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by ImaCake 6y ago
Building on the history theme here; plenty of modern revolutions have been preceeded by a rise in polarising media. The french revolution had the pulp paper of Jean-Paul Marat [0], the soviets had Lenin's writings [1], and the Nazis ha
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>was relevant in 2006, when the novelty of OS X was that it was a UNIX that you could actually use as a daily driver. This is what initially got developers to move to Mac. But it's been fifteen years My anecdata for this is that I b
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I use conda to do effectively the same thing. If my conda environment breaks and I can't roll it back, at least I can destroy it and start again. As an aside; it is really hard to explain why you should use anything but pip3 to people
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by ImaCake 6y ago
You are right to be skeptical but it looks damn good. There is a clinical trial under way now with n=800. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04668950
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Hiya your link is great. But it would be awesome if you could include some information about it rather than "link bombing".
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by ImaCake 6y ago
The first link "The Octopus: An Alien Among Us" is a good window into the world of animal intelligence research. I am going through a phase of listening to audiobooks on this topic. I can recommend both "Other Minds" by
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I think it is totally reasonable to not be cool calm and collected during a pandemic. It was an incredibly stressfull experience which means it is excusable to be not collected anyway. I would argue that it is also okay to not be happy du
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by ImaCake 6y ago
It's disgusting. And it is right there for the passengers to see if only they would be willing to admit the people serving them are almost slaves. I went on one cruise in my life, saw what others did not, and will never do something li
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Maybe not too wrong a guess either. Brief reading suggests that carbon and silicon are pretty common in this kind of asteroid and carbon sure does like forming compounds that are black in the visible spectrum.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Me and the other worker were much less willing to work free overtime. The company also had a really dishonest culture and I chafed under that system. I was a bad fit for the job really, so I could have just been what they perceived as bad.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Absolutely. My current workplace is very good at the organic thankyou. I try my best to show gratitude where I can.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
The parent reply here is arguably just "priming" the reader to remember that donations are an appropriate way of showing thanks for the help. It's not that people are unwilling or unable to afford to give a donation (although
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I have personally experienced this. My otherwise really good manager had a monthly vote for the best worker in our small team where each vote was publicly announced. I, and another coworker, never got a vote while others got several. Really
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Here is another example of some gratitude supplied to someone who wrote a useful python library for a very painful exercise in bioinformatics [0]. Scroll to the comments to see the thankyou notes left by grateful scientists. I have personal
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>I wonder whether civilizations with seemingly more continuous histories like China feel more connection to the rest of their history. This is a really good point actually. I have talked recently to Persian coworkers about their nation&#
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by ImaCake 6y ago
> You can make changes today that will pay dividends in 10 years, so maybe focus on that instead. Exactly this. No matter what your imagined and real futures turn out to be, the good ones all require effort and investment in the present.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Hey it seems like you have a bit of an agenda by posting this comment twice to different commenters who recommended this book. This isn’t an attack of you, what would be good is if you could explain your view a bit more than just an opinion
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I suppose it would make the math of calculating profits a bit easier in a age with much less fancy calculating equipment. Especially if sales were distributed exponentially or normally with respect to some variable like time or location.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
How do you think a level 4 biosecurity lab ends up in a place like Wuhan? That lab is there because Wuhan happens to be a hotspot for dangerous novel tropical diseases. Regardless of the direction of causality for COVID, the original reason
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>What does Jennifer Doudna think of the probability of catastrophic bioerror? You can find hers (and co-author Sam Sternberg's) opinion on CRISPR as a method to do bioerror in her book "A Crack in Creation".
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by ImaCake 6y ago
This is some solid capitalism. Never let a good joke go un-monitized! As an outsider, how accurate is the kit in this package? Is this the culture of silicon valley today?
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Does it matter if it's bad form if every terminal noob does it anyway? An attacker using this vector certainly wouldn't care - so long as the attack works. There's definitely a place for poking fun at Unix noobs - I have lear
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Yeah this seems a bit silly. We are not ignorant buffoons because we can’t read latin. Sure, I could certainly read more things if I could read latin, but the same could be said for speaking french or knowing set theory. The author’s defenc
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by ImaCake 6y ago
It seems to have been worth the caution. R has a great reputation for stability. The contrast between my experiences in R and python datascience tools is stark. Pandas syntax has changed wildly since I started learning it, but R and tidyver
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by ImaCake 6y ago
This reminds me of a similar, and quite popular, 90's rock song in Australia called "Blue Sky Mine" [0]. It refers to the horrible exploitive activities of CSL on an asbestos mine in the Pilbara region of Australia where they
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by ImaCake 6y ago
It is also enlightening to consider the success of various strategies too. This will take years to piece together but one comparison from my corner of the globe is the contact tracing in New South Wales and Victoria. In NSW contact tracin
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I don't think nradov was disagreeing with you. More that they were providing a counterpoint. If anything the fact we have examples swinging both ways makes the argument that internet !~ lockdown even stronger.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
It's hard to fault a scientist first publication for coming out against a firmly anti-scientist political party. As someone who does science day to day, I have had no issue discussing contentious scientific ideas with other scientists.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I've seen some blogs of techy people with hands on experience saying that they like the machine. I haven't really seen anyone who has it say they dislike it. But they do seem willing to jump through extra hoops to make the machine
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Maybe HN just has a diversity of opinion on apple products? There is plenty of reason to critique apple and plenty of reason to praise their products. I come to HN for the insight, and it is hard to get more insight about a tech company tha

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