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Students claim breakthrough with biodegradable car(dutchnews.nl)
1 points by gavinpc 9y ago|1 comments
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Was just re-reading this paper [0], where they discuss how they "addressed some familiar limitations of the FRP model" in a research language called KScript. The defining constraint of the STEPS project was to make an entire pers
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by gavinpc 9y ago
This is a case of "second system syndrome" (as I've heard it called). http://wiki.c2.com/?SecondSystemEffect (C2's new design is a bit of that in itself, IMHO.)
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by gavinpc 9y ago
I get these action emails, and I sign these letters to my congresscritters (as rms calls them), and the web sites say that a personal message can be "very effective." So sometimes I channel my madness into these "personal mes
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by gavinpc 9y ago
> We collect a very large corpus, SARC-raw, with around 500-600 million total comments, of which 1.3 million are sarcastic. So Reddit is 0.2% sarcastic. That sounds accurate.
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Regarding this "other side." Isn't there an asymmetry here? I mean, aren't the people who see climate change as a DEFCON 1 emergency way more motivated to support environmental causes than the... um people who think it&#
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by gavinpc 9y ago
A game I play with my kids when we're waiting at street corners is to count the vehicles' occupancy. Spotting anything > 1 is like scoring points. We don't take the car without an explicit reason: we're late, it&#x27
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by gavinpc 9y ago
> Maybe that's the strategy: to just cause all their opposition to expire from sheer outrage at their disingenuousness. On this and everything. What on earth can we do about it? It's like that Star Trek TNG where they defeated
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by gavinpc 9y ago
We've been seeing more Datalog-inspired DSL's around here, and that's a good thing. Fathom surely has uses beyond those the OP mentioned. But as for those use cases... well, it just makes me sad. Obviously people have perve
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Et tu, c2?
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by gavinpc 9y ago
The "cult" underlying this phenomenon is our celebrity culture. We fetishize the 0.01%. The role of overpaid CEO is established; it no longer needs any more special justification than top athletes, entertainers, or TV "pers
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Without disputing any of your comment, I find it interesting that "the customer" (or what we might call the "end user") is never mentioned in this graph of stakeholders and their competing concerns. Neither customers no
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Just stop using Facebook. You complain about your experience of it and claim (quite correctly) that it > has single-handedly almost ruined news consumption among certain demographics in the US but you just keep using it. What would it
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Breitbart being the advocate for... violence against women? Or quite a few unconcerning things? Anyway, you make an unsubstantiated (and practically incomprehensible) claim and yes, you're going to catch "flak" for it. HN b
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by gavinpc 9y ago
This is excerpted (as the "technology" segment) of another great video, Bret Victor's "Humane Representation of Thought." (at about thirty minutes in) https://vimeo.com/115154289
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by gavinpc 9y ago
In his mind, he's still a kid.
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Who is clicking on these ads, anyway? I've never understood how this adds up to profit (for the advertisers).
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Several points of agreement here, and now I'll have to check out Riot (which I remember seeing around here a while ago). But I think that > html in the middle of your code is selling JSX a bit short. Tooling and coupling aside (and
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by gavinpc 9y ago
If you recognize this diagram, you might have seen it in another context: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/#production
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by gavinpc 9y ago
> I am not a lawyer You might have missed your calling.
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Sad news. My favorite Bob Taylor story is about the "class 1" versus "class 2" disagreement. Not sure which is which, but in the preferred case, the two parties are able to state each other's position to the other&
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by gavinpc 9y ago
Regarding the archival quality of bits, you might find this paper interesting: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2015004_cuneiform.pdf
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by gavinpc 9y ago
They will slim down after net neutrality is over. But they'll still be user-hostile. Ads are about tracking. The fact that you might see the ad is what we call "langiappe" where I come from. If everyone disabled third-party
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by gavinpc 10y ago
I felt the same way and avoided `class` for mostly the same reasons. For better or worse, there are many ways to make pseudo-classes using Javascript. Is prototype configurable? Writable? Enumerable? What about the properties of prototy
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Thanks for making this! It is obviously a labor of love. This kind of incremental building is a lot of work, but adds a revealing dimension not seen in a flat annotated source. Great work.
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by gavinpc 10y ago
I certainly believe people who say they want to cut PBS simply because they don't like it, or don't see it as the government's province. But in the context of trying to balance the federal budget over time, PBS is beyond a m
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by gavinpc 10y ago
To me, anybody who argues that PBS should be cut loses all credibility as a budget hawk (if they had any to begin with). PBS is an incredibly valuable public-private partnership. For every dollar the federal government spends, two or thre
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by gavinpc 10y ago
I've been volunteering with the "botball" program at my daughter's school. As near as I can tell, Botball originated right here in Norman, Oklahoma, and it's offered in the "gifted and talented" program s
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by gavinpc 10y ago
> consensus So you're saying that we need consensus to do things now? My sides are splitting. Can you name a thing that you think we have "consensus" about? edit : and wait... "easier to find consensus"! I adm
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Do you have children?

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