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by bribroder 7y ago
The opposite of a paradox
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by bribroder 7y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1997/07/04/h...
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by bribroder 7y ago
It might be a data collection problem--the JMA has deployed a pretty dense network of sensors over their entire territory, which makes sense given how geologically active it is. In fact the Earthquake Early Warning's "next steps&q
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by bribroder 7y ago
How did you think those fancy things got into the movies? Why were those peers seen performing those actions?
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by bribroder 7y ago
http://www.allaboutbags.ca/papervplastic.html > Fiction: Many believe that paper bags are more environmentally friendly than plastic bags because they are made from a renewable resource, can biodegrade, and are recyclab
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From Macintosh to Granny Smith: The Rise and Fall of Apple(venturebeat.com)
1 points by bribroder 7y ago|0 comments
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The Scene Inside D.C.’S Sold-Out Slime Convention(dcist.com)
1 points by bribroder 8y ago|0 comments
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by bribroder 8y ago
One argument that I think has been propelling kubernetes is that projects using orchestrated containers benefit from a consistent application environment, and such orchestrated deploys can be much more easily distributed when the entire sta
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by bribroder 8y ago
In just the last few months they've made it possible to preserve these snapshots after destroying the database: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-rd...
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You might find your next home on Amazon(qz.com)
1 points by bribroder 8y ago|1 comments
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The secrets of the AuthaGraph revealed(kunimune.home.blog)
1 points by bribroder 8y ago|0 comments
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by bribroder 8y ago
How about, "Jeff, I used to love Amazon, but since you started fronting a bunch of knockoff products I can no longer confidently choose the lowest priced options--I wish your selection was less vast and more select, and I'd even b
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by bribroder 8y ago
If you really want to be off the record, you just have to get agreement from the journalist before you shoot your mouth off
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Paradise Lost: How Tourists Are Destroying the Places They Love(spiegel.de)
112 points by bribroder 8y ago|152 comments
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by bribroder 8y ago
Oh I didn't mean to imply any humility or positive traits in Jobs, I was thinking more about how it must have felt for his daughter and how she had to rationalize it.
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by bribroder 8y ago
> The neighbors next door worried about the teenage Lisa, and one night, when Mr. Jobs was out, they moved her from his house and into theirs. Against Mr. Jobs’s wishes, the neighbors paid for her to finish college. (He later paid them b
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by bribroder 8y ago
hence "subspecies": http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/2480/0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_minke_whale#Conserva... > From 1987 to the present, Japan has been sending a
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by bribroder 8y ago
> equivalently tasty to easily available options Honestly curious, what are these options of equivalent tastiness? Do they pass in blind taste tests with any "mainstream" meats? Are they at the same (or lower) pricepoint? Do th
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by bribroder 8y ago
The issue which most people oppose is neither whale hunting nor whale farming but whale extinction. Sei whales and certain subspecies of Minke whales, which are the specific species mentioned, are listed as endangered and near-threatened, r
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by bribroder 8y ago
Step 3: Uninstall Flash Step 4: Pass test?!
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by bribroder 8y ago
Here's an interesting tidbit: The tricky thing about THC, however, is that it is a large and complex molecule unlike ethanol, the main compound in alcohol, which is relatively small and simple. According to Tom Bruno, a NIST research c
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The Most Valuable Companies of All-Time (2017)(visualcapitalist.com)
2 points by bribroder 8y ago|0 comments
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by bribroder 8y ago
Duplicates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17673922
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by bribroder 8y ago
How do you get coins if you're not an open source project? Is the idea that, when the mainnet launches, private individuals and the for-profit sector will buy coins from open source projects?
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by bribroder 8y ago
Their definition of wilderness area is quite broad and includes areas within national forests that are "de-facto" wildernesses: > Four categories of Wilderness area were considered for this analysis: > - Federal Wilderness A
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by bribroder 8y ago
Yeah it really looks like their algorithm is not doing something so fancy as considering the forest roads which in theory are motorable (but may not have seen one in years), so much as measuring from drivable roads and park boundaries which
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by bribroder 8y ago
Is it really a problem to be solved? As the article mentions, there's no negative association with the word tsundoku in Japan. It seems like having a reserve of reading material is a good thing; you'll always have something new to
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by bribroder 8y ago
For those who missed it, the Reddit thread detailing the "expectations gap" on launch: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4y1h9i/wheres_the_no... > "[But] if we hadn’t released No
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by bribroder 8y ago
Since everyone in the control group and the test group applied to the VPK program and was randomly placed into either the test or control group, we have good reason to think they have a similar background and needs... But maybe the kids wh
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by bribroder 8y ago
> One possibility is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, some children may be better off academically if—instead of attending public pre-k—they stay at home at age four (which is where two-thirds of the sample children who did not enr

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