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by GuiA 9y ago
Maciej Ceglowski wrote about McMurdo: http://idlewords.com/2016/05/shuffleboard_at_mcmurdo.htm
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by GuiA 9y ago
I still have to regularly remind people that Trump did not win the election with a majority of votes. I am flabbergasted by how frequently I hear Americans say of Trump "... well he was chosen by the people".
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Notes on Being Very Tall(topic.com)
1 points by GuiA 9y ago|0 comments
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by GuiA 9y ago
“At Google, we love the internet and creators who dedicate their life to crafting webpages that are beautiful to look at and delightful to read. In order to honor the hard work of these creatives, we have decided to not implement the “reade
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by GuiA 9y ago
You may be right, but in the interview the teacher does not seem to share your concern: I've read in news reports that you've received an outpouring of help from foreigners who want to donate computers to your school. Is that act
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by GuiA 9y ago
This essay touches on mental illness and potential neurological/philosophical implications; it's an interesting read. https://www.meltingasphalt.com/neurons-gone-wild/
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by GuiA 9y ago
It's okay, humans make these kind of mistakes too. A friend of mine has a young son (~2-3 years old), and a cat named Mono. Her son knows the cat is named Mono - he plays with her everyday. But when they go out for a walk, any 4 legged
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by GuiA 9y ago
> If they really would care about diversity they could have Google schools in prisons to educate the more motivated and promising inmates in the skills Google requires. Precisely. Or sending recruiters to Mississippi/Alabama/
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by GuiA 9y ago
There’s also a nascent plotter art subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/plotterart
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by GuiA 9y ago
I think they’ll just roll out their own pledge/rewards/etc features at some point if there’s really that much money on the table and just eat Patreon’s lunch in one fell swoop.
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Writing Machines(writing-machines.tumblr.com)
1 points by GuiA 9y ago|0 comments
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Fantastic, thanks for putting time in your comment.
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That article provides little to no insight as to how his work has been incorporated within academic philosophy. It does provide a brief "Selection of papers" section, all of them in finance and statistical mechanics, so my origina
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by GuiA 9y ago
1) any SUSTAINED focused resource improves educational outcomes 2) resource allocation is strongly sub-linear--it takes FAR more than 10% more resource to cause 10% improvement in outcome from our current system I’d like to learn more abo
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by GuiA 9y ago
Isolated abnormal events aren't significant to illustrate global warming is happening, but an increasing frequency of abnormal events is.
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by GuiA 9y ago
This is a PG classic, and a perennial HN favorite. It left an impression on me the first time I read it 10 years ago; but since then, I've actually found it to be more useful as a piece to introduce people (designers, teachers, writer
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by GuiA 9y ago
I seem to remember that a reason why Git wasn’t popular with game dev (and why it wouldn’t be with designers, besides usability) is that it handled binary diffs terribly (ie it would store the whole updated file, even if just a few bits had
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by GuiA 9y ago
I recommend “Music for geeks and nerds”, which is an intro to music theory/composition with python https://pedrokroger.net/mfgan/
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by GuiA 9y ago
If you do any professional color work, you want a color calibrated display. This ensures that the colors you see on your screen will be the same as the ones on your designer colleague’s screen, and the same as the ones that come out of the
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by GuiA 9y ago
I am completely unfamiliar with Taleb, this is a genuine question - does he have any work that is accepted as academic philosophy? Just hearing coworkers/friends/etc talk about him, I thought he just wrote books for a general audi
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by GuiA 9y ago
It’s a great example of what an editorialized online encyclopedia can be. Would love to learn about other such resources for other fields.
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by GuiA 9y ago
The museum of Jurassic technology, in LA, has a collection of these objects, amongst many other wonderful things. If you’re in LA and are a science/history/sociology/museum nerd in any proportions, you have to check out that
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by GuiA 9y ago
This reminds me of when the game 2048 came out, and became hugely popular. It was mostly a clone of the game “Threes”, released a few months prior, which while popular was less so because it was iOS only whereas 2048 could be played freely
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by GuiA 9y ago
Original title is ”Sex and drugs and self-control: how the teen brain navigates risk” , and seems better than the editorialized HN title.
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> All it can do is create a believable high resolution face for a given pixelated one. Yes; and, it should be emphasized, the face it will generate has no guarantee whatsoever of matching the original one, except through their heavily
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by GuiA 9y ago
In the future, with further development, similar systems could be developed to add detail to pictures and video that are low resolution. One current category that lends itself to this is blurry CCTV images. This is just statistical extrap
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by GuiA 9y ago
Except the article mentions successful approaches to reducing the problem other governments have used, so I don’t know, maybe read the article? One of the few proven ways to reduce overdose deaths is to establish supervised injection sites
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by GuiA 9y ago
I buy a lot of old books that aren't that easy to find anymore. In such situations in the past, I have managed to buy the book by contacting the seller directly and telling them I'll buy it right away for some percentage of the pr
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by GuiA 9y ago
Should he have also complained because he slept on a real mattress and not an Air Bed, as advertised in the name?
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by GuiA 9y ago
Reliable check-in With Airbnb Plus, you can always check in effortlessly. Every home is equipped with a lockbox, keypad, or a host who is on-call to greet you. Love the implication that the check in process for their regular listings is u

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