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by janimo 4y ago
According to Our world in data wild terrestrial mammals make up 2% of the total number of mammals (in biomass so it is not exactly headcount, but also includes predators and rodents not strictly herbivores), while cattle, pigs, goats and sh
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by janimo 5y ago
Much more thoughtful than yesterday's blog post addressing Moxie's concerns. I wonder if the quality of conversations around this subject were improved if similarly to conflicts of interest declared by scientific paper authors, ea
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by janimo 5y ago
one difference is that authoritarian regimes have been known to infuse everything with state propaganda, whereas almost nobody expects this from western democracies, showing just how much more subtle and even effective the latter can be.
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by janimo 5y ago
seconded.
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by janimo 5y ago
A tie between two well known books: "The making of the atomic bomb" and "Manufacturing consent". Both great in very different ways.
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by janimo 5y ago
Sarno's book, mentioned in other comments was also on YC's reading list a while ago: https://blog.ycombinator.com/ycs-2017-summer-reading-list/
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by janimo 6y ago
Thanks for the links. I think there also isn't an API for accessing high FPS cameras on Android devices that support slow motion video capture.
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by janimo 6y ago
How portable are these techniques to other architectures? Could >100 FPS be realistically achieved today using only CPUs or mobile phones?
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by janimo 6y ago
Logged in just to say congrats, this attitude is seldom encountered, even among those building their products almost entirely on freely available foundations.
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by janimo 7y ago
When did Chrome stop supporting web speech to text?
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by janimo 7y ago
Something like this should play a role in the future of more sustainable clothing/fashion.
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by janimo 8y ago
The top comment in the thread has the most recent debate I know of.
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by janimo 8y ago
"Facts can be a powerful weapon against fear, a gloomy worldview, learned helplessness". This is so true. However I also notice a frequent and not so helpful use of such data, namely as a way of countering people's legitimate
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by janimo 8y ago
Same here. Exactly the 'reason why' advertised in the headline is missing from the article. Is it the collateral environmental destruction if any, that the locals are opposing (in which case it's irrelevant that they are Musl
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by janimo 8y ago
Want to stop amateur-level, easily-debunked and low budget fake news? Pay for the real thing coming from established sources /s Seriously, fake news has not been invented in the past three years, it was just 'democratised' wi
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by janimo 8y ago
What about replacing the collective work of several misogynistic and racist authors, especially since the work itself lead to heavy discrimination? cough the US Constitution cough :)
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by janimo 8y ago
I am pretty sure we do not want to go down the 'cannot reason so can be eaten' path.
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by janimo 8y ago
As opposed to? Aren't pigs or cattle sentient?
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by janimo 8y ago
Why should whales get protection that pigs, cows, and other animals don’t? Most westerners do not consume whale meat, so there's no cognitive dissonance to prevent them from firmly opposing whaling.
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by janimo 8y ago
I agree the style is annoying, using many such paragraphs to meet the required word count, but Friston's reputation is well established in scientific circles (although I first heard of him yesterday).
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by janimo 8y ago
It's the js bundle that is large.
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by janimo 8y ago
In a fresh create-react-app project, their getting started example that includes only a button results in a minified js of 570K. Apparently the whole of Blueprint.js is included as a dependency. Shouldn't tree shaking take care of this
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by janimo 8y ago
For websites where having a unique design is not a requirement or a priority, Bootstrap and similar frameworks are very helpful.
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by janimo 8y ago
Hacker News :)
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by janimo 8y ago
Killing Hope and Overthrow are two books on the subject.
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by janimo 8y ago
I don't know how many people actually consider switching, but adding a few private repos to the free github plan will probably make 99% of them reconsider on the spot and even make others switch to github. I doubt MS made the aquisitio
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by janimo 8y ago
It is only appropriate if you cannot conceive government actions that have nothing to do with force :)
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by janimo 10y ago
That would also be a web without net neutrality.
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by janimo 10y ago
Hard to take seriously with all those ambitious goals and talk about privacy but without https configured on their subdomain.
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by janimo 11y ago
go-qml is good enough for small apps, but it's QML only and not very actively maintained unfortunately.

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