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by linspace 6y ago
Well, of course a lot of people stop caring way before. I'm not saying introspection is not necessary because we are all wired to automatically create groups by excluding other people from them be it race, religion, gender or whatever
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by linspace 6y ago
My exact thought. I would say that discriminating against asians in university access is racist, for example. But chopsticks? I must be becoming old. The problem with these absurd witchhunts is that they dilute racism. At some point people
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by linspace 6y ago
Thank you for giving a constructive answer because quite frankly after reading the article my reply was going to be much more acid against the author, which in my mind has some kind of agenda. I'm always thinking that Google research i
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by linspace 6y ago
Yes, specially since different people will have different ideas of what is experimental and what not. Python is boring tech at this point for most people, but not everyone maybe using SAS for data analysis or Java for backend. You will need
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by linspace 6y ago
That's amazing. It's so retro... One is tempted to build with it some kind of steam punk computer.
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by linspace 6y ago
I don't use poetry but I will risk a comment. You will have to judge: At the language level Julia separates files from modules. Modules are just a language construct, another object. They can span several files, have several them in th
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by linspace 6y ago
It is nevertheless im portant because a simple plot is a nice test if you are considering using a language for scientific computing. Criticism about plotting libraries quality is even more valid. I cannot believe that plotting an scatter pl
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by linspace 6y ago
I'm simply amazed by Racket. It stands out because while it is developed by academics and based on a language with a history of caring more about the language than solving real problems it comes with excellent documentation, good perfo
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by linspace 6y ago
Anonimity is certainly not a right but sometimes is the only protection for other rights. And we must acknowledge the consequences of technology, unintended or not. For example, nobody expects privacy in public spaces but I think everybody
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by linspace 6y ago
If some lawyer is reading this I would love to know what it takes for an extortion to become a criminal offense.
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by linspace 6y ago
Thank you for the link to the NYT article. I completely agree with your reading. Politicians have known forever that sometimes is more important to control what the conversation is about that what you actually say and traditional media is t
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by linspace 6y ago
I don't discard also using them in the future to some extent slow aging effects but it's hard to find good info.
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by linspace 6y ago
But that is exactly my point: we have legalized lot of substances bad for health and yet we cannot buy steroids freely. Steroids have at least an upside compared to vodka.
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by linspace 6y ago
Thank you very much. I wanted to see some example of WSJ material to consider paying a subscription. Unfortunately most random rants on internet forums are of better quality. A pity since I think it's an important topic that has been c
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by linspace 6y ago
My reasoning is the following, and as someone who likes to do weight lifting I would love to be proved wrong: if steroids are not necessarily bad and we surely know they work wonders how is it possible that, in a world obsessed with looks a
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by linspace 6y ago
I hear very often criticism of Python's transition but considering how insanely popular the language has grown I don't understand why.
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by linspace 6y ago
The difference between 80% and 50% is very significant but if you want a positive angle: 1. Average voters still pass laws at a significant rate 2. An elite university publishes the study It's very far from perfection but I don't
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by linspace 6y ago
The next time someone says me "I have nothing to hide" I'm thinking of asking their salary because in my experience when people say that they actually mean they are not afraid of jail but would rather don't have a lot of
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by linspace 6y ago
I don't think it's a valid example. The discussion is about the default configuration, not about removing mouse scrolling from the code. It's a really big thread nevertheless...
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by linspace 6y ago
Yes, debugging notebooks is not the best experience so I'm glad there are improvements. I will have a look.
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by linspace 6y ago
NSPluginWrapper... Something has awoken inside me. Distant memories behind a fog. Something evil. This is not good, not good.
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by linspace 6y ago
I know nothing about this but maybe different applications may benefit of writing their own memory allocation routines for their particular memory use pattern.
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by linspace 6y ago
Reading some comments that blame the victim of the cyber attack reminds me of something I thought a couple of days ago while I was cursing bureaucracy and taxes: it's amazing how in IT we take the bureaucrats stance. We develop impossi
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by linspace 6y ago
For the same amount of taste healthy food is incredibly more expensive. I have eaten vegetables as good as any meat.
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by linspace 6y ago
Science cannot be trusted, right?
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by linspace 6y ago
Science is objective and there is a long history of morality and ethical changes, and incorrect evaluation to societal impact. I think this is a concesion to political pressure.
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by linspace 6y ago
Only the travel from Spain to America was a considerable risk, compound that with a vast uncharted territory full of bizarre empires and only certain kind of people were willing to take the odds. Of course not everyone was the same, but the
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by linspace 6y ago
The people running the companies provide something that requires some capital investment and moderate technical sophistication. Meanwhile most people, and actually most sexual life forms in this planet, can perform sex. Unless sex workers u
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by linspace 6y ago
Although I agree more with the idea of free SW than with open source I cannot help finding here a resemblance of the obsession of all religions with heresies. And the smaller the community the more ridiculous it looks. In particular attacki
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by linspace 6y ago
Maybe deeper knowledge of the issues at hand than in Twitter. Or maybe different interests. Why would they agree? There is a reason why I don't use Twitter and I read HN.

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