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by zimablue 8y ago
All the 10,000 arguments about "the US does this". Yeah but the US is a democracy, and criticize it all you like but that means something. It means that Trump is there because the average American (accounting for the broken electo
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Charity exists on a scale from very considered to not at all considered, same scale with not very effective/$ to very effective/$. There are meta-charities that try to evaluate the effectiveness of other charities. The point is th
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Wealth, class and attractiveness too right? Then we can work on height, personality type and start breaking ethnicity into appearance, genetics, accent, place of birth, place where you grew up, same for your parents. Make sure we're eq
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by zimablue 8y ago
So you've picked a metric "profitability". First one paywall, third one no evidence, second one correlation causation. It's head smackingly obvious that the most profitable companies tend to be the largest/most publ
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by zimablue 8y ago
"Works" according to what definition of working? Works to create a gender balance that you assume a priori is "correct" with any deviation being down to evil discrimination? Or do you have some more interesting definitio
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by zimablue 8y ago
Sorry I'm too ashamed, I was learning basically all the technology involved. I can give a recipe: first 4 pages of this: * https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial... swapped out/skipped t
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by zimablue 8y ago
I have what I think is almost a hack for security, if it doesn't make sense maybe someone here can tell me why and I'll go rip down a lot of services. I use an aws lambda running flask with a password to expose a website where I c
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by zimablue 8y ago
The advice is that it should only exist in machine-readable form and the reason why Microsoft does it this way is to ensure lock-in. See also MSSQL, for which there exists no complete machine-readable spec ANYWHERE (as far as I could tell w
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by zimablue 8y ago
Yeah, how could a service like sending text messages from one device to another be free in the long term!? Think of the infrastructure and technology costs. No, wait, most people on this forum could knock up a messaging app in a couple of d
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by zimablue 8y ago
I had a similar situation, I just ran, hit the gym, dated and learned Clojure. Great times take me back.
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I do this job and I'd say it's only enjoyable for now because I have complete freedom and I'm still learning. Splitting up the parts: Design architecture Wire up pipelines (once architecture is decided, this tends to declarat
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Very good point
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This is such a common thing that you're doing. There are four levels of power (kind of) => government, employer, social, individual. Whenever you're in an argument, assume that the other side is advocating for the top level to
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by zimablue 8y ago
You're comparing it to the middle of an enormous economic crash, and even then relying on an estimate of 4% which is high outside of an economic crisis/recession. Let's wait until the tax cuts have kicked in for a couple of y
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by zimablue 8y ago
He did it by exploding the deficit (bunker busting tax cuts). Basically taking money from America's children to give to America's adults, who are too miseducated to realise.
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by zimablue 8y ago
Jupytext linked elsewher eont he thread seems like a step in the right direction. Instead of changing the whole tool, accept that you're always going to be married to github and change the serialization-layer to be source control frien
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by zimablue 8y ago
I have also tried ein-mode, and sometimes use it. I haven't used it enough to have a super educated opinion but it didn't blow me away. I don't think it supports cell folding (?) as an example missing feature Minor point but
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by zimablue 8y ago
I do the opposite, my job is kind of bad data engineer/scientist/etl minion so it's a lot of dataframes. Work (and often debug) in jupyter -> open the notebook from pycharm when it's got some completed thoughts and wr
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by zimablue 8y ago
I kind of find Jupyter an indictment of other coding tools really, it's 2018 and they're normally kind of weak or kind of unprogrammable. Feel like we're waiting for someone to really reinvent Emacs, preferably using web tech
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by zimablue 8y ago
What would really make sense -> a wealth tax What we have instead of that -> an estate tax What you need to make an estate tax work -> a gift tax Wealth taxes and income taxes are kind of orthogonal. Why do you need a wealth tax? F
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by zimablue 8y ago
I wouldn't want to write a long letter on a piece of paper never mind software, it's not because I'm addicted to a fake status symbol it's because "reality" in the form of solid objects has limitations that sof
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by zimablue 8y ago
But it's just very disingenuous, take the politics out of it. He includes a statement that he prefers chicken soup, which people have very strong views about. You write a comment saying "it's very petty to write about chicken
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If it's petty, then by definition it's petty for either direction to fight about it. You can't dismiss something as unimportant then try to start an argument about it. If it's really petty, it doesn't matter so stop
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by zimablue 8y ago
Depending on the problem, I disagree with this idea "think before you code". I think /by/ coding, sometimes a problem is too big to fit into my head and if I write some code and try to string it together the code will te
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by zimablue 8y ago
https://www.macrotrends.net/2324/sp-500-historical-chart-dat... Maybe not over (specific) very short periods, but it depends on the mutual and it depends on the hedge fund. If you're saying pension funds should be
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by zimablue 8y ago
That's cool, so US bonds only then?
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The history of the movement started in the Oxford Uni philosophy department. I could be wrong but having read a couple of the early books, I think the focus started much more on the ideas of: 1: you have an equal moral obligation to do good
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by zimablue 8y ago
I think this article reverses cause and effects. It seems to start from the assumption that there's nothing special about LISP and then points to big cultural moments where programmers revered it and said "this accounts for 20% of
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So obvious they don't need stating or defending, huh
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The thing is, if you own all the wealth, you pay yourself "income" effectively through the rent you're taking off the rest of society. The slaveholders I'm sure paid more taxes than the slaves. There are layers of indire

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