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by krona 6y ago
> the EU is trying to be good and is sharing its vaccinations more or less fairly with other countries The AstraZeneca factory in the Netherlands is owned by AstraZeneca, not the EU commission. World War 2 ended a long time ago.
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by krona 6y ago
The author presents a series of strawman arguments to debunk SOLID, and then suggests that instead we should make software as complex as possible but no more complex than the coders own comprehension. In my experience this commonly how inco
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by krona 6y ago
but it still works on an individual basis. It's less effective if the recipient believes the vaccine is ineffective or dangerous, and can make side effects more likely to occur (nocebo effect).
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by krona 6y ago
Something with pandas-like capability in a lower level language would be amazing. More like numpy than pandas but I've used x-tensor (c++) with great success in several projects: https://xtensor.readthedocs.io/en&#x2F
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by krona 6y ago
> There was always an Overton Window and it has always been moving around. Has it always been getting narrower, though? That seems to be what's changed more than anything. What happens when nothing can be discussed?
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by krona 6y ago
I think acquiring and consuming resources amorally predates capitalism by a few billion years.
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by krona 6y ago
Changing the definition of a word without consensus will have the effect of the consensus around the underlying concepts changing. This appears obvious to me, and intentional.
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by krona 6y ago
The discussion is not about whether racism occured, but how did it manifest. Unless something is specifically anti-racist, it is bad. Therefore all culture is bad. QED.
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by krona 6y ago
Ebay isn't forcing people to read the books, and ebay isn't forcing people to sell the books, so you're making a fairly fallacious argument, in my humble opinion.
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by krona 6y ago
JavaScript doesn't have operator overloading. Implementing something even half as ergonomic as numpy in javascript isn't possible.
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by krona 6y ago
I know half a dozen or so PhD's in microbiology at one of the leading research institutions. They don't understand the philosophy of science beyond what I was taught aged 10-11. I don't think the basics of Karl Popper and Kuh
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by krona 6y ago
Git submodule should be renamed 'git conway', named after Conway's Law: there is no good reason to use it except within those companies that have to compensate for dysfunctional technical leadership.
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by krona 6y ago
By AI you mean matrix multiplication on single/half-precision floats? You could be a bit more specific.
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by krona 6y ago
closer collaboration - closer compared to what? The share of the UK's total trade that was with the EEC/EU fell during the time it was a member.
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by krona 6y ago
Once The UK lifts the Swiss share trading ban (due to EU restrictions) I can see this 'trend' reversing pretty quickly. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-09/u-k-to-li... It remains the
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by krona 6y ago
All the London traders I know are pro Brexit. 100%. People in compliance, 100% remain.
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by krona 6y ago
increased amount of trading typically increases volatility. Define amount . If you mean number of trades, then the effect is decreased standard deviation if the average trade is smaller as a percentage of total market capitalisation. Tha
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by krona 6y ago
That is 215 kwh of energy for one transaction. Nope. The marginal cost of a transaction is next to nothing. Just take a step back and think about what you're saying: that a bitcoin transaction would cost £3.40 in the UK. Obviously
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by krona 6y ago
Look at the opinion polling on the issue leading up to the 2019 election.
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by krona 6y ago
https://twitter.com/Islabikes/status/1350049775329177600 Seems most of their bikes components aren't UK sourced (so there is a tariff), which isn't surprising let's be honest. That being said any bi
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by krona 6y ago
I don't think the majority of the nation even wanted to leave the EU 3 years after the vote. The UK has had two general elections since the 2016 vote. If the electorate thought it was the single most important issue and that we sho
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by krona 6y ago
I was under the impression that most of the rule changes apply to the vast majority of cross-border B2C sellers in the EU from July: https://www.pwc.ch/en/insights/tax/new-ecommerce-eu-vat-rule...
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by krona 6y ago
They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They... recruited armies of poll workers... For what possible purpose does one recruit an army of poll workers? I can&
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by krona 6y ago
Disinformation is intentional. There is no evidence provided in the article that anything presented is disinformation. Guilt by tentative association seems to count as investigative journalism these days, but really it's just seeding
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by krona 6y ago
What would be hard right if not the nationalist brexit party Compared to what? The Brexit Party has several ex-members of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
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by krona 6y ago
There's very little substance to the article and it reads like it was designed to gaslight the reader. There's no evidence of disinformation - being incorrect and talking about it doesn't imply intent or motivation to deceive
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by krona 6y ago
In terms of Hybrid cloud (launched in 2011 if memory serves) it's more of a 'connect the tech to the buzzword' process, one in which IBM assignes a buzzword to tech its had for decades. Same process with 'cyber' and
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by krona 6y ago
Correct. My rather obvious point was made by implication; I was trying to avoid patronising people unnecessarily.
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by krona 6y ago
Projections in to the future coming out of a model is not empirical data, no matter how hard you try.
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by krona 6y ago
This shouldn't surprise anyone, but the conclusion of the paper doesn't support the headline. https://os.copernicus.org/articles/17/181/2021/#section6

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