zimablue

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by zimablue 8y ago
I wonder what impact those accusations had on his life though.
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There are some parallels here with data engineering/science I think, at least on the surface of "array of structs" => "struct of arrays" is another view on "row oriented" vs "column oriented"
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by zimablue 8y ago
How would you approach decorating /any/ function without args, kwargs or something very similar? def decorator(f): def new_f(*args, **kwargs): do_something() return f(*args, **kwargs) return new
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by zimablue 8y ago
The parent conceded we're talking 50 years not 35 years, and my point wasn't only that the job is different but that society is different. how is the job different? The pay is much higher and so are the entry requirements, that&#x
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by zimablue 8y ago
More egalitarianism should be favorable to women /if/ you assume a priori that they are mostly disadvantaged through lack of access to education/resources, and the real expected outcome distribution is 50-50. If you assume th
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by zimablue 8y ago
I wasn't around two generations ago to make the comparison but I imagine that with the higher income has come much higher expectations that you'll be in the office for 12 hours a day and weekends. You also have much higher wealth
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by zimablue 8y ago
But you're not comparing the same thing generation to generation. The job of developer has changed massively, the number of developers, the expectations, the salary. Sociaety has also changed, and not just in culture but in income dist
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by zimablue 8y ago
"Since you're presumably not a woman, and they are, they object to your seeming to be taking it upon yourself to tell them what a woman is." That idea is complete poison. In a debate where you're both completely uninform
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by zimablue 8y ago
The way I think about it: you have lots of problems in society which are prisoners dilemma in nature. The only way for the prisoners to escape their fate is to have some external authority fix the incentives and that's basically the la
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by zimablue 8y ago
It seems like it's not more regulation vs less regulation but rgulation in the interests of society vs regulation in the interests of the powerful. America has very lax rules on political donations from corporations, allowing almost un
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by zimablue 8y ago
This argument about "violation of rights" which assumes some absolutist intellectual property right, I realised you don't even have to engage in it. If I could push a button and transfer a million pounds from Ed Sheeran'
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by zimablue 8y ago
It's hard to fathom a moral system that thinks you have a greater obligation to a monopolistic company and a multimillionaire singer than any random poor guy. According to your attitude, someone is a bad person if they don't pay f
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by zimablue 8y ago
I haven't tried Julia, it sounds like it could be better in the long run but I'd be shocked if the ecosystem is equivalent already.
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by zimablue 8y ago
It's the killer language in scientific computing I'd say, having used both Python and Matlab. The open source nature/libraries and being a more fully-powered programming language (expressive object system) make it better.
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by zimablue 8y ago
Rough summary: They moved Reposurgeon from python3 to Go. python is bad because: GIL Unhappy with python 2 to 3 management Unhappy with python 3 unicode philosophy Library paths Why Go is good: Faster "small semantic difference" T
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by zimablue 8y ago
You're getting downvoted because it's a flamewarish comment but as a mostly python dev, I think you have a point. Where types are so different that your code will throw a runtime error the first time you run it if you get typing w
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by zimablue 8y ago
It seems weird to switch from python to go. Python is lispy in that it maximises flexibility and developer power at the cost of speed and inbuilt correctness checks. Go is Javaish in that it limits what the developer can do heavily (cripple
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by zimablue 8y ago
But it's a false equivalence, because Gaza is part of the country of Israel not Egypt. This perspective would make sense if you had a two state solution but in the current perspective it makes absolutely no sense. It's like we put
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by zimablue 8y ago
My manifesto, roughly. I've never heard of this suggestion as inflation as a remedy, but that seems a bit like chemo, quite a wide-ranging medication: 1. Replace stamp duty with a progressive wealth tax (this is the hardest one politic
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by zimablue 8y ago
What you're saying, which is a good point, when you say that shelter isn't optional, you can phrase that more precisely as "owning property is a hedge against variable property prices". It's true but there are other
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by zimablue 8y ago
Great post, worth noting that the marketing of the destruction of social housing as "right to buy" was a work of evil genius, and the citizens who know the most about it are people whose parents made a killing from it and are unsu
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by zimablue 8y ago
There's a kind of interesting way to think about this, especially in the UK. Because people don't automatically think in terms of opportunity cost and don't know eg. that the long term equity return is X, there's a disco
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by zimablue 8y ago
Exactly. Paying for them to be cared for, fed, educated? Great. Paying for you to have time off, not the same thing.
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by zimablue 8y ago
That's a good point and fairly true I think but there are some caveats that limit it's application to this argument as in (do we want more american kids). 1. It's not only the production, we also work for tangibleassets, most
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by zimablue 8y ago
I can't find a source on which countries enforce fathers taking leave, I assume at least one scandinavian country, which others? I don't think it's common at all, could be wrong.
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by zimablue 8y ago
Thanks for counting, if you'd read them you'd see that I've addressed your points already and you aren't moving the debate on. To reiterate though, supporting parents with a holiday is not the same as supporting children
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by zimablue 8y ago
We don't control who comes here with childbirth, it's actually a far less controllable method. Immigration can have totally arbitrary rules, and until the world hits 11bn and wealth is equalised there will be an unlimited supply o
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by zimablue 8y ago
1. Women have to be there for the birth, and let's say it's very hard to work immediately before and after, so that's a month generously. That has no connection with this idea, which is many months of leave. 2. As explained e
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by zimablue 8y ago
There are two big problems with your argument. One: Your parents taking time off benefits them a lot more than you. It might benefit you a bit but it doesn't benefit you to see your dad from 0-3 months and not your mum, you're too
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by zimablue 8y ago
It gets better, what if you're not with the mother. What if it was a one night stand, or you donated sperm to her as a single parent. What if you're not with her, she told you she was on the pill and it wasn't true. What if y

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