good_gnu

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by good_gnu 8y ago
What you see here is a common argumentative tactic by climate change deniers: "Scientists have been hysterical about global cooling in the past and that has not happened. Therefore claims about climate change in general are not to be b
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by good_gnu 8y ago
I don't understand why this is a problem specifically with bitcoin. Is this not a problem with any other currency? I mean I appreciate the sentiment but how does it even matter in which currency the rich are rich and the poor are poor?
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by good_gnu 8y ago
The purpose of all the jargon that Scrum introduces is to avoid naming collisions with prior terminology. You probably have a good idea of what a product manager should be doing but someone else in a different company might have a different
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by good_gnu 8y ago
Did aristocrats in the middle ages ascribe their position in society to their individual actions or to their being born into aristocracy?
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by good_gnu 9y ago
Your cousins are misrepresenting the situation in Europe at least with respect to Germany. People in Germany do not generally make binding decisions on their specific career path until they are sixteen and after that career switches do hap
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by good_gnu 9y ago
Generally, the rationale of term limits seems to be to prevent a dictatorial or monarchistic system from emerging. However, consider the rise of the National Socialists in Germany: In 1930, they first got a result > 3% in a federal elect
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by good_gnu 9y ago
Yes, but if everyone speaks to you whenever they need to, you might be interrupted in your work very frequently which can be stressful. If only people could communicate all of these issues say once a day or so...
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by good_gnu 10y ago
Breaking News: Twitter is free to not boost his tweets for any reason of their choice or no reason at all in exactly the same way that Fox news is free to only cover things from a conservative point of view. Curiously, you only see Scott Ad
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by good_gnu 10y ago
>The recipient of a public scholarship is morally justified only so long as he regards it as restitution and opposes all forms of welfare statism. Those who advocate public scholarships, have no right to them; those who oppose them, have
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by good_gnu 10y ago
So now after 3 layers of us trying to coax you into giving us a little bit more concrete detail on your argument, you link an article in German which a lot of people here cannot read? Anyway, the article's argument is that the certific
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by good_gnu 10y ago
So, basically you believe that people are gaming the system but you have no examples of how this happens or which companies might be doing this?
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by good_gnu 10y ago
In (1) you assume that people buy green energy mainly or to a large extent to reduce the emissions they personally suffer from. Have you considered that a big reason for many people to buy green energy might just be to provide incentives fo
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by good_gnu 10y ago
For me, this looks MUCH more like Haskell than Python and I think that this is symptomatic of an erroneous claim that some functional programming proponents seem to constantly make: That declarative, "mathy","deconstructive&q
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by good_gnu 10y ago
And in this way you end up with 0 regulations, which I assume we are supposed to consider a feature, not a bug?
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by good_gnu 10y ago
Source?
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by good_gnu 10y ago
If anybody wants an example of how programming languages can be designed with an emphasis on empirical evidence over mathematical proof, take a look at https://quorumlanguage.com/
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by good_gnu 10y ago
Sometimes getting input from lobbyists can actually be an all-around helpful thing to do. Think about things like industry norms such as the default sizes of shipping containers. Politicians who write such documents rarely have the technica
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by good_gnu 10y ago
Tip for people who want to compile LaTeX from the command line: latexmk is basically a build tool for latex, which can also do things like incremental compilation and listen for changes. It's part of MacTex and can also be installed wi
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by good_gnu 10y ago
>I don’t know why either. When I found out that the Chaos Computer Club in Hamburg is kind of the center of this global hacker-encryption culture, I was surprised. >There is a strong undercurrent of right-wing movements in Germany, ri
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by good_gnu 10y ago
>It's hard (if not impossible) to pick a single attribute of 'Lisp' that's shared by all the languages that are part of the Lisp family of languages. homoiconicity
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by good_gnu 10y ago
"Bild" is basically Germany's Fox News. The author has worked for the NSA in the past and seems to somehow glorify their unconstitutional mass surveillance crimes. The same guy has also claimed Snowden being able to speak Ger
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by good_gnu 10y ago
I would like to raise the issue of nature vs. nurture in this context: Does Myers-Briggs really identify stable characteristics of someone's current personality or merely the way in which it currently expresses itself. E.g. consider so
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by good_gnu 10y ago
According to your logic, sophistication implies better predictive power. You completely ignore the fact that someone could devise a very elaborate system for judging e.g. fitness for a certain job, make very good assumptions and work very h
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by good_gnu 10y ago
> Even when behavior is mostly learned rather than hard-coded, the ability to learn itself must be hard-coded. Such code occupies hundreds of megabytes of data. Consider the first generation of software for self-driving cars. NVIDIA’s de
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by good_gnu 10y ago
Or we could keep the factories, accept unemployment as a result of technical progress, realize that the total amount of goods created has not diminished at all and stop tieing the right to consume to participation in the production process.
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by good_gnu 10y ago
Stopped halfway through because the author is apparently one of those people who think "making stuff up" becomes productive if you call it "spiritual".
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by good_gnu 10y ago
"there is no money to maintain millions of people that do nothing". You underestimate how technological advances boost productivity. Consider driverless trucks: As soon as they are legal, companies will adopt them very quickly bec
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by good_gnu 10y ago
http://lrt.sagepub.com/content/26/2_IEStrans/95.abstract The abstract of this paper offers a data point that is consistent with the claim. For the purposes of this discussion, it is safe to say that the clai
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by good_gnu 11y ago
This is merely a different version of the old linguist joke that "In English, all letters are silent". Leaving this here for the interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_English_alphabet