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by iamwithnail 12y ago
I'd agree with Stewbrew. SocSci is PACKED with people trying to jam new theory into already crammed areas, because it's the only way they'll get on; although I agree that the studies and experiments are based on sometimes fl
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
'Real science' - thanks for that. ;-) I think the issue I'm trying to get at - I suspect there is less value in null proving a lot of social science hypotheses - the impacts are smaller than physical constants of the univer
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Hah! I read technical stuff on Wikipedia for the same purpose.
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
It's an interesting point, but it's a tough one. Real example: I'm a social scientist, and I have a hypothesis about a better method of analysing discourse (borne from theoretical musings, mostly). Once I spend the next 6 mo
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
That's exactly my point, though (and was to the French guy below). Your original point was 'have people in the US been arrested after being wiretapped or spied on over the internet?' Yes. The argument is always made that the
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Freedom of speech and surveillance are very different things. The crucial part of surveillance is that you're being monitored on what you say, fairly routinely. Whether or not the authorities take exception to what you say/who you
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Firstly, this argument isn't just limited to the US. But what the US does has repercussions for the rest of the world, particularly the UK. So on that, have people been arrested (and otherwise harassed) for political views in the UK?
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Exactly. Although you can never (for fairly obvious reasons) see a full cost-benefit analysis of these things, the sheer volume of cash, resources and legislative power being shovelled towards the Surveillance-Industrial Complex (it's
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
We have that problem. We just straight out list why we're better for the money, using the table just above the pricing: http://granttree.co.uk/#pricing There's a differentiation to be made between PRICE and VALUE
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
GoCardless for me, for services anyway. Slick, helpful dashboard, comes out of my bank account after they notify me. Products I guess I'd rather pay for on Stripe as it comes out straight away.
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Actually, I should have mentioned this in my own post. I can't emphasise the point about git enough. I didn't really get it at first so shied away. Version control is one of THE most important things you'll learn, for a
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Shall we swap friend groups? :-D I'm thinking about switching to Ruby (or at least learning enough I can join in.)
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Slightly against the flow here: I chose Python (and Django) when I learned to code (and built our MVP for www.gmbl.io, still a few rough edges - plug, plug) Python's GREAT, no doubt, and Django is also very good. But I've repeate
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Silicon Valley Bank, if you can get an account with them. Not sure about their online service, but the operation (which is obviously much smaller than the US one) is pretty slick, runs great events for startups and is generally supportive
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Ah, this is lovely. If there's one routine thing I trip up over again and again, it's times, every time. Big fan, nice work. Will definitely look at using this next project.
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
I don't think this is necessarily the PDF you were looking for, but the Paul Buchheit guide to Founder's Equity is a pretty great place to start: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.co.uk/2007/03/equity-math-for
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
They are - I'd try something like Transferwise, that's what we use to pay our international contractors. Or Stellars.
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
On the total carbs thing - American wrappers tend to include fibre in the total carbs- European ones don't, and you should read up on 'net carb' - but basically, take the fibre value off the total value. If it's ok to d
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
There's also www.jointheofficeclub.com, which is a short train ride (19min) from shoreditch, but very laid back and very friendly. It's also in Peckham, which has loads of fun stuff and good transport links. :) not your usual sugg
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Yeah, it's moved a fraction north now into the city, but that area would be a horrible place to stay, despite the many plush hotels - there are few good restaurants, only expensive (and soulless, and dead on the weekend) bars, and it&#
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Pretty jealous. I need to get my site together in order to play around with the Opta historical stuff, I'm working on letting people back test betting strategies.
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Alex and sturob, those are both gorgeous, guys!
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
You probably wouldn't station them in the city, too easy to obfuscate avoid if the locations are fixed - something like this will be forthcoming from the Met's Open Source Intelligence Unit fairly soon, I imagine. http:/&#x2
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
That's a really interesting link, thanks. I hadn't seen that particular take on it - I don't think we're particularly disagreeing, though, since that parallel construction is still a long way off 'NSA info appearing
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
There's no evidence of that, quite the opposite. In fact, there's been significant pushes in both countries for intelligence-collected information to be made available to routine law enforcement. This is sort of my point about o
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
In fairness, the Mail has massive and well studied form in what we can generously call 'making shit up'.
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
I disagree quite strongly. The surveillance STATE doesn't exist - yet. That the end result might look and feel a lot like a surveillance state is irrelevant - the mechanisms and operations of an actual surveillance state are quite di
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
This is a really great tool, massive fan, made some good use of it in the ~15 hours since I installed it yesterday evening. Are you aware it seems to bork the admin interface? If, after installing Silk, I use admin to update a record, I ge
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
In honesty, part of the problem with PhD 'grad school' in the US is that the prior parts of the pipeline - undergraduate and high school - are so poor. If you're spending a couple of years when people come to college teachin
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by iamwithnail 12y ago
Yeah, it's pretty awesome. I built http://test.gmbl.io off that data set to learn to code. Good place to start. Kickdex is also pretty awesome, they use the Opta data to produce real time indices for teams and players.

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