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by avivo 10y ago
Important thing to note — this may not be the best solution if your goal is to always have an up to date local (dropbox synced) version of a git repo. The docs discourage that: > If you're using the Dropbox client to sync files, it&
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Newsonomics: With new roadblocks for digital news sites, what happens next?(niemanlab.org)
2 points by avivo 11y ago|1 comments
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by avivo 11y ago
Kite should just ask for a limited license like Heroku does (ideally more limited). Anyone worried about their IP should never use a service like Kite (or Heroku!) without looking at the legal docs — to ensure that they are not giving away
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by avivo 11y ago
What if Kite can't legally use the data for alternative purposes? I don't think disavowing a contract via a bankruptcy would let a company sell assets they don't own . So Kite should be able to avoid this fear by asking onl
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by avivo 11y ago
Cowspiracy takes a somewhat extreme view on this, but the overall message is correct. IPCC numbers estimate the emissions from agriculture at 24%, though that may not count full life cycle costs or the effects of damaging ecosystem carbon s
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by avivo 11y ago
This doesn't make sense. More nitrous oxide and methane means more heat is captured by the atmosphere. This effect does not diminish with "the amount already in the atmosphere." https://www3.epa.gov/climatecha
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by avivo 11y ago
I just installed "Termux" and "Hacker’s keyboard," ran `apt upgrade`, `apt install emacs`, and ran `emacs` — everything worked flawlessly. Unlike the OP though, I barely touched the on screen keyboard for all of this — I
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by avivo 11y ago
Gorgeous success! Fascinating to hear chants of USA USA USA in the background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pUAydjne5M&t=37m13s
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by avivo 11y ago
For more background on the idea of "universal tax rebate," apparently the correct term may be "indirect subsidy." See the original proposal by McChesney and Nichols at http://www.thenation.com/article&#x2
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by avivo 11y ago
I'll grant that we don't need locally developed news platforms . For all I care, local news could be distributed by reddit. What we do need is some way to keep our local government and businesses accountable . We need reportin
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by avivo 11y ago
This is not a sign that "news organizations should try harder" (quoting another comment). It's a sign that good local news is not profitable to produce — e.g. a failure of the free market to provide a critical public good. As
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by avivo 11y ago
I thought there was finally a proven business model pioneered by blendle for these sorts of articles ( https://launch.blendle.com/ ). Automatically pay per article, but have it be trivially refundable (to discourage low quali
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by avivo 11y ago
What about Patreon or Blendle? These are at least two potential solutions right now which have proven effective in similar specific circumstances (though they may not solve the whole problem). https://patreon.com gives you conti
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by avivo 11y ago
I wish! Though implementation would be tricky and might heavily politicize science in a bad way (as opposed to a good way; which could also happen). The closest I've seen anywhere to that is in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy.
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by avivo 11y ago
Are we reading the same "critique"? I don't see much in the way of extraordinary claims. In fact, most of the claims come directly from the paper! None of that post was criticizing the paper -- it was primarily clarifying the
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by avivo 11y ago
It's interesting to see how people react to this, in the context of the reactions to their first VC raise of 100 million dollars -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4220353 e.g. "They want to do bigger and bet
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by avivo 11y ago
I've been explaining this perspective to most clients for years, almost word for word. Specifically the question/focus: "do any users love our product so much they spontaneously tell other people to use it ?" I'm e
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by avivo 11y ago
Why would you compare the limits on intelligence of an AI to the abilities of just one human? Why not compare it to 1000 people, all communicating and problem solving together? We know that this is possible because it happens all the time
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by avivo 11y ago
Full text of paper: https://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6266/1332.full
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Computer system passes “visual Turing test”(news.mit.edu)
2 points by avivo 11y ago|1 comments
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How to hijack a journal(sciencemag.org)
1 points by avivo 11y ago|1 comments
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by avivo 11y ago
FYI, it seems that Visual Studio sends a lot of data about your usage back to Microsoft. "This includes information about how you use the products and services, such as the features you use, the web pages you visit, and the search term
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by avivo 11y ago
The CIA "is tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT)" The director is presumably in charge of executing specific
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by avivo 11y ago
The article tries to present Stanford as relatively unique in this light — which is great for Stanford but potentially bad for the overall ecosystem. It shores that up with the vacuous statement about how it is "unclear if Stanford is
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by avivo 11y ago
This is also true of MIT. http://web.mit.edu/registrar/stats/gender/index.html According to the article "It was unclear if Stanford is the only major U.S. university where computer science is the top maj
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by avivo 11y ago
This is great news. I'm thrilled that Kickstarter was able to do this, that its investors let them, and that the NYT thought it was worth writing up. I hope other companies follow suit, and that an ecosystem can develop of such compani
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by avivo 11y ago
The thesis is ~ that just having the same inactive institutional investors owning shares in competing companies discourages competition and hurts consumers. I highly recommend reading the conclusion -- some excerpts/context: "Cons
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by avivo 11y ago
Advertising can also be helpful -- it is possible to develop a new product which is useful while not being intrinsically viral. Advertising makes it possible to have such a product actually exist and benefit people. But impression or persua
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by avivo 11y ago
Woops, missed that. This is really excellent, and I just added to your funding campaign. I hope you succeed, I think this is an important piece of software to have exist and I will likely use it.
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by avivo 11y ago
This is very cool. I'm curious if you have thoughts on this post about Medium's implementation and where you agree or diverged. https://medium.com/medium-eng/why-contenteditable-is-terribl...

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