spiralx

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by spiralx 9y ago
It's a pump and dump, not a Ponzi scheme.
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by spiralx 9y ago
> In case of serious disabilities I really understand with the medication. Being diagnosed with a mental condition generally implies serious difficulties - just being a bit distractable won't get you a diagnosis of ADHD. > If the
903.
by spiralx 9y ago
> I know quite a few people with ADHD and they are the opposite, they tend to have trouble reading books, especially thick ones, due to their trouble to focus for longer periods. But they all love social interaction and are very good at
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by spiralx 9y ago
> We really tend to underestimate the coping capabilities of humans. That's great, but you're really overestimating the coping capabilities of people with ADHD - which is defined in relation to causing significant difficulties
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by spiralx 9y ago
As another developer with ADHD - I was diagnosed at 31 - I agree with everything you've said. In my 20s it was solely my ability to pick up things so quickly along with being in a career that was less strictly 9-to-5 that kept me in wo
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by spiralx 9y ago
> I don't know. Is this normal to cry when you see something like this. I did :)
907.
by spiralx 9y ago
The BBC documentary "The Big Life Fix" is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjdHzlT_jI It's worth watching, it's very emotional watching her try and write with the watch on for the first t
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by spiralx 9y ago
Interactions between particles don't produce energy, but there is an uncertainty relation between energy and time that means that over a short-enough time period the energy of a system is uncertain, and this can be thought of as allowi
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by spiralx 9y ago
Socialism is literally where workers control the means of production themselves, and communism was the end-point where the state disappeared.
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by spiralx 10y ago
Engineers are more likely to be Creationists and/or conspiracy theorists than graduates of other STEM degrees: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineer_woo
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by spiralx 10y ago
I really thought that was going to be this image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B72bSfUCcAA3xly.png I don't think of the larger names in the Bitcoin community are anywhere close to unbiased, and the divides between
912.
by spiralx 10y ago
Before the invention of money some 10,000 years ago people lived in small communities that collectively owned what they needed to survive, and there was no concept of ownership giving exclusive rights - families would own a herd, not the in
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by spiralx 10y ago
I had a look and found these two recent papers seem related... I'm about to read them myself :) Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults (2012) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles
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by spiralx 10y ago
If you do I'd be interested as well, perhaps check for articles citing the paper? I've not heard of any more recent research myself.
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by spiralx 10y ago
Poverty has been shown to have a significant effect on IQ - about the same amount as alcoholism according to a study a few years ago: http://www.businessinsider.com/poverty-effect-on-intelligenc...
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by spiralx 10y ago
It's certainly a problem that American suburbs lack the local services that typically exist in European cities, which is currently exacerbating the issue of suburban poverty: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/ar
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by spiralx 10y ago
It's quite common to hire an interim executive to take unpopular but necessary actions and then leave, taking a large chunk of the ill-will with them and clearing the way for the new management to move forward. If you're the sort
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by spiralx 10y ago
Yes, I learnt Pascal from the Turbo Pascal docs and then moved onto Delphi from there.
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by spiralx 10y ago
No, ES6 modules aren't just syntactic sugar over CommonJS modules, they are a different type of module entirely. One big difference is that ES6 modules have a static structure so that you can determine imports and exports from the sour
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by spiralx 10y ago
Cmder is basically Conemu plus Clink with nice defaults and useful initial profiles.
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by spiralx 11y ago
You could quite easily use a process like the one described in the article to select the 'top' 1,000 Python packages, and then scan each of those for occurrences of calls to each of map, filter and reduce, and that way build up a