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by veddox 5y ago
> Isn’t this an objective data driven problem and we can decide what’s better for short / medium / long term? No, such questions never are. Even if you could remove the prevailing strong emotional responses from the debate (hum
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by veddox 5y ago
Thank you for taking the time to go into the details on this! I‘m still sitting on the fence on this issue, because it‘s obviously massively complex and one rarely hears a decently argued take on it (and I don‘t have time to study nuclear e
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by veddox 5y ago
> They try to emulate GUI but do it poorly I dispute that point. Firstly, because TUIs and GUIs were developed pretty much in parallel, as far as I‘m aware. But secondly (and more importantly), because TUIs fill a different niche and fol
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by veddox 5y ago
I was waiting for ACOUP to pop up in this thread - surprised it took so long :D
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by veddox 5y ago
You have to distinguish between human rights and citizens‘ rights.
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by veddox 5y ago
As the saying goes: "Science advances, one funeral at a time" ;-)
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by veddox 5y ago
Few academic disciplines lend themselves to monetarisation via startups. Indeed, many academic disciplines don't lend themselves to any kind of monetarisation, except academic funding.
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by veddox 5y ago
"Dogmas" are pretty much never disproven. (Technically, outside of mathematics, they can't be.) Science is a long process of lots of people looking at lots of data and coming up with different explanations to make sense of
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by veddox 5y ago
> To change anything you have to be responsible, empowered, and knowledgeable about it. What do you mean by those that?
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by veddox 5y ago
We have had helicopters for a while...
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by veddox 5y ago
I‘m guessing you haven‘t used too many „real“ encyclopedias? The quality of writing on those was very high. In terms of readability, understandability, and reliability, I find the average print article to be significantly better than your a
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by veddox 5y ago
The reasons for this are complex, but in a word: yes.
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by veddox 5y ago
Having lived in southern Africa for 14 years, I can confirm that this is tragically common. One big problem is that modern capitalism is intensely individualistic, as is Western culture in general. African culture, on the other hand, is com
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xkcd inspired: Types of Scientific Papers(twitter.com)
11 points by veddox 5y ago|0 comments
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by veddox 6y ago
That is the single feature I miss the most about Unity. Gnome's prodigal attitude to screen real estate is annoying (though the Ubuntu version is somewhat better), but being able to search menus makes a real usability difference. I mis
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by veddox 6y ago
> Elementary isn't perfect, it has its hang-ups like anything else but it's pretty good, stable, and it's generally a pleasant experience. I think they have one of the nicest Linux UIs out there; they certainly put a lot o
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by veddox 6y ago
> For a Western country That's the key. For a Western country, the US has a remarkable level of religious influence on social and political life. Many non-Western countries, on the other hand, are vastly more religious - the state
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by veddox 6y ago
Well, I think having contingency plans for various scenarios (and ideally practising those at regular intervals) can be a tremendous help when those scenarios actually take place. I know that NASA spent months doing full-scale simulations o
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by veddox 6y ago
> Specific to books, "Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13" was pretty good from Gene Kranz Yes, absolutely fantastic! I've read a fair number of books on the space program, that one was prob
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Ask HN: Literature on crisis response?
72 points by veddox 6y ago|37 comments
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by veddox 6y ago
> If anything, this is Disney subverting their own trope of "instant true love". Oh, absolutely. And that's one of the plot's redeeming features in my eyes. But it's a long stretch to get from the lovesick prince
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by veddox 6y ago
I don't think this analysis was meant to be taken completely seriously. At least, I read it as more of a tongue-in-cheek "This plot is frustratingly incoherent, how can we reinterpret it to make more sense?" > Frozen 2 was
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by veddox 6y ago
Yes, it's an interesting take, but I'm afraid that plot is beyond redemption :D Frozen is a great movie for its characters, its world animation, and of course its songs. But the betrayal at the end just makes zero sense (and might
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by veddox 6y ago
> Humanity seems to have progressively improved in the treatment of the underclass (e.g., slavery, poverty) Yeah, I don't buy that. At least not in this simplified form of the "moral progress narrative". While it is true t
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Occams Razor for the Planet(globalecoguy.org)
2 points by veddox 6y ago|0 comments
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by veddox 6y ago
The Tidyverse is great, but vanilla R is a monstrosity. After five years of heavy use, I still don't really understand the random idiosyncracies of its various types. Arrays and lists and dataframes and tibbles are confusingly named, a
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by veddox 6y ago
Yes, writing pre-1.0 Julia code was like balancing on a log in the water - the platform kept moving under you :D I'm glad it's gotten a lot stabler now. And I agree about academics as a key user base. I think Julia's growth i
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by veddox 6y ago
I like reading „classical literature“, and I find I enjoy a lot of it more than I expected to. Often I do have to push myself, because it can take a fair bit of concentration/perseverance, but it‘s usually worth it. However, I do know
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by veddox 6y ago
That essay was the first thing I thought of when I read the title :-)
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by veddox 6y ago
Irony doesn‘t come over very well online...

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