scooble

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by scooble 7y ago
"But this isn’t soley about race, nationality or gender, you have to find a good mix also in terms of personalities, skillsets etc" To my mind, this is the key point. It may be likely that a team with e.g. diverse skills/pers
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by scooble 7y ago
Back in the day, saying that an all female team of developers would be somehow deficient and would write inferior software would be seen as sexist. The idea that this kind of a priori judgement is not only acceptable but laudible has come a
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by scooble 8y ago
This guy fuchs.
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by scooble 8y ago
> However, I haven’t bought a Windows laptop for quite a while Are you talking about buying a laptop with windows pre-installed, or installing windows on a barebones laptop? I doubt that a laptop with linux preinstalled from e.g. dell re
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by scooble 8y ago
I'm not sure that is right. From the proposition 's runs' I can validly infer that s exists. This does not commit me to the view that running is fundamental to s's personhood. Similarly, the claim that if s thinks then s
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by scooble 8y ago
This. There may be an interesting thread to pull about whether a western philosophical tendency to focus on an idealised rational individual confronting the world has led to a particular idea of the self. Though I'm not sure whether t
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by scooble 8y ago
'Stacked micro-houses' are probably related to 'blocks of flats' as 'tiny houses' are to 'mobile homes' - a way of selling traditionally lower class housing to middle-class hipsters.
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by scooble 8y ago
Not the person you asked, but as I understand it, poor people spend a higher percentage of their income on goods and services (because they have less left over after paying for basic necessities). So a higher percentage of their income is
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by scooble 8y ago
In the example, the subject does not know that the evidence is faulty.
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by scooble 8y ago
This is certainly a concern when logging old growth forests that have never been logged before, but I'm not sure it is such a concern with managed forests. I am pretty comfortable with the idea of increasing the area allotted to manag
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by scooble 8y ago
I believe that glue-laminated timbers (which were mentioned in the article) and plywood (which features heavily in housebuilding - at least in Vancouver) can be made from younger trees. It is plausible that foresters would struggle to meet
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by scooble 8y ago
> This would only be true if literally every demographic thought identically about every aspect of a project or product and brought the same point of view Assuming that someone's demographic means that they think differently about a
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by scooble 8y ago
6x12
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by scooble 8y ago
The Nokia N9. The swipable interface was a joy to use, and the always visible clock/notifications was ahead of its time. The window/app management system was also heaps better than anything today. It was a travesty what happened t
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by scooble 8y ago
This argument also justifies not hiring women if you consider a female perspective (whatever that is) to be less valuable. I would rather reject the premise that someone's perspective is a function of their gender. Not least because it
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by scooble 8y ago
I could be wrong, but I believe that long wave radio was a greater range than vhf, which would be the main alternative source of weather info as internet is very expensive offshore. So for some recreational sailors it would be useful.
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by scooble 8y ago
Good to know. My primary concern, as a sailor, is a drone having no way of seeing me. Not all yachts have AIS, and radar can be notoriously unreliable in certain conditions. The drones in the article are only a touch smaller than my yacht
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by scooble 8y ago
How do your vessels comply with the international collision regulations? In particular, the requirement to 'at all times maintain a proper look-out by sight and hearing as well as by all available means appropriate in the prevailing ci
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by scooble 9y ago
I agree. The buttonless swipable interface was a joy to use (not least because it made it simple to distinguish between closing an app and putting it in the background) and the single notification/feed homepage was fantastic. Feature
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by scooble 9y ago
"This is frequently a simpler environment to do so as you can control the inputs in a more fine-grained manner than you might otherwise" One of the things that really sold me on unit tests for Django development was realising that
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by scooble 9y ago
Because helmet laws and bike share schemes don't mix well. Very few people carry a helmet with them on the off chance that they might want to use a hire bike. Fewer still like the idea of being the nth person that day to use a shared h
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by scooble 9y ago
I find it more plausible that a diverse workforce and market success are both effects of a good company culture, good hiring practices etc. than suggesting that diversity somehow causes success. Not least because seeing diversity as a causa
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by scooble 9y ago
Or putting up a poster that only some people are allowed to look at (or that the google maps car isn't allowed to photograph).
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by scooble 9y ago
Over a lifetime of owning a CD, that doesn't sound too crazy. I think it is a safe bet that there are albums I've listened to 25 times this year. And if I bought an album today, I would think it unlikely that I wouldn't ave
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by scooble 9y ago
If a single CD contains (say) 10 songs, then it seems odd to compare the cost of a listening to a cd to streaming a single song. Listening to the whole CD would be the equivalent of 10 streams. And if we divide those 238 streams by the 10
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by scooble 9y ago
I would be more inclined to view that as a solution if it didn't seem like a restatement of an objection anticipated by Goodman in the original paper. The time-sensitive nature of 'grue' and 'bleen' arises because