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by vacri 9y ago
This link has some info on that: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40224991
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by vacri 9y ago
It's a form of (inverse) Survivorship Bias. "None survived, therefore none started out" is an (inverse) extension of "The ones that survived were the ones that started out".
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by vacri 9y ago
> He will always have to chase new customers. Surely this won't be difficult, for an app that does class timetabling for students. A fresh batch every year.
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by vacri 9y ago
> With that said there are some pretty cool ones (e.g. 5afe57 = safest = a green) that do match up. Unfortunately 'secede' is blue rather than gray...
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by vacri 9y ago
He's not trying to make people feel guilty, he's trying to make them admit some truths about the system - because until that happens, it can't be fixed. Everyone kicking back in these comments about 'being shamed' i
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by vacri 9y ago
It's about morality, but it's not about guilt. You don't have to feel guilty to break your own sense of entitlement. The whole theme of the article is 'stop pretending you're not rich', not 'you're ri
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by vacri 9y ago
I just can't believe how wilfully ignorant people are about this. You're talking percentages, but ignore the absolutes. 75% of 30k buys you a lot less than 80% of 300k, even after taxes.
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by vacri 9y ago
The author didn't pluck a number out of the air as a cutoff point. $200k was mentioned only in passing, as it's the average wage of the top quintile.
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by vacri 9y ago
Crikey, what a strawman. The article isn't about making individuals feel guilty. It's about what it says on the tin: stop pretending you're not rich. The median household income in California is $64k; across the US as a who
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by vacri 9y ago
You are arguing against the article's demographic arguments with your own n=1 anecdata.
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by vacri 9y ago
> within a year or two you would have far more security than the $30k household will ever have. Within a year or two? I think you mean "after your first paycheck". The ability to have a grand or two 'cushion' money
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by vacri 9y ago
I remember playing in a local league and one of the opponents was a flopper extraordinairre. Every two minutes, almost like clockwork, he'd be on his arse sliding backwards. In the second half of the game I was puzzled because it'
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by vacri 9y ago
The whole point of the App store and Apple's bragging about it was that you were in a walled garden, and shit like this didn't happen. It's in their own interest not to kill their golden goose by allowing this kind of scam in
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by vacri 9y ago
For small deployments, this kind of thing means One Less Thing To Understand. I like and use Ansible, but there is a mild learning curve and the occasional gotcha. Given you generally have to know what you're trying to achieve in shell
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by vacri 9y ago
> This way, I can see whether I just changed something I didn't want to change. Or with --check, before you make the change :)
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by vacri 9y ago
> We are fortunate that terrorists, by and large, are dumb. How so? Drive a van into a crowd of people, and it's spread across the papers and people talk about it for ages. Cut regional power briefly and it's forgotten before
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by vacri 9y ago
This is a problem that the upper house in a bicameral system is supposed to solve. The lower house is assigned to smaller regions, with one representative per region. If every single region has party X at 20% of the vote (and always lower t
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by vacri 9y ago
> The UK has a first-past-the-post system designed explicitly to stop coalitions. That's a terrible reason for FPTP. As soon as you have a third party, you run the risk of coalitions. What's so bad about coalitions anyway? Ge
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by vacri 9y ago
What is it with the Brits and an inability to do elections right these days. First they screw up the proportional representation referendum. Then the Scots mistakenly choose Remain (which wasn't an error at the time, but became one wit
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by vacri 9y ago
More 'ops' than 'programming', but: Email. Email is a real 'devil in the details' thing. Anyone can follow a web how-to (when they're not stale) and set up a basic server, but it's crazy complex to un
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by vacri 9y ago
> and I hope (and believe, for now) that we are very, very far from a civil war. There is not going to be a civil war in the US. Modern-day rebellion in the US looks more like the violence around the time of the BLM protests. It's
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by vacri 9y ago
> You don't need to sink an aircraft carrier, just keep it at long range. At which point you haven't neutralised it; it's just become a 'fleet in being'. You still have to account for it. You may be able to pro
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by vacri 9y ago
At the other end of the scale, an acquaintance of mine is a sysadmin for a government department, and can't get their web framework changed to his frustration (politics...). He gave an example of the websites he has to look after, one
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by vacri 9y ago
Sexist or not, he was rude as a moderator. I've only watched the bit of the video in question so I haven't seen how the others were treated, but he talks at length about the panelist's theories, talking for her. It wasn'
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by vacri 9y ago
A moderator should ask probing questions of a panelist before just taking the reins and filling in for an apparent introvert.
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by vacri 9y ago
In the context of being a moderator for a panel of people who have gathered specifically to talk about their things, yes, it's a bad thing to geek out and ramble over someone. The audience haven't gathered to listen to the moderat
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by vacri 9y ago
Human interaction can't be reduced that way. You can't make objective rules for things that are inherently subjective. It's why we have judges to preside over court cases, rather than just follow a flow chart, for example.
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by vacri 9y ago
Hrm, I read it stated that way somewhere, but looking at this link, it was more like 4% of the federal budget. Still an incredible outlay of money. https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/feb/01&#x
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by vacri 9y ago
Hand calculations and 4% of GDP :)
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by vacri 9y ago
So you're saying the 'smart' bit is the magnets? Because I don't know what keyboards you were using, but the power and data connections were always aligned when I connected up my keyboards. Unfortunately, the old-fashion

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