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by sambe 10y ago
I think the gap between 1) and 2) for adults is gigantic, because of the issues I mentioned. I don't think you've really addressed the complexity of all the stuff surrounding programming. I don't doubt there are long lists of
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by sambe 10y ago
I agree with the sentiment. Do note that people said exactly the same about mobile phones in Africa - shouldn't be a priority. The article you link wouldn't have been written had we said "no, first give them water and blanket
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by sambe 10y ago
Exactly. I found it odd that he claims to be a security guy yet repeatedly says Apple should have some way around a locked phone. No solution offered in the article...
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by sambe 10y ago
I don't think the nomenclature is the important point here. I also don't consider contributor agreements inherently bad. Great to hear everything can be done electronically now. It was only a couple of weeks ago that I last checke
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by sambe 10y ago
Nate Silver made a rather good analysis of his own failings with respect to the primary: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-i-acted-like-a-pundi... . I agree substantially more with his own analysis than I do with
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by sambe 10y ago
100% agree. Overreach combined with childishness is a massive turn-off, even if you think he's right a lot of the time. And it damages the FSF/GNU by association. If I see that I might have to sign a contributor agreement (often n
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by sambe 10y ago
Of course a lot of people mention the price immediately. I don't think I'm going to spend that much, but it's not out-of-line with what I'd expect for a font (I've probably never bought one). It's also quite af
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by sambe 10y ago
FiveThirtyEight linked to this paper on their live blog ( http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2016-election-results-c... ): http://economics.mit.edu/files/6613 . I find it hard to believe that globa
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by sambe 10y ago
I use `brew bundle` for this.
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by sambe 10y ago
Wow, downvotes for a reasonable question. I never need to connect my phone to my laptop. I've also spotted a pattern of the BBC saying dubiously truthful things recently in tech articles. Example from main evening news last week: &quot
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by sambe 10y ago
Do you imagine a future where not lighting up the Eiffel Tower has saved us from climate change? More generally, these "solutions" don't work. Billions of people don't suddenly all agree to reduce their quality of life v
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by sambe 10y ago
They claim you cannot connect a new iPhone to a new MacBook Pro without a dongle. Even ignoring the fact that you probably don't have to, you can do this wirelessly. Is it really necessary to buy a dongle for your iPhone for anything r
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by sambe 10y ago
You explicitly said that in your opinion things are getting worse and you don't expect them to get better, didn't you? Or did you mean the opposite?
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by sambe 10y ago
I'm not following the calculations, maybe I'm sleepy. "can power a two-bedroom home for a full day". They say that is 20kWh (it doesn't change when you say sockets vs entire home...). They say the battery is 14kWh a
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by sambe 10y ago
My original intention was to ask if you think that's currently achievable. But also interesting for the future.
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by sambe 10y ago
In my experience you are still getting single-to-double-digit millisecond pauses on average using CMS (even with some attention/tuning). Do you really think Hotspot can offer a GC where pauses longer than 100us are considered interesti
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by sambe 10y ago
There are plenty of professionals buying Mac who are not the same customer type as most of the professionals here. They can't touch type. Arguably they have always been Apple's core market. For ones saying they don't care abo
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by sambe 10y ago
The first sentence is setting the scene, not confirming the hypothesis. If things being "known" by cultural history was sufficient, we wouldn't need to do science. In reality, a good proportion of "known" things are
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by sambe 10y ago
My point was that you have to be careful in general . In the specific case of garlic, I don't draw the conclusion from your second link that it is "well known". There are some promising results for some of the individual dis
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by sambe 10y ago
But those properties may not be relevant to you when consuming garlic anyway. The vast majority of such studies are showing the properties in isolation (petri-dish). People love to extrapolate that to "garlic prevents colds", but
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by sambe 10y ago
Firstly, I don't think this way "easy". It may be eas ier . Secondly, I don't think that's obviously true. In fact, I doubt it. If you get into millions and millions you've probably already encountered and solv
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by sambe 10y ago
Why does this comparison keep coming up? Relative growth and absolute count is not the same. Neither is the company in the same phase. Neither is there demand for 9MM Teslas per year.
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by sambe 10y ago
Did TLP just completely stop after being outed or is there something still happening with a book?
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by sambe 10y ago
You are being deliberately impolite in almost every comment in this thread, whilst also aggressively demanding respect from others. I didn't understand what you meant, which is why I asked for clarification. Not being familiar with tha
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by sambe 10y ago
I don't think it was necessary to imply ignorance of other people. Your loosely-worded comment hinted at misunderstanding, and was potentially misleading for people who do not know much about the subject. Wikipedia correctly points out
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by sambe 10y ago
What do you mean by "epigenetic code"? Epigenetic means not encoded in DNA. Heritability is hotly debated (and anything positive in that area tends to be overstated in the media). Wiki has a few links on contested terms and taking
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by sambe 10y ago
In Amsterdam at least, it is certainly not tourists who create most of the problems. Tourists are just a nuisance, usually clueless and going very slow and massively in the minority despite the overall popularity of the city. Dutch cyclis
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by sambe 10y ago
I've seen research in the past that suggested wearing helmets on average was neutral or negative (something to do with adding weight to the head?) but can never find it when this topic comes up. Do you have a reference for the Finnish
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by sambe 10y ago
Email is great and I can see why they continue to use it, but there is a danger of being blinkered. Saying that GitHub reinvented email because they have comment threads is... almost trolling. Especially when also saying email integrates we
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by sambe 10y ago
Could easily be true in some areas of the economy, because professionalism seems really strong there and core technology infrastructure is often ahead of surrounding areas. However, my experience of living and working there suggests that it

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