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by philh 11y ago
> The dairy industry estimated a deficit of 500 to 1000 tonnes Sounds like 60 tonnes wouldn't have made much difference.
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by philh 11y ago
Given that facebook isn't an essay - it provides different value to an essay, under different circumstances, to different people - I'm not sure what you're going with that question.
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by philh 11y ago
> Actually calculating the Fibonacci series efficiently in a non-lazy functional language looks surprisingly non-trivial. I don't know if you'd count it as trivial, but one could do def fib(n, a=0, b=1, c=2): if n
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by philh 11y ago
Gurl pna trg svsgl creprag ol rirelbar thrffvat fhpu gung gur ahzore bs oynpx ungf vf rira (be bqq). I wouldn't be surprised if this is optimal, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it's not.
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by philh 11y ago
> Is that a bad thing? I claim: not in any way. It seems like a bad thing for Medicine Hat, which makes it a bad thing for the future of initiatives like this. (However, another possible scenario: some homeless people move to Medicine Ha
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by philh 11y ago
What happens when the homeless from other cities start making their way to Medicine Hat? I'd like for this to work out long-term, but it strikes me as unrealistic. Here's hoping I'm wrong.
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by philh 11y ago
Analogies don't refute things, they just make other things easier to understand. My refutation of Frondo's original claim amounts to: "you're just plain wrong". (Anti-taxers are not free riders. They don't want
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by philh 11y ago
I agree that those features would make the analogy more accurate wrt taxation, but if that was the only important thing about an analogy, we wouldn't use analogies at all. (And it's quite possible that I shouldn't have used a
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by philh 11y ago
Anti-tax is about not forcing people to pay for services they may not want. I don't think it's realistic, but your description of them is uncharitable. In a world where everyone gets hit on the head with a baseball bat once a week
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by philh 11y ago
You're being snarky towards Gladwell, and yet you're constructing a narrative around him that is simply not supported by the evidence you've provided. > I stand by my interpretation. Gladwell's books aren't usefu
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by philh 11y ago
It was something of an exaggeration. I'm capable of doing many things that realistically, I'm not going to bother with. But I don't think "clear thinking" is a solution to this problem. I can read a book and say &qu
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by philh 11y ago
That site doesn't say what's wrong with W3Schools, and it does say "when you're ready to level up, move on" which suggests that it's a reasonable resource for beginners to use.
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by philh 11y ago
That quote doesn't support your claim. "Writers and critics value X, readers don't" doesn't necessarily* imply "X doesn't sell books", and it definitely doesn't imply "and selling books is a
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by philh 11y ago
Please don't maintain a blog just to improve your job prospects. Not that I think it won't work. But it's an arms race, it only helps you until everyone else starts doing it as well. The cost of playing along is that everybod
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by philh 11y ago
The PD is different, as I mention twice in the article. > Formally, there are two Nash equilibria, at C/D and at D/C. This distinguishes it from the prisoner's dilemma, which has an equilibrium at D/D.
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by philh 11y ago
No, that has quite a different structure.
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by philh 11y ago
(Author here.) Very few people would outright say "I'm going to defect here, you'll do the work anyway". They might say "that sounds like a great idea, but I promised my kids we'd go to Disneyland this weekend&
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The Farmer's Dilemma(reasonableapproximation.net)
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by philh 12y ago
Better for the kisser, perhaps, but presumably not the kissee.
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by philh 12y ago
Googling for 'microsoft billionaire namibia lions' and various similar things, I haven't managed to find any other sources for this, or anything like it.
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by philh 12y ago
> the receiver will still display the home version of the channel without the logo. That's what the inspectors are looking for. But why can't the inspector just look for: is this pub showing the channel, and is it in our datab
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by philh 12y ago
You say "It adds nothing to my description to call my projects incomplete", but "incomplete" isn't really what's at stake. I agree with you that software is basically never complete. But some software is "
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by philh 12y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, but it does feel to me like you're encouraging Jonas to defect in a negative-sum game. He can get more users by engaging his sales-self, but his engineering-self is treating his users more respect
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by philh 12y ago
If OP doesn't want to do it, it would be irrational for ver to do it. That's not true of all decisions, but I think it holds in this case. But, I'm a little confused, because > The OP's net present value of future ear
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by philh 12y ago
Would you play Russian roulette for ten dollars? If not, what is it that stops you, and why is it irrational for that same reason to make people not want to die of other causes?
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by philh 12y ago
Remark: There are two possible interpretations of "a persistent and difficult cultural bias against women in this industry". One is that this industry is culturally biased against women. The other is that there exists a cultural b
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by philh 12y ago
> if what they wrote was right, what does it matter what their gender is? There seems to be a strand of thought which claims that men have nothing to say on these issues. Pointing out that the author is a woman may be an attempt to head
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by philh 12y ago
> that the reason there are fewer women in STEM is because they avoid it from childhood This would seem to be a third explanation for something you said had only two explanations.
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by philh 12y ago
Something I occasionally saw people do in lisp was (frob foo :quick (not :sneaky) :force) which could be done with strings in other languages foo.frob('quick', not 'sneaky', 'force') It's
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by philh 12y ago
Are you sure? https://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language... suggests that it can only interpolate a few specific types of expression, but can't do e.g. arithmetic or or simple function calls

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