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by doublesCs 6y ago
> You are confusing weather and climate. As a non-native english speaker, I wasn't aware these were different things, and you didn't clarify. Could you explain the difference insofar as it's related to this conversation? T
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by doublesCs 6y ago
I find it sadder that people talk such glaring nonsense and are taken seriously. Extremely sad.
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by doublesCs 6y ago
> For five weeks, approximately 50% of doctors in the county reduced their practice and withheld care for anything but emergencies. The answer is right here. Anything but emergencies.
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by doublesCs 6y ago
Ouch. You know, I've heard many times about the GNU / Linux conversation but not being an expert I didn't really know where one starts and the other ends. So your comment has been extremely useful for me, thank you. And yes,
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by doublesCs 6y ago
I keep hearing this. How is it that in practice I can get my desktop to do anything I want, but I can't get my phone to do anything I want?
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by doublesCs 6y ago
You have 12 kids?
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by doublesCs 6y ago
Now do Googolplex:1
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by doublesCs 6y ago
I'll take the fact you didn't answer as "yes, it absolutely would".
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by doublesCs 6y ago
> The issue is that nationalistic flamewar makes people angry and dumb (and worse). People who want to rant and post denunciatory rhetoric—whom there are a lot of, and growing—need to find another place to do that. I understand and comme
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by doublesCs 6y ago
wtf... :-( EDIT: any idea why this also got flagged on HN?
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by doublesCs 6y ago
I don't have access. Could someone kindly clarify what this is about?
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by doublesCs 6y ago
> Harvard online education is worth not much. > The whole value proposition of Harvard is that you socialise and bond with the sort of people who get in to Harvard. You probably have the phone number of whoever runs Goldman Sachs [0]
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by doublesCs 6y ago
Hi Steve, thanks for your talk and for the links. Are those repos pixie dependencies? Or are you saying that pixie works like those repos?
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by doublesCs 6y ago
Is this a book in the HL universe?
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by doublesCs 6y ago
> I see them as highly educated people who excel in relativism and twist ethics and law to achieve narrow goals without regard to principles. That's how I see most lawyers.
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by doublesCs 6y ago
3 out of 4 responses currently say the answer is to use Tor. That's a very techie response. I disagree. I think that freedom of internet is not a tech problem, it's a legal problem. How do you help? The only possibilities I can th
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by doublesCs 6y ago
If dropbox actually did any of these things, people would be complaining about walled gardens.
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by doublesCs 6y ago
People aren't wearing enough hats for what purpose?
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by doublesCs 6y ago
Again, I think you're not really looking at the numbers. You're just going "the world didn't end, lets move on". I would say it's very significantly different from countries that did it well. Deaths per 1M for
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by doublesCs 6y ago
> But we can ignore the numbers and just see the bodies did not pile up in Sweden streets. From this I can not say with certainty any more that quarantine was worth it considering it does not come without serious downsides. I agree with
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by doublesCs 6y ago
> Yes but that was dropped across the board, it was nothing in particular to do with this firm which is just one of many that sought to profit from the chaos. Again, the story isn't that they sought to profit from chaos, it's t
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by doublesCs 6y ago
> Combined with WHO fluctuating to the extremes with "you need, you don't need a mask", Sweden no quarantine results vs rest of Europe, in general numbers not making much sense even for one country over periods of time (no
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by doublesCs 6y ago
> It appears what happened is, during the height of the crisis, a bunch of amoral City spivs thought it was appropriate to speculate on PPE. No, the story isn't that someone decided to speculate. The story is how someone who's
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by doublesCs 6y ago
Obvious submarine article / PR. The goal is to signal how concerned with ethics DeepMind is.
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by doublesCs 6y ago
Just to get a sense for the crowd: am I the only one who doesn't care much about the news industry? Keeping with what's new in society is important insofar as having an informed population is vital for the correct functioning of a
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by doublesCs 6y ago
Has worked elsewhere. Here in the UK, money transfer is mind boggingly fast, and free.
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by doublesCs 6y ago
Viral. I thanked Jonath in a different post :-P When I see projects like this (I mean especially Julia, but also people sharing their work on packages like this) I feel very fortunate that elements of the free software movement are still al
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by doublesCs 6y ago
No questions. Just wanted to thank you for sharing. People like you make the world better one tiny bit at a time.
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by doublesCs 6y ago
Truly truly thank you for your work <3
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by doublesCs 6y ago
Very thin content. There were really only two options: regex or parser. This is close to "You won't believe what happened next" level of content.

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