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by ellen364 2y ago
Are you suggesting that a process once done using pen and paper can't possibly be complicated? I have no insight into the DVLA, but the idea that no paper process could ever be complicated is really funny. The UK enjoyed/loathed c
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by ellen364 2y ago
I suspect the idea that “people aren't even honest about what constitutes murder and what doesn't” creates a high barrier to the discussion you’d like to have. From your post, I think you’re starting from the pov that governments
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by ellen364 2y ago
“50 hours of video” seems especially true for cloud certificates. Figured maybe I should finally pick up an AWS cloud cert or two and realised that video courses tend to be 40-50 hours per certificate. If you’ve already worked with AWS, or
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by ellen364 2y ago
I'm not convinced the first principals are so clear. Economics research in the last 30 years has often examined market distortion due to incomplete information (especially information asymmetry) in the marketplace. Given the tendency t
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by ellen364 2y ago
Glad someone mentioned the gift economy. So much discussion around FOSS reminds me of ideas from gift economy. E.g. the extent to which a culture assumes a gift is part of gift exchange, with some expectation of reciprocity. Or the concept
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by ellen364 2y ago
I didn’t 100% follow this story. Sounds like you knew the manager’s password and used it to log into a website. Where did the email protocols come into it?
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by ellen364 2y ago
A build your own algorithm laboratory sounds fun. I think “motivating the problem” (a phrase I hear a lot in American lectures) is often the weakest part of an algorithm and data structure course. The teaching approaches seem quite abstract
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by ellen364 2y ago
The stats in the link say that the annual “traffic-related death rate” is 12.9 deaths per 100,000 people in the USA and 2.2 per 100,000 people in Sweden. It’s the death rate that’s (more than) 5x higher in the USA, not the death count. That
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by ellen364 4y ago
In English courts, there’s some debate about a defendant’s ignorance of the law. In this Chancery case from 2021, the judge mulls over what it means that a defendant is “unaware”. He considers the distinction between someone who knows about
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by ellen364 4y ago
I sometimes wonder if people have become more resistant to critique or if uninvited critique has become more common. But early twentieth century books like How to Win Friends and Influence People emphasise that people respond well to positi
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by ellen364 4y ago
Linear extrapolation seems to be a common theme in the comments. People take a product they know and then essentially say “Twitter only has X times as many users, surely they only need X times as many engineers. The other employees were exc
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by ellen364 4y ago
I think it partly depends on what you buy. I haven’t seen it much. E.g. sometimes there are few eggs, which I guess is due to the bird flu situation. And sometimes I can’t find generic ibuprofen. Minor stuff. But some people I know have thi
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by ellen364 4y ago
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20221002174503/https://www.econo...
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The unique culture of English county cricket(economist.com)
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by ellen364 4y ago
“So long as it’s legal” is an interesting caveat to universal service. Utility companies, e.g. electricity suppliers, don’t check whether you’re using the utility for illegal purposes. It seems like a true “utility” internet company would o
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by ellen364 4y ago
A strategy that I’ve seen turn around someone’s relationship woes is asking yourself “Would I hire this person?” Not thinking about skills, particularly, but more about their attitude and approach to things. I was sceptical of the idea but,
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by ellen364 4y ago
The talks from PyCon UK 2022 are now available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PyconUKSoc/playlists
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Favourite talks at PyCon UK 2022(ellen.dev)
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by ellen364 4y ago
My understanding is the founding fathers believed in a combination of “natural” and “positive” rights. In that context, “positive” rights were things the government had to provide, like a jury trial. “Natural” rights were things you could d
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by ellen364 4y ago
Somehow forgot the two books that had the biggest influence on me. (And forgot for so long that I can’t edit the post.) - The Population History of England, 1541-1871, by Wrigley and Schofield. - English Population History from Family Recon
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by ellen364 4y ago
Thanks for the recommendations! I bought Silman’s book on endgames a while ago and you’ve given me a nudge to start reading it.
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by ellen364 4y ago
Two theories of change: (1) An increasing number of Americans see free speech as a positive rather than negative right. In other words, “Facebook must host whatever I want to say”, not just “The government can’t arrest me for insulting the
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by ellen364 4y ago
Few of these books are “great works” in their field, but all changed my understanding of their topic. - How to Read a Book by Adler and Van Doren. I was in academia when I read this and it had a huge impact on how I read and thought about a
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by ellen364 4y ago
Fantastic to see Bob Allen mentioned here! The research group where I worked tended to be on the opposite side of debates to Prof. Allen, but he’s a skilled and influential historian of the British Industrial Revolution. The last 10-20 year
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by ellen364 4y ago
I can see that the cloud hosting would be a sticking point if you aren’t familiar with it. Luckily, for Protohackers you can use a really basic setup. I used Hetzner’s standard Ubuntu image, opened the nano text editor on the server, copy-p
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by ellen364 4y ago
There’s a lot of debate in this thread about the rights and wrongs of monarchy, the extent to which the Queen chose to serve, and so on. There isn’t much context about Britain as it was when she became Queen. Since I used to be a historian,
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by ellen364 4y ago
You might be right. I interpreted the parent comment as saying the government should do more and started thinking about the government’s role in free speech.
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by ellen364 4y ago
That’s interesting. Would the Tenth Amendment prevent the federal government regulating free speech in the opposite direction, e.g. a law saying “companies can’t do anything to limit free speech”?
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by ellen364 4y ago
Dan Grossman (in Programming Languages Part A on Coursera) suggests there are 5 broad areas of knowledge about a programming language: - syntax - semantics - idioms - tools - packages The koan glosses over the time it takes to become famili
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by ellen364 4y ago
> A private company should not be making decisions on essentially freedom of speech. This comes up a lot and makes me think I’ve misunderstood US free speech dynamics. I thought the USA traditionally limited the government’s ability to r

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