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by richmarr 10y ago
Sorry I'm not sure what your point is here. You seem to be suggesting a positive correlation between private property and freedom, but I think that's a far more complicated relationship than an implied correlation allows... as sho
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So, you're saying 'some science is bad' and 'some science doesn't need public funding'... and that's your justification for a blanket ban on research grants? You say there are "too many to list"
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> The launch date could slip even further. Totally. You've given notice, and accepted an offer (and start date) elsewhere. You're done. Walk away, or accept their dubious power over you. If a relationship partner did something
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Whose science is bad?
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> ... doesn't that at a certain point put it on the same level? I don't think so, no. Basic human rights are something that we agree shouldn't be taken away, from anyone, even from prisoners. Control of wealth is not one o
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> I have a hard time understanding... trampling on their own citizens' privacy and basic rights Confirmation bias goes a long long way. Take gerrymandering, which is as undemocratic is it gets. If you already believed yourself to b
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by richmarr 10y ago
It's incredibly easy to be this casually cynical, but reality doesn't match this simple worldview. When you start to meet people in positions of power you realise that they're not a bunch of sleazy villains, they're comp
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> An incumbent has over a 90% chance... You're assuming that public officials are automata that don't suffer from risk aversion, don't need to raise money in close races, and don't change their behaviour based on whet
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>... write to their MPs By all means try, but writing to your MP to ask them to put their career on the line by angering Brexit voters & party leadership is a tough sell. My MP (Stephen Hammond) has made it very clear that he'd
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It seems likely that ministers were fully aware that they couldn't change the legal framework of the UK, the rights of UK citizens, as well as armfuls of other issues without an act of Parliament. That would suggest this was something
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> ...emphasizing procedure (rules) with a focus on race rather than improving criminal justice more broadly could yield a more punitive system... I assume a "race liberal" ... I'm not aware anyone in this thread is having
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> "...race liberals ran roughshod over deep concerns expressed by other liberals and some experts on crime and punishment that the quest for more proceduralism untethered to substantive goals in criminal justice would yield a more p
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I think it's quite an old fashioned bit of slang... I think I've come across it more frequently in 1970s/80s police dramas than anywhere else. Google has it pinned as being primarily a UK search term so there must still be pe
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by richmarr 10y ago
Totally valid. It happens. On the other hand it's clearly a statistical outlier. I'd be wary of trying to create one ruleset that covered both wherever you live, cities like Detroit, rural towns, industrial towns, etc. that will a
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> They are concerned about being elected, that's it. Politicians are clearly incentivised by election, but saying its their only concern is generalising and reductionist. The rest of your comment makes a lot of points, but broadly
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The word "fix" is important here. When you fix something it starts broken and ends up working how it should. Since space in cities is fiercely constrained any change is always a trade-off with repurcussions. Cities plan transport
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by richmarr 10y ago
Thanks for making all these points so eloquently. It does seem like an easy, and popular, refrain to claim over-regulation. It's a great way to sound contrarian and wise without actually having to do any analysis, after all, the market
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> If you only have embers, you wouldn't call it a fire. Well, you might https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_seam_fire
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> ...even though a diesel engine run on veg oil is emissions free. This just isn't true. Local emissions of bio-diesel are comparable to petro-diesel. When you factor in that C02 is absorbed during manufacture, biodiesel is estimate
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I vote they call them Daisy, Dainty, Doily, and Floaty McNukeface
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This is true, in the UK at least. Insurance is the most trailing-edge industry I've worked in... incumbent firms are full of servers under desks, proprietary bloatware with no APIs, spreadsheets-as-databases. In my experience tech coul
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by richmarr 10y ago
You refer to the interviewers as 'peers' but that's very much not the relationship that exists in an interviewer. The context is different, therefore the behaviour is different. What you're describing is a confidence bia
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> I'll be honest, traversing a linked-list and implemented a B-tree (assuming someone reminds you what a B-tree is) are not particularly difficult problems I'll be honest, this is indistinguishable from "I am good at X and
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You have to think about the trade-offs... even Chernobyl only caused 56 direct deaths and a five-fold increase in the incidence of normal rate of thyroid cancer (a fairly treatable form of cancer) amongst the 18m children exposed. I say &qu
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Sure, my question was how people measure.
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> ... something you should measure rather than just assume How do people do this? My obstacle with this point is each CDN would have a different impact in each locale due to the locations of their points of presence, and CDN-ing each res
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by richmarr 10y ago
> I'm sorry, I'm having hard time finding where I said that. Please do point me to an excerpt. Cool. This (below) was the bit I must have misunderstood. It read as if you were saying that coders naturally find coding, and that
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Context is also relevant. The iPhone for example has a PIN lockout, and young kids love phones. More than once I've been punished by Apple for my kids curiosity.
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Arguing that people who don't already code shouldn't code assumes people make perfectly informed career choices based on their pre-determined personal traits. I strongly recommend reading Dweck's work on mindsets to dissuade
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If you can find the root cause of this unwanted compulsive behaviour and address it then you won't need to burn through finite supplies of willpower keeping it at bay. I don't mean to be disrespectful, either to you or to the HN c

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