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by linspace 6y ago
Not really true. The government adds coordinated action and scale in situations where individual action is ineffective. Also, there are a lot of issues about which I simply don't have enough knowledge to have an opinion.
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by linspace 6y ago
What cult of effort are you talking about? I think usually people outside a field underestimate both the talent required and the effort. Children can be even more obsessed than adults also and be completely laser focused.
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by linspace 6y ago
Yes, let's discourage work from home, it will be great for the pandemic. It looks like trolling.
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by linspace 6y ago
I joked with a friend that as people get older they start to prefer static typing. I personally don't have a preference, it depends on the application. I think it's obvious what are the advantages of static typing so let me rant a
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by linspace 6y ago
And this is why we need AI: to parse and extract information from webpages that are too dangerous for a sane human to read.
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by linspace 6y ago
For me this is a perk of working mainly with computers and not face to face.
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by linspace 6y ago
I love this related quote from The Wire: "You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money, and you don't know where the f * it's gonna take you."
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by linspace 6y ago
This got me surprised: "Mobilizon is designed so that you can follow the news of a group, but not of an individual : it is impossible to follow a single profile. In Mobilizon, profiles have no « wall », « thread » or « story » : only g
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by linspace 6y ago
You have a point but I don't see other headlines and this considering Hacker News is biased in favor of Tor and Bitcoin
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by linspace 6y ago
Incredibly sad news. And this made me even sadder: "Extortionists demanded around 450,000 euros (in bitcoins) in exchange for not publishing the clinical and mental health data of thousands of people. The criminals started to publish t
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by linspace 6y ago
It seems wrong that the status as a terrorist state depends on a monetary payment. Nevertheless, it's not the whole story. The title seems to imply that this is a random sum of money given to the US while it's actually a payment t
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by linspace 6y ago
The article is open access under Creative Commons: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/41/eabc8662
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by linspace 6y ago
It's one thing to introduce your own notation and another thing to reuse already established mathematical notation.
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by linspace 6y ago
If that were true there would be no resistance to raising the minimum wage. The truth is that it redistributes wealth.
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by linspace 6y ago
AFAIK all array oriented languages sometimes return copies and sometimes return views. Not sure if this is what you mean by operations by reference. It's a common abstraction leak necessary for efficiency reasons that causes lots of pr
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by linspace 6y ago
Yep, the experience has become a complete piece of shit. It looks like an infestation of MBAs. I'm surprised nevertheless, I have always been impressed by Amazon and I didn't expect this short sighted change of direction
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by linspace 6y ago
For the vast majority of people getting rid of the commute is the main benefit. It's also good for the environment, for everyone's health and it reduces transit times for everyone specially during scholar season. If you are only r
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by linspace 6y ago
Japan and Korea are more or less on the same latitude and near each other and Japan has slightly more area than Korea. I doubt this is an issue about projection distortion.
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by linspace 6y ago
That is the problem, the inability of a lot of people to disagree with each other. This completely good/bad classification of people. People can be wrong about gay marriage, abortion, climate change, immigration and a lot of different
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by linspace 6y ago
Me too but I don't see right now an alternative to getting things done in a big company. Solving this problem should earn a Nobel prize in economics (and a fortune in consulting)
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by linspace 6y ago
I would say they do have scaling problems in the form of rampant corruption. You need to destroy local power to form a bigger nation. Nobility has always resisted kings and kings emperors.
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by linspace 6y ago
Another open source alternative in the wake of the Fusion 360 debacle it seems. I will have a look. I'm no CAD expert and I have tried FreeCAD but it seems it's almost there but not yet. My use cases are very simple and this may b
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by linspace 6y ago
I cannot see the relation between your rant and the article which is about a didactic implementation by some teacher.
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by linspace 6y ago
I don't find laptop keyboards reasonable. They are a last resort.
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by linspace 6y ago
We all think our own use case is all that matters and everything else is bloat. I certainly do.
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by linspace 6y ago
From the article: "The reason given that only five of us were allowed in the public gallery of some 40 seats was social distancing; except we were allowed to all sit together in consecutive seats in the front row. The two rows behind u
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by linspace 6y ago
I have upvoted you not because I completely agree but because I think the downvotes are unfair and promote some kind of unimind. My point of view: no one is entitled to anything and law should adjust to what is better for society as a whole