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by spangry 10y ago
I think you're really on to something here. We're more educated, in the sense that we're attaining higher levels on average (i.e. tertiary education). But this also means our knowledge is far more specialised . It almost see
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I'm not sure I believe this myself, but just to throw out a more optimistic alternative, could we perhaps teach people how to use the internet to research, corroborate information, apply critical thought etc.? Sigh... It's so damn
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That is the strangest analysis of energy costs I've ever seen. Things that are not accounted for in that analysis are (from pg. 1): - capacity value vs. energy value (i.e. they're just assuming peak utilisation at all times, which
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by spangry 10y ago
In the short-medium term? It makes it easier for democratic countries to wage war, just or unjust. No more footage of coffins draped in flags coming off transport planes. No more soldiers coming home with PTSD or concussion-induced dementia
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by spangry 10y ago
I've seen Nim pop up a couple of times now. Perhaps I should go check it out (and this Kotlin thing too). Thanks for the leads :)
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That makes sense to me, thanks for the explanation. I don't suppose you do guided tours of the Python standard library documentation? :) And I get what you're saying about having nothing against asyncio being in the standard lib:
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by spangry 10y ago
Agreed on Curio. Although async will probably never be straightforward (at least not in the way sequential execution is), grasping Curio is a walk in the park compared to learning the mystical magic of Asyncio. I would also just add, more g
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by spangry 10y ago
It's hard to disagree with the author's assessment of asyncio. It may just be because I'm stupid, but I cannot get asyncio to fit in my brain no matter how many attempts I make to learn it. Another HN thread on python strings
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by spangry 10y ago
Sorry I got to this late. You raise a good point, and have basically nailed the crux of the issue. Just for background, I've worked as a tax policy analyst for about half my career, advising Australia's federal executive governmen
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Addressing your responses: 1. Unless I've misunderstood, the original assertion was that the gender gap is present in many engineering professions. I'm not clear on what facts you are relying on, but the data I've seen (and l
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by spangry 10y ago
I don't think it's a non-factual claim that there is a significant degree of horizontal occupational gender segregation in pretty much every advanced economy. A random search using terms similar to those above yields the following
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by spangry 10y ago
You're right, I do lean towards agreeing with the author of the blog post. However, I wasn't (and am still not) in any way certain, and didn't want to be one of those asses you see on the internet who turn everything into a r
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by spangry 10y ago
From what I understand, zram results in LRU cache inversion whereas zswap does not (as it intercepts calls to the kernel frontswap API). Although, if you have a workload that would benefit from MRU then I guess this is just a bonus :) Zswap
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by spangry 10y ago
The conventional argument is that capital is a more mobile tax base relative to labour. It's probably not true in all cases, but it seems mostly true. 'Wealth' can also be a remarkably difficult thing to measure, and a fair
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by spangry 10y ago
I'm having a real hard time parsing that paragraph. Putting aside taxation, only two classes of people receive some share of income from production: workers & owners of capital. I don't understand how the income share could
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by spangry 10y ago
You might find this worth a read: http://sircmpwn.github.io/2017/01/13/The-problem-with-Python...
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This is the interesting part: ideally the costs would trickle down to consumers. The other half to a carbon tax policy, or the government auctioning permits in a cap and trade system, is that the revenue raised would ideally be handed bac
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by spangry 10y ago
That sounds very cool. I noticed a while ago that there are a lot of python libraries specifically for electrical grid simulation. Now I know why :) It's quite fortunate your electricity markets aren't vertically integrated monopo
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by spangry 10y ago
At the risk of sounding like an idiot, would there be any value in capturing some of the energy as compressed air/purified oxygen to be injected in to the hydrogen burning process... thingy? Perhaps in a manner similar to how a SABRE e
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by spangry 10y ago
I agree on both your points re: the paper - the author was very upfront about the methodology and the car thing was a bit of an eyebrow raiser. Sorry if I gave the impression I was accusing the author of dishonesty: I didn't mean to su
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by spangry 10y ago
Not trying to defend fossil fuels here, but I'd interpret that 2015 global fossil fuels subsidy figure ($5.3 trillion) with some caution. Looking at the paper, they're not really talking about direct subsidies. They're counti
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by spangry 10y ago
I probably chose a bad example. Sticking with welfare, in many countries the payment is means tested. To simplify, let's imagine there's a policy that says "people earning over $1000 a month are not entitled to welfare".
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by spangry 10y ago
There's another interesting use-case: OAuth is in its extensions (OpenID Connect & XACML) can be used to create an attributes-based access control system (ABAC) (as distinct from an identity-based or roles-based one). The benefits
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So, no. Well it's certainly been a laugh and a half.
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Other than a vague assertion that that The Register article is 'tabloidish', what in the Register article do you think is untrue? They make pretty specific and easily falsifiable claims (as opposed to the Arstechnica articles), so
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by spangry 10y ago
The Arstechnica article was actually a series of two: the first harshly criticising the CSIRO and the second 'clarifying' the first because of the outcry it caused. I thought the Register article was highly relevant because it di
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by spangry 10y ago
Same here, speaking as a fellow ADHD sufferer. Perhaps a part of it is because of how IQ is measured. If memory serves (which it often does not) one of the things IQ tests is short-term working memory, something that ADHD is known to impair
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by spangry 10y ago
So what does it mean? If GP's interpretation is incorrect then I'm also baffled. And I'd really like to know because I have ADHD...
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It's a shame people have this view. They don't seem very interested in the actual facts of the matter either, judging by the reaction to the other post I made on this topic. Oh well...
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Yeah, just to balance out the arstechnica view of things, the register article goes in to some of the detail: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/10/csiro_patent_trolls_... Long story short: CSIRO did partici

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