Rice cooker - so convenient

Ducky One S2 mechanical keyboard - compact but a delight to code on

+1 for rice cooker. So versatile and so convenient

> It's a given that you do not want to contract COVID-19. Vaccination and wearing a mask will help. > You also do not want to give COVID-19 to others. Again, vaccination and wearing a mask will help.

How does that explain delta spread being biggest in highly vaccinated countries?

ML has so much potential to help us in healthcare.

We don't need this Guardian low-level analysis scuppering progress in this area because they drop the dirty word of "private" or "profit".

Yes, it needs careful regulation and management on all sides, and a mechanism where patients own their data, but I welcome datasharing in healthcare.

As a Unionist, I really hope you don't.

Scotland, NI, Wales and England are stronger together. Our shared history is to be celebrated and we should pull together in this new chapter, not tear ourselves apart.

I wish you & your family an amazing 2021. Peace.

So what if Angus stood for UKIP? He's entitled to his views. How is that relevant to virus research or his scientific credentials?!

It's not of course, it's chaff from the sort of leftists who don't believe anyone who believes in local government should be allowed to have any influence.

I don't appreciate the snide remark.

This is a politically charged topic so any strong political affilications are notable. I would've also mentioned it if he had run for lib-dems or green or any other party.

The idea this is relevant to the argument relies on a hugely convoluted and entirely unarticulated conspiracy theory of the form ... "the paper is a clever obfuscation that's not really about the stated topic but rather designed to push the political goals of ukip" but there's no plausible way that's true. It's about as relevant as saying the guy is a dog owner.

Discord won many people over simply because it was such well written software, and that continues today.

Its proprietary nature has always concerned me too, as well as what they're doing with the data (i.e. assume they're reading & listening to everything).

What they mustn't do is forget how quickly they grew and the underlying concept that enabled it: people will flock to different messaging platforms quite easily (Teamspeak to Discord is a great example) which means Discord can lose just as quickly as it won.

I think the biggest reason is/was because it is free (Costs no Money). Not because it is/was well written. Nobody cares if it is well written... (at least outside the hn spectrum)

Everyone cares it was well written, otherwise people would be using Skype, which is also Cost Free (sans some features) or one of the P2P chat apps (bitmessage), but nobody is doing that.

analogies gone wrong -- terribly wrong

> A talk at a conference showing girls in bikinis. An API presentation from a sponsor featuring ladies in bras. A demo at a hack day with a slide of women in underwear. A business model canvas workshop using a strip club as an example to illustrate the tool.

Do any of those match the definition of [sexism](https://www.google.com/search?q=define+sexism&ie=utf-8&#...)?

> sex·ism > Noun > Prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically > against women, on the basis of sex.

I bet this is part of the problem: we don't really know how to define (and thus identify) sexism properly.

Except, like most words, sexism has multiple definitions and you've conveniently plucked the one that makes your point.

Here's the second from Merriam-Webster: "behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex"

These behaviors continue to push the idea that women are eye candy.

They are eye candy. Just like men are. The problem is when the target (man or woman) is isolated to purely that role.

Reddit, HN, /. and if I am still unsatisfied I check Pocket or my myriad of RSS feeds in Google Reader from which blogs like Jeff Atwood et al

With 97 comments (as I write this) I'd say many people :-)