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by Sandman 8y ago
I wish there was a service where you'd send a url of an article such as this one and it'd spit out a summary with only the relevant data and without all the surrounding cruft. Something like a tl;dr for this type of articles.
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by Sandman 8y ago
Not only that, but consider how many jobs we could create if only we banned the use of combine harvesters, tractors, various machines in factories all over the world etc.
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9 GHz Barrier Falls Hard(theoverclocker.com)
2 points by Sandman 8y ago|0 comments
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Savedroid Back Online: “Exit Scam” to Send a Message(cryptoticker.io)
2 points by Sandman 8y ago|0 comments
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React’s new Context API(medium.com)
1 points by Sandman 9y ago|0 comments
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The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018(dwmkerr.com)
993 points by Sandman 9y ago|441 comments
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The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf](frbsf.org)
215 points by Sandman 9y ago|151 comments
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by Sandman 9y ago
Agreed. I especially enjoyed the lectures which are, fortunately, also freely available: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
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by Sandman 9y ago
"forced to live there" is exactly the same manipulative language being used shamelessly here. You should really consider avoiding such use as it detracts from your argument. Fair enough. What would be another way to say that a p
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by Sandman 9y ago
I'm just considering a not unlikely scenario where a smart, capable person wants to get away from a country ruled by a corrupt or oppressive government. What if the majority of the people continually vote for such a government and this
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by Sandman 9y ago
What if a person doesn't want to live in their country of origin? Should we condemn them to live there anyway?
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by Sandman 9y ago
The whole point (or rather, one of the points) of Java and .net are that they are NOT compiled to native code but to bytecode so that you can write code once and then run it on many different systems without having to compile it again.
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by Sandman 9y ago
What I learned from the last chart is that Clojure devs earn the most money regardless of whether they use spaces or tabs. Being an Elixir programmer also pays off nicely but for heaven's sake don't use tabs unless you want to ear
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Neuroscientists rethink how the brain recognizes faces(nature.com)
1 points by Sandman 9y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 9y ago
I would expect that initiating a payment from your account directly from code would be forbidden by the platform itself. I'm thinking about this more in the terms of hooks that get called when a payment is received or sent. In essence,
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by Sandman 9y ago
Replying to myself here because I can no longer edit my comment. Just wanted to say that, while this is potentially a huge thing, there are certain things that need to be taken into account. First of all, there's heavy regulation when
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by Sandman 9y ago
Like you, I thought that this was pretty unimpressive at first. It seemed to me that this is just a regular bank account and that they expose some API and you have to program the web/mobile app yourself. The homepage is rather uninform
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Unpaywall Lets You Legally Read Science Articles Locked Up Behind Paywalls(openculture.com)
2 points by Sandman 9y ago|0 comments
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NASA Missions Provide New Insights into 'Ocean Worlds' in Our Solar System(nasa.gov)
6 points by Sandman 9y ago|1 comments
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27-year-old who launched a 7-figure business in 18 months tells all(cnbc.com)
2 points by Sandman 9y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 10y ago
To me it looks like what a person living inside a Standford Torus would see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_torus
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by Sandman 10y ago
I've been long enough here on HN to remember how people used to laugh at Java in the comments, bemoaning the time it took to set everything up before you can start working with it (although it wasn't really that much trouble then,
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Google's AI Has Learned to Become "Highly Aggressive" in Stressful Situations(sciencealert.com)
4 points by Sandman 10y ago|0 comments
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Carnegie Mellon creates a poker-playing AI that can beat the pros(techcrunch.com)
3 points by Sandman 10y ago|0 comments
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Astronaut twin study hints at stress of space travel(nature.com)
3 points by Sandman 10y ago|0 comments
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Fret Zeppelin, an LED-Based Learning System for Standard Guitars(fretzeppelin.com)
2 points by Sandman 10y ago|0 comments
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No, I have no side code projects to show you(linkedin.com)
2 points by Sandman 10y ago|1 comments
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Scientists Think the Speed of Light Has Slowed, and They're Trying to Prove It(motherboard.vice.com)
8 points by Sandman 10y ago|1 comments
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Thoughtworks Technology radar puts AngularJS on hold(thoughtworks.com)
4 points by Sandman 10y ago|0 comments
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The Josephus Problem(youtube.com)
1 points by Sandman 10y ago|0 comments

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