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by brownbat 8y ago
With some duct tape and a machete, you could try to hack together some python to make a drone that tries to hack pythons.
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by brownbat 8y ago
Based on the intro I thought I was going to build a SimCity style city, then have it played as a song. It's more of a way to display midi files, and some sliders that can suppress some of the data. Not what I expected, but interesting
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by brownbat 8y ago
Really appreciate the calm, thoughtful, and informed devil's advocate perspective, we need more of that for meaningful discussions. > We really need to be talking about the use of antibiotics as a growth promoter I don't have f
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Bruno Ganz Has Died. Good Luck Watching His Movies on Netflix(slate.com)
2 points by brownbat 8y ago|0 comments
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by brownbat 8y ago
I've half seriously evangelized a few times here for a .text TLD. It wouldn't solve everything, but would make a nice playground that might be taken interesting places.
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by brownbat 8y ago
> [recognition of recent hits] is higher overall than the previous era > considerable correlation between the likelihood of recognizing a given song and its corresponding play count on Spotify All of the Spotify top 100 are from 2011
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by brownbat 8y ago
Financial incentives don't make something automatically wrong. Google provides this explanation about a Blue Cross incentive program similar to what you describe that sounds modest, benign, and completely justified: https://
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by brownbat 8y ago
> the Norway problem Huh: https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/ I've always liked YAML, it's always seemed pretty intuitive to me coming from Python, and I like human-reada
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by brownbat 8y ago
I believe they killed the feature that let you block entire sections you aren't interested in. If I'm right, you must take sports news from Google News, it is not optional. Customizing sources is pretty limited too. The Science se
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by brownbat 8y ago
Fallout, or its predecessor Wasteland, was probably inspired in part by works like Canticle for Liebowitz, which were just normal (dystopian) futurism at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
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by brownbat 8y ago
Foucault's Pendulum can be a bear to get through, though lots of delightful language. People could get different takeaways, but it made me think very deeply about falsifiability, the limits of persuasion, and the thin lines between pla
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by brownbat 8y ago
> They have the right to insist... People have a right to share true information legitimately acquired without the constraints of governments or mobs in other jurisdictions. Locals can't prevent foreigners from giving directions to
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by brownbat 8y ago
They were trying to reduce a latency and accidentally made it negative.
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by brownbat 8y ago
Original study has far more details: https://www.iseecars.com/cars-kept-15-years-2019-study For example -- * Some commenters wonder where the German cars are. Well, turns out they dominate the luxury section. * Some comment
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by brownbat 8y ago
> Targeting obviously isn't always perfect -- ... I keep seeing ads ... even after I bought the thing or a similar thing I'm sympathetic to your argument up until here, where you describe not just an edge case but nearly the en
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by brownbat 8y ago
Getting along with people actually matters. Brilliant jerks lower the morale and output of everyone around them. I agree that promotion processes suck if they don't create room for understated high achievers, people who are just a litt
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by brownbat 8y ago
There is an open source project: http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/ Just noting it, not advising or recommending anything -- whether this is wise or not definitely depends on your own particular situation.
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by brownbat 8y ago
> I'd much rather face the problem of building empty homes (which is not really a problem?) Not in and of itself, but if you look at historical parallels, like the development of Brasilia, the consequences were devastating: over a d
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Stopping robocalls with STIR/SHAKEN(nymag.com)
1 points by brownbat 8y ago|0 comments
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by brownbat 8y ago
I have nearly that and put all media I can in the cloud, but it's still complaining about space because I have apps installed, a feature the phone apparently wasn't designed for. Being able to stream an app would be nice. Wait a s
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by brownbat 8y ago
People want room. US emissions standards push manufacturers to turn bigger vehicles into trucks. CAFE is weirdly anti wagon. https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/10/how-cafe-killed-co...
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by brownbat 8y ago
You might have fun with this search engine: http://www.angio.net/pi/
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by brownbat 8y ago
Digging through the links on rtmark's history nets a link to this talk about the Yes Men, who tried to climb into corporations to reveal secrets or sabotage products. https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=344&v=nkOCUdvK8-U
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by brownbat 8y ago
Yeah, there's a Twilight Zone episode about a used car salesman... Bit of a caricature but makes it clear how that profession was perceived a few decades before CarMax, Carfax, or the proliferation of consumer warranties. https:/
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by brownbat 8y ago
The oligopoly juiced prices for flagships and is shocked it affected demand. People have substitutes. Even if you want a niche feature like Google Fi support, you have to dig a bit but the Moto Android one entries are fine. Internal memory
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by brownbat 8y ago
It might be like karaoke. I could hear the same concerns against that as OP delivered here. And to be fair that's something that is more successful in some places and much less so in others. Other places, like casinos or top golf or la
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by brownbat 8y ago
Is your worry that we'll convert every inch to landfill? Rest assured, at the rate we create landfills, the tectonic plates will push our landfills below the surface of the Earth and create new untouched landmasses before we run out of
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by brownbat 8y ago
You're right... There are some powerful heuristics in environmentalism-- disposable is generally worse, plastics are bad, recycling is better for the environment... But these will break in some special cases. We should avoid treating t
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by brownbat 8y ago
Huh. I've had credit card companies call me proactively when they thought something was wrong, before I caught any stray purchases. They refunded the money before I knew my card was stolen. So that was nice. But then I've also hea
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by brownbat 8y ago
> Many accomplishments are mostly luck? This got me wondering how we might prove which accomplishments are luck vs skill. Michael Mauboussin's 2012 book dives pretty far into separating luck from skill, worth checking out, or at lea

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