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How Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley Funded the Sudden Rise of JD Vance(ft.com)
7 points by tomgp 2y ago|1 comments
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by tomgp 2y ago
This would be an incredible act of vandalism. The hostility towards science, and specifically efforts to monitor and mitigate climate change, coming from the right of American politics is frankly terrifiying.
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by tomgp 2y ago
Thank you! This is going to make my life MUCH easier
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by tomgp 2y ago
Obligatory XKCD "Evolution of my understanding of color over time" https://xkcd.com/1882/ I'd say this article is around a half of the way down the panel
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by tomgp 2y ago
That’s exactly the argument of this (exhaustive) Harvard law review piece from 2022, that the sole pattern of the supreme courts decision making is that it accrues power to itself at the expense of other branches of government https:/
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by tomgp 2y ago
This looks interesting but I’m pretty sure it’s not the first declarative charting tool. (Eg Vega https://vega.github.io/vega/ )
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by tomgp 2y ago
"Navigating to a new screen" is such a basic behaviour of the web the idea that we need to rely on a framework to manage this in some way is absolutely insane. At this point the complexity that React imposes on developers is out o
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by tomgp 2y ago
Yeah, that's my experience too. It's a fun diversion but given the output is ostensibly precisely quantised it's irritatingly glitchy
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by tomgp 2y ago
THough I agree there's no need for any of this to be plausible or realistic I di think that at lest for me, a reader brought up in the british isles in the later half ofthe 20th century those assumptions absolutely do hold. There'
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by tomgp 2y ago
Yeah that mirrors my experience. I have a 2016 iPad pro which I use all the time and which doesn't show any signs of not meeting my needs any time soon. Probably the best value piece of computing hardware i've ever owned on a pric
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by tomgp 2y ago
When i was a kid i used to use Lotus 123 to make maps for DnD
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by tomgp 2y ago
I think if I'd had a bad experience on acid i might not then choose my next engagement to be with one of the most profound psychadelic experiences there is half way round the world with a bunch of strangers. Perhaps start with a light
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by tomgp 2y ago
OK, I haven't read the whole thing yet but this bit raised an eyebrow... >These two market categories (celebrity books and repeat bestsellers from the backlist) make up the entirety of the publishing industry and even fund their van
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by tomgp 2y ago
The best cake baker I know weighs her eggs and scales all other ingredients accordingly.
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by tomgp 2y ago
I think there's something in this. Watching the video made me realise that my main irritations with my phone are born of the bit where I have to navigate through a minefield of distrations to add an item to my todo list, or check my ca
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by tomgp 2y ago
The issue is that there should have been accountability, this isn't a few random people at the bottom of the world, this is a world of billion dollar govenrment contractors and academic institutions.
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Marking the Web's 35th Birthday: An Open Letter(webfoundation.org)
2 points by tomgp 3y ago|0 comments
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by tomgp 3y ago
I mean now you mention it that might make more sense, but we're a simple people bound by our traditions.
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by tomgp 3y ago
As a Brit I celebrate it on the 3rd day of the 14th month
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by tomgp 3y ago
Wikipedia is the worst possible system for making an encyclopaedia, except for all the others.
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by tomgp 3y ago
>How are you supposed to do professional stats work after university on a mobile phone? Generally your employer or institution will supply you with a computer (or access to one in the case of students)? The test described was devised dur
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by tomgp 3y ago
What a strange essay! To try to find out what makes a good (sorry "THE BEST") essay without any reference to any of the great essays that have actually been written? It feels a bit like the head of a university's English depa
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by tomgp 3y ago
:D I mean personally I prefer Observable becasue my interest is primarily in data presentation. I imagine if you're more on the analysis side of things (tidyverse etc) Jupyter would still be the way to go.
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by tomgp 3y ago
I think the question is are you likely to be more productive with python and its attendant ecosystem or js and the packages it has available (most saliently D3 etc.)
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by tomgp 3y ago
This ignores the fact that European countries are able to complete infrastructure projects with better worker protections and tighter environmental controls for a fraction of the cost. I haven’t read the article in question but follow Alon’
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by tomgp 3y ago
This is an excellent review of a thinly disguised sales brochure
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by tomgp 3y ago
Now we just need some software to automate the watching of youtube shorts and we'll be sorted
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by tomgp 3y ago
Really impressed with her composure and resolve in a highly emotionally charged situation.
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by tomgp 3y ago
Yeah I'm sorry I was so blunt - I fell for the temptation to make a smart remark rather than being constructive. I found difficulty navigating because the page edits my browser history and I found I couldn't see much of the conten
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by tomgp 3y ago
This site is an excellent argument against the overuse of Javascript.

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