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by ranko 10y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12862736
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by ranko 10y ago
Leaving the EU necessarily entails amending or (more likely) repealing the European Communities Act 1972. It's pretty fundamental to the UK constitution that this can only be done by parliament, which makes the judgment entirely expec
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by ranko 10y ago
Taking a very narrow legal view, you're correct. Surely, however, we can make more sophisticated judgements than "legally it's OK, therefore morally it's OK".
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by ranko 10y ago
Spoil your ballot.
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by ranko 10y ago
Yes, you're doing it subconsciously. Countersteering is only possible on two-wheeled vehicles, which means that tricycles handle very differently to bikes, and that learning to ride with stabilisers (training wheels) can be counterprod
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by ranko 10y ago
The original paper describing and justifying these rules in more detail is at http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/P10.pdf , and the official document is at http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standar
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by ranko 10y ago
The comment I replied to used the term "win-win" when I replied, but it has since been edited.
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by ranko 10y ago
That's not "win-win" - the corporation wins, but nobody else really does.
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by ranko 10y ago
Installing the spikes moves, but doesn't solve the problem; the homeless people are still homeless. Of course, the people who install the spikes don't (at least directly) bear the societal cost of homelessness.
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by ranko 10y ago
Gender blinding in orchestral auditions (which usually involves screening the performers from sight and thus is pretty-much foolproof) has been shown to improve the percentage of women who are hired. See, for example, 'Orchestrating Im
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by ranko 10y ago
"Most" people? Are you sure? There are over a billion and a quarter Chinese people for a start.
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by ranko 11y ago
It's the usual way to turn when using your hands too - in fact, you (subconsciously) turn your handlebars the "wrong" way when cornering on a bike ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersteering ). This is
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by ranko 11y ago
You also need to make measurements before you begin and as you make code changes.
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by ranko 11y ago
"If Hemingway Wrote Javascript" ( https://www.nostarch.com/hemingway , see also https://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/if-hemingw... ), in which five short programs are each
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by ranko 11y ago
It's not that simple with a carbon frame...
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One Music Copyright Can Be Better Than Two(ratpie.org)
1 points by ranko 11y ago|0 comments
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The Reality of Touring Revenue from Someone Who Has Done It for 32 Years(thetrichordist.com)
5 points by ranko 11y ago|2 comments
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by ranko 11y ago
The Cabinet Office has just offered to pay to maintain the tradition: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/15/lords-overru...
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by ranko 11y ago
The documents discussed here are acts of parliament, which almost no-one (particularly tourists) will ever see once they've been stored in the tower.
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by ranko 11y ago
Reminds me a little of Roald Dahl's short story "The Great Automatic Grammatizator", which is an excellent read (not quite as dark as some of his fiction, but getting there).
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by ranko 11y ago
There's a reason that "recycle" comes last in the "reduce, reuse, recycle" catchphrase. There's a frightening amount of food, for example, that could simply not be wasted at all.
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by ranko 11y ago
Fascinating stuff. As ever, the answer is "it's complicated". We can see Trump adopting (presumably unconsciously) some of the tropes of fascism; the business with the plane, for example. This doesn't, of course, make hi
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by ranko 11y ago
Quantity, as someone once said, has a quality all of its own. That said, practice doesn't always make perfect; it forms habits. It's easy to form bad habits, and reflective practice, mindfulness, etc, are only partial solutions to
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by ranko 11y ago
The expansion of the universe also leads to red shift of the light from (nearly) all the stars that we'd otherwise expect to see. This means that the frequency of their light is moved away from the range that our eyes can see.
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by ranko 11y ago
Richard Feynman tried them out several times and had really interesting experiences. See https://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=51786 for his description.
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by ranko 11y ago
I've implemented bogosort, though only for illustration purposes (honestly...). Drawing a graph comparing running times of two or three algorithms as the size of the input increases is quite instructive, especially once you see that bo
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by ranko 11y ago
See also https://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/if-hemingw...
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by ranko 11y ago
Absolutely - all mixed in with a good proportion of survivorship bias: all we learn (at most) is that someone behaved in a certain way and became "successful" (for some values of success). We never seem to hear about those who did
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by ranko 11y ago
Sadly, most researchers are primarily judged on publication record, with the not-too-subtle subtext that "low" rates of publication are due to lack of either effort or talent. In such rating exercises, truth is never a factor.
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by ranko 11y ago
It's not clear to me that functional programming really is "losing the war on adoption", as the article claims. Purely functional languages might not be making a lot of headway, but it seems that there are enough widely-adopt

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