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by mtts 6y ago
Interesting that you bring up that James Scott book because that paints exactly the unflattering picture of Buddhist states I’m talking about: rice growing states in the valleys waging war on their neighbors and capturing their populations
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by mtts 6y ago
I’m always baffled by Buddhism getting such a free pass from otherwise perfectly sensible westerners. Many Buddhist societies are amongst the worst slave states know to history (the Tibet from this article, but also Burma and oh-so-beloved
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by mtts 6y ago
> As a software developer I consider the most important part of my job to be evaluating new tools and techniques. Really? I would argue it’s building software. > This craft is in its infancy We’ve been building software since ... dunn
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by mtts 6y ago
Hahaha ... I teach software development for a living and the first thing we have to students when they start presenting their work is always “please switch to light mode”.
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by mtts 6y ago
Yes it does, because this is about profiling. If all crime is committed by South Asian women, you're right that it would be madness not to use that information to target crime-fighting measures such as, for example, only looking for su
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by mtts 6y ago
Someone once explained it to me like this: Let's say 1% of the population commits crimes. Let's also, for the sake of argument, say all crimes are committed by black people. Of the general population, 10% is black. If you profil
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by mtts 6y ago
What’s the situation with Nordic police and minorities? Because in the not really Nordic but reasonably civilized Netherlands the supposedly well educated police force is also a known hotbed of racism. Members of the police force in The Hag
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Deno: A Simple Guide(martinmck.com)
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by mtts 6y ago
In Emacs it’s easily readable ELisp. Much, much better than JSON. Well, more versatile, anyway.
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by mtts 6y ago
Only read Decline and Fall, but it was pretty funny. A good middle of he twentieth century British comedic novel. Apparently Brideshead Revisited is among those lines as well.
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by mtts 6y ago
Correct. If anyone's wondering why: Klein's blue has a somewhat powdery surface that disperses the color in all directions. As a result it's more intense than it would be if the surface were smooth. I believe this is the same
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by mtts 6y ago
I just switched from TT-RSS to FreshRSS. FreshRSS comes out of the box with a Docker image which is really easy to set up. For TT-RSS you have to create your Docker image yourself as neither of the two images available on Github work withou
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by mtts 7y ago
Indeed. School teachers (not particularly well paid or managerial) are definitely part of the clerisy, supporting things like an [edit: added missing word "energy"] transition and, no surprises there, a greater role for education
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by mtts 7y ago
This is certainly true for the Netherlands (alluded to in the article): the yellow vests (and the supporters of right wing populists in general) are overwhelmingly poor, both in terms of education and in terms of wealth.
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by mtts 7y ago
No, he’s right. It was very much in the interest of rulers to rule over as large a population as possible as that meant more tax income. Think of all the slaves that were brought into the Roman Empire for an example. Or the laws binding ser
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by mtts 7y ago
I review a lot of code for work and I agree with you that you can usually tell the quality of the code simply by looking at its outward appearance. Rough edges and bizarre shapes almost always indicate poor, unstructured thinking in the c
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by mtts 7y ago
We used to have that in the Netherlands. For banking, regular banks refused to service small businesses and lower income private people. The government set up two banks of their own, one for small businesses and one for ordinary people to d
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by mtts 7y ago
Ah, good call. Did not know that. Will look into it. Thanks!
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by mtts 7y ago
One of the editors it lists is "vy" : a Vim-like in python: https://github.com/vyapp/vy Does anyone have any experience with this? I'd love to have a vim that is more pleasant to program. edit: added lin
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by mtts 7y ago
Let’s use the Gulag administration’s own numbers. One and a half million. How’s the death rate in the US prison system, then?
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by mtts 7y ago
Mortality rate.
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by mtts 7y ago
Read up on the gulags sometime.
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by mtts 7y ago
Have an upvote. By coincidence I just read Scott’s book not too long ago and can attest that it contains not a single suggestion that imposing any sort of order on a system is ever a good idea. Quite the opposite, in fact. There may be less
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by mtts 7y ago
He said it would have been stupid had someone designed it that way but given that it evolved it made perfect sense why it was the way it was.
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by mtts 7y ago
Right. Should’ve said “unless they've significantly changed things for the worse”. I doubt they have now: * Surrounded the ML with other masterpieces * Placed it in a room that’s only accessible by going through each other room in th
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by mtts 7y ago
Unless they've changed things for the worse, this is nonsense. I visited the Louvre about five years ago and found: * The ML (Mona Lisa) is put in its own room, surrounded by a bunch of not very remarkable paintings that would not lose
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by mtts 7y ago
The second category essentially concerns spelling variations. Years and years ago I built a tools for searching old documents and to deal with all the spelling variants these contain I implemented something called the Gloria Guts algorithm,
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by mtts 7y ago
“ The problem with tech today isn’t so much that software failed to eat the world, but that the most celebrated unicorns weren’t actually software companies. They have struggled to achieve liftoff because their feet are stuck in the mud of
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by mtts 7y ago
Interesting approach. The difficulty, of course, lies in how to get students to actually read the lecture notes, aka do their homework, but the principle seems sound enough to me. In one of the classes I’ve taught we had a similar approach
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by mtts 7y ago
I teach a first year introduction to sql course and this is exactly how we tell our students to construct their queries.

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