jeremysmyth

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by jeremysmyth 11y ago
Did you intentionally throw in "extrovert" just to mess with us? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion
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While these criticisms are valid, you shouldn't use them to dismiss S&W entirely. It contains many good observations[1] about the English language. [1] Sadly, many are voiced prescriptively despite the fact that neither S&W nor
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it's a world which is changing, and generally for the worse Ah, but this is objectively wrong, by almost every metric (crime, security, murder, health, longevity, happiness, poverty). What is getting worse is the general level of f
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and if the order is not important. Reordering large numbers of rows can be a very expensive operation.
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Aside from the probabilistic harm mentioned by sibling posts, there are also issues of self-fulfilling prophecies coming from fishing expeditions. Assume: - LEOs use profiling (based on statistical models) to target individuals who are not
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Overall, over time it's much easier to take out the hammer and create one-size-fits-all answers to every catastrophe that occurs. Repeat and rinse this process over several years, and you've got a software shop that's runnin
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Right, but that administration already exists for social payments, except the majority of the administration is in the gatekeeping side: Making sure that the people who are claiming are entitled to it. Remove that administration and you mak
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by jeremysmyth 11y ago
Wrong question. This is like asking "As a carpenter, how would you use this shoe to hammer in a nail?" Twitter, as it has evolved (or been driven depending how much you trust the vision of its management) is not a lucrative platfo
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"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's pro
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Project... That page doesn't do it justice, sadly. This book just gets it about working in teams and larger organizations.
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The ultimate worry is that in 100 years our countries will be split into separate warring tribes. The ultimate worry is that there won't be a 100 years. Some demagogues and dogmas attract ruthless followers. It only takes one well-su
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I did this exactly once for a ZX Spectrum game, and it didn't work. It turns out the slightest hash or fizzle or cracking on the station messed up the reception enough to corrupt the download. Something the article mentions but I'
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Like being white straight and male makes you automatically rich, powerful, racist and a misogynist No, but being white, straight, and male means you don't have to navigate barriers formed by even slightly racist, homophobic, or sexis
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Time at war isn't the only measure of peace, social stability and contentment in a country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...
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SO subscriber content (e.g. answers) are CC BY-SA[0] which "is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses"[1] [0] "all Subscriber Content that You contribute to the Network is perpetually and irrevoca
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by jeremysmyth 11y ago
Title is incorrect, should be "ECB considers scrapping 500 euro note" Nobody is voting for anything yet: European finance ministers have asked the ECB to look at ways to tighten cash security.
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WV: So, the Universal Time Zone system. What lead you to argue so strongly for that option? HH: Because from a physics point of view, there IS only one time! Um... this would've been a more convincing argument if there was an attem
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by jeremysmyth 11y ago
Same effect, but different mechanism (and causal route): http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
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Permanently? That suggests a law that can't be repealed, amended, or otherwise modified, when in fact it's just had its expiration date removed. This law is no different to any other tax law, and is therefore subject to the usual
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What change in attitude is going to stop sex-deprived men from acquiring what they are programmed to want more than anything else? This statement is profoundly insulting to the billions of men who have enough self-control every day not
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by jeremysmyth 11y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/903/ Ah, but unlike any other obligatory XKCD you tend to see on HN, the relevance here isn't in the comic but in the alt-text you get when you hover over the image.
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and frowns on those that might involve discussion No, it explicitly forbids questions that involve discussion. The point of Stack Overflow is (and to a large extent always was) to be the place for definitive answers (and their alternative
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50-70, to avoid the clickbaity title. For a humorous look at the same idea for humans (150 fwiw), see here: http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
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I'm curious what OP thinks they should do if "the position is filled or they are hiring a stronger match". There aren't that many alternatives.
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It also has some emergent complexity that might not be immediately apparent without having seen how it works in practice: - Success (i.e. being voted in) is considerably easier when you depend on a proportion of the population than a majori
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Mistitled. It's not words that aren't in English, but words categorized by language, many of which are (naturally) not English. There is, however, a category for English language, and other languages have words that have migrated
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Neither Tetris nor Chess, but Dwarf Fortress. http://www.pcgamer.com/into-the-deep-its-time-to-learn-how-t... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brilliance-of...
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...given a guaranteed, fixed reward no matter how much or how little you work for it, disincentivizes work...I just think that socialism and communism (which basic income basically is...) Wrong. Basic income lifts the floor. It does not c
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No, unless the water had to rise 10m from your bathtub before descending. If it only had to rise enough to climb through a window before descending to your yard, then that is not enough to produce the problem in the article. The problem d
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That's a different article from 8 months ago.

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