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Deep sea mining could save humanity from climate change disaster – at what cost?(wired.co.uk)
2 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
That's because its main point is... more than a bit overdrawn. Yes, there's an obvious trash problem in certain areas (especially near Central Termini) and in certain parks. Which can be a bit eye-popping if the standard you&#x27
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by drugme 8y ago
Rome in "ruins" is still way more beautiful than 90% of the larger metropolises out there.
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by drugme 8y ago
Am in the same boat but you put the matter much more succinctly than I could. Thanks.
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by drugme 8y ago
A city that can't solve the slightest problem of its own ... To get back to the original subject - it seems that the matter of the illegally demolished house was, in fact... solved quite elegantly.
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by drugme 8y ago
San Franciscan city officials have a hard time letting go of the past. No - the Reason crowd has a hard time understanding the concept of a democratically controlled city planning process. And in this particular case - the very concept
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by drugme 8y ago
The way things are going, pretty soon, pretty much everything Alexa and similar services pick up will be stream-replicated, keyword-indexed, hashtagged and AI-contextualized for the benefit of the hard-working folks at your friendly neighbo
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by drugme 8y ago
It feels to me as though the mantra of "move fast and break things" wasn't meant to apply to laws. Actually the related mantra of "Hey as long as it's just a fine you can reasonably pay -- or you don't think
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by drugme 8y ago
Do we have any reason to believe anything this company says about anything anymore? It's like they know they're in a very deep hole - yet with every press release they just keep digging themselves in deeper.
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by drugme 8y ago
If some people I don’t know get fucked over for that, whatever. And when your kids lost all respect for you after finding out what a shameless sell-out you are, well... whatever.
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Colin Kroll, HQ Trivia and Vine App Co-Founder, Dies in New York Aged 34(theguardian.com)
2 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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If I have the choice between using some pre-existing Python code or rewriting it in C, I'd rather rewrite it in C. Go ahead, get your jollies and rewrite it in C. But will anyone else be able to read it and maintain it? That's
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by drugme 8y ago
OK, I'll correct myself: "If a language is (or never has been) spoken much..."
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by drugme 8y ago
What NYT thinks devs are doing in Silicon Valley: AI and machine learning hacking in VR 3D. Funny, the article doesn't mention any of those topics at all (except for AI - but only as a way of introducing John McCarthy). Meanwhile we
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by drugme 8y ago
There's a big distinction between "not many people" versus "not everyone".
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Yup - the past simple almost always means "did X to completion, more or less". E.g. "ate dinner", "wrote a program", "invaded France", etc. Or "learned Spanish". Some verbs have indefinite
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To a man with an algorithm all things look like an advertising opportunity(theguardian.com)
4 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
Note that such a language would not actually need to be actively spoken in normal life much. Almost by definition - if a language isn't "spoken much" - it isn't really language. But rather a collection of rules and d
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Do we ever learn anything but the rough outlines of anything? Actually, people do -- those who become, if not necessarily world-reknown experts -- at least generally recognized as competent professionals in just about any field. For examp
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looking up some words in a dictionary occasionally... It is worth mentioning, however, that I've already forgotten almost everything I've learnt of Spanish Well that's the whole point -- you didn't really "learn
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A universal shared language for international communication? In theory, yes - but not in practice . Which is precisely what the above commenter was saying.
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Which must be why, during most tech interviews ... the emphasis is completely the opposite.