ValleyOfTheMtns

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   by ValleyOfTheMtns 9y ago

   Hadoop craze was a decade ago? Damn...
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   by ValleyOfTheMtns 9y ago

   Thanks for the links.
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   by ValleyOfTheMtns 9y ago

   I agree that Venus is under-appreciated as a colonisation target, but I haven't seen anyone attempt to address the issue of how you "land" in the atmosphere without touching down on the surface? And if you ever want to get b
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   by ValleyOfTheMtns 9y ago

   All the technology in the world is not going to fix human nature...
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   by ValleyOfTheMtns 9y ago

   Here's my modest proposal to improve Twitter and perhaps the world. Don't use Twitter.
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   by ValleyOfTheMtns 9y ago

   One of the most practical and high-use skills I learned in high-school was touch typing.
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   by ValleyOfTheMtns 9y ago

   FYI, it requires Python 3.6+. It mentions it in the article towards the end, but if you're like me and prefer to jump straight into trying something out you may not have seen it. I wasted a bit of time trying to figure out what the Con
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   by ValleyOfTheMtns 9y ago

   Got as far as the first paragraph and all I could think was, this author doesn't know what science is. Or is just artificially restricting its definition for the benefit of his article using weasel phrases like, "and none historic
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   by ValleyOfTheMtns 9y ago

   Tangentially, if you want to reduce the waste that goes to landfill at your home, compost. One of the best ways of composting that I know is bokashi. It works by a fermentation process. The biggest advantage of it is that you can put any or
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 9y ago

    Because that's what the streaming ecosystem needs; more fragmentation. I understand production companies wanting to have control over the distribution of their content, but consumers are not going to want to signup and pay for multiple
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 9y ago

    Robots will be better marketers than humans. In a robot economy all humans will just be consumers.
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 9y ago

    Perhaps I've overlooked the obvious, but where is the deception and lies?
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 9y ago

    Does he have an Etsy shop?
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 9y ago

    Something I've never understood is how the nucleotides arrive to be included in the DNA strand. These animations always just show them appearing in perfect sequential order when they're needed, which is of course not what happens.
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 9y ago

    Sounds like this could also be really useful for future manufacturing industries on the surface of Mars or in the atmosphere of Venus. Polycarbonate also seems to have some resistance to sulfuric acid, which would be particularly useful in
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 10y ago

    How do you even know what % of information you have?
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 10y ago

    >Lazy millennials can't even be bothered to commit petty crime Was that subtitle really necessary or are they being tongue-in-cheek with that statement...?
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 10y ago

    >Why are people being so critical about this work? Some people can't stand to miss an opportunity to remind everyone about how smart they are. However... one criticism I have of the article is that their first graph doesn't sta
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 10y ago

    This just made me realise that yes, 2008 was in fact almost 10 years ago...
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 10y ago

    There is nothing more beautiful to someone than their own creations, even if it contradicts their advice about the craft.
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 10y ago

    I'm unfairly critical of reports like these once I realise many y-axes don't start at zero in their charts.
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 10y ago

    Don't watch commercial news. News on publicly funded channels is much better. However, I find that I even need to take a break from non-commercial news from time to time.
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 10y ago

    You're making the assumption that life only has meaning if our species survives indefinitely, or at least long enough to become interplanetary or interstellar. I'm not advocating a nihilist approach to life, merely that I don&#x27
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 10y ago

    >Empathy suggests something more technical — a dispassionate approach to understanding the emotions of others. And these days, it often seems to mean understanding their pain just enough to get something out of it — to manipulate politic
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 10y ago

    Ah, this old argument. Always pops up in topics like this and it's still as naive as before. The lessons learned from colonising other worlds will allow us to better manage Earth, much like past space exploration has already done.
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 10y ago

    I rarely use the headphone ports on any device now. Wireless bluetooth headphones with active noise cancelling are one of the best tech-purchases I've made. Would never go back.
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 10y ago

    AND public transport, particularly buses, but I'm sure trams/trains will eventually be automated too.
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 10y ago

    Anyone know of good survival/prepper guides. Ones written by reputable authors/experts, well researched, and practical? I'm not particularly paranoid (I suppose that's what paranoid people say...), but I do think there&#
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 10y ago

    That's excellent. Thanks for the info. Pretty impressive that you can regain protein content from vegetable matter like that. I wonder if it's all sustainable over a long time period or if it requires some kind of supplements to s
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    by ValleyOfTheMtns 10y ago

    The problem I have with these setups is that at some point you're reliant on some kind of outside source of food. Instead of buying food for yourself, you buy food for the fish and then harvest the food from your farm. But where does t