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by apienx 4y ago
I prefer friendships that form via shared values.
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by apienx 4y ago
Short answer is no (thermodynamics of course, but if you want to get whimsy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli... ). Long(er) answer is that the pace of growth experiences periods of accelerati
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by apienx 4y ago
Good place to start: https://www.clearerthinking.org Join your local Skeptics circle.
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by apienx 4y ago
Thermal degradation plus oxidative processes make the claimed "scalable" water-capturing application unfeasible IMHO. The authors extract the water by heating to 60 °C. I'm surprised neither the Nat. Comm. editor nor any of t
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by apienx 4y ago
I don't buy the solve-water-shortage-at-scale promise. You need to heat it up to 60 °C to release the water which is bound to degrade the material. Soft matter has excellent hygroscopic properties. But soft matter also has terrible sta
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by apienx 4y ago
I find it "overarchingly" meaningful. Day-to-day, I mostly do customer support for a data scraping company. I believe I keep the core ideas and values of the original web alive (before it started getting silo'ed anyway). You
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by apienx 4y ago
Harsh words, but with governments spending like drunken sailors in the past couple of years, it's no wonder riskier venture are waking up to a hangover.
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For tech startups, the party is over(wsj.com)
9 points by apienx 4y ago|1 comments
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by apienx 4y ago
The Apify library tries to address most of these issues (I'd say quite successfully). Apify.com provides a platform you can deploy the scrapers on. And yes, at scale. There's also a software marketplace where you can order custom
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by apienx 4y ago
The PNAS editors involved in this clickbait-y title need some introspection. You can be rigorous and generalist.
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by apienx 4y ago
This wipes out all the good Google has done in my eyes (and there's plenty of it, e.g. Project Gutenberg). They could have at least issued a statement of support. Please do what you can to help Alexandra and the Sci-Hub crew. https:&#
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by apienx 5y ago
> Collectively, the three critique papers have about 90 times fewer citations than the original Dunning-Kruger article.5 So it appears that most scientists still think that the Dunning-Kruger effect is a robust aspect of human psychology
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by apienx 5y ago
Title should say "hardware description languages are weird for software people". JS guys have it easier, but for the rest, it takes time to rewire (no pun intended) your brain to think in async terms.
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by apienx 5y ago
I once had a bunch of reasons to believe that my main linux machine had been compromised by a (totalitarian) state actor for months. As soon as I googled "qubes", all input devices froze. I went and bought a new machine. Dissent i
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by apienx 5y ago
The vulnerability is really in the GNU licensed Xpdf. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpdf But you're right, the fruit comp
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by apienx 5y ago
It's not obvious to me. As phones get new features, it stands to reason that the attack surface would also increase. Note that I'm specifically referring to the mobile phone industry (people in at-risk countries rarely have comput
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Ask HN: Are we entering a 0-click era?
14 points by apienx 5y ago|9 comments
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by apienx 5y ago
Google, a trillion dollar company, is essentially the world's largest web scraper. So...yes! You'll almost certainly find a way to monetize that. Monopolies, lobbying and protectionism got in the way of keeping the web truly machi
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by apienx 5y ago
> _A growing chorus of scientists and philosophers argue that free will does not exist. Could they be right?_ Most likely not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...