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by jfaucett 9y ago
> Don’t kid, most people aren’t renting because they prefer it. I can't speak for the USA but in Germany - specifically where we live, home ownership is not/barely worth it financially speaking. The taxes alone for "owning
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The reasons for and way in which they administered that are appaling. Still it made me think doing this the other way around would be interesting: would making would be politicians pass some form of unbiased well-designed test on the consti
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I know this post will probably get flagged because it is so political. Still, I think this article is something everyone needs to read, especially in the current political climate where identity politics and group think have pitted groups o
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Here's some podcast I listen to. 1. Joe Rogan Podcast - usually interesting regardless of what you're interested in. Good interviews with athletes, thinkers, actors, comedians, etc. 2. Sam Harris Waking Up - interesting interviews
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Other than the click-baity title this article is pretty good. What I like about it is that it makes actionable suggestions as to what you can do to help improve your performance. It also at least makes an effort to provide research to back
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> How does your system deal with students that just refuse to do anything? How is this dealt with in normal schools? From what I remember, students that didn't do anything just got passed on to the next year (maybe having to go to s
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The online encyclopedia of integer sequences(oeis.org)
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I've been slowly working on an idea in this area for a while and and would love to be able to work on it full-time, part of its a software problem and that's the only part I've been working on thus far. I'm not doing thi
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My advice would be to figure out what your biggest strengths are and to emphasize and augment those with whatever IT stuff you try to learn. This will give you the biggest payoff for the least amount of effort. Then look at the trade offs f
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Religion in the United States(allendowney.blogspot.com)
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> It's an empirical phenomena rather than a theoretical one. Agree. > The laws are reactionary and there to fix an empirically scoped problem. The laws are reactionary and there to fix an empirically scoped problem. Again agree
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Here's what people get wrong about discrimination laws IMHO. If you accept the premise that humans are anything significantly more than just a sum total of arbitrary biological attributes that they can't control i.e. skin color, g
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I would like to see an argument for that. With the original scenario, its just an argument for autonomy and that less homogoneity and centralization in governmental structures better represents and distributes power amoung the diversity of
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> Now compare that with the Spanish government. Banning a referendum, raiding political parties and Catalonian government offices, arresting government officials, flirting with far-right politics, de-facto suspending the Catalonian auton
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by jfaucett 9y ago
What is the rationale behind defining child porn age < 18? I think most would agree there is a profound difference between a 23 year old dating a 17 year old and a 50 year old having anything sexual to do with an 8 year old. There are wo
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by jfaucett 9y ago
For those who can read German, here's the original with a lot more information including cited documents and graphs and charts. https://netzpolitik.org/2017/geheime-dokumente-der-bnd-hat-d...
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I would agree except I think studying physics is perhaps even better than math because it lets you get more practice modeling real-world scenarios and math gets more abstract and less relevant to CS at the later levels. But studying CS itse
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Survivor Bias(github.com)
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> Anyone who thinks the simplified and unrealistic models "are still useful" does not understand just how bad these approaches are. And other approaches are significantly more useful? They yield massively more predictive power?
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Hammer vs. Feather on the moon(apod.nasa.gov)
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This story reminded me of something I've often wanted to know when people start talking about economic inequality metrics, namely, how many of those in poverty when entering the workforce will remain in poverty their whole life? To me
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> as the parent comment points out, lots of issues have been found with it. I'm not familiar with the research here so I can't say either way. But a preliminary google scholar search turned up a lot of articles which seem to su
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Does anyone know what the package management story is like for D? And also what is the D ecosystem like for embedded systems?
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Yes, preact looks like a good drop-in replacement. The good thing about the MIT license is you know what you are getting. I also agree with the OP, even viewing FB in the best light possible, about the best case you can make is that they wa
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by jfaucett 9y ago
> If somebody shows a Hitler greeting and uses swastikas and other well-known derived symbols, then he is a Nazi. I agree. I don't see where I was claiming anywhere that if someone openly proclaims to be something, we shouldn't
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Everyone agrees with that. The problem is with the semantics of that statement i.e. who is a Nazi and who decides who is a Nazi? Anyone can call anyone a name and then ban them for being that. That doesn't mean the person in question a
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> Do anyone think in a language? I speak 3 languages, 2 natively and the third for my entire adult life. I can get by in a couple more to the point where most people would probably claim they could speak them, and I agree with you, I rar
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by jfaucett 9y ago
If only we would start looking at people as individuals and not as groups we arbirarily define and lump people into, we might make some progress towards removing discrimination and bias in our society. I think almost anyone would agree that
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Easy building and installing of Erlang/OTP instances(github.com)
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I'm a long time ruby developer and have switched to erlang/elixir now for about 2 years now. IMHO phoenix is at least as good as rails, personally I think its most often a better option when building large applications, though th

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