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“The blend of people from different layers of society is getting higher,” Thomas Monberg, a member of Parliament and the Social Democrats’ spokesman for housing, said in an email response to questions. He said the government acted because i
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One day I'd like to create a taxonomy of hacker news responses. This is a good example of the one where someone gets pedantic about the details of an analogy employed for rhetorical purposes, objects to those details, and in so doing c
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They are what's in front of people's faces, so they are what matter. Same is true for the web.
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I find it really sad that we no longer hold parents and communities responsible for just not. letting. their. kids. smoke. cigarettes. Don't give your kid a pack of smokes. Don't let them buy things unsupervised. Worried about the
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It's genuinely horrifying to realize that you both consider yourself a good person and yet recoil in disgust at people in great need. What is more painful than having your self-conception as an altruistic, moral person thoroughly under
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Healthcare services are not a free market. The idea that competition can drive down costs would be funny if it wasn't driven by such cynicism. Like a lawyer buying time with objections they know they will lose, the "let the market
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The Mouse Army was indoctrinated by lesser primers to treat Nell as a their leader. It was a rare big whiff from Stephenson, because he presented all of this uncritically. The fact that a white girl would rule a few hundred thousand chinese
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Yes, this is a disturbing part of the book. Quite fascist, arguably racist and, in the end, unnecessary for the narrative. A big price to pay for little to no payoff.
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The Primer doesn't work without human sacrifice. It actually needed two special people: one without anything, and one with a powerful but unfulfilled nurturing instinct. It was a pretty unlikely confluence of circumstance that made it
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I'm surprised he didn't mention wikis - especially easy since they come with git(hub|lab).
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Holy cow that lithium price graph is astounding! It's a log plot that looks like a linear decline in price. It's like Moore's law for lithium..
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This is correct, but there are very few people with experience with safe database modelling like this, and they may not even realize the technique exists.
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If your program creates the script and executes it, is verification necessary? This would be like verifying your 1st party scripts in a webpage that you wrote. It won't really hurt anything, but I'm not sure there's a point.
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>Angry Birds, Plants vs Zombies, Cut the Rope, Flight Control, Threes My list of games is basically the same. I think they are legitimately rare, and we believe at the time that they are not. It's like YouTube. You find one 3blue1
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I agree, but we also shouldn't discount the thousands of little influences that affect us everyday, either. It's a bit like deflecting an asteroid: a big push early on will have the greatest effect, but thousands of little pushes
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Attention really is hard to control, and most people can't do it. In fact, the only way I've learned to exert real control over attention is by practicing meditation. Regardless, the GP's point stands: we ARE the sum of our i
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Don't worry, the excitment will fade when you realize it's just a laptop. It does feel good to know that it's repairable, but that initial rush will die down and fade into the background. Enjoy your new computer!
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A solid 90% of mental health issues stem from the inability to choose where to place your attention. The only activity that I know of that teaches this important ability is meditation. And the only place I know of that teaches it well are t
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I am writing an article for the economist titled: "Flying cars will transform commuting".
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Years ago I was in a DC bar and struck up a convo with the man next to me. He was a physician and after a few drinks he opened up to me and said, "The main problem with the healthcare system is that we don't let old people die.&qu
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Thanks for the feedback, fixed. I like to use a simple method to speed up my BTD loop when doing webapp work, which is to add a `meta refresh` tag. But that's inappropriate for deployment. Note that my site is very strict about 3rd par
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beautifully made. However I think one's intuition for where the control points go and what they do are very clear if you've ever taken calculus. The line segments control the direction and magnitude of the tangent to the curve at
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I put together a transducer in JavaScript with the intent to simplify Redux/flux architected front-ends. Rather than have synthetic actions that trigger reduction, I allow the caller to simply add objects directly into the store, and r
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Burying carbon is a great idea. Similar to the great idea of preventing cells from reproducing without limit (cancer). The important question is, in both cases: how do you do it? With carbon there is an additional question: what is the dema
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>the calculation never needs to be done Well, that's your preference then. But personally I want to see the Mets play the Yankees because it's profoundly unsatisfying to believe that all possible outcomes are computable and t
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Take a smaller example: weather on Earth. There are a LOT of particles, but still classically simulatable. Chaos ensures that we still cannot know all future states of the weather. This is a remarkable truth, and one should give it time t
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I think it's viable as a service business, like car stereos or tinting.
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1990? You can find model years up to 2010 with an in-dash CD player and no screens (that's my litmus test). The BIG problem is that ALL EVs come with full telemetry and drive-by-wire. I'm hoping that someone builds an EV without t
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>Surely this isn't legal It's worse than that. The way the law works is that you'll only have standing to sue if you're harmed in some way. But since your data is slurped into a big black box, and then passed around
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I assume k8s will be what an evil AI would use to "stay alive". I've had a hard time killing processes in k8s, and I had admin.

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