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by philh 11y ago
Those seem only tenuously linked to me. Research ethics forbids you from doing certain things when performing research, but it doesn't say anything about the political opinions of researchers. The exclusionary rule says that if evidenc
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by philh 11y ago
Among other unpopular opinions, ESR denies AGW, believes that race and IQ are correlated, and was strongly in favor of the Iraq war.
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How to spot a high-quality repository conversion(esr.ibiblio.org)
1 points by philh 11y ago|0 comments
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by philh 11y ago
So ve wants a computer that can ask for clarification and point out edge cases, like a good junior dev can.
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by philh 11y ago
Scottish bank notes aren't legal tender, and smcgivern is correct that legal tender doesn't mean someone has to accept it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_pound_sterlin...
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by philh 11y ago
IIRC you could, but they only did it on the first so many Bristol Pounds sold. So their maximum loss on that arbitrage was only measured in thousands.
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by philh 11y ago
> Some 800 businesses in the Bristol area now use the community currency > So far, some £1m has been issued in the community currency, according to Mundy, of which about £700,000 is still in circulation. These numbers don't feel
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by philh 11y ago
> It's racist to only quote statistics that support one's racist point of view. > And it is racist to be credulous of statistics that support one's racist point of view. Note that these are kind of circular. You've
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by philh 11y ago
I think that means: looking through the software to find something, anything , that could be used to make the researchers look bad.
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by philh 11y ago
You're pointing me to the essay, which was written by Russ Nelson. I couldn't find any commentary by ESR on the essay, just on the reaction to the essay. > My point is that ESR is not a trustworthy source of information. Then t
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by philh 11y ago
I don't remember that, and a quick google doesn't immediately find a source. But now you're quoting ESR on witch hunts, not ESR on race.
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by philh 11y ago
This is coming from a perspective of "I know a little about stats", not "I know anything about climate science": That doesn't feel like a particularly strong response to ESR's claim. Taken as a response to tha
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by philh 11y ago
This feels like a case of, if we all got hit on the heads with baseball bats every week, people will start to extoll the benefits of getting hit on the head with baseball bats. It builds character! And it's not that painful!
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by philh 11y ago
> If that was true all Muslims would support ISIS but they don't. Different people react to things differently, interpret things differently, take ideas more or less seriously, and so on. I think the reasoning: "if ISIS was abo
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by philh 11y ago
If you (or anyone) happens to have journal access and feel like checking, this seems to be the paper: http://asq.sagepub.com/content/52/3/351.abstract It's not mentioned in the abstract either, but I don
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by philh 11y ago
I feel like Adams uses the word "science" to mean lots of different things in that article. It can be a process, or it can be "the people who perform experiments to see what happens", or "the media reports on those
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by philh 11y ago
It's not necessarily about gossip and judgment. Consider two different kinds of friendship groups. There are small, close-knit ones, where everyone is friends with everyone, and everyone wants Alice to be there. And there are large, lo
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by philh 11y ago
What I notice about those sources is that the original story in this thread > They initially established it in a "socialist" vein wherein everyone received an equal share of the proceeds (food, etc) regardless of their contribu
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by philh 11y ago
In (at least) two ways. One, you'd be lending wealth to other people so that they can create more wealth. Without your investment, less wealth would be created. Two, your parents acquired money by producing wealth, and one of the thing
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by philh 11y ago
> The situation was a lot more nuanced than that. The setup of Jamestown as between the Crown and the investors, not the colonists, who were essentially indentured servants for 7 years. Also, the climate was not right for the types of cr
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by philh 11y ago
Cite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive > As of October 2012, its collection topped 10 petabytes. I'd be curious what it's grown to since, but google didn't immediately tell me.
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by philh 11y ago
...what part of > I know SQL, I thought it was obvious that I knew SQL, and pointing me towards SQL tutorials is super unhelpful. makes you think that I just need really basic SQL tutorials? I get the impression that you're glanci
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by philh 11y ago
So, when you read these parts of my post: > Edit your query to add an ORDER BY clause? > Check the primary key and write an UPDATE query? Hope not to make a typo when writing the key. > write a SELECT query? did you think that I wa
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by philh 11y ago
I do understand that, but I want a tool that works with me, not just with an API.
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by philh 11y ago
Thank you! This is a pretty good solution, and it turns out it exists in mysql too. (`pager less`)
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by philh 11y ago
> All of those can be done in the CLI and quickly. I'd love to know how.
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by philh 11y ago
You mean, run the (possibly expensive) query twice with different sort orders, and not see the middle ones at all? If that is what you mean, I think the advantage remains with PMA. Edit to clarify: I'm thinking here in terms of data ex
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by philh 11y ago
I think a click is easier than the CLI in some situations, such as when I'm looking at a table and I want to edit a specific value in it. (A curses interface would also be better than a classical CLI for that.) Note that jperras said &
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by philh 11y ago
I'm skeptical that the CLI can do everything I'd want, but here goes. Is it as easy to use as phpMyAdmin when I want to: - Change the sort order? (PMA: Click a column. CLI: Edit your query to add an ORDER BY clause?) - Edit a valu
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Towards a Taxonomy of Logic Puzzles(reasonableapproximation.net)
20 points by philh 11y ago|0 comments

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