Ginger-Pickles

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We must vote “goblin mode” over “metaverse” as Oxford word of the year(pcgamer.com)
5 points by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago|1 comments
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
> Oxford's "team of expert lexicographers" have decided on three words to choose from for the crown, and one of them is the fucking metaverse. Need I remind you? The metaverse is bullshit. The other choice is #IStandWith w
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
> The Oxygen of Amplification has three interlocking parts: > Part 1 provides a historical overview of the relationship between the news media and far-right manipulators who leveraged trolling and meme culture during the 2016 US presi
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
> To emulate the dynamical behavior of synapses at the molecular level, the researchers combined fast electron transfer (akin to action potentials and fast depolarization processes in biology) with slow proton coupling limited by diffusi
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
> We deliberately encourage people to create documents rather than build slide decks. Slide decks can mask poorly-written content with decorative font, sleek formatting, and compelling images. >In a document, the content is all you
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
> if Musk was hoping to hold onto anyone else, one assumes a carrot would have been offered. Instead, as Clowes wrote yesterday, there were only sticks and lots of them.
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
https://archive.ph/KHPBd
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
> If you were to plot on a graph how many planets of each size astronomers have discovered, you'd find two peaks: one at 1.4 times Earth's radius, and another at 2.4 times Earth's radius. Between them is a dip or valley, a
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
> It is only by ignoring the torrent of low-quality information that people can focus on applying critical search skills to the remaining now-manageable pool of potentially relevant information.
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
> Georgescu-Roegen, a Romanian-born economist, dismissed the free market fairy tale of a pendulum swinging back and forth, effortlessly seeking a natural state of equilibrium. He argued that the economy was more like an hourglass, a one-
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
> But to ignore the internet, he said, is to give up on making an impact in your own time. Cultural cycles move so fast online that being unplugged for a few years will render anyone culturally defunct, functionally a separate species fr
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
https://archive.ph/wNNQC
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
The business model for all CAD software companies inevitably trends toward stagnation and lock-in, because CAD software companies don't use CAD software -- they just develop it. The motivations are self-defeating. Typical CAD compani
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by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago
> PayPal, as it’s known today, is a subset of a feature roadmap that we wrote in July of 2000. Roughly speaking, you want to basically populate a balance for every verified Twitter user. [...] We need money transfer licenses for that, wh
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Ask HN: Early warning about LEO constellations?
1 points by Ginger-Pickles 4y ago|3 comments