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by ldp01 9y ago
As someone who lives in the Oceanic region, reading this, my thoughts/fears jump to how this will affect the balance of power between the US and China, which I believe helps ASEAN and Aus/NZ to live in a state of relative self-det
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by ldp01 9y ago
> I don't think that a failed artist would lose out on basic needs because of money. How many former humanities students do you know? If success just means being happy with yourself then sure, go for it. However this is a retreat fr
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by ldp01 9y ago
Fair enough, but I think it's a simplification of how life really works for most people. For the average person, the choice to become a successful artist isn't a trade off between more money and more satisfaction. If they fail to
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by ldp01 9y ago
There's truth to this post but overall I think it's pretty naive. In a capitalist system the world belongs to those who own and have spare capital to invest vs. those who rent. Being very good at creating things is a potential pat
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by ldp01 9y ago
I think PG is making a subtly different point to whether or not free speech should be allowed... He is asking how the architecture of a platform can be used to shape speech without the need for direct moderation.
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The Promise and Danger of Analytics in Sentencing and Corrections Policy [pdf](justice.gov)
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by ldp01 9y ago
This is where I just gave up and just started using Vim plugins wherever possible. Edit: He calls out IDEs as a place you can't use Vim. But I think most widely used IDEs tend to have Vim plugins...
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by ldp01 9y ago
You can get most of the social benefits without throwing away the notion of privacy. In the West, all sorts of data are already available to those with legitimate interests. Traffic data is used to optimise city planning; police can track y
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by ldp01 9y ago
Wait, isn't a credit rating already a measure of (financial) trustworthiness? What kind of parameters can the government record which would actually make a credit rating more reliable?
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by ldp01 9y ago
I'm ignorant as to existing implementations but the system I heard of to solve this is: Your car or charger module has electricity spot prices available to it and you can select a strategy for it to automatically follow. E.g. * Rapid c
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by ldp01 9y ago
Mario Kart Wii seemed to take rubber-banding way too far in general. Mario Kart 8 feels way more balanced in that sense. You don't need to deliberately hang back until the last lap anymore, and the distribution of items feels much more
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by ldp01 9y ago
I get what you mean now. I think I mentally auto-corrected the sentence on the first pass and never really considered the literal meaning.
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by ldp01 9y ago
Clicking! I wrote a powershell script for Windows which mimicks the autoclick functionality which Ubuntu has in it's accessibility options. I also added double/triple clicking by twitching the mouse a bit. It takes some getting us
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by ldp01 9y ago
The grain of truth behind the article is that if you move into a new position with more responsibility you will likely receive a good jump in pay. And conversely if you stay in the same position your pay rate is likely to stagnate or rise w
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by ldp01 9y ago
Parts of the analogy are certainly correct... Mechanical parts wear out from use, whether they are animal or machine. Animal parts will heal to an extent and may require a minimum level of use to stay healthy, but they still wear out.
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by ldp01 9y ago
After looking up the definition of garden path sentence... I'm not sure this fits the bill. It doesn't look like a misleading statement to me. Unless you mean it's missing a comma after '2000'?
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by ldp01 9y ago
I think the point he's trying to make is that countries spend millions on public image regardless of their human rights records. There isn't a meaningful correlation until we have examples of countries with good human rights rec
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by ldp01 9y ago
For some industries it makes sense. Rail and power networks use their own physical infrastructure as they have specific latency and reliability requirements for protection and signalling systems and it's convenient to just build their
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by ldp01 9y ago
> Two ideas come to mind. First, maybe this is because electricity has gone far beyond "pervasive" into "fully invisible". Second, maybe this is because software is inherently more complex and can't be made fully
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by ldp01 9y ago
Champion! May I ask, what was your background prior to moving into coding? A different technical field or trade?
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by ldp01 9y ago
I'm not much of a gardener but the idea of measuring the moisture level seems ill-conceived... Namely because you are measuring at only a single point in your 3D region of soil, and you don't know what range of moisture should be
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by ldp01 9y ago
> Then why do I frequently get confronted by the religion of "inherent truth in math" and we keep teaching our children math made overly convoluted and unintuitive by the "rigorous" crowd? Pretending that this is only
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by ldp01 9y ago
We use math as a framework for reasoning about physical reality. When doing this we assume that the logic of our math holds for physical reality and that we can use it to make useful predictions. If a mathematical theory has held up so-far
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by ldp01 9y ago
>Its central dogma is thou should prove everything rigorously. >To me, that's the entire point. You prove things rigorously so that (among many other reasons) when someone considers trying to square the circle, you can point them
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by ldp01 9y ago
From an engineering perspective... Mathematics looks like an add-on to natural language designed to express precise concepts in the simplest possible way. (Simple != easy, of course). In a scientific or engineering context mathematics evolv
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by ldp01 9y ago
I find it hard to accept that this is a real problem... Managing a business using only group chat just sounds incompetent. Even when I get together with a couple of buddies to do a project we will use a combination of communication/col
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by ldp01 9y ago
It does seem quite bizarre. The Finkel Report[1] sums up pretty well why coal isn't competitive. It can't keep up with the rapid changes in demand caused by existing intermittent generation. > "Rapid changes in power outpu
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by ldp01 9y ago
> "Power lines are natural monopolies. Traditionally they were all government owned. Jeff Kennett privatised Victorian networks, but until very recently, distribution networks in other states, such as NSW and Queensland, have remai
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by ldp01 9y ago
You've reminded me of a pretty good blog post on this subject by Nassim Taleb. I think it's basically the same phenomenon you are getting at in your post but he tries to explore the idea generally. https://medium.com&#x
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by ldp01 9y ago
100Mbps on FTTN? That's not bad! I'm holding my breath for when the NBN finally rolls through my area. Even 25Mbps would be acceptable at this point. I had a chuckle today when I saw a restaurant in the Perth CBD was using a Vivid

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