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by dj_gitmo 5y ago
Slightly tangential, but I can't tell if I love or hate the logo for swc https://github.com/swc-project/swc Either way, I want to try this next time I'm using TypeScript.
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
It's difficult to pull apart Correlation vs causation. For example, European colonizers choose to colonize countries that they saw as economically valuable. India was very rich in gold and farm land pre-colonization, and the Europeans
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
Looked it up and apparently: > Industry statistics indicate that creating an integrated circuit on a 300 mm wafer requires approximately 2200 gallons of water in total, of which 1500 gallons is ultra-pure water.
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
Neither the US State Department nor CIA have claimed there is genocide so I think there is still an open question. The groups claiming genocide are NGOs and a fake university, The Newline Institute https://thegrayzone.com/2
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
China has not restricted access to Xinjiang. You can visit if you like. Most western visitors report that security is high in some areas, but foreigners are allowed to visit. Just walking around won't necessarily tell you the whole sto
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
This is not an open and shut case. The organizations reporting this, The Australian Strategic Policy Institute(Aussie defense department), and The Victims Of Communism Foundation(!), are not unbiased nor are their methodologies uncontrovers
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
This is one of the best pieces of software. It's really changed the game and I don't think it would be easy to safely use shell in large teams without it.
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
https://www.wildberries.ru/ the website is more responsive than Amazon, although that can be said about almost any website.
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
This was my first thought as well. Maybe it took that many people working in parallel to eventually find a vulnerability, but I personally just can't imagine 1000 engineers working productively on one hack. That said, I'm not a se
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
It isn’t mentioned in the article, but in a linked article it says the the conclusion seems to be based on a report by ASPI, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. https://www.aspi.org.au/
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
I take this issue very serious issue and I've spent a significant amount of time researching it. I think there is a settler-colonial project occurring in Xinjiang, but there are some serious problems with many of the western sources th
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
Why not include an example of a new company that fits this category? Whole Foods is just part of Amazon now.
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
It seems like they may have their reasons, but it's odd considering NATO seems more and more like a relic of the Cold War that should be reconsidered. For example, Turkey is engaging in all kinds of activities that don't seem to m
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
Taibbi's partner at the time posted a response to these allegations. https://exiledonline.com/about-those-exile-smears/ A brief excerpt from Ames' piece: "How do you respond to something so blatantly dis
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
Maybe she is delaying applying for a position because she has to literally wear a baby all day? It's difficult to have a job and an infant, so why try and get an even more demanding job when you are in that stage of your life.
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
Not the point!
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
Fascinating. The end of the CNN article about this is incredible: > Richard Harris, the Australian anesthesiologist, was one of only two cave-diving anesthesiologists in the world. "I didn't think it would work at all," Ha
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
This video argues that the object was probably just a bird, and the apparent speed was a result of parallax. Seems more plausible than the alternatives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
"This seems, unfortunately, to have been an own goal by Silicon Valley. Though the people who run Silicon Valley are almost all independent-minded, they've handed the aggressively conventional-minded a tool such as they c
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
For anyone looking for wholesome bee-saving content with a Cajun accent check out JPthebeeman https://www.youtube.com/user/JPthebeeman
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
You can avoid burning the milk by keeping the milk moving with a large spoon. Nesting the milk in a second pot of water seems overly complicated.
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
Based on the blog post it seems like they are giving themselves a lot of wiggle-room to include or exclude whomever they like. If we determine that there are enough protections in place to ensure editorial independence, we will not ap
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
Here is the blog post this article discusses. https://about.fb.com/news/2020/06/labeling-state-controlled-...
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
I assume that this would only work reliably for headshots/avatars? Still, if I were an artist whose income came from furry art, this would terrify me.
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by dj_gitmo 6y ago
Since this is a US-centric article it's worth noting that the US spends half of all federal discretionary spending (i.e. everything except Social Security or Medicare) on the military. Almost a trillion dollars a year. If even half tha
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by dj_gitmo 7y ago
The author gave an interesting interview on the War Nerd podcast https://www.krisnewby.com/media/radio-war-nerd
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by dj_gitmo 7y ago
I have starting looking for software engineering jobs for the first time in a few years, and I'm looking at it through a more socially conscious lens than I did a few years ago. I'm not opposed to commerce or people making money,
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by dj_gitmo 7y ago
I'm guessing the actual interview is behind a paywall, but it can't really tell. It just seems like the article ends abruptly.
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by dj_gitmo 7y ago
I actually like some things about the Economist and I subscribed for years. I feel like people would be better informed about the world if they read it. That said, it's absolutely dripping with ideology and you need to know how to read
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by dj_gitmo 7y ago
> If Lambda can turn a profit by offering people a stab at a decent job, that would be a fine lesson in capitalism. I'm not so sure. The solution might not be to train more nurses, but to retain the exiting nurses. Nurses have a rea

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