfireball.net)
46 points by chalst 5y ago|30 comments
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by chalst 5y ago
I upvoted this, although I am not sure if it is quite true as you have put it. Venture capitalists are very much aware of the risk of lower-ranking SWEs failing to recognise dangers out of insufficiently critical obedience.
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by chalst 5y ago
Why doesn't Nyxt browser stand as a counterexample?
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by chalst 5y ago
I'm not convinced by the conclusion, but the idea behind what to test and the data analysis is thought-provoking. I am not convinced that the phenomenon seen is not an artefact of the choices made of the seven questions narrowed in on.
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The quantum needle of the avian magnetic compass(pnas.org)
2 points by chalst 5y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 5y ago
I'm also interested in seeing orwin's argument expanded. I'm a tad skeptical of crowding-out arguments, which often rest on a faith in the wisdom of markets that goes beyond that which can be justified.
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by chalst 5y ago
I guess that's right. I can't say I thought "interesting article", more that in writing it he condemns himself. "I can prove he's a traitor", followed by an argument that whose fundamental weakness becomes
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by chalst 5y ago
&LOL; The early mastery of swearing I picked up between backseat driving (that is, listening to my Scottish mother's running commentary on other drivers) and my spongelike absorption of Canadian broadcast media, earned my parents a
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by chalst 5y ago
Taleb deploys Bayes theorem and the base rate "fallacy" [fn] to show that Snowden is more likely to be a traitor than, uh, what he thought before he started studying Snowden. https://medium.com/incerto/snowden
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by chalst 5y ago
Insufficiently expensive education. With the right calculus teacher, I'm sure you'd have got the gist of it by your 60th month.
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Hacker's photos: Alternative takes on how computation impacts the world(twitter.com)
2 points by chalst 5y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 5y ago
While we are on rich guys who overreact, I note Twitter is still alive with the aftermath of the multimillionaire flaneur reacting to Snowden's call-out tweet with an exercise in scorched-earth character assassination. But I digress.
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by chalst 5y ago
> the transition to modern romex with push in receptacles saves tons of time and effort in the part of the job you spend 90% of the time doing If you will excuse me, <cheap quip> it is also case that the transition from toilet brea
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by chalst 5y ago
This isn't the best landing page on the site for an HN story. Maybe http://computernewb.com/collab-vm/faq/ would be better? We've had this posted twice before, but only the 2019 posting attracted comment
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Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019)(macadie.net)
124 points by chalst 5y ago|123 comments
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by chalst 5y ago
I haven't fact-checked the article yet, but the fact that this is an area with low-hanging fruit and the apparent expertise of the team leads me to think we should have some confidence here. Cf. from the OP: > Our clinical director,
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Principles for a diverging desktop future(divergent-desktop.org)
2 points by chalst 5y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 5y ago
That introduces a variable that has to be initialised outside the control block. It's not terrible as hacks go, but I guess the readability cost of the additional variable is higher than having the body in the condition.
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by chalst 5y ago
The thing that most makes wolves unpopular in Germany is not killing livestock: there's an adequate compensation scheme, nor risk to people, it's that wolves go out of their way to kill dogs.
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by chalst 5y ago
Ad hominem is an idiom: you cannot infer the meaning of an idiom from the composition of its words. A counterargument is ad hominem if it rests on what it says about the arguer, not the content of the argument. It's not always a fallac
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by chalst 5y ago
It's partly the same in much early writing instruction in the UK and there are pedagogical advantages to encouraging learning writers to embrace ambitious word choice and grammar and risk making mistakes. This should not be the final g
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by chalst 5y ago
chrissnell claims the NYT etc accepted money to spike stories. Your story doesn't validate his claim.
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by chalst 5y ago
How about: Uber's hush money operation is so effective that drivers are not aware of what risk they run from carjacking?
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by chalst 5y ago
Pijul is probably OK to use now: https://pijul.org/posts/2021-06-28-two-changes/ Like a new filesystem, you should have a backup system in place if you use this, but the system is being well tested.
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by chalst 5y ago
The relationship between minimum wage and employment is profoundly complex and the empirical data is inconsistent with the simple supply and demand model many believe in. There are many documented cases of increases in minimum wage resultin
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by chalst 5y ago
Zig is probably nicer if you want to write code that is to be called from C.
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by chalst 5y ago
The purpose of the extension was to reduce the risk of a no deal Brexit, which Johnson didn't want but was at risk of stumbling into in his efforts to please ultras. Parliament succeeded in its goal, which did not require any of the th
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by chalst 5y ago
C is hard to optimise. Graydon Hoare gave a nice introductory compilers talk that went into some of the reasons why http://venge.net/graydon/talks/CompilerTalk-2019.pdf

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