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by spangry 10y ago
You're not far off. Although not a mandatory whole-of-government thing (and hard to stick to when discussing technical issues), the Aus Government research that I know of suggests public comms, ideally, should be pitched at a year 9 r
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I'm a big fan of the CSIRO too. But I think it's fair to say that under the current government they've pushed towards a more commercialisation / applied science view of the world. For instance, NICTA (Australia's pr
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by spangry 10y ago
Not quite as common as you think. For instance, Github: "Rhoma identified the employees she wanted to talk to based on an initial list we provided, the evidence she gathered, employees who asked to speak with her, people Julie asked h
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by spangry 10y ago
That headline, and your comment on it, is a thought provoking example. I can easily imagine people with all sorts of opinions overlaying their own biases/preferences on what you said, and then responding reflexively. It's quite fr
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by spangry 10y ago
Yeah, it's a little painful to watch. Half of the comments on this article seem to be mostly appeals to emotion and devoid of any reason. I have no idea if this sort of thing goes on here, but it almost feels like brigading.
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by spangry 10y ago
Yeah I can't find it either. All I can find is this bit that says she sued her employer, alleging gender discrimination, but the jury found in favour of her employer (10-2 and 9-3). I suppose people might be a bit wary of her after tha
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I really don't see how personal attacks, or attaching pejorative labels to others (conservative, reactionary etc.) enhances your argument. It just makes it seem like you don't have a convincing counter-argument and need to resort
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One thing I don't understand is how many people in this thread think that the US civil service has only just now been politicised by that mean ol' Trump. As a non-US civil servant, I hate to break it to you, but your federal civ
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by spangry 10y ago
Love this mouse. Exactly the right weight and size, and well thought out moulding.
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This reminds me of a great (and prescient) bit by George Carlin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9-R8T1SuG4
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Huh. I guess ignorance of the law is an excuse.
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There's a limit, as I recently discovered. I had very patient, forgiving friends. But they've given up on me, and I can't say I blame them.
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Thanks for the link. I've read the first few pages: it's a really good read! Will definitely be reading this on the weekend. On the paradoxical reaction to benadryl, and this is completely amateur speculation on my part, I wonder
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That's something I can tangentially relate to: I have ADHD (diagnosed as an adult, which is rare), and it has a few common symptoms with ASD when it comes to (what others term) 'social deficits'. And I'm also an economis
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I hear ya, especially on aeroplanes (it turns out the Wright brothers were kinda jerks). It's such a shame that, due to the current nature of political discourse, it seems that the only two plausible options are (a) artificial and stif
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by spangry 10y ago
That's really interesting, thanks for taking the time to share. I had no idea GABA's function in the brain 'inverts' at birth. When you say this could show up in brain scans, do you mean to say it has, or it's a the
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by spangry 10y ago
This sounds very close to what I spent a year or two searching in vain for. The closest thing I could find was node-red ( http://nodered.org/ ), but that still fell far short. In a weird way, the problem is that every attempt
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by spangry 10y ago
The facts you cite are irrefutably true. However, I'd question the notion that technological progress is synonymous with social/human progress. Although technological progress might make human progress easier, it doesn't gu
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Quite so. I wonder if what we're seeing now is simply the consequence of a large generation (i.e. gen Y) coming of age. Following this line of thinking, perhaps the replacement of social-democratic ideals with neoliberal ideology (and
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I can vouch for this. I had a small group of close friends, who all seemed to tolerate the fact that it doesn't naturally occur to me to pick up the phone, invite them over etc. But after 2 years of serious depression, they've all
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by spangry 10y ago
It looks like it has SSRI-like effects itself. So it also shouldn't be taken by people on older anti-depressants (MAOIs) as it could cause 'serotonin-syndrome' (which can be fatal if not treated quickly).
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The author of 'Hyperbole and a Half' also gives a fantastic explanation (the whole blog post is well worth a read, http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/depression-... ): "I remember bein
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by spangry 10y ago
It's an interesting issue: they did have a depression sub-type in DSM-IV called 'melancholic depression': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melancholic_depression At any rate, at least it still seems to be o
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There's a bit of medical jargon to describe this, but it's pretty antiquated: 'psychomotor retardation'. Definition from Wikipedia: 'Psychomotor retardation (also known as "psychomotor impairment" or &quot
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by spangry 10y ago
This is great (and practical) advice. I hope the Octave BDFL reads it. Continuum Analytics might be another good fit, given a decent amount of ML work coming out of academia is in the form of a matlab file. I'm not sure if by 'par
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An alternative scenario might be that drugs would get cheaper in the US, European drug prices stay the same and pharmaceutical companies somehow scrape by with lower (but still positive) profit levels. Seriously, if drug companies were maki
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England has a single-payer (the NHS) and a population of 53m people. So I guess the answer is England?
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There's a bit of stuff in classical music that strikes me as being there so that musicians can show off their speed. It's one of the things that even the lowest common denominator audience can relate to, so of course this happens
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Ok, I'll just go and buy a major media content publisher. Sony, perhaps...
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Perceptual hashing could have been the technique used. For example, see: https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/imagehash I use this for deduplicating my, er, 'home movies' collection. EDIT: Here's a good ex

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