alphydan

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by alphydan 10y ago
simple, hand coded, kind-of responsive, http://www.alvarofeito.com
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by alphydan 10y ago
Our AI overlords are going to have a laugh scamming us ... creating a 20 year long world of relationships, work and virtual reality is all it took to fool sickbeard. He really deserved it.
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by alphydan 10y ago
There is no substitute for living in the country and avoiding your native speakers like the plague. Immerse yourself completely (take a few language courses, move in with locals, make an effort to avoid English speakers at all costs). Giv
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Zenodo: Data repository for open science(zenodo.org)
3 points by alphydan 10y ago|0 comments
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by alphydan 10y ago
I'm afraid there is no such plan. US production has been declining since the 70s in spite of all attempts to keep it going. Only with the >$100/barrel prices from the last few years did fracking become viable and production r
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by alphydan 10y ago
> The second problem is nationalizing companies. The government sucks at operations--that's been proven time and time again. You mean like Saudi Aramco? That little company with $380bn of revenue (about 4 times larger than google
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by alphydan 10y ago
How Bad Off Is Oil-Rich USA? It’s Buying oil from all over the world! in 2015, the USA imported 9,400,000 barrels every day from 82 countries (Mostly from Canada, Saudi Arabia and ... surprise, surprise from Venezuela). Now the NYT thinks t
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by alphydan 10y ago
These guys also have a cool saling drone which can self-right if it tips over in a storm http://www.automarinesys.com
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by alphydan 10y ago
Precisely. But that might be a local minimum. "Show him boobs and action trailers" is guaranteed to make him stay another 40min. But perhaps there is a more risky strategy that takes longer to craft and actually delivers hours a
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Exandria – A decentralized public file library(gist.github.com)
2 points by alphydan 10y ago|0 comments
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No conclusive research on learning styles(psi.sagepub.com)
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Hyundai and Google Seek Closer Collaboration (GOOG) – Investopedia(investopedia.com)
1 points by alphydan 10y ago|0 comments
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by alphydan 10y ago
Sounds to me like a perfectly reasonable application or the law. Put all the citizens in that state in Jail. What were they thinking!?
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by alphydan 10y ago
A nice paper on the Brachistochrone which dwelves a little more on J. Bernoulli's approach is: http://www.math.umt.edu/tmme/vol5no2and3/tmme_vol5nos2and3_a...
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by alphydan 10y ago
Then consider this ... :-/ http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/fd/c3/02/fdc3028d49...
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by alphydan 10y ago
>> death of saloon culture, a drop in domestic violence, and lower infant mortality Didn't all those things happen in other countries which didn't implement prohibition? Are you sure it wasn't a natural evolution of s
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by alphydan 10y ago
Clone them?
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by alphydan 10y ago
Offer free minecraft servers for coding teachers running this course: https://github.com/teachthenet/TeachCraft-Challenges (cough, cough, ... I could use one)
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by alphydan 10y ago
I don't see the evidence behind this piece. In the article linked it says: << For instance, in the month before the Brexit vote, 8,100 Britons googled “what is the eu.” That’s around 261 a day. Google Trends showed a huge spike
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Brexit: Wave of racial abuse follows(independent.co.uk)
18 points by alphydan 10y ago|2 comments
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by alphydan 10y ago
You may have failed to notice the British "mass influx of low skilled labour" in Europe. The uneducated immigrants are not only from the PIGS countries or from Eastern Europe. It turns out some are British too! But the Brits in
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by alphydan 10y ago
Well, that's exactly what immigrants do in the UK (contribute more than they take by certain metrics [0]), ... but it doesn't stop the hostility in the media. In Spain the perception is that Brits in the south are low qualified an
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by alphydan 10y ago
Are you sure about that? What about the 1 million 'immigrants' that may all of a sudden have to leave the South of Spain, South of France, Ireland, etc. It's a possibility that most of those British expats would have to come
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by alphydan 10y ago
I would argue the exact opposite applies to many people: I couldn't care less about promotions (An additional $40,000? It doesn't affect my happiness in any way). If I want extra responsibilities for the challenge, I can usually
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by alphydan 10y ago
I don't think "simply an outsider" covers many of the experiences described by some women in tech: Groping, sexual harassment, assumptions on getting the job on looks, over-scrutiny of their work, etc ... This is not every w
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by alphydan 10y ago
Zara (or more generally Inditex) does quality control in Spain, but a small part of the products are manufactured in Spain. Their Bangladesh suppliers have ~300,000 workers vs. ~6,000 in Spain [0]. To counter your point, it seems that a p
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by alphydan 10y ago
For your information, population in Europe is not in decline [0]. It's still growing at a an annual 0.8%, and has been growing for the past decade (partly due to immigration) [0] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm&
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by alphydan 10y ago
> Bitcoin [is dead, is bullshit, is dying, is bad, is not anonymous, is the future] seems pretty accurate :)
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by alphydan 10y ago
I can't wait for the mis-translation anecdotes to start pouring in ... maybe I should make a site to collect them :) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/03/google-translat...
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by alphydan 10y ago
He may be talking about cooking. This could involve chemical reactions, or facilitate / slow the absorption of nutrients, therefore changing the effective caloric intake from various ingredients. Thermodynamics should add up once you a

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