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by goblin89 10y ago
> If you find that too difficult, then your goal is not really something you care about, so think harder. From personal experience, agreed that you shouldn’t have to make yourself, and instead realizing that you want it. Disagreed wi
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by goblin89 10y ago
This is great for a simple setup. Obviously there’s no reason not to extend this beyond AWS— * Login credentials: feed in response to detected phishing emails * SSH keys: have SSH trigger an alert if certain keys log in * Database entries:
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by goblin89 10y ago
They aren’t, unless you have an instance attached to it.
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How I Detect Fake News(medium.com)
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by goblin89 10y ago
FBN1, the gene also behind Marfan syndrome[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfan_syndrome
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by goblin89 10y ago
Thanks for linking. According to Wikipedia it does seem that in American English gender-neutral “they” is a bit of a touchy subject, in that some people and style guides find it unacceptable, so I took note of that. I’ll keep using “they”
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by goblin89 10y ago
Non-native English speaker here. I’m defaulting to “they” or “one” unless it’s someone whose gender is known and is one of the two widely recognized today. Does that actually fall under incorrect usage of English pronouns?
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Bill and Melinda Gates to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom(twitter.com)
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The U.S. Census Bureau Gave Up Names of Japanese-Americans in WWII (2007)(scientificamerican.com)
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by goblin89 10y ago
I don’t have a dog.
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by goblin89 10y ago
Kudos for friendly easy-going presentation and sleek implementation, enjoyed checking it out. Would’ve signed up were I in the market!
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Amazon GameLift(aws.amazon.com)
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The real problem(aeon.co)
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Daily mortality increases and combustion-related fine particles (PM2.5)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by goblin89 10y ago
I wonder if particular gut flora[0] in those who swallows ocean water influences[1] the personality type dominant among surfers. [0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/18/superbug-surfer-stu... [1] all the
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by goblin89 10y ago
It is actually easier to visit some countries by air today. Visa on arrival, visa-free transit or stay—these options can be available only at airports. Passport control as immigration regulation/deterrent definitely rings true to me, a
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by goblin89 10y ago
Anyone knows of a library that somehow black-boxes / abstracts away the manual calculus involved in such visualizations? I imagine that’d greatly lower barrier to entry to creation of stunning graphics and animations, and with the help
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Engineering principles: make it reversible(blog.intercom.com)
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by goblin89 10y ago
Life is a continuous deployment setup with an unusual trait where public version auto-increments every N time units. To preserve versioning semanticity, gotta habitually push out new code. Gotta strike the balance between squashing bugs, po
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15 banks sign to drive Ripple adoption for unmediated fund transfers in Asia(finextra.com)
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by goblin89 10y ago
Seems about the same in South Korea and Taiwan, where on narrow alleys in residential areas cars are expected to move really slowly and peacefully co-exist with pedestrian traffic. What European countries do you have in mind?
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by goblin89 10y ago
The paper “Objects of consciousness” by Donald D. Hoffman[0][1] is an interesting read—if only for its attempt to build a formal model of consciousness and define what it means to “observe”, in the quantum sense. [0] http://journ
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A new way of testing(akkartik.name)
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by goblin89 10y ago
> The very reason why you can keep on going, struggling on, and living your life, and trying to do your best, is precisely because you know that if it becomes unbearable, you do have another option. While I’m against the de-facto suicide
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by goblin89 10y ago
> it's no dimethylmercury, or even DMSO Skimmed an article on the latter… “DMSO has the unusual property that many individuals perceive a garlic-like taste in the mouth after contact with the skin.” — Darn. Wasn’t quite sure things
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by goblin89 10y ago
Not really. Despite it going on for a while now sadly quite a few sign-up processes[0] haven’t yet caught up. I understand grandparent’s irritation about a freshly created social network making such a blunder. I may be stating the obvious,
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by goblin89 10y ago
First and third paragraphs make strong claims, mentioning forecasts for crypto doomsday scenarios but offering no links. For those of us living under a rock, how realistic are these applications of quantum computing?
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by goblin89 10y ago
Obviously this must be an impact of increased mobility and globalization forcing previously isolated economies to compete in larger market, with Airbnb merely riding the wave. Dwellers of comparatively more well-off cities probably aren’t c
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by goblin89 10y ago
Could you share how you practice DNB exercise? What software do you use, presentation options chosen (if any), anything else.
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by goblin89 10y ago
To anyone interested, Gwern also did some extensive research on Dual N-Back. Gwern’s DNB FAQ[0] offers some favorable opinion on DNB (in that it’s fascinating, though much larger gains can be achieved via many other means—meditation, enviro

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