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by ploika 5y ago
An editorial is not the same thing as an article from the opinion pages.
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by ploika 5y ago
That's a bad line of reasoning. I could try to 10X my investment at a poker table. That doesn't mean I should try, even though it would probably be less risky than putting money into cryptocurrencies. You can pick any risky invest
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by ploika 5y ago
You could also achieve this with a bus.
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by ploika 5y ago
Not at all. Different things are political to different degrees and levels of importance.
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by ploika 5y ago
Loads of people are doing this, all over the world, at every level of state/politics. What would you call Cambridge Analytica if not disrupting politics? (On a less salubrious level there are loads of polling and canvassing companies t
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by ploika 6y ago
I don't think anyone is confusing a 737 with a 737 Max. The issue here is that bad check-in software caused a serious incident.
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by ploika 6y ago
In general, Hacker News has an atrocious understanding of finance. You see some absolutely swivel-eyed nonsense being given the time of day here by people who should really know better. I'd recommend looking for a few "What's
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by ploika 6y ago
I suppose it depends on where you live. The USA, France and South Korea all have different experiences of what capitalism means, to give three examples. The economics articles that I've read generally suggest that you need laws and tax
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by ploika 6y ago
I understand that viewpoint to an extent, but climate change is already causing problems today. It's not a nebulous future thing. It's also something that looks like it's going to hit some of the poorest parts of the world th
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by ploika 6y ago
I actually think it's because so many people here are Americans that the hot takes on the EU don't fall foul of the "no political battles" rule as often as they should.
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by ploika 6y ago
R Shiny is another good option that hasn't been mentioned yet. If you just want to amuse yourself building a "works on my machine" dashboard you can't go far wrong with it.
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by ploika 6y ago
Much more of the decrease in the past century is due to increased access to education and full time employment for women, increased availability of contraception, and decreasing child mortality.
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by ploika 6y ago
Of course. Depending on where you live, most of what you mentioned is probably included in the CPI calculation. Rent, health insurance, education and childcare are all included in Ireland's CPI in some form, for example. I was trying t
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by ploika 6y ago
Neither of those represent inflation in consumer prices particularly well. The price of a new washing machine (amortised maybe, I don't know), a litre of milk, a pair of jeans, a monthly phone/broadband bill or a tank of petrol wo
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by ploika 6y ago
The pandemic has thrown everything up in the air but there's still plenty of work in tech, mostly but by no means exclusively in Dublin. You've got recognisable names like Microsoft, Amazon, Stripe etc, but also a large amount of
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by ploika 6y ago
Fair enough. In my part of the world it's probably still the finance types who would have that public perception. Programmers are seen as well-paid, but not particularly influential in comparison to executives.
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by ploika 6y ago
I'm in the EU too and I don't know of a single place where programmers are considered to be a higher social class than executives and top tier managers. The EU is a big place and everyone's experience is different, but I thin
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by ploika 6y ago
I'm all for hostility to tech that's unnecessarily invasive and privacy-destroying.
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by ploika 6y ago
With the greatest of respect, a response of "illustrate your points of complaint [about us] with examples" is kind of case in point. You phrased it very politely and I promise I'm assuming good intent, but it is kind of funny
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by ploika 6y ago
I don't really agree with this. I think the internet is just starting to look more and more like real life. My grandmother, born in a house without electricity, is on Twitter. My aunts and uncles, who would previously have watched argu
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by ploika 6y ago
Why would any part of the media even want to do that? This is a classic man-bites-dog story, and is being treated as such everywhere I look. I'm seeing it implied fairly regularly here and on Reddit that journalists are somehow anti-WS
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by ploika 6y ago
The US already did ban naked shorting without much problem, over a decade ago.
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by ploika 6y ago
I got a much better handle on basic functional programming by attempting Advent of Code in Scala. It's of absolutely no use to me in my day job, but tail recursion is its own reward.
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by ploika 6y ago
I'm not American so I don't know what CNBC's coverage is like, but I'm not seeing any outrage or hypocrisy from the Financial Times, the Economist or the various Business sections of Irish media outlets. Maybe I'm m
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by ploika 6y ago
Not OP, but I like to avoid Jupyter where I can too. I like using a REPL though. For very interactive, experimental work I like having code in one pane and a REPL in another separate one - so that you can highlight and send snippets of a fi
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by ploika 6y ago
I'm guilty of what I thought I was rebutting. Apologies for my presumptuousness. I do still think that a handful of software developers spread across several smallish towns would be no bad thing though.
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by ploika 6y ago
That's not the same thing as a few more software developers living full time in the town, in fairness. More remote workers would be akin to having a few extra GPs or solicitors around the place, doing local-person stuff like going to t
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by ploika 6y ago
Surprised that survival analysis wasn't mentioned anywhere. Cox regression would have been my go-to approach.
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by ploika 6y ago
Sounds like you're applying a lot of quite American assumptions to rural Wales, to be honest. In general, rural areas and small towns are not automatically deprived (though they can be), they are quite happy with attracting more well-p
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by ploika 6y ago
It would likely require proportionate rather than equal coverage. That's how it works in Ireland anyway (though not always uncontroversially - it's a hard thing to get right all the time). Fringe or extreme opinions don't aut

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