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The masseuse who pulled my arm out(bbc.com)
1 points by rmchugh 9y ago|0 comments
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by rmchugh 9y ago
Note also that the term brutalism comes from the french term for "raw", as it referred to the method of building with raw concrete, "béton brut" espoused by Le Corbusier. It does not mean purposely ugly, this is a misint
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by rmchugh 9y ago
I've read that some environmental groups want to do something similar in the North Sea, seems like a good idea. Ocean fisheries need all the help they can get.
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Global Fishing Watch – Real time tracking of fishing vessels(globalfishingwatch.org)
2 points by rmchugh 9y ago|0 comments
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Worlds first commercial CO2 capture plant opens(climeworks.com)
3 points by rmchugh 9y ago|0 comments
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by rmchugh 9y ago
regarding 1), isn't there a danger that you can end up being seen as an admin monkey by the rest of the team leading to them undervaluing your technical knowledge? I'm sure that they appreciate it, but that's not necessarily
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by rmchugh 9y ago
Sociology of elites looks at this kind of thing. One fairly easy thing to do is to do a network analysis of board membership. The ones I've seen tend to describe what you already know anecdotally, a small group of elites controlling a
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by rmchugh 10y ago
The problem for Uber was that this benign government didn't have a parliamentary majority for the new law without the Danish People's Party who are not particularly interested in supporting Uber or its business model.
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by rmchugh 10y ago
Best name for a blog ever?
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by rmchugh 10y ago
What does a professional philosopher do? Philosopher working as programmer asking...
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by rmchugh 10y ago
globally the fossil fuel industry receives over four times as much in subsidies as the renewable energy industry. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-12/fossil-fu...
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European power companies propose building artificial wind power hub in North Sea(energinet.dk)
2 points by rmchugh 10y ago|1 comments
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by rmchugh 10y ago
Nope! I'm a young codger.
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by rmchugh 10y ago
I'm smartphone phobic, I have only used one briefly and I hated it. I prefer the ergonomics of texting with buttons and I get stressed out by constantly being connected to social media, emails etc. Personally I feel like smartphones ar
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Deleting Uber is the least you can do(medium.com)
4 points by rmchugh 10y ago|0 comments
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by rmchugh 10y ago
I think deep learning is a pretty hefty starting point for learning NLP. Cutting edge NLP seems to be more and more based on deep learning, but it's a rather steep learning curve for a beginner. I would have thought starting with the b
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Time for Tesla to Listen(medium.com)
2 points by rmchugh 10y ago|0 comments
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by rmchugh 10y ago
It was a regular fixture on student demos in Dublin about 10 years ago, never really saw it on British demos.
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by rmchugh 10y ago
My guess is that it's Irish emigrants carrying the placards. It's sort of an in joke.
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by rmchugh 10y ago
Matilda by Roald Dahl.
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by rmchugh 10y ago
the argument is that increased taxation to fund a war effort plus increased industrial output to produce weapons of war leads to redistribution of wealth from the wealthy (who are disproportionately taxed) to the working class (who work in
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Pharma Skeletons(pharmaskeletons.com)
24 points by rmchugh 10y ago|1 comments
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by rmchugh 10y ago
Isn't that the usecase for the Strangler app? https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerApplication.html
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by rmchugh 10y ago
I'm a fan of continuous refactoring, making small improvements to code and environments constantly, rather than trying to do everything all at once. It might not be as satisfying, but it's less risky and a lot more realistic in mo
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by rmchugh 10y ago
Interesting, my experience is the opposite: liberal use of ruby's dirty tricks often makes code hard to understand and thus debug.
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by rmchugh 10y ago
I think one of the main reasons that something like Linux keeps on growing is that it needs to support more drivers as they come onto the market. So unless you want to remove support for older hardware, you're more or less going to gro
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by rmchugh 10y ago
I'm using it too! I find it really useful for experimenting with queries before I set them up in grafana.
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by rmchugh 10y ago
oh look, the people who spy on the entire Internet are giving us free candy!
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by rmchugh 10y ago
The other case mentioned, the Willingham case is even more horrifying. A man was convicted of murdering his children and sentenced to death on bogus evidence. When presented with evidence to the contrary, the state of Texas under Rick Perry
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Linux Voice to Merge with Linux Magazine(linuxvoice.com)
4 points by rmchugh 10y ago|0 comments

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