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by air7 5y ago
Actually, for any specific size of N, every algorithm is O(1)...
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by air7 5y ago
> so-called geofence warrants, where investigators ask Google to provide information on anyone within the location of a crime scene at a given time. It's amazing we've become so tethered to our phones that it's just implic
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by air7 5y ago
Afaik, the main sources of microplastics we consume are from normal car tire usage, and from clothes with nylon fibers going through washing machines. This means that the issue has been with us for at least a couple generations by now so on
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by air7 5y ago
> "An innocent baby, unaware of all the microplastics in her" I've lost all patience for articles like, where the clickbait hype-up is so blatantly obvious. I vote with my eyeballs and just don't read them.
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by air7 5y ago
This reminds me of a joke idea I read somewhere: You can encode the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica using a single mark on a simple stick! Just encode the text as a ascii codes after the decimal dot of a zero. (0.656168.. etc). Then just ma
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by air7 5y ago
Huh? The opposite seems to me to be true: YouTube can make "easy money" selling ads on viral anti-vax videos, but choose not to.
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by air7 5y ago
Amazing! Also works on mobile on the actual website.
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by air7 5y ago
One of the relies makes sense to me: it's because the win10 search bar is also a web search and this is intended functionality, normal for search bars. they send a new request every time you type a character i assume for predictive se
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by air7 5y ago
Please do. That sounds super interesting.
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by air7 5y ago
While this is honestly very cool from an engineering perspective, it feels highly unnecessary and even disingenuous. the whole point of sending a handwritten letter "in this day and age" is to signal that real effort was put forth
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The Tragic Tale of a Kamikaze Fighter Who Crashed into and Sunk the USS Drexler(warhistoryonline.com)
6 points by air7 5y ago|1 comments
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by air7 5y ago
The sad part is that farm animals that are smart are a hassle so they are often "discarded". We are basically causing (un)natural selection for stupidity.
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by air7 5y ago
> The most compelling option was actually ethanol. But from the perspective of GM, Kitman wrote, ethanol wasn’t an option. It couldn’t be patented and GM couldn’t control its production. And oil companies like Du Pont "hated it,&quo
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by air7 5y ago
I must have been living under a rock but I don't fully understand the appeal of these types of services if I have to run my own server anyway. What I'm thinking is that it only saves me the initial setup of a web server and a git
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by air7 5y ago
Nice. TIL...
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by air7 5y ago
I find myself reading and thinking and quietly ranting about this (and similar) topics often. The reason being that fundamentally I feel we are witnessing an erosion of the acceptance of the scientific method itself. The scientific method s
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by air7 5y ago
this. There was a thread an Ask HN around the new decade with predictions for 2030 and I wrote this too.
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Personalized P-Values for Social/Personality Psychologists(replicationindex.com)
1 points by air7 5y ago|0 comments
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by air7 5y ago
source?
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Personalized P-Values for Social/Personality Psychologists(replicationindex.com)
1 points by air7 5y ago|0 comments
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by air7 5y ago
> "In fact, so long as you kept adhering to this plan, you could choose any destination at all that’s presently within 18 billion light-years of us, and reach it after merely 45 years, max, had passed. That ~18 billion light-year fi
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by air7 5y ago
I wonder what people here would consider their best non "resume driven development" tool of choice for something like this?
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by air7 5y ago
Like any feature, perhaps it has to do with the volume of anticpated use vs the effort to support.
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Artificial intelligence can now be recognised as an inventor in Australia(abc.net.au)
2 points by air7 5y ago|0 comments
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by air7 5y ago
> I say so much exploratory shit on here, just to see where that line of thought goes While understandable, this is in essence trolling. I.e making people reply to you as though you mean what you say, when actually you don't. I&#x27
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by air7 5y ago
The worst I've encountered of this type of head-in-the-sand logic was in NZ. They have a law that if a person buys alcohol with companions, the clerk will check the IDs of all of them, not just the buyer's. Presumably this is to s
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by air7 5y ago
I dislike being tracked as much as the next guy, but I often wonder what "our" ideal end-game goal is? By "our" I mean the typical HN crowd that understands both the technological and the economical implications of this.
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by air7 5y ago
I think that if you are worried about someone sniffing salary info in your org, there are deeper problems to sort out. There isn't really something like "casual sniffing". It has to be done deliberately and with full intent.
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by air7 5y ago
Reading about this concept for the first time truly expanded my ability to understand the world. Another worthy addition to "Things That Should Actually Be Taught in Schools" type lists. However I see a missing element in the usua
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by air7 5y ago
> I seriously hope Google pushes their OEM to include QR code support in the builtin camera app. afaik that is alrady the case

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