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by jchook 6y ago
> We have found that organic no-till practices year after year do not yield optimal results, so our organic systems utilize reduced tillage and the ground is plowed only in alternating years. So.. by no-till they mean occasional till? My
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by jchook 6y ago
> vscode is a superior alternative What about vscode makes you like it over vim? I use nvim + coc for Intellisense and prefer it to vscode with vim mode.
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TurtleDB – Offline-first, collaborative Web application framework(github.com)
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Science shows us that we can model the same "truth" in many ways.
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Doesn't the whole article basically suggest that modern science isn't really concerned with truth as much as useful models?
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At scale governments who try a UBI often see a drop in GDP, but also a decrease in health issues and other social costs. Here’s and interesting yet biased overview of different programs around the world: https://www.vox.com/
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by jchook 6y ago
In defense, the first sentence links to a Youtube video that expands the acronym in the first 10 seconds. The video also gives good context for the article, even for a beginner to the topic.
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Scraping may violate of Google's own acceptable use policy, but it's not illegal.
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So far my top choice is the Moonlander https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/
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I filed a support request with StartPage.com to offer the "I'm Feeling Lucky" functionality and never got a response. Maybe if more people ask...
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I built a simple node JS server to use as my default search engine. What you describe could be a 2-line change to my code. My motivation was using Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" without JS. The node app detects the "!lucky&q
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by jchook 6y ago
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem essentially thwarted Principia Mathematica by proving that mathematics itself is either consistent or complete (read: either useful or definable), but not both. The best definition I've heard calls m
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by jchook 6y ago
"When you meet the Buddha, kill him!"
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by jchook 6y ago
Except then spammers who send to [huge list of words]@your-domain.com all go to your inbox. It's much safer to use a regex pattern or generate forwarding emails ad hoc. Please contact me at f7m4 {at} proxyto.me if you have any interest
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by jchook 6y ago
This might be a good thread to mention nom[1], a parser combinator in Rust. 1. https://github.com/Geal/nom
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Hm this article describes a bureaucratic management nightmare BUT, the opposite is also bad. Parkinson’s Principle is real. If you give yourself a long time to complete a project, it will take that long. Also many projects are a total waste
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How did it work?
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This is why folks use techniques like greylisting and why you should almost never use a catch-all mailbox. Spamhaus usually stops a big chunk of them too.
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Live Satellite Fire Maps(firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov)
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Why would you need key: value representation when (key value) works just as well?
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Ultimately if governments (such as Australia, US) continue to prevent citizens from using encryption, we will have no choice but to employ security-by-obscurity atop secure-by-design principles to have privacy. For example, making ciphertex
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by jchook 6y ago
@newcrobuzon you have some kind of comment string output at the top of your html body tag. Looks like something you do not want exposed. Congratulations on reaching public beta and for submitting to HN! Looks very promising!
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The Battle of Blair Mountain(en.wikipedia.org)
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Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Citizens [pdf](scholar.princeton.edu)
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by jchook 6y ago
In an ideal world prisons would look so unlike our prisons that we wouldn’t call them prisons anymore.
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That said, locking people in cages, treating them with inhumanity and violence, then releasing them into a world where they now have a harder time functioning in society and finding legitimate work doesn’t sound like a genius plan to solve
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AFAIK anarchy is not the abolition of the use of force, but rather the lack of a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. The federalist papers spend a bit of time debating inevitable rise of factions and pluralism without a dominant fac
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Why? It has a secret key. Doesn’t that qualify it as a cipher?
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by jchook 6y ago
"All press is good press." Remember getfirefox.com? Can you imagine how many people type nissan.com into their browser? And how niche that press release would be?
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Proofs from the Book(en.wikipedia.org)
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