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by scott_s 8y ago
Agreed. I phrase this as "technology does not solve civil problems" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17809559 ).
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by scott_s 8y ago
No, because "they/them" is valid for everyone.
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by scott_s 8y ago
Yes, which is why I forgive This American Life for doing it - they pioneered the format that many podcasts follow, and TAL started on, and is still broadcast on, radio.
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by scott_s 8y ago
We match up well in when we started listening to podcasts, and what we listened to. But I still love Retronauts! I still like the more discussion-oriented episodes that mix deep insights along with personal experiences, but I'm still i
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by scott_s 8y ago
Then color me green and mediocre because I have been bit by this before. Or maybe we should have the humility to realize none of us are above silly mistakes.
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by scott_s 8y ago
I was curious, did some googling, found a quora comment characterizing Baquacil as less effective, more expensive and not as scalable: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-they-put-chlorine-in-swimming-p...
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by scott_s 8y ago
Reading the quote in context: > Isn’t SQL a programming language? It is, but it’s declarative. You specify the outputs you want (i.e. which columns from your table you want to pull), but not how those columns are actually returned to yo
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by scott_s 8y ago
I'm not the original commenter, but I've heard similar things in the past. I did some googling, found an article discussing the concept: How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy, https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbswor
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by scott_s 8y ago
> If you don't currently have a cash flow that would allow you to make a $500/month student loan payment, don't take out that loan. But that describes the majority of students who take out loans to go to school full time
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by scott_s 8y ago
It's also important to remember that the dynamics of an MMA fight and a boxing fight are only part of the damage a fighter will take during their career. They will also endure many, many sub-concussive hits during sparring that will
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by scott_s 8y ago
Put another way: it can be easy to gain an understanding of a particular goal, but very difficult to develop a deep understanding of the systems that allow you to achieve that goal.
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by scott_s 8y ago
The point of publishing is to be read . If you don't think people will read your work in a given venue, it doesn't make sense to publish there.
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by scott_s 8y ago
He provides "supply-chain security systems" as another example.
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by scott_s 8y ago
A friend once ended a party at his place by reading Finnegan's Wake out loud to get people to leave.
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by scott_s 8y ago
"The Selfish Gene" was a revelation to me. I read it during college, as a break from my math, CS and physics classes. It felt like having an evolutionary biology course on the side.
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by scott_s 8y ago
A similar piece from the NYT last year: "The Existential Void of the Pop-Up ‘Experience’", https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/arts/color-factory-museum...
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by scott_s 8y ago
The point of semantic versioning is to give the version number more meaning than just a commit hash - to give the version number semantic meaning . It prioritizes what the user should expect over what the developer feels about the new
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by scott_s 8y ago
In a top-level comment upthread, jacques_chester posted a link to an overview of forecast verification methods: http://www.cawcr.gov.au/projects/verification/
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by scott_s 8y ago
That snowfall last year was bizarre. We all knew it was going to happen - I remember thinking days in advance that I would probably leave work early. So I'm not sure why there was no salt on the roads in the NY area.
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by scott_s 8y ago
There's also the fact that predicting amount of snow is particularly difficult because the same amount of water will yield vastly different snowfalls with single-degree deviations of the temperature.
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by scott_s 8y ago
It is unfortunate for us that even tiny prediction misses around the freezing point have drastic differences in our experience. But it does not change that they are tiny prediction misses. We take for granted how good they have become.
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Modern Weather Forecasts Are Stunningly Accurate(theatlantic.com)
172 points by scott_s 8y ago|117 comments
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by scott_s 8y ago
The publication, Plough, is a Christian publisher, and the author is a Christian pastor. The end of the essay has a call to action to the Christian community for how to consider debt and treat people with debt (more humanely, of course). I
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A Debt to Education(plough.com)
29 points by scott_s 8y ago|13 comments
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by scott_s 8y ago
Agreed. And they don't even consider the other angle, which is do rich people love endurance sports more than other sports? That is, of the rich people who participate in sports, how many are in endurance sports versus those in other s
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by scott_s 8y ago
Huh. Indeed it is. I'm American, and I did not even realize that "graft" meant "hard work" in British English.
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by scott_s 8y ago
More on the German style, "Land without Plea Bargaining: How the Germans Do It (1979)", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5059044 . Although I have read that they use plea bargaining more now. While the lens of
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by scott_s 8y ago
I'm not sure how universal this is; I suspect that's the case at more liberal arts schools, but not the case at engineering schools. My undergrad was at Virginia Tech, and I applied to the CS program as part of my university appli
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by scott_s 8y ago
Well designed self checkouts. There are poorly designed self checkouts which replicate the same old structure. They are bad.
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by scott_s 8y ago
Global line length is no different than average line length of multiple lines.

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