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by hencq 12y ago
Actually, my understanding is that Everest base camp is pretty clean, since they started requiring climbers to bring back trash in the 90s. I think it's mainly the higher up camps that have big garbage (and human waste) problems.
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by hencq 12y ago
I wonder how this relates to Soundscript which was on the frontpage yesterday. They seem to have similar goals and both are based on Typescript, so they seem to overlap a lot.
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by hencq 12y ago
From the FAQ [1]: "While Googlers were closely involved in originating PubSubHubbub, its strengths in RSS and content syndication generally are not use cases that Cloud Pub/Sub is designed to address. Aside from the name, they hav
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by hencq 12y ago
Completely agreed. Most of China's growth has been from moving people from agriculture to manufacturing. Essentially activating its giant labor force to compete on price. This has lifted millions of people out of poverty. However, it&#
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by hencq 12y ago
> especially when considering op said "they may lack the fiat" to pay for electricity or coins (assumption). That's not the assumption. It is the conclusion. The wrong conclusion as gweinberg pointed out. If I can mine 1 b
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by hencq 12y ago
As the article makes clear he isn't doing a direct port to Clojure. He wants to write it in idiomatic Clojure, so it's in a much more functional style than the original code. Obviously it won't use gotos (because Clojure does
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by hencq 12y ago
Completely agree. I know the regime in North Korea is crazy, but I really don't see them caring about this at all. On the other hand, they're often the butt of jokes in the west. Just look at all the "you've been banned
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by hencq 12y ago
Way back when wasn't the original plan for Seamonkey to use Gecko to render the UI as well? Maybe they were too far ahead of their time back then.
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by hencq 12y ago
Ah very interesting. I guess my question was mainly about and , though I hadn't thought about the reasons for rec . It makes sense that that removes a class of errors. So as a follow-up question: why is type inference impossible with
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by hencq 12y ago
Out of interest: why is it this way? In a lot of other languages (e.g. Java or Python), you don't need to do this. Can't the compiler just figure out that a function refers to another function that's defined later in the same
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by hencq 12y ago
Yeah, maybe: http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/06/news/macau-casino-gambling/ In any case, it doesn't matter. As you say, of course Musk's point was that Nevada has a lot of experience regulati
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by hencq 12y ago
But not too many of those countries also have bauxite mines, coca plants and kola nuts.
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by hencq 12y ago
Yeah I agree. The article was actually good and calls out very reasonable criticisms against current climate science. However the headline makes it seem the debate on whether humans influence the climate isn't settled.
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by hencq 12y ago
It doesn't ask itself that, but an airborne mutation wouldn't have a meaningful advantage, since the current virus is highly effective in spreading already.
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First set of Android apps for ChromeOS(chrome.blogspot.com)
153 points by hencq 12y ago|86 comments
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by hencq 12y ago
>Surprised by the hate What hate? You seem to take this pretty personally. For what it's worth, the post you're replying to was a reference to Monty Python's Life of Brian. Your post contained interesting information thoug
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by hencq 12y ago
I really liked a quote from Julian Barnes' The Sense Of An Ending. One of the characters answers the teacher's question "what is history?" with "History is the lies of the victors,” to which the history teacher resp
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EU's right to be forgotten: Guardian articles have been hidden by Google(theguardian.com)
1 points by hencq 12y ago|0 comments
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by hencq 12y ago
> Also, the EJC is nowhere near the equivalent of the US Supreme Court. The EU is not a federal state. Even though the EU is not a federal state, the decisions of the ECJ still overrule these of member states. See http://en.wi
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by hencq 12y ago
> Supporting generics over primitives and values, through specialization, is the topic of a separate investigation. Sort of off-topic, but isn't that dilemma also the one preventing Go from having generics?
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by hencq 12y ago
It's sort of a cross between Javascript and Java. At the moment a lot of the effort is focused on creating (client side) web apps where Javascript is used now, though the team is also working on the server side. The language feels a lo
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by hencq 13y ago
Maybe, but you do realize that there are actually a lot of very smart people working on this stuff full time?
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by hencq 13y ago
Polio is a disease that that's causing immediate suffering and lost potential. And it was even more so before discovery of the vaccine, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
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by hencq 13y ago
The above sentiment leans towards labeling any who dare possess a pocket constitution as potential terrorists, which is absurd. Yes, that's exactly the author's point. Seriously, is the article supposed to be a joke? No, it&#x
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by hencq 13y ago
Yeah, I'm still constantly surprised how so many in the BTC community seem to lack even the most basic of accounting knowledge, yet have strong opinions on how international banking and currencies should work.
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by hencq 13y ago
And note that Google Sheets actually has a query() function that allows you to run SQL like queries on your datasets. Few people seem to know this, but for me it's one of the features where I prefer it to Excel.
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by hencq 13y ago
> The likely consequences will be larger than this localized financial damage, and we believe that the benefits of keeping MtGox stable and running outweigh the risks. This isn’t about saving MtGox anymore. I think (and really hope) this
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How Airbus is debugging the A350(businessweek.com)
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by hencq 13y ago
The authors of the article actually wrote a book on this very subject (mentioned at the bottom of the article). They actually devote a lot of attention to exactly that problem, which they refer to as the bounty (gains because of new technol
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by hencq 13y ago
It doesn't seem like you actually read the article, but are just commenting on the title. They're not saying any of these innovations are true intelligence. What they're saying is that computers (and robots) are starting to d

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