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Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches(sciencemag.org)
307 points by chippy 5y ago|128 comments
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by chippy 5y ago
the basemap is from Carto, which uses a range of sources including OpenStreetMap and is missing required attribution: https://carto.com/attribution/ https://carto.com/help/working-with-data/at
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Can you hear the Hum? The mystery noise that says a lot about modern life(theguardian.com)
8 points by chippy 5y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 5y ago
a necessary evil is still an evil. No one 'wins' it.
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by chippy 5y ago
They do reserve the right to claim ownership, effectively. "I grant to Amazon a royalty free, worldwide, fully paid-up, perpetual, transferrable license to any and all of my intellectual property rights associated with the Personal Gam
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by chippy 5y ago
> if the contractors are vetted and proven to deliver value. But how can you tell this is not just bait-and-switch itself? The most senior person with an impressive resume is vetted and proven to deliver value, but how can you know if th
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by chippy 5y ago
> it's just an HTTP header What would be the total bandwidth, energy and Co2 usage if the largest net entities from Google used this header?
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by chippy 5y ago
The placebo / nocebo effect is real. If people think they will feel good after taking something many of them will do and if people think they might get sick taking something, then many of them will do.
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by chippy 5y ago
"Don't let perfect be the enemy of Good". However, there is a certain very visible irony in that Microsoft runs both GitHub and Bing.
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Spy Cams Map on New York(googlemapsmania.blogspot.com)
1 points by chippy 5y ago|0 comments
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Who Owns the World?(googlemapsmania.blogspot.com)
2 points by chippy 5y ago|0 comments
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In Pursuit of Equality, French Cities Adopt Gendered Budgets(bloomberg.com)
5 points by chippy 5y ago|4 comments
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by chippy 5y ago
E-prime intrigues me too ;-) I just love E-Prime. I once, for a month, used social media where I would try to only use e-prime. I experienced a lot of difficulty, but I enjoyed the experience. For a week, I tried only speaking in e-prime an
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by chippy 5y ago
I started vaping around the same time as the first lockdown. I never enjoyed it really and it kind of actually hurt my lungs a couple of times. I stopped. Break until next lockdown. I started smoking a tobacco pipe. Maybe 1 bowl every 3 da
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Angels and Demons; on Airports and Modernity(im1776.com)
1 points by chippy 5y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 5y ago
The actual paper is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89821-0 Abstract: "Claims to supernatural power have been used as a basis for authority in a wide range of societies, but little is known about
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Is deference to supernatural beings present in infancy?(eurekalert.org)
1 points by chippy 5y ago|1 comments
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by chippy 5y ago
It seems that, in the majority of cases, we are left with trust at the end of the day. They might say "we will never do X" but if someone buys them, then the "we" becomes something different, and the new company is free
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A Jeopardy Contestant's Hand Gesture Became Part of a Conspiracy(nytimes.com)
2 points by chippy 5y ago|0 comments
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FSF board frequently asked questions (FAQ)(fsf.org)
7 points by chippy 5y ago|0 comments
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What unconscious bias training gets wrong and how to fix it(theguardian.com)
2 points by chippy 5y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 5y ago
Like how just 30 years ago wind power was to be found at the hobby level in hippy farms but now has gradually matured, improved efficiency and is more stable, what's to stop tidal power gradually maturing and becoming more stable and e
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Paleopharmaceuticals from Baltic amber might fight drug-resistant infections(eurekalert.org)
1 points by chippy 5y ago|0 comments
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PeakFinder(peakfinder.org)
2 points by chippy 6y ago|0 comments
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SpatiaLite: A Spatial Extension to SQLite(gaia-gis.it)
191 points by chippy 6y ago|21 comments
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by chippy 6y ago
You shouldn't show the pie chart before people have voted. This skews things. Show it after.
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GNU Kind Communications Guidelines(gnu.org)
31 points by chippy 6y ago|17 comments
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A 2021 Update on Paid Editing in OpenStreetMap(openstreetmap.org)
3 points by chippy 6y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 6y ago
It's interesting to see the stories about Periscope over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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Periscope Shuts Down(theverge.com)
3 points by chippy 6y ago|1 comments

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