anthonyb

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by anthonyb 11y ago
Techraptor is a known Gamergate-friendly site, so you're not going to get any balanced articles out of them: https://medium.com/@zoequinnzel/lets-talk-about-ethics-in-ga...
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by anthonyb 11y ago
Yes, I based that on what you put in your bio: about: I use this account for things I can't say Ok, fair enough, you want to keep HN and your personal life separate. And you may be otherwise sincere (at least, you seem to be b
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by anthonyb 11y ago
So, the two parts: 2. Unsubstantiated smears, and categorising her as "hostile". You're using an anonymous "throwaway" account, so there's no evidence whatsoever for your claims. 5. Downplaying the extreme ha
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by anthonyb 11y ago
See points 2 and 5 above: you're part of the problem. In addition, labelling Randi as a "harasser" is a common gamergate tactic.
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by anthonyb 11y ago
Is that actually a real question? Of course they're not going to say anything like that, but you can judge them by their actions ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9437599 )
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by anthonyb 11y ago
You might not like the way he says it, but go back and read the article: Kathy Connor, an executive at Kodak, told Roth the company didn’t develop a better film for rendering different gradations of brown until economic pres
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by anthonyb 11y ago
Er, that is pretty much a textbook example of racism.
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by anthonyb 12y ago
Because those things are usually irrelevant, have been tried to no effect or will make the situation worse. Women get raped wearing tracksuit pants and a hoodie, and leaving a domestic violence situation is often the trigger for more violen
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by anthonyb 12y ago
> these comments are not representative of the entire community, or of even a single medium-profile user. The community doesn't have to be 100% racist or sexist for there to be a problem. These are all from the same threads as the o
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by anthonyb 12y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/Ferguson
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by anthonyb 12y ago
I don't think that's cherry picked; it looks like an outright fabrication to me. What are the odds that a line of regression on a graph like that would come out to exactly +0.00C?
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by anthonyb 12y ago
Yes, the worst case is pretty bad, both for us and life on earth. We're currently in the middle of a large extinction event, so the biosphere is probably pretty fragile even without the ongoing global warming. If it "helps",
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by anthonyb 12y ago
Water vapour has a very short life cycle in the atmosphere, so while it's theoretically the worst, it's not actually particularly bad in the long term, and it's not likely to change by much. There's also some question as
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by anthonyb 12y ago
> "By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley" That would be Lord Christopher Monckton, notorious climate quack.
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by anthonyb 12y ago
Existing fossil fuel plants (ie. Coal) are designed for supercritical steam. If you can make that with solar, it should make retrofitting much easier.
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by anthonyb 13y ago
It's not "just an example", it's the core of their argument. They say "Pythonic code uses a hash table-like data structure" - but that's completely wrong. His other argument, about summing points, makes no
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by anthonyb 13y ago
In theory, yes - but mutation rates of clones are going to be very, very low. Bananas are also grown from a central stock to control disease, so even if there were a mutation, all the bananas are going to mutate identically. Bacteria reprod
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by anthonyb 13y ago
I don't know about bacteria, but a banana variety is all essentially the same plant, propagated from a central stock. Have a look at the controls around planting and growing your own bananas, it's all red tape, permits and extreme
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by anthonyb 13y ago
The several varieties of bananas that you'll see in the store are most definitely caused by human intervention (actively trying to cross slightly different plants to produce a new hybrid) and propagation. Normally hybrids die out in th
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Nitrates aren't harmful in themselves - it's the Nitrosamines that they can produce under certain conditions, which are very definitely carcinogenic. Probably not so bad these days, since there have been steps taken to reduce th
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Bananas don't have any seeds - they're a sterile hybrid, and normally propagated via cuttings. http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unfortunate-sex-life-of-t...
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by anthonyb 13y ago
I don't think Theo's reaction is really warranted. I mean, really? "slimy hypocritical asshole"?! And the follow up later on when someone calls him on this is pretty telling: http://article.gmane.org/gman
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Friendly reminder that "meritocracy" is intended as an anti pattern, in the same way that waterfall is. Edit: here's a thoughtful piece on the term and its implications, from the original coiner of the term: http:/&#x2F
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Right, but then the very next thing down in his list of gists is the ubiquitous "curl something and install as root": https://gist.github.com/steakknife/8032911 It's easy to start tearing things down wit
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Well, that was the parent's point: PHP, heavily used in production, godawful language. Perl, heavily used in production, godawful language, but at least it's not PHP. Python, heavily used in production, pretty good language most o
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by anthonyb 13y ago
You are being overly pedantic. Try s/every day/frequently/g and see how you go...
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Bear in mind that you're comparing mostly-decent road transport to generally-awful public transport. Buses, for example, suck - they're always going to be a worse experience than a car (walking 10+ minutes to the stop at each en
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Interesting - if I click through to the tab found via your link ( http://www.guitaretab.com/l/ledzeppelin/30410.html?no_takeov... ), the first bars look to me like they should match my original search: 4/4
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Probably true, but if you want to get "technical", Jimmy Page never played anything the same way twice :) Even your version doesn't turn up anything though - just 7 5 5 5 gives a whole bunch of Jon Bon Jovi and Scorpions knoc
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by anthonyb 13y ago
It didn't find Stairway though, unless I'm remembering the intro wrong: 5--5--7--7-- -5-----5---- --5-----5--- 7-----6----- ------------ ------------

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