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by gdy 7y ago
'Some countries' meaning Russia
872.
by gdy 7y ago
"My last remaining hope is ... chaos" That was evil.
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by gdy 7y ago
Developing world's impact on climate change on per capita basis is tens and hundreds times smaller than America's. It's not them you need to educate.
874.
by gdy 7y ago
Do you think you qualify for receiving the Darwin Award?
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by gdy 7y ago
Some people 'attempt' suicide to attract attention, compassion, whatever. Obviously, dying is not in their plans.
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by gdy 7y ago
"anticipating meanness" And that would be wise.
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by gdy 7y ago
Thank you all!
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by gdy 7y ago
Can anyone recommend a 'Bayesian statistics the hard way' book?
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by gdy 7y ago
"Sometimes I think some researchers think they're helping themselves keep their research proprietary so they will able to monetize their special knowledge or implementation, especially if no one else can make it work ("knowle
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by gdy 7y ago
Not Invented Here
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by gdy 7y ago
You will need to elaborate on that. Edit: Please don't substantially edit your comments after they have a reply. And you still need to elaborate.
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by gdy 7y ago
Please don't mindlessly repeat this Cold War propaganda bit. There is a direct cause and effect relationship between the Munich agreement and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Talking about the latter starting the WW2 without mentioning the
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by gdy 7y ago
But Molotov-Rippentrop pact is a direct consequence of the Munich agreement that clearly signalled that the West doesn't intend to fight Nazis and the USSR would be alone. The same signal was reinforced by the failure of the USSR to fo
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by gdy 7y ago
"co-starting the 2WW, together with Germany" It's so convenient to ignore the Munich agreement and the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia by Germany, Poland and Hungary with the approval of the West and despite the USSR's o
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by gdy 7y ago
Because they consistently deliver
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by gdy 7y ago
Thanks)
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by gdy 7y ago
"by that measure we've solved pretty much everything" Yes. And you need to appreciate this before you start breaking things. Life can go from good to bad, not to better.
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by gdy 7y ago
It can mutate
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by gdy 7y ago
"It would be good, for example, the app to overweight low ratings from young women - with almost no tolerance for 1-star ratings from that group." This is sexist and ageist.
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by gdy 7y ago
There was similar attitude at the end of the 19th century - some people thought all major scientific discoveries had already been made.
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by gdy 7y ago
In the Russian version of this proverb you'd need to measure seven times)
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by gdy 7y ago
See Liu Cixin's cosmic sociology) https://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/11/11/the-big-idea-liu-cixi... Second: technological explosion. It took humans about a hundred thousand years to advance from stone tool
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by gdy 7y ago
Thank you, the design you described look natural to me, but I don't understand how this reduces the complexity coming from having lots of objects. If I understood you correctly, repository abstraction hides only one object - a Cassandr
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by gdy 7y ago
No problem. Which book was that? Pelevin used to be good, but I haven't liked a couple of his more recent books, in fact, couldn't even finish reading.
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by gdy 7y ago
"if the system design itself was created with SOLID in mind" Could you possibly elaborate what you mean by that?
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by gdy 7y ago
"But then comes letter D for dependency inversion. This principle gives us back simplicity due to abstracting away any set of those components as meta-components" I honestly don't understand how this produces simplicity. Coul
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by gdy 7y ago
Not sure about Python, but it is very easy to embed Lua in an app in way that executed scripts have access only to what is deliberately exposed to them.
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by gdy 7y ago
I wouldn't call that a socialism.
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by gdy 7y ago
I've read a lot of Azimov, including the Foundation series, and nearly all books by the Strugatsky brothers. And I too loved Harry Harrisons's Deathworld when I was a schoolboy :) Reading Chekhov makes me genuinely sad, maybe I ta
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by gdy 7y ago
That is the first time someone has thought about me as a king. Even metaphorically and for a brief moment :)

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