ivanhoe

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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Don't make a mistake of generalizing on communist countries, there were huge differences in a life style between them, especially in rural areas.
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Something is rotten in the state of D̶e̶n̶m̶a̶r̶k̶ Sweden
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
If someone who doesn't experience inner monologues is willing to answer, I would really like to know how does it feel for them when reading? Do you vocalize in your head the text that you read, or it's also just abstract non-verba
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
But US has far stricter visa system than EU?
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
I know for Slovenia that you can start a company there as a foreigner, and then get a work visa simply by employing yourself, it's a fairly simple procedure. After 5 years you qualify for permanent residency (I believe that's the
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
> but enough people think of it as a valuable enough service to pay for; even if they know they could get it themselves, for free. It's not free, it takes time to collect data. Buying it makes a lot of sense as long as you pay less
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Quote from the movie summary: "In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes." So they were all humans, just not all at the same technological/cultural l
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
This article suggests they did: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-suggests-nea...
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
> There is evidence for high CO2 concentrations between 200 and 150 million years ago of over 3,000 ppm, And it didn't end up well, Permian-Triassic extinction event was the biggest mass extinction in history. https://mar
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Perhaps for this part: "but the US is on the side of human rights, freedom of the press, freedom of information, etc."? China is admittedly far worse, but US has been working really hard on catching up with them in last few decade
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
One detail that I always liked about zero-based arrays is that it makes for loops look nicer, using `i < length` instead of `i <= length`.
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
> but it will also fail if you put your efforts into unneeded optimizations One thing is going extra lengths to achieve a few extra speed points, but there's also a much simpler path to a reasonable optimization: simply making sure
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
In Kenya also just some people manage to do it. I'd bet there's no many single parents among them, just like there's no them in US. Or people having to do multiple part-time shitty jobs to pay the bills. Or people that have t
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
It costs zero if you're a student living with parents who feed you and provide for you. If you have to pay the bills while working on the project then it costs the money you'll need to survive those 6+ months, or it costs you your
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
From what I've read about carbon-negative cement, idea is not to capture the carbon released during curing, but to make concrete that later, over years, chemically reacts and captures the carbon from the air. Because concrete is porous
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
>We can solve these problems by rounding after every operation. In my experience one should do exactly the opposite, round/format only the very last result when you need to print it, otherwise always keep all the decimals in the int
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Procrastination is a signal that task makes you feel uncomfortable, but that fear of it can be a result of many issues (boredom, laziness, feeling of incompetence, fear of making what seems as a hard decision, fear of people not liking it,
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
BBC show based of the book is also worth watching: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905688/
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Just a few things that come to mind: - Because you still need to bill your customers even when the net is down or slow, - It works faster and more reliable on old, low on memory PC that you probably have. Also can work with old printers, ba
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
> There's also the nitpicky fact that the old way of running PHP was that every page request runs the code from scratch, meaning you have to build state each time which is profoundly expensive and inefficient, This also means that y
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
That kW will move you more air in 30 minutes than PC ventilator can in a whole day, especially if you're trying to push it through hepa filter which is fairly thick and adds quite a resistance.
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
if you don't mind a noise you could buy a 2nd hand vacuum cleaner with a built-in hepa or water filter (ideally also with adjustable speed to make it less noisy) and just let it run without a hose, sucking the air and pushing it throug
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
I hope he still performed at his age because he enjoyed it, and not like late Dick Dale, because he had to.
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Just out of curiosity, did you try to talk to your neighbor and ask politely that he informs his guests to clean up after their dogs?
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
One of the ideas for big farms is that you don't have 2 crops, you have a main crop and then you have other plants acting as a support for that main crop. Depending on the crop and climate/soil you pick the types of legumes that w
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
For many of these products it was a very deliberate design decision, both in order to lock-in the user and also to be able to collect the data on them.
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
But you can't compare lego and playing Wii tennis, one is a competitive game, the other is coop. Imagine kids outside playing some competitive kids games and playing Wii, that is more fair comparison. Both will induce similar behavior
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
IMHO Kinect and Wii motion games are really perfect for young kids as they solve most of the problems that parents usually have with computer games: there's a physical activity, there're complex body motions that develop the balan
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Issue is not if there should be fraud screenings - of course, they're required both by law and a common sense. Question is do you treat your own system's false positives like customers' problem, or you actually do something p
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Why would a customer need to know anything about banking at all? Imagine if you were stopped in a supermarket because you beeped on the way out, and then they leave you to wait for hours before someone finally comes to tell you it's we

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