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We all know we should do the following, it's much clearer.
# Example of a dictionary to check None
> # Assign None to a variable
> myvar = None
> # Declare dictionary to check None
> mydictionary = {None: 'None is stored in this variable'}
> print(mydictionary[myvar])
If I expected something, I would try it.
To compare it to bonds, imagining I can sell my own bonds: To raise the same amount of money issuing a bond with a 3% coupon now vs. issuing one with a 7% coupon now, I'd have to issue more of the 3% coupon bond.
This seems an obscure bet on perceptions of house prices, house purchase heuristics and mentality, and a lot of imagination. I can imagine why lenders are 'cool to the idea'.
Please correct me if the above understanding's incorrect.
Ribena's just Ribena. It's mixed with water almost exclusively, lemonade at a push, but blackcurrant cordial would be used for snakebites or rum+Guinness. Surely I'm not alone on this?
As you state autodidactism, you might view knowledge as absolute and measurable. I'd posit it might not always be, and you'd miss some social aspect be that feedback to socially constructing knowledge - as well as obviously only construct knowledge within yourself and not within and among others which would be a social form of knowledge - you might not need a school for this, but by definition a form of social environment.
[Feedback as both (and also separately) an accelerant to individual learning, and choosing paths of interest, is a different thing, and perhaps also worth exploring.]
Relying on it's unit tested strong systems does not make. There's a lot more to testing.
The revenue and expense statement, the subject heading an entirely misleading heading given the bulk of the article is not about revenue/expenses strapped on at the end appears to have no, or at best threadbare connection to the main article other than 'politics' - well, what I had for breakfast is 'politics' too, perhaps that influences my reading of this article.
The moderator discussion and revenue/expense discussion offers nothing of substance in information of discussion over multitudes of other articles that have discussed the same thing with far more insight.
HN political flamebait, really. {Edit, thanks for the downvote.. author? That was 3 minutes. I really don't care, the account's literally called 'throwaway'. Censorship, eh?]
iPads are huge in Asia for private schools. Chromebooks barely register. An additional $500 over 3 years won't register much in terms of total private education costs; I can see a role where the demand for total Apple products (applebook+iPhone+iPad+iStuff) is complimented, not substituted.
A better title:
Economist points out some economists had been using a dodgy source; cites other economists who had pointed this out adding to literature of checking citations and a growing body of literature on checking claims in economic history in particular [editorial: as these feed into pop science years down the road]
When you stir-fry vegetables, salt the oil before adding the aromatics. That's basic. How many years was it until I figured that out? How many pro chefs have never figured that out? What's pro?
What about mincing your meat with one cleaver and one chef's knife? Not two cleavers. Not two chefs knives? That's basic. For a certain type of mince. How many people figure that out? It's basic once you know it. I'd bet that isn't taught in a masterclass.
There's no end to basics. There's a great chance your tomatoes don't come from the same vine as mine. Make it your own.
The reverse side is food engineering. When you're controlling for consistent results to ensure every loaf of bread of today's batches of 100,000 loaves are identical to yesterday, or last year. That's another ball game, and perfecting today's 100,000 loaves doesn't transfer much to making a pesto.
Whether this is 'better' is the debate. But that you a person is a product who's manipulation of is current is not. The new current is that of false agency.
Just a feel.
Perhaps based on different priors, certainly different 'lived' experiences. Or prions. Why do yours fire that way? Can you explain it, meatpuppet? You only exist in my head, after all, as does everything. Unless there are absolutes, but they after all are givens, and if indeed you are real and so am I, then in what scope is our realness and how do we communicate that knowing, or feeling depending on truths, if not with a string of mutually understandable covenance, in this case language.
Eighty years ago we didn't have laptops to work from, or global connectivity. Now, we do. I'm thinking about total time, not only the travel time part.
Thinking total time, I can leave the office a day in advance as my 6 hour flight of 3000 miles now takes 20 hours. I can spend an evening in a large properly convertible chair/bed, have a stroll around the next day, perhaps enjoy the observation deck or a sit-down meal. I can have a proper day's work while on the move, watch a movie in comfort, have another sleep adjusting to timezone, and arrive at the destination in great comfort.
Instead of chasing speed, why are we not chasing that? It could be an airship. It could be a hydrofoil at sea or in waterways. It could be a train! It's a superior form of travel.
That would then actually be email rather than not-email-over-smtp.
Another service delegated to trust a 3rd party isn't.
But then when it was acquired by Musk I remembered I'd downloaded all their emojis, a 'just in case he pulls the plug on other stuff' thought-moment.
And now, I'm reverse-face. The twitter-card stuff is used not only by Twitter. It's a little footnote ever-bearing the rebranded name that others will find useful. So I'll continue to provide it in headers, for the evolution of Twitter that's come and will come further.
Let me explain the negative association:
* Popups and other pleas to make an account.
* Half hearted articles much of the time, linked to.
* Seeming a platform for self promoters with much noise but little original substance.
* That drags everything else down.
That said, I never did see it as much. I'm not much attracted to substack unless very specifically linked from another source, My association there's with people with many words that they want to shove down my inbox; people with many words that they want to shove down my inbox are also often more focused on 'readership' than sharing deeper stuff - deep is by definition harder to cognitively access than surface.
From sighting a URL I'm far more likely to go with a url I've never heard of than Medium/Substack/et al. While firstname_lastname.tld is very often a sign of quality, in my book giraffepoop.wtf is still > Medium/etc.
This isn't to say all buildings are identical. Or save the same purpose. Or exist in the same climate. Or even have occupants that speak the same language. But do share a core philosophy that despite individual developers' or architects' preferences for wood or concrete, in the case of a fire a building's occupants should be provided safety.
Logs should be more like fire exits and less like fragile works of art. As I can find my way to a fire exit in hopefully any building, I should be able to deal with several .txt files.
https://news.ycombinator.com/y18.svg appears to be in the orange bar for me.
I'm also curious why HTTP/1.1 is used as it's not 1999 any more.