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by s_kilk 9y ago
> In addition, "the 1%" is not an exclusive club; most people (currently) have a pretty good chance of entering the 1% at some point in their life, most in the 1% have a very good chance of exiting it. You can't be serious
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> It's job is to remove barriers to make workflows more efficient, typically to the detriment of people, as they generally are that barrier. Another way of putting this is that tech is organised solely to meet the needs of the Capi
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Nah, I've had extensions reviewed in a few hours
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Not the OP, but I recall a section in Mark Fischer's book Capitalist Realism, in which he relayed an anecdote from his teaching days. According to Fischer, a large plurality of his students (in higher education) were functionally illit
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Because his piece is filled with logical errors, makes a big noise about reason and logic while citing evopsych nonsense which isn't regarded as actual science? I mean, beyond any discussion of his ideology, the memo is laughable trash
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by s_kilk 9y ago
The heat map is interesting in that it shows clearly the reason I moved from Dvorak to Colemak after 5 years of the former: Dvorak has a distinct bias toward the right hand, and particularly the right pinky.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
+1 for colemak. I've used all of Qwerty, Dvorak, Programer Dvorak, and Colemak. I think Colemak is the clear winner in terms of comfort. I also don't care much about speed, I just want to not have my hands ache by the end of the d
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by s_kilk 9y ago
The guy is absolutely pushing an alt-right agenda, it's plain to see in the manifesto, and that's before we get to his guest appearance on a prominent alt-right YouTube show.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
TLDR; manifesto guy was egregiously wrong in basically all assertions.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Yeah, both are pretty bad (I was born and raised in Ireland), but the north Dublin accent holds a special place in my heart for sheer badness.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Very much depends. Some of the middle-class neighbourhoods produce a fairly neutral accent, but most dubliners speak in a very heavy accent, arguably one of the heaviest in the country.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> So why does it need approval? This is science. What kind of science needs approval? One word: Capital. There's a hell of a lot of money tied up in the carbon industry, and maintaining the status-quo for that section of the capital
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by s_kilk 9y ago
If that's the case then that 40% should probably go too. It's 2017, not 1417.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Another choice quote from a little further down: > If someone told you that engineering was a field where you could get away with not dealing with people or feelings, then I’m very sorry to tell you that you have been lied to. This indus
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Replying with a standard maga-snowflake quip is also not an argument.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
It seems to indicate that these machines are nowhere near as smart as they appear to be based on earlier successes. I'm starting to get worried about the possibility of another AI Winter if it turns out that reality and hype are too fa
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by s_kilk 9y ago
YYY-MM-DD also sorts lexographically, making it the perfect date format.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
How does your friend deal with Processes, OTP, Supervision trees and so on? I'm a huge Elixir fan, but always thought it would be a hard first language because of OTP, the benefits of which are kinda hard to appreciate without some exp
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by s_kilk 9y ago
It's already happening. This summer flights were grounded in Arizona because ambient temperatures were higher than the safe operating range of commercial aircraft. That's the kind of thing (along with food shortages) that are impo
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Sometimes referred to as "truthyness", where something has the texture of plausiblity or truth, and fits with the viewers biases.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Indeed, the major weakness of the linked piece is that it doesn't account for any kind of social structure or any class behaviour. Which, in my book, makes it fairly worthless as an analysis of actual social behaviour.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Wouldn't Revelations be Apocalyptic, rather than Dystopian?
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Pure hype.
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Bingo
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by s_kilk 9y ago
If it were something utterly intrinsic to Human Nature, there would be no opposition to it.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> The competition has no choice but to spend all their time porting and keeping up, time that they can’t spend writing new features. Look closely at the software landscape. The companies that do well are the ones who rely least on big co
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by s_kilk 9y ago
It's kind of amazing that this needs to be clarified. I'm starting to think that people around here are only familiar with the word as it relates to that dumb movie of the same name.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Perhaps a rather cruel take on the issue, but I think the only thing worse than mercenaries, is in-experienced mercenaries.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> Even if it's man made, humans won't change until it's too late, so why bother having arguments with people, do you really think they're gonna abandon their way of life just because you're right ? Within living
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by s_kilk 9y ago
We live in a world where Donald Trump is President. This is not the best timeline.

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