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by zimablue 8y ago
I think there's some truth that these guys dodge/ignore/lobby down regulations, but there's this narrative now that that's all they do. Being able to flag a taxi through an app is amazing, so is being able to rent
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by zimablue 8y ago
This is just social darwinist moralising imo. If you're going to really prescribe that as a solution, can you point to cases where "telling poor people not to have kids" has proven effective to improve society? Even if it is
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by zimablue 8y ago
Better individual assets or better management of your assets are both gated. Privately held companies, hedge funds, financial managers. The guy who argues the parent point is Piketty in the book Capital.
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I've never thought this criticism was that relevant. Notebooks have been incredibly successful, and if it's possible to call your code in the wrong order and create a mess, it's probably a problem with your code not your codi
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You have to remember that these articles are to some extent manual stitchers writing critiques of the sewing machine. The newspapers are what is getting killed by new media, and honestly they deserve it. They've had an oligopoly on pus
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If I've interpreted the article correctly, this is to try and duplicate the effect of cross linking, which is a preventative step that isn't useful once your keratoconus has stopped developing. If I've interpreted right, if y
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by zimablue 8y ago
Your basic argument is just not solid, sorry. You're pointing out that one variable in the Drake equation is large and admitting that we literally have __no clue__ about several others. No clue means no clue, we don't know the mec
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And eg. some financial companies already have obligations to store data for X time periods and back it up to tape off-site. That regulation already stops you from just deleting/modifying your records, as far as I can see a blockchain d
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Not making money on average like I'm trying to say is a true but meaningless statement. But there's a difference between the statement: "I can't make money on average by putting money into this system (this system isn&#x
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I think this study has the same problem as the argument that hedge funds are a waste of time because hedge funds don't make money on average. Imaging the average return of hedge funds was 50%, what would happen? people would open up mo
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I think you have to look at the quote in the context of the situation, she'd already antagonized the whole company in her first 6 months by throwing probably the most explosive political grenade that you can. Her manager clearly wasn&#
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It's only not a thing because you've defined it as such. You can make the rule that "commenting on a girl's looks or whether you could get with them is disrespectful" and then the loophole is closed, but my argument
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by zimablue 8y ago
Once something is agreed as an acceptable insult it's not as much of an insult. This it like trying to hold back the tide. Much the same way that the medical word for what used to be called retardation and I don't know the current
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by zimablue 8y ago
Ho isn't used in the West as a pejorative, almost ever. It's far more often used playfully, and often by women themselves. Only a very offended culture would cause you to take it seriously. And honestly, Coal Mining is a job with
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by zimablue 8y ago
There are a million power imbalances in society and gender isn't close to the most important, it's just the most discussed. The real wage gap when you control for time worked and job choice is tiny. Ask yourself this - would you c
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by zimablue 8y ago
But she doesn't say that she had a lot of degrading comments, that's what my original post said. Her manager had an off joke about bros and a ho and someone once asked her about her sex life. Yeah that's not great but it&#x27
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by zimablue 8y ago
Why shouldn't it be the default male group behavior (for some ages and environments) to discuss women? Is it that trying to sleep with women is immoral or that considering their looks is immoral or that discussing it is immoral? I gues
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by zimablue 8y ago
I think the Ho thing was clearly an attempt at humor, and an attempt to "bring her in" to the group. It's like an old job where I was called a coal miner (being the only guy from north England). It's a nice thing, you&#x
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by zimablue 8y ago
Well that's fair enough but in some cultures it's fairly common. I am not a big bro guy but I've definitely discussed women with male friends/colleagues. I don't think it's super demeaning or immoral to discuss
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by zimablue 8y ago
Looking at this skeptically, given that as she says she put a target on her own back there's not much concrete here about problems she personally faced. Companies have a culture, it might not be your culture, and it's mental to ex
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by zimablue 8y ago
Setting that scale is nigh on impossible though. Young people with zero in assets and incredibly rich parents (asset-rich not income). Young people with no assets and poor parents but massive future earning potential (academic or sports sta
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by zimablue 8y ago
The lack of options/failure of the political system does not disprove the narrative that there were/are racial motives behind some of the systems we live with today. "It can't be whites vs blacks, politicians that black
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Yeah but this seems like a kind of pointless side-channel. Let's just assume that by the time this hits legislation the restriction will be on applying facial recognition and storing data on people's faces. Yeah we know you can im
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There's a difference between being able to recognize your ten friends and having a database of millions of people's faces.
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The argument is that they should adopt existing widely used tools not create their own walled garden which is an inferior copy in order to lock people into their system.
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I know I can look this up but can you expand a little bit on "instead of a pure vote, structure discussion...". What's the actual hard decider? Like for page edits if there's a conflict it basically escalates up the hier
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I guess this is one of those many laws of bureaucracies, any time there's enough power and hierarchy the top is self serving tribal warfare. I guess the question is to what extent that warfare is isolated from the interests of the memb
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by zimablue 8y ago
yea good point, I should have mentioned the raw SQL escape hatch, that also isn't an ideal solution. I went for aldjemy/instead them and in retrospect starting with something sqlalchemy native would have been cleaner.
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Yep I'm using Aldjemy as a bridge for now and it works great. I still really don't like having two completely different db layers in the same codebase. Whilst we're plugging the ecosystem/extensions, I also use Alembic w
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As a counter point, I tried to use Django for a data-visualisation project and ran into some problems. Everything is built on models, which are kind of activerecord pattern. Django has an inbuilt (and inferior) version of sqlalchemy, so tha

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