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by ivarv 6y ago
In firefox the "Save Page" doesn't save the downloaded images. I'll have to investigate the addon options.. So far on Firefox neither "Down them all!" nor "Download All Images" recognized the torrente
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by ivarv 6y ago
once downloaded to the browser is there an easy to dump the images to disk?
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by ivarv 6y ago
So this is basically an admission that the ridesharing business model is not viable without worker exploitation?
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by ivarv 6y ago
Submission statement: "Richard Murphy lays out the case for whose interests need to be sacrificed for the economy to have any hope of surviving under the conditions being imposed on businesses to keep workers and customers safe. Unfor
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People and jobs? Or wealth? The government has to decide which to prioritise(taxresearch.org.uk)
41 points by ivarv 6y ago|82 comments
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by ivarv 6y ago
I think OP was suggesting to go to a community college for the first two years, then transfer to a university for the second half of your undergrad. Most colleges (at least in Canada & US) have transferable credits at this level. I agr
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Monsanto predicted crop system would damage US farms(theguardian.com)
3 points by ivarv 7y ago|1 comments
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by ivarv 7y ago
Live updates and links: * https://www.germinfo.org/ * The Guardian's "Coronavirus live updates" daily living article General Info / Background: * https://arstechnica.com/science/2020
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by ivarv 7y ago
> I anticipate that the next major release of Ardour will have some Live-like features starting to arrive. This is pretty intriguing - is there a public roadmap for these Live-like features ?
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by ivarv 7y ago
The #jobs channel in Clojurians slack ( http://clojurians.net/ ) and the sites on this list https://purelyfunctional.tv/guide/clojure-jobs-resource are great starting points.
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by ivarv 7y ago
Wouldn't a data repository considered more of a wiki than vcs? I don't understand the desire to associate the concept with Github instead of Wikipedia, which I would propose is more appropriate.
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by ivarv 7y ago
relevant xkcd - https://xkcd.com/2264/
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by ivarv 7y ago
I came across this book when exploring L-Systems based on this earlier HN post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21749806 If the book is inspiring it might be worth going through some of the insightful comments in that
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by ivarv 7y ago
I think the value of this kind of project isn't necessarily to use a general public instance, but instead to train your own instance. e.g. Imagine collecting your search history into a search corpus. Once you're set up, then runn
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by ivarv 7y ago
I've been playing with Polar ( https://getpolarized.io ) as a cross platform PDF "consuming" app. By "consuming" I mean reading but also note taking / flashcard making. So far it's been pretty
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by ivarv 7y ago
Not yet, but our current agricultural practices are not only unsustainable, but actively destructive to future crops. Check out this list of bullet points from the Union of Concerned Scientists - https://www.ucsusa.org/reso
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by ivarv 7y ago
The author is the president of the country! Who would you expect her to interview?
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by ivarv 7y ago
As to your question of promising areas, I see two major opportunities in health that are coming online in the near future: * psychedelics as medicine * gut/microbiome
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by ivarv 7y ago
An excellent talk by Sturart Sierra that covers much of the same ground "Homoiconicity: It Is What It Is" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7zyGMcav3c spoiler: his talk also does not finish with a definition of hom
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by ivarv 7y ago
The study noted that the highest dose administered (25ug) was perceptible so I wonder if you could isolate the results of just the cohort that received that dose. That said, it would negate the blind on the study and all data would then be
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by ivarv 7y ago
Throwback to 2003! At first glance this seems _very_ reminiscent of the Java Portlet standard - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Portlet_Specification
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by ivarv 7y ago
Sam Aaron (original dev behind Overtone) has been focused on building out Sonic Pi ( https://sonic-pi.net/ ) for a few years now and it's an amazing tool aimed at simplicity (literally aimed at ten year olds) and power
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by ivarv 8y ago
To add to the list of other similar projects already mentioned, Nunu Studio[0] is a solid MIT-licensed tool based on three.js. [0] https://nunustudio.org/
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by ivarv 8y ago
I don't think the article is advocating for agriculture - instead, my understanding is that it is advocating for taking a value system analogous to 'back to the land' and applying it to internet usage. To follow the analogy -
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by ivarv 8y ago
Archiving one's web browsing trail seems to be a common use case. Here are some promising related projects that have been on HN: * https://github.com/pirate/bookmark-archiver * https://getpolarized.io&#
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by ivarv 8y ago
The European Union's investigation into the ECHELON program found otherwise. A high level overview is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Concerns The actual EU report is available at: http://www.e
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by ivarv 9y ago
There's an outstanding PR that does precisely that - https://github.com/cknadler/vim-anywhere/pull/52
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by ivarv 9y ago
This is by far the best way to stretch your marketing dollar on reddit, but (aside from AMAs) seems difficult for reddit themselves to monetize.
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by ivarv 9y ago
So this appears to go head-to-head with Expo ( https://expo.io/ ) which is a project / company that I was getting behind. Hopefully this is just a rising the tide and all the boats float. ( https://en.wikipedia
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by ivarv 9y ago
This might be the wrong place to ask, but my search skills are failing me as I try to understand what "Space binning" (referred to in the README of the linked project) is. The top hits seem to all point back to the original articl

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