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andrewducker) wrote2017-06-30 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2017-06-30 12:00 pm
Entry tags:
- abortion,
- animals,
- animation,
- architecture,
- asimov,
- awesome,
- censorship,
- children,
- clothing,
- data,
- debt,
- education,
- europe,
- excellent,
- friendship,
- funny,
- gameofthrones,
- germany,
- government,
- groups,
- history,
- housing,
- labour,
- lgbt,
- links,
- marriage,
- mother,
- motherhood,
- movies,
- network,
- nhs,
- parliament,
- pensions,
- photography,
- politics,
- programming,
- psychology,
- relationships,
- reviews,
- rules,
- self-esteem,
- sex,
- sleep,
- society,
- trailer,
- tv,
- uk,
- viaswampers,
- whales,
- wildlife,
- women,
- wwii
Interesting Links for 30-06-2017
- 'EU pension' planned for people who move between countries
- (tags: pensions europe )
- UK in credit splurge as pay is squeezed (unsecured debt up 10%, spending power down 2%)
- So, how long until the country collapses into oblivion as people frantically try and keep their lifestyles propped up despite the economy falling apart?
(tags: debt uk ) - John Bercow: MPs don't need to wear ties
- (tags: clothing parliament uk )
- This is how sperm whales sleep
- (tags: whales sleep viaSwampers )
- Government U-turns on NHS abortions for Northern Ireland women
- I am not looking forward to multiple years of whiplash from the government. (I am glad that this has gone through though)
(tags: abortion government uk nhs ) - Buy-to-let UK property sales fall by almost 50% in a year
- (tags: uk housing )
- The curse of the pseudo-data: How Rotten Tomatoes is Deciding What Movies You Don't See
- (tags: movies reviews data )
- When whimsical wildlife photography isn't what it seems
- (tags: photography animals wildlife )
- David Goyer and Josh Friedman adapting Isaac Asimov's Foundation for TV
- Probably won't get made. If it does then will probably be terrible.
(tags: tv asimov ) - Jeremy Corbyn sacks Labour shadow ministers for voting against Brexit
- (tags: Europe UK labour politics )
- Female first-year students earn a higher grade when paired with at least one other female for group projects
- (tags: women Education )
- The German and British children who became post-war friends
- (tags: children Germany uk wwii history friendship )
- German parliament votes to legalise same sex marriage
- (tags: lgbt marriage Germany )
- Ways In Which Programming Is Like Sex
- (tags: programming sex funny )
- Soon after giving birth, mothers typically experience a self-esteem dip lasting at least three years
- (tags: motherhood self-esteem psychology mother )
- Game of Thrones' Most Beloved Relationship Was Totally Improvised
- (tags: relationships gameofthrones )
- Trailer for Rick and Morty season 3, streaming from July 30th
- Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
(tags: animation trailer awesome excellent ) - How do you cut a monolith in half? (musings on distributed systems)
- (tags: architecture programming network )
- "Hidden rules that everybody knows" is not a useful mental model of how people act
- (tags: society groups psychology rules )
- Germany votes for 50m euro social media fines
- (tags: germany censorship )
Ways In Which Programming Is Like Sex
Some people can do it with just two fingers, but others say it's best standing up.
Think about security before you start, not only at the last minute.
It's portrayed REALLY UNREALISTICALLY in films.
If someone interrupts you in the middle you're usually really upset because you can't just continue, you basically have to start over.
Clothes are not strictly speaking required, but many people prefer wearing clothes appropriate to the occasion.
The government gets all up in your business if you do it in ways they're not used to.
People in the oxford university department of computer science have strong opinion whether you should do it with tabs or not.
If you get your keyboard sticky, you're doing it wrong.
There are lots of useful tutorials but don't just follow them step by step without understanding what you're doing.
There are significant advantages to doing it in pairs, but if you really know what you're doing, you can gain a lot by doing it in larger groups.
It's sort of hard to explain what constitutes doing it well, but you know it when you see it.
Think twice before doing it with someone who uses PHP (sorry, sorry... :)
There's no shortage of people without much practical experience telling you you it's better to do it their way.
It's really kind of magical how you can make something which lives on successfully long after you.
It's not exactly in fashion in vatican city.
People write books about it but it's surprisingly hard to write them well.
People tend to ignore advice when they really shouldn't.
You don't strictly need coffee to be involved, but almost everyone expects it.
The curse of the pseudo-data: How Rotten Tomatoes is Deciding What Movies You Don't See
Re: The curse of the pseudo-data: How Rotten Tomatoes is Deciding What Movies You Don't See
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Eh, I'm not so sure about that. As an antidote to imposter phenomenon, this is useful; but the fact is that far too often, people act as if there is a hidden rulebook, because they express disapproval of behavior in the kind of thunderous, coming down like a ton of bricks terms that would be appropriate if there were a specific rule written down in clear terms. And then when the victims of this ask, semi-sarcastically, "What rule did I violate?" they get lectured on how there are no rules. (Then stop acting as if there are.)
Sometimes, in fact, behavior gets denounced so wholesale that it leads one to wonder, not what the rules are, but what the denouncer thinks non-offending behavior would even look like. (Classic example: the man who denounces half of women for being prudes, the other half for being sluts. What's left? Unfortunately there's also a breed of women who denounce men in equally stringent terms.) But if you ask, the answer is, "It's not my job to tell you that." I've been told this in so many words. But if they think it's not their job to tell you what would be right, they do think it's their job to tell you what's wrong, at great length.
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Yes, they do. Because they, from my experience, believe that the way they were raised is the right way, and everyone else should know that. I try to avoid people like that. And vote against them when I get the chance.
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That's a quite different situation than the one I was thinking of.
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Or, why I wouldn't vote for Labour, not even in the last election.
Sure, Corbyn is within his rights to sack them for defying him. It's his choice of this as a sacking offense that concerns me. If I were in England (n.b. I'm not considering Scotland, where things are different), I'd be looking for a party that actually welcomes the 48% (or whatever it was) who voted against Brexit, and which is capable - see previous reference to 48% - of winning more than 12 seats.
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As a Brit I would be very interested in joining a pan-national body that came up with common standards for regulating economic activity and then had the economic clout to enforce them against rogue billionaires. If only such a thing existed.
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(With the option to change my mind if it turns out to stifle non-hate-speech.)