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by fovc 10y ago
Is plastic vs paper bags really that clear-cut an issue? I get the recycle/decompose angle, but I would have thought that paper bags would use much more energy (embedded + transport), release many more chemicals, and cause much more de
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Clinton pledges constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United ruling(politico.com)
20 points by fovc 10y ago|9 comments
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by fovc 10y ago
How much are those assets worth? Wouldn't the bonds be worth more if these assets were that substantial?
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by fovc 10y ago
I imagine eminent-domain type costs are less of an issue in Russia, but I distances are much larger there. Beyond the Jilin-Summa, are there a lot of medium-length routes in Russia? I thought the hyperloop didn't work that well for lon
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by fovc 10y ago
What are the problematic features in Python that are not in JS? I'm not as familiar with JS
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by fovc 10y ago
The series was amazing. Could not stop clicking through. I was sorely let down at the end when there was no more to read. Also when it didn't turn into an open-source high-performing P2P video conferencing app :)
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Dupont, Chemours handed another loss in Teflon case(bloomberg.com)
3 points by fovc 10y ago|0 comments
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by fovc 10y ago
Love that electrical systems and internet connection are 2 of your top 3
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by fovc 10y ago
The os.path is not a great example, but imagine a loop where inside the body you mutate some state of an instance and then directly access it. Compare the following with the os.path example: for animal in circus.animals: circus.ne
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by fovc 10y ago
Not sure how this timeit is running, but there are two things going on: Local name lookups are done as array indexing; whereas global lookups are done as cascading dictionary lookups. And the attribute lookup also is a dictionary search. On
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Drumi: The Foot Powered Washing Machine(indiegogo.com)
2 points by fovc 10y ago|0 comments
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by fovc 10y ago
Is there a good place for hiring Spanish devs to work remote? I'm a native Spanish speaker and this sounds like a great arbitrage opportunity
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by fovc 10y ago
I'm not sure about a quantitative source, but Wikipedia has a discussion on the subject [1]. There's a database [2] of all nominations, but it does not have the year of publishing of the research in question (if there is a specifi
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by fovc 10y ago
I agree let's not bash GMO on principle. But Golden Rice is not the silver bullet it's billed as: > Golden Rice showed that beta carotene was produced at consistently high levels in the grain, and that grain quality was compara
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by fovc 10y ago
Wouldn't a 1998 prize year mean that their major work was done in the 60s and 70s? The average age of Nobel laureates is ~60, which would mean many could be in their 80s now. [1] https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes&
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by fovc 10y ago
Do you have a source for GMO improving yield and nutrition? I thought most GM was Roundup Ready and similar, designed to be herbicide resistant. I've heard of e.g., Golden Rice being more nutritious with beta carotene, but was under th
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by fovc 10y ago
I do not like GMO* and try to avoid buying the stuff. I understand that the overwhelming scientific consensus is that it has no ill-effects compared to non-GMO foods. For me there are two main arguments for avoiding it, one selfish, one les
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by fovc 10y ago
> One alternative is to avoid forking at all. Depending on how events play out, this would lead The DAO investors to lose somewhere between 30% to 100% of their investment What determines how much investors actually recover?
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by fovc 10y ago
Not super familiar with this space, but is there a way to look at 'franchised' hotel brands vs. owner/operator brands? This would seem like a better comp. for Airbnb
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by fovc 10y ago
Read this quickly, but my immediate thought when I saw the PCA result vectors was that they resembled the Fourier basis. Given a relatively slow-moving set of signals (which I think these are, given the 10,000 word sliding window), wouldn&#
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by fovc 10y ago
Since Python 3, both generators and lists create a new stack frame. [1] (2nd to last paragraph) [1] http://python-history.blogspot.com/2010/06/from-list-compreh...
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by fovc 10y ago
map() can only be parallelized if the function has no side effects. If there are no side effects, list comprehensions can be parallelized just as well
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by fovc 10y ago
The syntax isn't the greatest, but you can get pretty far with Python's ternary expression. Generators in my experience remove the need for most loops. Where lambdas feel really subpar for me is the lack of 'let' and err
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by fovc 10y ago
I think the scoping issues you're referring to were resolved a while ago (PEP 227) -- nowadays lambda scope rules are the same as named functions.
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The Weekly Package(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by fovc 10y ago|0 comments
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by fovc 10y ago
I wonder if they looked into using existing APM solutions before building out the profiler and monitor
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by fovc 10y ago
I'm moving to the EU so that I can start a company. I looked at all these options and they are incredibly unattractive for a number of reasons: 1) If you want to H1B yourself, you have to demonstrably give up control of your company to
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by fovc 10y ago
If the attacker is just moving funds into a child DAO, could someone else attack the attacker? A digital Robin Hood?
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by fovc 10y ago
This was a common proposal to fight spam in the bad old days. Have clients autodownload the graphics, click on all the links, and reply. That would drive their hosting costs through the roof (100x more traffic) and shift the economics of sp
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by fovc 10y ago
This is so spot on. One further point: GMO goes hand in hand with enormous monoculture and all the pernicious consequences that entails for the system. I've seen farmers who feel a little guilty (and recognize the business risk) who

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