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by crispinb 7y ago
What we currently have is what people are voting for We have something similar with respect to climate change policy in Australia - most people in polls and surveys claim to want more aggressive mitigation policies, yet they will just not
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You're exploiting an ambiguity in the word 'unavoidable'. Of course any individual manager (hospital or insurance industry) could 'avoid' predatory pricing. But the system of capitalism is designed to prevent peop
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Given we're pretty much all going to catch it anyway, whats the point? I'd be happy to get it over with soon.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Clojure seems like an odd choice for command line tools. I can see why a committed Clojure programmer would want to reuse their existing skills for a slightly mismatching domain. But Rust/Go (even C) would seem like a more obvious choi
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by crispinb 7y ago
As someone just playing with Clojure for curiosity, I agree that it's hard to find a way through the thicket of available tooling & library options. On the other hand, to start with just picking something reasonably mainstream (in
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by crispinb 7y ago
To add to your question: does spec help here?
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'm fairly extreme about ad blocking. If I'm aware of seeing an ad anywhere (street, web, cinema), I put the advertised product on a block list and will never buy it. This isn't quite as restrictive as it sounds because I hav
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by crispinb 7y ago
Nice, thanks. I've just glanced through and will have a proper read later. It would I guess be pretty complex to extend these kind of isolated tests to whole real-world installations.
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This is one of those stories I glance at briefly out of a kind of mildly masochistic fascination (" are people really going to argue about this " " you know damn well they are ").
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I wonder what software stack choice brings to the table here. Are the differences between the power draws of services written in (equivalent scope & quality) Python/jvm/Rust/node of any measurable significance ? [Edited
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I don't believe "violent subcultures" is quite the right way to put it. Violence is a deep part of US history, which its mainstream culture vaunts & clings to. In some ways, I believe US culture has a kind of love affair
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by crispinb 7y ago
Too late to edit, so just to add: I'm well aware that the US is huge, regional, and diverse. The aggregate figures cover over much of importance, which makes it hard to compare as a whole to other individual nations. There are of cours
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'm assuming you're referring to the US, in which case it's worth bearing in mind that your nation's violence rates are often well outside the norm amongst developed nations. I can assure you the only relationship I (or
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Australia, rural NSW. Which is not to say that all parts of rural NSW are the same - there are many troubled flyblown small towns with very poor populations which are quite different. The valley I live in (which is kind of a natural cul de
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There are evolutionarily-created biases, which often counter each other. So, yes, it's part of human nature, but so is a sense of fairness. Cultures differentially encourage and build on these native biases in different ways. A deeply
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by crispinb 7y ago
We're pretty lucky (in this respect at least). People who haven't experienced what it's like to be without that subtle tension and distrust that permeates most cities simply can't understand how it changes the experience
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by crispinb 7y ago
An aside - I am lucky enough to live somewhere where no security is needed. I don't even have lockable doors or windows. I only mention this because it hasn't struck me for a long time how different life felt when I lived in a cit
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by crispinb 7y ago
Careful. You're gunning for someone linuxsplaining how their grandpa has used Arch for years without difficulty, so you must be just wrong about all the normal people you know who find linux too hard. (I'm exclusively a linux user
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by crispinb 7y ago
I've had no Apple devices for a couple of years, but in Australia at least its newspaper coverage is pretty much limited to News Corp. That'd be a nonstarter for me. Though that's based on what I read during the Aus launch. I
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There's been a bunch of similar initiatives, albeit more typically aggregating via a single app (Inkl, Pressreader etc). I've tried some in the past because I'd like to pay for news, but consider site subscriptions as deeply
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I suspect if our 'civilisation' continued long enough to do serious manned space exploration, low gravity is an issue we'd find a technical fix for. Your guess is as good as mine though. It's pretty clear however that we
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Quibbling over the details is a given, but people are going to like it. It fulfils such a clear need.
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Phew. I've pretty much given up subscribing to issues on well-known projects because they so often get swamped by useless posts from people desperate to take their opinions for a walk (I pity the maintainers). Hopefully this will reduc
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Well I'd say it does matter somewhat, or at least it matters 'to us' at a local scale, even if it doesn't ultimately (but then perhaps all 'mattering' is local - it's hard to see what does matter sub speci
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The Star Trek references always generates a bit of wistfulness in me. I think the expectations run a bit deeper than Guinness Book of Records! Indeed some variation on 'progress' or elevated human 'destiny' has been fou
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This doesn't strike me as sad. Me neither. But it used to. I was a Star Trek (TOS) kid and grew up assuming I would at least visit planets in adulthood, if not have a modest spacecraft of my own. Also that the Earth's warring tr
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Sure, I'm just saying I don't hear it 'on the street' where I live. I honestly find the whole officially-approved nomenclature issue a bit overblown anyway. I'm completely happy to use whatever people prefer, but ha
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I'll second the Pascoe recommendation. Also Bill Gammage's The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia is eye opening
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There's a phenomenon where people who know the least about a topic seem to make the most confident pronouncements. It betokens a sad lack of curiosity. Do even 10 minutes of reading and you'll find out that there are many cases of
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I haven't once heard 'First Nations People' used on the ground other than by visiting speakers (usually from overseas). Indigenous & Koorie are the most common terms used here (I live in the Northern Rivers - Bundjalung

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