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by Blahah 10y ago
Home 3D printing is not worth it for most people in the developed world, but in developing countries it can be. When I lived in the UK, I would default to trying to 3D print anything I needed around the house. But manufacturing is cheap eno
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by Blahah 10y ago
getpapers - https://github.com/ContentMine/getpapers Command-line tool for mass-downloading scientific literature that matches a search query. The crazy thing is that it didn't exist already.
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by Blahah 10y ago
Why? Every browser has JS, and it's a core web technology.
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by Blahah 10y ago
I agree with your logic except the last clause. The FBI are presumably trying to minimise the overall perceived harm caused by the viewing of child pornography, and have judged that enabling some viewing initially will help prevent a greate
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by Blahah 10y ago
Jimmy Carter: "If we succumb to a dream world, we'll wake up to a nightmare." Trump: "I make the best nightmares."
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by Blahah 10y ago
Given how many companies use Google Apps for Business, I think it's clear that they already trust Google with their data.
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by Blahah 10y ago
We get fresh eggs twice a week from our neighbour who keeps hens. Unless he is secretly giving us old eggs (not impossible, he's pretty grumpy) I think we generally should have very freshly laid ones. Have you tried the running water t
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by Blahah 10y ago
This is a lovely article, but I can't help feel the author is missing a trick. If you need to peel an egg, do it under fast running cold water. No matter the condition of the egg, the running water will rapidly separate the shell and m
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by Blahah 10y ago
Looks like this project was created an hour ago by cloning peerflix. Not a bad way to start, but as yet nothing to distinguish it from the more mature offerings like peerflix itself, or aria2 as mentioned in a sister comment.
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by Blahah 10y ago
Ditto - I thought I switched to various apps because HN didn't offer comment subtree collapsing. Mea culpa.
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by Blahah 10y ago
For me, aged 12, the manifesto was a beacon telling me that I was not alone. Nobody I knew IRL shared my interests, no authority saw my curiosity as anything but disruptive. But now I knew there were people, enough of them that they had a n
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by Blahah 10y ago
Just moved to Nairobi (actually, Tigoni on the way to Limuru, where I have no postal address). Pretty sure I saw your team at iHub last week when I was hosting the Mozilla Science Lab. I'd love to connect - gonna email but also please
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by Blahah 10y ago
Some excellent points, and I'm happy to be challenged on my behaviour. I didn't mean I was holding back from something sinister, but from making detailed and thorough arguments. Because I was only highlighting some issues with the
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by Blahah 10y ago
> And if his views were genuine, would you then be rude? I find this implication troubling and corrosive to open discussion. No, I would have been more extensive and detailed in my answer. Instead I went for a few short points in rhetori
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by Blahah 10y ago
I appreciate you're playing devil's advocate, so I'm holding back. "There's a security problem in Europe at the moment". What are you talking about? The number of people harmed in terrorism-related events in Eu
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by Blahah 10y ago
Agreed - the infrastructure for living that lifestyle is much better established in SE asia. I think it's perfectly feasible to do it successfully here, but there's much less of a history of people doing it.
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by Blahah 10y ago
I am absolutely serious. I've pinged some folks who know the scene better than I do to answer the detailed questions. No family here for either of us. I completely agree that any international move is a huge deal, especially one that i
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by Blahah 10y ago
I've visited here twice before the trip that turned into a relocation. A month in total, to teach bioinformatics. But other than that no. I do have lots of contacts here though, and that has made a huge difference.
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by Blahah 10y ago
Government-provided healthcare is highly variable, but there are lots of private hospitals that are world-class. A standard doctor's visit will cost like $5.
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by Blahah 10y ago
Depends on how you want to live. You can use Western facilities, restaurants, food items, etc. and pay similar costs to London. But you can also live on a couple of dollars a day buying locally produced food at markets, sticking to non-impo
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by Blahah 10y ago
I disagree that DFID are likely to push more money into overseas tech. The premise is that the UK will have more resources post-Brexit. It's extremely unlikely. They will simply have less money, at least in the medium (5yr) timescale.
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by Blahah 10y ago
Yup, and only naively accounts for the cash flow. It doesn't consider any of the downstream benefits of the single market, free movement, or coherent continental legislation which together will completely swamp the measly £140m/we
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by Blahah 10y ago
In the UK, we don't really have 'crackpot billboards'. Billboards are actually quite rare compared to in the USA, and they are regulated for accuracy and to prevent fraud. I noticed these billboards and have never seen anyth
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by Blahah 10y ago
Indeed, I have taken advantage of this professionally for years. My birth surname is very very common, which as a scientist makes it hard to build a professional reputation through publishing. My partner and I are in a long term relationshi
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by Blahah 10y ago
> he also said that Jews are devils he actually quoted the Bible and said "Jews and gentiles are devils", according to the context of the interview in which he said it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJu8sVWQ-w
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by Blahah 10y ago
http://sci-hub.cc/ works in the UK
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by Blahah 10y ago
Anyone interested in Svalbard, which focuses on crop seeds, might also be interested in the less glamorous Millennium Seed Bank which focuses on wild plant seeds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Seed_Bank_Partn
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by Blahah 10y ago
I believe the idea is to create a minimal citeable entity for a piece of software. It's currently hard to cite software in journals in any coherent way - this gives a DOI and a human-friendly landing page, as well as a system for condu
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by Blahah 10y ago
Personally, I think it has at least these important aspects: - built on a foundation of open source software - new ways of presenting and consuming should be encouraged and easily discoverable - completely outside the influence of the curre
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by Blahah 10y ago
I've done a lot of work on tools that interface with the academic publishing infrastructure. Elsevier not only make a huge profit margin, but they operate at a staggering level of inefficiency. They are haemorrhaging money and producin

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