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rbg246on The ‘-ize’ have it (2012)

Yes I like this. I haven't gone there and I may end up with no friends but I feel I may start correcting others on their incorrect definitions on billions.

rbg246on The ‘-ize’ have it (2012)

I like it, it's a double down on snootiness! It's not over!

rbg246on The ‘-ize’ have it (2012)

Well this is intensely disappointing. I shall have to find something else to be snobby about - I feel like I have been living a lie, I have spent countless hours changing the dictionary in windows or osx to be UK English just so it didn't correct me on this. What other spelling idiosyncrasies are there that I can get on my high horse about?

rbg246on Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages

But it does invalidate it, as the comment does not attack the cause, it's just blaming an outcome of poverty rather than the poor. It's why often those same commentators blame the poor for being poor rather than attacking structures that continue to trap people in poverty

Cutting poverty is a more effective measure.

Actually I'll go further if you were serious on cutting crime you would be advocating to cut poverty!!

rbg246on Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages

Generally poverty and crime are the two that correlate heavily and so in sectors of the population where you have high levels of poverty then you also have high levels of crime which is why safety nets and welfare are so important for reducing crime.

If you think about immigration that is a subset of the population that have high levels of poverty, low levels of access to welfare and so if things go wrong they get desperate quickly. And they also have more problems than locals at getting work due to discrimination and a host of other reasons.

rbg246on PHP the Wrong Way

I didn't realise they backported security fixes for PHP(as the example) independent of the vendor thanks for that you massively upgraded my knowledge.

rbg246on PHP the Wrong Way

Are you not allowed to install a new version of PHP? Because isn't it more worrying that you are using versions of PHP that are EOL?

rbg246on 95% of Programming Isn’t Hard (and other random thoughts)

May I ask for clarification?

Is my understanding correct in saying that this is a peculiarly JavaScript issue because you can overwrite language constructs on the object prototype?

Whereas in other languages I can't affect the language core constructs?

rbg246on Microsoft will shut down the Cortana iOS and Android apps in 2021

I am also one of those people I enthusiastically bought one back in early 2015.

I was one over also by the UI, found it super easy to use.

rbg246on Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news

I'm in the same boat, I pay for the guardian, a couple of smaller newspapers and the Australia institute just trying to even out the balance a little bit since Murdoch and what I would now call the extreme right have over 90% of newspaper of newspaper circulation Australia. A really sad state of affairs, the Australian at least used to have some decent conservative articles with a considered opinion but now it's just rabid and unreadable trash.

rbg246on Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0

I understand what you are saying however... logical analysis only gets you so far.

What was logical to a medieval mind is not logical today with no difference in intelligence in the thinker the only difference being a far superior knowledge base.

And my main point is we have the internet we have access, we have access to economists who have the baseline of information to provide a considered argument I can trust.

rbg246on Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0

It's utterly disappointing to see the top voted story on hacker news is am economics story (which is great!) on such an interesting topic written by a developer who from reading from his introduction has an undergraduate level of knowledge of economics, surely we can do better for sources and expertise in subject matter.

And this is not personal against the author a brilliant blog post (but note it's a blog).

rbg246on Double Entry Accounting for Developers

It's not that hard to qualify, it's the equivalent of three years software engineering experience with some side study.

It's more a case of someone who has one year of writing JavaScript shouldn't be writing on the theory of software development.

rbg246on KDE Slimbook: Linux Laptop with Ryzen 4000

Thanks I might learn soldering during this lockdown

rbg246on KDE Slimbook: Linux Laptop with Ryzen 4000

As am I, maybe this can be a lockdown skill to learn

rbg246on KDE Slimbook: Linux Laptop with Ryzen 4000

This is super interesting - would you recommend to someone who has never soldered before?

rbg246on KDE Slimbook: Linux Laptop with Ryzen 4000

Thanks for the tip, I have a x230 with Ubuntu mate (upgraded to 16gb of ram) which I'm super happy with- only complaint is the screen and so was looking with envy at that laptop just now - you snapped me back into reality

rbg246on Straightened Trees

This is quite brilliant from an artistic perspective. The world bending to fit in with the tree.

Whenever I walk around I look at old gnarled trees (the few remaining) I try and imagine what they were bending away fr and trying to imagine how their gnarls and bends were created. They have quite interesting stories to tell when you focus in on them individually.

rbg246on LibreOffice: The Next Five Years

Oh nice that will probably solve my dilemma on knowing what I want but not knowing where it is!

rbg246on Ubisoft CCO Serge Hascoet resigns in wake of sweeping allegations

Thanks for your reply.

I'm not sure who you were replying with as the cited data was not from Canada and was not 15 years old.

If you have a more nuanced reply with better data sources please do so.

rbg246on Ubisoft CCO Serge Hascoet resigns in wake of sweeping allegations

Yes no problems it's all out there.

19% of women report sexual violence to police. (1)

10% of those reports result in a conviction. (2)

So actually I was being conservative, it's actually

98%+ get away with it based on these two sources.

And we haven't even got to child sexual assault conviction rates.

(1) http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/subscriber.nsf/0/056...

(2) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-14/why-do-so-few-sexual-...

rbg246on Ubisoft CCO Serge Hascoet resigns in wake of sweeping allegations

I'm more worried about the 95%+ of sexual assaults that perpetrators get away with.

rbg246on LibreOffice: The Next Five Years

I am also the same, I have a complete block on how to find things, they just aren't where I remember even though as others have pointed out its 12 years since the ribbon appeared.

rbg246on SoftBank launches $100m minorities startup fund

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43708708-white-fragility

Great read, there is several chapters explaining the parents comment

rbg246on SoftBank launches $100m minorities startup fund

That was such a lovely reply, I already agree with your viewpoint but this has given me a new way of looking at things. Thank you.

rbg246on SoftBank launches $100m minorities startup fund

But its a known and well studied fact that people of color are discriminated against in all areas of life, what this means that white people experience special advantage in all areas of life - so all the other startup funds are for white people (especially men) ahead of people of color.

rbg246on Mark Zuckerberg defends leaving up Trump posts

Thank you.

So to summarise, no you haven't considered.

rbg246on Mark Zuckerberg defends leaving up Trump posts

White supremacist nonsense.

rbg246on Mark Zuckerberg defends leaving up Trump posts

Have you considered what conditions would be required for you to be motivated to behave like these protestors?

What would you need to be feeling or being treated to behave this way?

rbg246on UK government advisor caught out by Wayback machine

Wow I am somewhat inpressed. I was expecting a sharp u turn on the issue