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by Iv 5y ago
Since I had a child, I started questioning whether cognitive decay in aging people was really caused by aging or a change in sleep patterns. Now my kid makes his nights mostly without problems, but the ~2 years of insufficient sleep feels l
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by Iv 5y ago
I feel the idiotic claims by the Trump admin (it is a bioweapon! It was released by China to make me look bad!) made it hard to actually push forward the strong arguments in favor of an accidental lab release. There was a lot of controversy
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by Iv 5y ago
If there is one thing to take away it is this: VPS are cheap, something like 5$/month. Really consider having one, you will quickly use it more than you think. When I was a student I wanted to test things on a distant server so I start
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by Iv 6y ago
"Was this page helpful to you? Yes/No" Nice try.
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by Iv 6y ago
Either way is fine in my book. But obeying the law should not incur costs to actually know what the law is.
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by Iv 6y ago
It is a frequent reaction: Put people in charge of two things they can't control (people's speech and public's reaction) and they tend to become control freaks on the small things they actually have a hang on.
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by Iv 6y ago
Always fun to remind people that Aladdin is actually Chinese in the original stories. But then, let's be fair, their depiction of China sounds like it was just a placeholder for "far away land"
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by Iv 6y ago
I remember reading a story where sailors discovered an island where plant-women were growing. They were friendly and gave fruits growing on them to the sailors, but the few who tried to "embrace" them got absorbed. Yep, there was
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by Iv 6y ago
Funny to use Aladdin as an example: it was added later to the original manuscript.
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by Iv 6y ago
I have been disappointed by both the French and Japanese education. I'd love to give Montessori and Freinet style of education a try. But I find it weird that education can't reinvent itself radically. The system we have was based
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by Iv 6y ago
Interesting. That's funny "Johnny/Jenny mostly describe "cheesers" in Starcraft
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by Iv 6y ago
I wan unclear. No it does not require it and I would be happy to import that part alone. But that part alone is not enough to make me favor the Japanese school system that comes with a lot of issues IMO.
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by Iv 6y ago
There is this solidarity part that I like but in my case I find it really outweighed by the bad parts that force individuals to conform and to do no waves to be part of the community. In our case it culminated with a PE teacher of the local
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by Iv 6y ago
Game designers have been using an empirical categorization of players behavior for ages: Hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades - Diamonds: achievers who collect all possible awards and treasures - Spades: explorers who travel the game world an
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by Iv 6y ago
Hah, trying to find the name of the "super-kumi" I learned that this terminology is known in the west for being used by Yakuza. It makes sense, organizing the matsuri, which involves finding young men for carrying the mikoshi (a h
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by Iv 6y ago
Problem is, we have put genocide on such a high level of seriousness that denying it or even calling for it can get you banned in several places, because for most people it means "ethnic cleansing with mass killings" There are som
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by Iv 6y ago
One thing that surprised me coming to live in countryside Japan is that everybody is part of the "kumi" hierarchical structure. They are neighborhood assemblies, so 10-20 persons in my area, with a president and a budget. The kumi
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by Iv 6y ago
Actually reading the article, I think the most interesting part of it is not the one-party democracy or even the insights it provides about Japanese politics. It is the fact that they did something that is generally discouraged in this fiel
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by Iv 6y ago
Which is possibly representative of the will of the society. Another one-party democracy that worked well, at least for a few decades, is Singapore.
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by Iv 6y ago
The thing is we know how to harvest solar energy while in space. Harvesting matter has been proposed with ram scoops but contrary to solar cells, these are just theoretical propositions. Being able to use energy directly instead of propulsi
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by Iv 6y ago
> They literally bring nothing to the table except their brand name. Isn't it the most important thing for a VPN provider? You want a company that is privacy-conscious, not one that logs your traffic and sells it or open it to the v
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by Iv 6y ago
I can't be the only one disturbed by the fact we are using the word "genocide" for something that does not include Mass killings. I know that legally it is valid and that the actions it describes are still despicable, but the
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by Iv 6y ago
I think that's why I dont want to get into these games. They feel like work!
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by Iv 6y ago
Oh I did not know that about speculation!
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by Iv 6y ago
tl;dr: he used a counter provided by intel that describes the total number of microcode instructions translated. He tried thousands of possible opcodes in "speculation mode" (this is the mode CPUs use to calculate both forks of a
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by Iv 6y ago
I feel so much empathy for "the little excavator that could"
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by Iv 6y ago
As someone who played a lot with DN3D level editor, yes, the mirrors were a huge hack. But then came Shadow Warrior, a fun game, a bit less successful, that re-used most of DN3D game engine and added yet another layer of hacks: They had a l
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by Iv 6y ago
Twitter, decide what you are: 1. Are you an infrastructure? In that case you censor nothing but probably give users tools to manage their own censorship (like "remove suspected bot content" "remove tagged hate speech" op
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by Iv 6y ago
> I want my walls and ceiling to be displays like from Total Recall for cheap (say under $500 per wall) Fun remark I heard in a startup's pitch: "If you have a hole in your wall, it is cheaper to buy a TV to hide it than to ord
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by Iv 6y ago
Any evolution can be used as an horror movie device. Freeways, ubiquitous televisions, in a world that did not have that, you could make scary fictions about it. I find it sad that nowadays dystopias have become the only depictions of futur

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