jernfrost

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by jernfrost 8y ago
The point is that Python presents a very complex environment where you have to deal with different languages and technologies. For package developers it is a lot eaiser to use Julia. Saying one should focus more on Python and we would not h
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He mentioned implementors of frameworks specifically, not users of frameworks which you seem to talk about. Julia is superior to R and Python as a language for package development. This is illustrated by the fact that almost all big popular
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I would solve it with a combination of public funded research and prizes awarded to those solving important medical needs.
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I think patents should be replaced with prizes. People can propose problems which needs solving and then private individuals and/or government can pledge money to donate to whoever finds a solution to the problem first. However the win
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Holy crap!!! 1/3rd that is insane. What is that not a bigger topic? I guess that explains that the first time ever I met anybody who had been in prison was when I moved to the US (I had enough after a year and went back. Got too much p
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With all due respect that is hogwash. The war of independence was not quite the glorious thing Americans like to paint it as. 1) The southern states only joined after they learned that the British were freeing slaves. Now the British may no
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I've always found hypocrisy to be an American specialty like no other. Who else exerts so much time talking passionately about freedom while at the same time locking up more people than anybody else on the planet and invading more coun
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Any Julia programmers who have tried Crystal? I've never quite seen the point with Crystal when you got something like Julia. Although I guess there is a value in familiarity. I was a big fan of Ruby back in the day, but I just feel th
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I think this is why social democracy works so well for reducing poverty. When I compare poverty relief programs in the US with how it works in Scandinavian countries (I live in Norway) I notice a very big difference in how it is delivered.
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This study accounts for that in all the experiments described. They send financial problems at random to people. That means the genes of the individuals will be random. The sugar farmers in India also present a good random experiment becaus
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How is it dystopian to tell parents that if you give your kids candy it makes the job for other parents much harder, since now their kids will fuzz about getting candy too? It is just about people agreeing to common sensible rules for the b
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The lunch boxes isn't really caused by our affluence however, rather it is caused by our traditional poverty. Most other European countries serve school lunches. The French have amazing school lunches. When on vacation in France we pas
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I've lost weight many times without any exercise. The formula was pretty simple for me: 1) Eat on regular intervals. Don't starve yourself, but don't overeat. Typically you stop while you are a tiny bit hungry. The body is a
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That is just sad. I think it is for good reason here in Norway that companies can not contribute to school funding. They try to keep private money out of schools, so that you don't end up with A and B schools because some parents are r
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Why isn't there more political engagement to change that? Like pass laws to limit corporate influence?
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We don't actually have school lunches. The only thing they got usually is that kids can eat vegetables for free. But that is really just for snacking, you need to bring your own lunch box. That is why there isn't that much nutriti
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Seriously? That is just sad. I suspect the issue in the US is that there isn't much common ground politically. In Norway none of this is very controversial, and fast food companies have little political influence. Money in Norwegian po
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You can look at my earlier answer to similar question. Nobody gets punished for not following the rules. We are not a police state. Parents participate in setting up the rules and conventions. If you dump chocolate in your kids food box eve
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Here is a link to the current version: http://www.kagge.no/index.cfm?tmpl=butikk&a=product_inline&b... The description is in Norwegian but I can give a quick summary: It gives recipes for breakfast, lunch boxes, foo
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by jernfrost 8y ago
Okay I realize I need to clarify some differences in American and Norwegian society. In America ban and rules often involve punishment or fines. In Scandinavia we have lots of rules and bans which carry no sort of punishment. This is one of
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A lot of that comes down to much stronger belief in government regulation and initiative. In the US it seems there is an outrage every time somebody suggests some kind of regulation to promote health and welfare. I suspect that outrage is p
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I hear you. When we took our baby to the US on vacation I found it really hard to find appropriate food. American baby food had added salt and sugar which is illegal to add to baby food in Norway. We have the opposite "problem". T
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It isn't super detailed as far as I remember. It is more about the really obvious stuff like eating less processed and whole foods. So e.g. they will make whole grain bread, cut raw vegtables, maybe make vegtable soup, avoid stuff with
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I'll check with my wife later what the title was and if they got it online.
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They don't celebrate by eating anything. They do activities instead. The focus is on the child who get a crown and gets to sit in this silly little royal chair or something. Not sure exactly how it works, but the kids are apparently ve
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You need to tackle this stuff early on. Here in Norway sweets are banned from pre-school and school in lunch boxes, including for birth days. There are no pre-school or school celebrations involving sweets. The kids get involved early in le
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That is one of the reasons I decided to leave the US after I moved there. I found it WAY to hard to live healthy there. Sugar is added to so much stuff in America. Not only that but it is usually added in much larger quantities than I am us
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A bit similar situation in Norway. In fact I was not quite sure what our money looks like at the moment because some of our bills changed. I just had some bills as an emergency stash for a long time, that I had to check if was still valid m
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I thought it was abundantly clear that I know that. In context it should have been clear that I was referring to the psychological aspects of it. To the person starting a company, it will not "feel" very different from borrowing m
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I think the US has ended up with right wing populism like Trumpism because there is no social democratic alternative available in the US. We've gone through all the same de-industrialization in my native Norway as the US has. I come fr

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