monadgonad

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by monadgonad 7y ago
> Understanding government expenditure on some level should be a fundamental part of a citizen's participation. HMRC sends people this information annually - a breakdown of what their amount of tax paid was spent on.
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by monadgonad 7y ago
Comparing £1b to the EU GDP per month and not the UK one is a bit disingenuous.
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by monadgonad 7y ago
Plus #46 casts calloc, and uses the unnecessary sizeof (char).
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by monadgonad 7y ago
Did you miss the huge, huge parts of social media where people connect over their problems?
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by monadgonad 7y ago
> Many more, even though they use their prescribed dosage, start an addiction which can lead to their lives getting ruined. I don't know if it's true that many more people prescribed opioids become addicted than not, and spread
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by monadgonad 7y ago
Don't confuse professional with dry and boring.
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by monadgonad 7y ago
I'm not a doctor, but christ, you're an arsehole. > Why tell me you are a doctor (I can tell you: without the appeal to authority, there is no argument)? Literally, in the post you have replied to I have said...doctors in the U
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by monadgonad 7y ago
Language and typography are art. Proper typography is more aesthetically pleasing.
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by monadgonad 7y ago
The mailing list is provided by Google Groups
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by monadgonad 7y ago
> You made a false claim. You referred to Python iteration as not generic, when what you really meant is that Python lacks first class monad support. Are you really that lacking in self-awareness that you responded to someone annoyed abo
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by monadgonad 7y ago
I have bipolar disorder. When I was depressed at uni and didn't sit my exams, my mum said "oh, so you couldn't be bothered then?" That's stigma against mental illness. When my doctor signed me off for 28 days off wo
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by monadgonad 8y ago
> Any further advice on C for the 20 teens is also welcome. The book 21st Century C by Ben Clemens is worth a look.
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by monadgonad 8y ago
> a second home in the countryside, where he spends every summer weekend So, material things and holidays? All that says is that those things are cheaper for people outside of the UK.
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by monadgonad 8y ago
Most of the child porn probably wasn't known stuff shared by rings, but teenage users uploading their own photos.
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by monadgonad 8y ago
The US military has killed far more civilians and promoted far more terror around the world than the Russian Federation or Al Qaeda. Your belief that war is good when enacted by your country is so childlike that it is literally promoted by
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by monadgonad 8y ago
Just bear in mind there are people reporting the same cures from an all-plant diet. There is no one-size-fits-all approach.
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by monadgonad 8y ago
> would you be against it because the bad way of doing things is party of the business's identity? It's nonsense, really isn't it. Complete false equivalence. If you think the identity of a business is anything like as imp
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by monadgonad 8y ago
It is a part of that town's identity, and the inconvenience to courier corporations is no good reason why they should give up on that. It's not about individual people's identity, it's about the town's identity. T
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by monadgonad 8y ago
> Ad tech companies can know more about you than intelligence agencies, and sometimes they are one and the same. This is just what advertising companies tell you, to sell you their product - targeted ads. It is not true to anywhere near
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by monadgonad 8y ago
Are you just going to keep talking about advertising? Because it's not about advertising.
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by monadgonad 8y ago
> He was a small-d democrat. His best friend was a small-r republican. Uh, that's not what those mean, unless your father was a monarchist and his friend a believer in dictatorships? "Small-p Partyname" is used to differen
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by monadgonad 8y ago
It has everything to do with that, because we can see the source and see whether it does anything like that, and build it from source ourselves.
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by monadgonad 8y ago
> It's like the difference between driving a Mazda and a Porsche You mean Honda? Bit of an odd comparison when the Mazda MX5/Miata is one of the most well-known fun drives.
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by monadgonad 8y ago
The O'Reilly book Designing Data-Intensive Systems is a good overview of a lot of the concepts mentioned in other comments, and most things you come across in typical backend development and operations. If that doesn't answer yo
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by monadgonad 8y ago
Even in your blinkered view of the world, don't you realise that choosing who to team up with and who to exploit is ethics?
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by monadgonad 8y ago
> Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit all make use of client-side rendering (and all provide news services) Oh, come on. You and I both know that those are social media apps which act as news aggregators, and are not themselves sources of text
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by monadgonad 8y ago
Everything you're quoting is at theraputic levels for bipolar disorder, way above those added to water. It occurs naturally in some waters at low levels.
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by monadgonad 8y ago
> Supreme is a common noun, and uses one of the most common typefaces, Helvetica, on a solid red background. There’s no unique aspect to their logo at all. So? Together they make a recognisable brand. That's what matters. > Maybe
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by monadgonad 8y ago
HN being what it is, I can't tell if this is intended as satire.
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by monadgonad 8y ago
That does not mean beginner-friendliness is one of its design goals.

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