ivanhoe

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by ivanhoe 2y ago
Problem is that they've been made so dysfunctional by colonialism, and then often even after formally gaining independence, they continued to be purposefully destroyed by colonial forces through colonial taxes, financing corruptions, p
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by ivanhoe 2y ago
Not really comparable: 1) Alaska was (and still is) a huge, and very sparsely populated land 2) For the native population it was not a big difference whether Russians or Americans ruled them, none of them treated them well - it was a colony
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by ivanhoe 2y ago
I don't get why people keep using the default recommendations? The whole point of twitter was that you manually pick who to follow and see just that. And you still can do that, use the Following tab and it'll work just the same as
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by ivanhoe 2y ago
Question stays, however, is "the impact" and the produced value how you measure your own's life fulfillment? If that's what you care about sure, but should we really care about it more than some other things?
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by ivanhoe 2y ago
> Make more money for what? You can’t take it with you when you die and it will not make you happy in ill health. You can leave it to your kids, hoping it will give them a slightly easier and safer starting position in life, which sort o
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by ivanhoe 2y ago
AI search is still a new thing, wait a little for it to become fully mainstream and people will start figuring out how to optimize for it, and also how to trick it, too - it's just unavoidable. And eventually we'll end up having A
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by ivanhoe 2y ago
> This is not very contributor-friendly. You've put it way too politely IMHO. It's a license designed to attract contributors to help build their product for free, but leaves space for them to just re-license the product and se
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by ivanhoe 2y ago
Or do not buy Windows? :P
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by ivanhoe 2y ago
Desktop business apps maybe looked better - at least those few that were not designed by the same engineers writing the code - but they all were a lot harder to deploy and maintain. You'd be happy that someone finally bought your app,
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by ivanhoe 2y ago
It's true for the most of the North and West Europe as all Atlantic and Baltic areas will get significantly colder. Southern and Eastern Europe will get significantly warmer, on the other hand. This will also drive the weather systems
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by ivanhoe 2y ago
IMHO you left out one very important sentence just before the part you've quoted: "A full AMOC collapse would be a massive, planetary-scale disaster. We really want to prevent this from happening." And uncertainty here is not
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
It's Pareto principle at play, in RL you usually need to highly optimize just a very small portion of the queries - let's call it 20% for the sake of tradition, though it's realistically <5% IME - to get almost all of the
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
The concern with the Sun is that UV rays are damaging the elastin and collagen proteins in our skin - so the real goal is to avoid the direct UV radiation as much as realistically possible, not to never see the sunlight. :) In fact, sunligh
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
Young kids don't even need subtitles, their brains are wired to figure out spoken languages, after all that's how we all learn our mother tongue initially. Last summer my then 3.5 years old, to my huge surprise, started talking in
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
OMZ and zsh are great in many ways, but I still miss my CTRL + W from the bash, deleting the whole word regardless of the chars...
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
Exactly, and by the number of errors among the death-row/lifelong convictions - which one would presume are the most sensitive and carefully reviewed ones - these numbers are HUGE, especially in the US.
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
> Move fast and break things is not something i wanted to hear tbh. Moving safely means moving slow, and that costs more - it's as simple as that. Plus it would also automatically disqualify like 80% of the workforce, due to the nee
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
Fantastic app, it was of great help to me while figuring out the basics, I highly recommend it. I just wish if people would add more comments to their code, at least those that get to be featured. Lots of beginners' time gets wasted on
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
> A brief walk outside to and from the office allows me to reset into work-mode or home-mode. Setting the distance between the home and the office to be something walkable, but not too close is a great hack to force yourself to move more
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
The page that you've linked for France says: "Total cost for the employer: 4970 EUR (142 % of gross salary)", so it's a lot more than what you say... Those 22% you mention is extra cost for employees, on top of the gross
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
Also there's a big difference in the quality of pretty much everything, from the chairs in the waiting rooms, to the medical technology and equipment used. In US everything looks a lot more newer and fancier - at least from the patient
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
How exactly can fracking affect the air quality, through which mechanisms? It's known to pollute underground waters and thus the soil, but air? EDIT: nevermind, I've seen another answer explaining it. Leaving the comment just for
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
> The jq version isn't greppable, as you can't do `| grep '.author.email'` for example. Truth to be told with jq you don't need to grap it, you can grab just emails directly. I find gron a lot more useful for gre
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
My (admittedly personal & anecdotal) impression of Wikipedia is that the objectivity of the content highly depends on the subject - particularly anything that touches on more recent historical events and public/political figures co
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
I imagine some engineering exams would be very-hard to do without them, if you want to keep realistic the values and the complexity. You don't want people to waste the time on crunching large decimal numbers and solving trigonometry, i
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
If someone is a free thinker and person of knowledge and eloquence that I respect I'd probably be interested in hearing their position on pretty much any topic, not just their narrow field of professional interest. Take Noam Chomsky fo
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
There was so many technical problems with just the name of the country changing from Yugoslavia, over Serbia and Montenegro, to being just Serbia. It took ages for big companies to follow up on this, and to this day some Google services sti
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
It's not just that, but in 1997-98 for me living in Yugoslavia, my main online channels were still primarily usenet groups and irc servers and even some BBS-es still operating - it was for us as big deal as social networks are now. Jus
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
There's a huge difference between simple and simplified. The whole purpose of the science is building the (more or less always) simplified models of the world, abstracting important concepts out of the chaos of real world so that we ca
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by ivanhoe 3y ago
So now we've learned what brain is not - but what is the biologically/evolutionary correct model that explains the opposite impulses that we all are dealing with? And why some of those impulses need willpower and grow weaker under

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