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by akie 7y ago
Famine, meteorites, large scale war, atomic bombs, infectious disease, the plague - all survivable by society at large. With your definition almost nothing qualifies as existential crisis.
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by akie 7y ago
Block-Element-Modifier, a way to structure your CSS. http://getbem.com/
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by akie 7y ago
We need to treat climate change like the existential crisis that it is, and start spending like we're at war. If we can drop 2000 billion dollars on war in Iraq, why can we not do the same for something actually worthwhile like ensurin
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by akie 7y ago
Ah wow, thanks! Not sure how I missed that. For other interested parties, here's the key section: > Unfortunately, the majority of [the text in Common Crawl] is not natural language. Instead, it largely comprises gibberish or boiler
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by akie 7y ago
Question: How did they obtain the Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus (C4) they mention in the article? Options: 1. "Mechanical Turk" style, a massive undertaking to manually clean up Common Crawl, perhaps using underpaid labor in third
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by akie 7y ago
> This virus is unprecedented I think you need to read up on your history.
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by akie 7y ago
As an EU citizen I think that's a great decision.
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by akie 7y ago
"My biggest complaint about this language I've never used is something I'm not sure is true. Is it?"
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by akie 7y ago
Agreed, even with all of the above I had about 15 or so sites in that Facebook list. I suspect it's because I was logged in to Facebook on my phone's browser for a while. Not sure why I even did that...
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by akie 7y ago
What you can do to prevent this is: 1) Install https://www.eff.org/privacybadger to prevent trackers from being loaded 2) Install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode..
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by akie 7y ago
> The military and the judicial system had to be purged because a religious cult had colonized them Ok, just so we're clear on this: that's ridiculous nonsense, conspiracy theories basically, but you're using it to justif
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by akie 7y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted because this is exactly what went wrong with the 737MAX.
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by akie 7y ago
I'm only aware of https://matomo.org/ (formerly Piwik) as a good open source alternative to Google Analytics. Are there others?
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by akie 7y ago
The benefit of a carbon tax is that you can introduce it immediately, provided that there's enough political will. If the carbon tax is sufficiently high I'm convinced there can be a very big net benefit. The approach from the art
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by akie 7y ago
“Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; nei
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by akie 7y ago
What is cheaper: building artificial dams and islands off the North Sea coast (for example), or re-settling 7 million people while simultaneously losing all your economic output?
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by akie 7y ago
> and eventually by the FAA after it’s arm was twisted enough There's a big part of the problem.
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by akie 7y ago
I am just replying to say that I have the exact same experience. I love Git Tower and recommended it to many people, but I haven't upgraded to version 3 and likely never will - for the exact reasons that you have lined out. I think F
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by akie 7y ago
Yes, by all means please do. Simplicity of use is very important to me, so make sure it's generally applicable and easily understandable, but other than that - go for it! Awesome.
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by akie 7y ago
You are right: this tool offers no guarantees whatsoever. It's intended use is for development and staging. You could theoretically use it in production, but not on a live database server. If you have that use case, you need to think c
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by akie 7y ago
This is more meant as something that supplements migrations, as a “time machine” of your database so to speak. You would run it before you do any kind of potentially destructive operation on your database, such as running or rolling back a
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by akie 7y ago
This is more meant as something that supplements migrations, as a “time machine” of your database so to speak. You would run it before you do any kind of potentially destructive operation on your database, such as running or rolling back a
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by akie 7y ago
Yes, that's why I originally added it. After a day of hacking I had it (mostly) working on one particular instance of phpmyadmin, but when I tried it on another one it completely broke. Not sure why that was, but since I didn't ha
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by akie 7y ago
Yes, so far this is MySQL only. I don't think adding Postgres support would be that far fetched, have a look at https://github.com/infostreams/db/tree/master/bin/drivers/my... for example
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by akie 7y ago
I made this, and have been using it in production and for local development for the past year or two. It's been immensely helpful to quickly save or easily restore the database to a previously know 'good point'. I have also b
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Show HN: Version Control for Databases(github.com)
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by akie 7y ago
> Set your own house in order before judging the government. Why?
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by akie 7y ago
Is the national language in your country English, or another language?
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by akie 7y ago
That's really not true. Many people I know also speak English, but that doesn't mean that they somehow forget how to speak their own language. If anything, small communities with an own language tend to be fiercely proud of that
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by akie 7y ago
Thanks! It's been 15 years since I did any linear algebra or had any use for eigenvectors or matrices, and I could follow this. Much appreciated.

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