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by banach 5y ago
I hope the paper authors get this in reward for their work.
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by banach 5y ago
This is just such good news!
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by banach 5y ago
These are not the only alternatives. Messaging apps allow people to stay in touch with each other without any of the timeline corporate surveillance society nonsense.
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by banach 6y ago
Did you bring it up with your manager? How about your colleagues. You can significantly affect your chances by talking about it, making clear that you see this as a major benefit (that doesn't cost the company a dime and, in fact, open
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by banach 6y ago
What this argument misses is that the supplier should be paying its adult employees living wages that are sufficient to pay for the upbringing of the employees’ families. This is especially true when the customer is the richest company in t
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by banach 6y ago
Thanks, Facebook, for the reminder to speed up transition to Signal for the rest of my social circles.
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by banach 6y ago
You forgot to mention lead- and radium beauty creams.
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by banach 6y ago
Time to support another reading community! Anyone got any suggestions?
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by banach 6y ago
For macOS, Lunar does that you want https://lunar.fyi
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by banach 6y ago
To learn to appreciate concert music I can warmly recommend the Great Courses’ How to Listen to and Understand Great Music: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/how-to-listen-to-and...
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by banach 6y ago
While I have been using MacBooks as my personal and work computers for the majority of the past 10 years, I used to work exclusively on Thinkpads, and used two generations of them as my personal computers. Both of them still work and I expe
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by banach 7y ago
This guy’s upbeat editorials in the Swedish media have consistently applauded our transformation from a world leader along just about every metric of human development, to a country that blindly adopts market solutions to societal problems
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by banach 7y ago
"coffee shop" on the other hand yields 20 results. I agree that some support for fuzzy search is needed, but there is a reasonable amount of data there.
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by banach 7y ago
Could you provide some references?
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by banach 8y ago
When will we start recognizing fake surprise as an enabling linchpin of the current economic system? These "bad apples" aren't outliers, they are the very essence of the system.
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by banach 8y ago
I would prefer they leave the oceans unexplored until we have found a way to curb our tendency to exploit any resources we find, without regard to ecosystems (which we may not even understand until the harm is done).
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by banach 8y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal
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by banach 8y ago
Can you explain how that works?
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by banach 8y ago
Why settle for two, when you can have them all? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1011501232197
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by banach 8y ago
I would consider https://www.nand2tetris.org/ for a similar from-metal-to-application understanding of computing. It is a ground-up course that covers the construction of a CPU using only a NAND circuit, and ends with imple
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by banach 8y ago
I hope somebody makes an Eclipse plugin out of this, and integrates it into the TeXlipse LaTeX IDE. It is a sad state of affairs that this aging project (last release was in 2011) is still the most versatile TeX editing environment. For exa
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by banach 8y ago
Performing such experiments only on humans, who are capable of consent, or not performing the experiment at all, and finding other ways of understanding the world that don’t involve doing things to animals that we consider ourselves too civ
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by banach 8y ago
After reading Peter Singer's Animal Liberation, I can't help but recoil in disgust at what it must have taken to produce the results for such a paper. Sure, this is interesting, but is it really worth the cost? Did the researchers
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by banach 9y ago
There are conditions that are considered incurable by "proper" medicine (e.g. Alzheimer's disease) and discouraging people from looking elsewhere (e.g. http://www.aging-us.com/article/100690 ) in those ca
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by banach 9y ago
The holocaust was legal, slavery was legal, segregation was legal. If you use the state as a metric for ethics you'll end up disappointed. -- @lex_looper
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by banach 9y ago
I was surprised not to see a reconstruction of your own face as one of the animoji options. More than a novelty, it could be very valuable possession to a family member, after someone passes away.
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by banach 9y ago
It's funny how you classify "space to get into the zone" as an employee benefit, while all that does is increase your productivity. But I guess that could mean going home earlier...
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by banach 9y ago
Delightful!
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by banach 9y ago
Philosophies of life like Buddhism and Stoicism came about in times that were much less comfy than even the sad reality we have to endure. I am not saying people shouldn't demand things of society (quite the opposite, I think the level
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by banach 9y ago
On the contrary. The less you have, the more you stand to benefit from appreciating other things than possessions.

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