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by gd1 6y ago
>The idea that banning certain information will somehow result in it disappearing has been shown repeatedly to not work Maybe it didn't work in the old days. But now maybe the CEO of Cloudflare will wake up one morning, decide he do
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by gd1 7y ago
What about the postal service then? That is a common carrier. Never mind being bombarded with bigotry, people can bombard you with literal bombs using the postal service, but hey if some kids are shitposting memes on 8chan... well we have
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by gd1 10y ago
Isn't a possible answer that people's (net of tax) incomes are flat, but they can still afford to increase consumption because these services are government subsidized (directly or indirectly)?
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by gd1 10y ago
>KDB doesn't support unicode text. Unicode (from 2011): http://code.kx.com/wiki/Cookbook/Unicode
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by gd1 10y ago
No, I do know that, and it is completely irrelevant. It doesn't matter why the artic was seven degrees warmer, all that matters is that it was seven degrees warmer. And there was no methane burp or PETM was there?
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by gd1 10y ago
Given the way he has handled his taxes, it is safe to say that he would make a poor accountant anyway.
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by gd1 10y ago
It's not so much distrust of middlemen, as it is distrust of anonymous middlemen. And also automated middlemen. People are happier getting shafted by a person they can see than a bot they can't. Otherwise, they would be hurl
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by gd1 10y ago
"By who? NASA? The people the… Hang on a minute. No, no, see this is quite serious. But can I just – just one thing. NASA, NASA… The people that landed men on the moon?" Can anyone explain to me what is happening in
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by gd1 10y ago
It's perfectly possible to believe that society should accept homosexuality and also be against gay marriage. It's a complex issue. 'Marriage' is a religious ceremony, and freedom of religion and association is a thing
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by gd1 10y ago
Selection pressure may well have shifted towards C4 in the future if we hadn't come along and been kind enough to dig up some fossilized carbon and put it back into circulation.
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by gd1 10y ago
> I wouldn't say you're paying the homeless for the street cleaning service. I certainly would. Are you arguing just because the government is interposed in the process that it is no longer a service you are paying for? Ok, le
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by gd1 10y ago
>They act for their own profit Lol, as opposed to all the other actors in the economy who provide a service. >and the fact that they make the spread smaller is a bit of a side effect It's not 'a bit of a side effect', i
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by gd1 10y ago
Interesting. Compare the chart in the linked article with Hansen's own assessment that he put out in 2005 (third page): http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2005/Crichton_20050927.pdf How do you reconcile those two?
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by gd1 10y ago
Indeed, but it is really only the system response we are interested in. As you admit, a clear causal explanation for how a single input forcing is increasing doesn't automatically get us to a position where we can predict the overall
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by gd1 10y ago
Really? There is 'literally nothing wrong' with stonewalling FOI requests, stacking peer review to prevent opposing scientists from publishing, or splicing temperature data onto the end of a proxy chart to hide the fact the proxy
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by gd1 10y ago
>There is a very clear causal explanation for why greenhouse gases do what they do I'm sorry, but it doesn't work that way. We have very clear chemistry/physics on the composition of food, how it is digested, etc. But nu
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by gd1 10y ago
There isn't evidence in either of those articles that Thiel influenced the nature of the claims to prevent insurance from triggering. Just speculation around that. Be careful, you probably shouldn't just make shit up about someone
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by gd1 10y ago
>To illustrate how this sort of intermeddling tainted the processes in this case Do you have any evidence that the 'scorched-earth' came from Thiel and not Hogan? If not, you'd best withdraw your 'illustration'.
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by gd1 10y ago
> Thiel intervened not to win Bollea more money (indeed, he may end up getting less), but to pay Bollea off so that the case would be about hurting Gawker more than benefiting Bollea, which is what Thiel wanted. Do you have any evidence
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by gd1 10y ago
No. There is no need for statistics when you have the individual at your disposal and work with them day to day. Treat them as a human. There is no need to make vague statistical guesses, the data you gain by actually interacting with them
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by gd1 10y ago
"The article already states that they found a very clear correlation" Oh well that makes it ok then. If I find a clear correlation between say black skin and employee underperformance, I guess I can just go right ahead and sack i
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by gd1 10y ago
And anti-GMO. Anti-nuclear. Organic food enthusiasts. Anti modern farming. Naturopathy and homeopathy believers. The type of people who think that global warming causes more hurricanes for example.
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by gd1 10y ago
Start coding in lisp
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by gd1 10y ago
APL had specialized keyboards.
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by gd1 10y ago
Having worked with both Oracle and KDB, the thing to understand is that KDB (or K or Q) is a fully fledged language... you can do whatever you like really. If you want something distributed you just design something yourself and build it.
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by gd1 10y ago
Well said. Just another piece of shit for the warmlist. http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
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by gd1 10y ago
You can spin it however you want, but if you are keeping something of worth artificially scarce when it is in fact infinitely abundant, you are deliberately impoverishing the human race. The rules of our economy, supply and demand, break do
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by gd1 10y ago
You are exactly right. My favourite is when resistance to APL-family languages comes from people who claim to be polyglots, and you ask them which languages and they list: C, C#, java, javascript, VB, ruby, python etc. Those are all really
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by gd1 10y ago
KDB with a 2GB addressable RAM limit is almost pointless. It was good that they were at least trying to encourage new developers, but you could never build anything serious with that limitation. Ask the commenter one down from me, 'ws
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by gd1 10y ago
I am aware of J, but it seems to me that J is comparable to K, not Q/KDB+. If you want a python comparison, then K is python, and Q/KDB+ is more like pandas. Except much, much quicker, and more powerful, but without as many tool

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