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by GuiA 7y ago
His father, along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, won the 1962 Nobel Prize for medicine by solving another very complex puzzle: the double-helix structure of DNA molecules. Crick left home in Northampton, England, in the early 1960s
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You can put your things in many smaller safes, and spread them around a bit!
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How coupled is the UI to the “engine”? Are there any alternative frontends to GnuCash?
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Feedback from total strangers is overrated. You have no clue where their feedback comes from (are they a prospective user? Some grumpy programmer who just wants to rant about your choice of framework? A product designer used to operating in
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Critiquing is a skill. The onus is as much on the critiquer to formulate their critique in a constructive, actionable way as it is on the critiquee to take the critique in stride. That said, good crit skills are very hard to develop, and en
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> Obviously, some people don't just give up when they get older ... you understand that declining mental health is not the result of "giving up", right? And that the celebrity academics/rockstars still active at 85
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The kerning on “NATIONAL PARK” feels quite loose, even given the context (normally wouldn’t comment this on HN, but given that this is expressly a typography related website...)
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Boy, it sure is convenient that our "natural" longevity (whatever that means) is right at the limits of what humans can reasonably enjoy, huh? I suspect you have not spent much time around eg people with dementia, who are well w
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One does not exclude the other. You can bring up the numbers for other governments if you wish, they’re interesting to discuss as well. Regarding your accusations, it’s hard to settle anything now that the author deleted their comment. Howe
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China’s Great Leap Forward: 50 million deaths Stalin’s regime: 10 million deaths Khmer Rouge: 2 million deaths (25% of Cambodia’s population) East Germany “denazification efforts”: tens of thousands of deaths, possible as high as a hundred
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No need to wait for anything; see for instance the Nancy Pelosi video fiasco. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/may...
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Sorry to take the topic a little off rails, but - I meet so many contractors who do "blockchain stuff", and I've never asked until now - what kind of blockchain stuff are people paying you to do?
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It seems like you’ve achieved something great, congrats! What are your estimated cost per year per child? (Including the aforementioned private teachers etc). It’d be interesting to compare that with the average expenditure per child in you
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I buy that it would be a combination of both factors. I don’t buy that it would be exclusively due to the lack of Skype (I assumed his kids had grown up in the last decade or so, but fair enough) because I myself have been paid tens of thou
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Interesting blog post and theory. A core counter argument to their base premise is that learning effectively is done in person, as part of a social group, in a physical space dedicated to learning, with hands on practice. It certainly seems
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I can read your comment in several, slightly conflicting, ways: - homeschooling is in practice mostly undesirable, because it overwhelmingly attracts people with fringe beliefs who are not going to act in their child's best interest -
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Can you think of a man made system that has had 100% reliability over sustained periods of time?
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What kind of goats did you have? I have a few friends with Nubians who have nothing but praise for them, and they’re a breed I contemplate keeping down the line.
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Everybody wants to live a lifestyle that presently requires burning fossil fuel, buying electronics, using plastics, etc. Two possibilities: - technological advancement lets everyone indulge in this lifestyle without those externalities, or
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I agree with your premise, but your conclusion overlooks the fact that we are much better at sterilizing things and understanding how diseases work now than we were a century ago.
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Likely to fall under fair use, both for the research aspect and given the very low impact on factors 3&4 of 17USC107 for videos used to train neural nets.
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FPS implies a single final render target. That’s a big assumption to make of the universe!
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> Medium format was expensive, unwieldy and slow ?! There are plenty of very pocketable, no fiddling required cameras that take 120/220 film from the 50s onwards. I have a few that I still regularly take on hikes and trips around
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Congrats on managing to live frugally with a family of 4! Certainly an accomplishment. Out of curiosity, how much of that $64k is housing?
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> desktop UIs are still about the same as in 2000, just with more shininess. That is because the majority of people fundamentally do the same things with computers than they did 20 years ago. Browse the web, edit pictures, videos, put
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> I guess there is a niche for this Nerds with disposable income who will play with it for a few hours, after which it’ll take dust on a shelf.
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The OP-1 is a well built, self contained musical instrument (sequencing, synthesis/sampling, effects, mixing) with a very clean industrial design and solid construction. The main issues people have with it are 1) long-standing software
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I love single purpose hardware on an ideological level. On a more pragmatic level, it feels more and more like companies creating semi-disposable toy electronics should be held to extremely high standards when it comes to how they source th
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Send them an invoice for the amount of work it took you. $10k per second of footage they used is a good start, with a contract saying you won’t sue for copyright infringement if they pay, and you’ll provide them with non watermarked footage
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