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Texas Marfa lights mystery(bbc.com)
3 points by diminish 8y ago|0 comments
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by diminish 8y ago
Twitter is full of endless fraud phishing ads. I report and report but they pop up back again. If we can detect fake news, why can't Twitter detect fraudulent ads?
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Macedonia and Greece: Clashes in Athens over neighbour's name change(bbc.com)
1 points by diminish 8y ago|0 comments
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by diminish 8y ago
Human "intelligences" are hacked in masses since the dawn of humanity costing in millions of dead. But it seems rather the force driving the society forward.
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by diminish 8y ago
Wasn't the demise of RSS readers a good example of Embrace and Extinguish strategy by the big G? It paved the way to the bloated, paywalled, app-siloed, dumbified media consumption of today.
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by diminish 8y ago
So the alien civilization has more or less our physics knowledge at some point in time last 600K years.
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Did social media save this town?(bbc.com)
2 points by diminish 8y ago|0 comments
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by diminish 8y ago
XS reminds of an extra small version..
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by diminish 8y ago
Newer projects have quick version bumps after the success of Chrome's accelerated versioning approach. But for software deeper in solutions, fast version changes appear confusing. I like Apache, nginx with very small bumps. Most new
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by diminish 8y ago
I wouldn't pick Elixir because: Rails has revolutionized web application development on Ruby, with Sinatra as the minimalist version and a lot of "me too" frameworks have been developed, and somehow I like them all. * On Pyth
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Turkey's magical hangover cure(bbc.com)
20 points by diminish 8y ago|5 comments
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by diminish 8y ago
I recommend Vue as the default for frond end. It's done right with a dedicated leader, comprehensible design. JSX is the worst invention of the decade. It's ugly, useless and solves a non-issue. I don't recommend it at all.
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by diminish 8y ago
What about a blockchain version of the "wishes" chained for future reference?
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by diminish 8y ago
> pretty much where native UIs were 30 years ago, In reverse, I would argue, Hundreds of "Native UIs", most of them obsolete or dead, have shown to be incapable to express cross-platform, flexible layout capabilities of 199
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by diminish 8y ago
We invented horseless auto mobile but required continuous human attention for steering and managing the machine. With a horse indeed we already had semi-driverless operation in some scenarios. We are reinventing the "horse" - so
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by diminish 8y ago
Am I the only one to find -rcX and -previewX type of versioning confusing. like how much time is remaining etc.
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by diminish 8y ago
Apple or Google don't ban URLs or websites on their Safari or Chrome browsers. Is that due to historical reasons or are there any laws regarding this?
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by diminish 8y ago
Am I missing anything deeper in Suskinds work except an olfactory genius's murderous quest for the perfect scent? I think, a non-dark version of this novel could be interesting too.
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by diminish 8y ago
I have a small experiment to discover if AGI is already a solved puzzle. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18720482
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Ask HN: Is anyone working on AGI on a promising idea?
5 points by diminish 8y ago|5 comments
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by diminish 8y ago
> Official data shows it grew 6.5 percent in the three months that ended in September, compared with a year earlier. Either Trumpism works, or the article is just weak.
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US has become a risky destination for ordinary business travel. I suppose business and tech conferences better take place in neutral places where rule of law prevails.
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by diminish 8y ago
Why didn't AOL, Yahoo then succeed in the same way in USA? I'm very curious if we shall see the `minitelization` of the Internet, ( `minitel` service popular in France pre-WWW? )
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That's true. He's now mostly interested in DIY things which has challenges on its own.
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He currently doesn't care about the comments but most comments are quite offensive. I see him alone, in his room, preparing for a video, rehearsing his speech, and having multiple takes and revisions. Kind of very weird. He comes up w
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by diminish 8y ago
I also alternate between a panoptic nightmarish future vision, and the fear of becoming an obsolete species.
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by diminish 8y ago
I only freak out, when I read horrible comments - which is an unfortunate part of the youtube experience.
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My 6 y.o. lives in a youtube universe. Every content he creates, he makes a video and publishes on youtube. Making slimes, building stamps, building paper train wagons, visiting places, and of course unpacking toys and stuff. He always conc
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by diminish 8y ago
Udacity's clean, curated, well designed approach lost to market based diverse mooc approach by others.
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by diminish 8y ago
"The West was sure the Chinese approach would not work. It just had to wait. It’s still waiting." Waiting, crossing fingers, thinking wishfully, hoping, and acting upon it. China is doing something right.. or maybe West is indeed

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