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by asaph 7y ago
If only everyone read Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark[0], or at least the Baloney Detection Kit part. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Demon-Haunted-World-Science-Candle-Da...
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by asaph 7y ago
This is the human version of the philosophical Ship of Theseus[0] question. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
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by asaph 7y ago
It got messed up when I was trying to format it, unfortunately. But my point still stands.
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by asaph 7y ago
> Don’t try to install things with brew if brew is not installed: if which brew 2>&1 /dev/null ; then brew install jq fi This just hides a useful error message (brew not installed). I would rather just
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by asaph 7y ago
fortnightly
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by asaph 7y ago
But, more consistent with the alarmist headline: > “I’m suddenly concerned that all of published math is wrong because mathematicians are not checking the details, and I’ve seen them wrong before,” Buzzard told Motherboard while he was a
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by asaph 7y ago
Notably it includes 30 seasons of the Simpsons.
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by asaph 7y ago
Google's Noto fonts[0][1] will give you good coverage. You should still do some basic smoke testing when launching a new language for your site though. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts [1] https:&#x
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by asaph 7y ago
Is it just me or does Inter look like a clone of Helvetica?
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by asaph 7y ago
You can be both a YouTuber and an astronaut. They are not mutually exclusive.
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by asaph 7y ago
What aspect of two competitors cooperating to compete against a third in a market where there are no clear winners yet, merits an antitrust investigation?
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by asaph 7y ago
It is publicly traded on the NYSE. Ticker symbol: SHOP.
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by asaph 7y ago
"If it doesn’t stink, it’s not durian." - Tan Eow Chong
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by asaph 7y ago
In case anyone else was wondering: FPGA stands for field-programmable gate array[0]. Frustratingly, this is mentioned nowhere in the article, not even after posing the question "What is an FPGA?" right at the beginning. [0] https
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by asaph 7y ago
Fine. But that's the language of this article and this conversation thread. No reasonable person would assume some other language is relevant in this conversation.
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by asaph 7y ago
No reasonable person interprets "America" to mean the "continent of America". In fact, there is no continent called "America". There is only "North America" and "South America", which are 2
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by asaph 7y ago
> The aim, then, is to get to 100 new validators by 2020, and achieve something close to 1,000 transactions a second—roughly 200 times the sum Bitcoin can currently handle, and around half the capacity of Visa. My reactions to the above:
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by asaph 7y ago
Perhaps different people experience this image differently. For me, viewing the image on an iPhone, with no squinting at all, the balls look strikingly red, green and blue. It's only after zooming in on the image, that I convinced myse
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by asaph 7y ago
If Libra is a threat to credit cards, then why are Visa and MasterCard investing at least $10M each in it?
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by asaph 7y ago
This is a growing space. Besides WildType[0] (mentioned in the article), there are at least 2 other companies working on lab grown fish: Finless Foods[1] and BlueNalu[2]. None of these companies have a product in the market yet, but things
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by asaph 7y ago
I have a closet full of random old gadgets that I had no idea what I would do with before acquiring them. My advice is: if you don't have a plan, leave it be. Let it collect dust in someone else's closet.
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by asaph 7y ago
> This is a computer made for the engineers who’ve already “made it,” who are making that $500k a year and are looking for a Porsche over a Corvette. What about an EV such as a Tesla?
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by asaph 7y ago
I would strongly challenge that assumption too.
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by asaph 7y ago
> Today I would argue that you should expect it to take five years to build anything that matters. Setting aside for the moment whether this is true, if you're unwilling to invest 5 years of your time into a business, I would argue
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by asaph 7y ago
> Only flatulence episodes were reported during the dietary intervention Never fails to make me chuckle...
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by asaph 7y ago
> For instance, it's convenient to generate identifiers in a decentralized manner. For an elegant solution to this problem, check out Twitter's Snowflake[0]. [0] https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us&#
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by asaph 7y ago
What about the guy played by Christian Bale in The Big Short[0]? Surely his models were not BS. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Short_(film)
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by asaph 7y ago
Tesla (not mentioned in the article) deserves a lot of credit in accelerating the shift towards battery powered cars.
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by asaph 7y ago
To be fair, the current competition is largely a reaction to Tesla's accomplishments.
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by asaph 7y ago
It's too bad this analysis was done against the Dow Jones Industrial Average which is a price weighted index of only 30 large cap stocks and widely considered to be a poor indicator. Something like the S&P 500 index would would hav

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