jchrisa

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Fourth physical state of matter for water besides solid, liquid, and gas(qz.com)
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Resigning from Oracle – George A. Polisner(linkedin.com)
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But they don't correlate with shareholder value.
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One of the few times they make sense is in a database server application where you might have hundreds of thousands of connected clients.
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Here's React Native Couchbase Lite docs https://github.com/couchbaselabs/react-native-couchbase-lite...
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I have thought of this as framing a paradox for the impossibility of strong AI. Turing machines can never really be embodied. They can always move to a different substrate. So intuitively, they don't have skin in the game in the sa
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What If One Bitcoin Isn’t Like the Others? Fungibility Debated at Scaling Conf(coindesk.com)
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It has been solid for a long time, because the testing is targeted at embedded applications where maintenance is not always an option. A HN favorite: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
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""" Like Kant, Hegel believed that the greatest good was free will, but he went further in clarifying what freedom might involve. For Hegel, freedom is impossible without the self having some space of autonomy where it can be
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Early CouchDB contributor here. I agree with much of your write up, but I think the picture for apps built around replication is brighter than it seems. PouchDB has crazy momentum. Couchbase Mobile is getting baked into the next generat
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Carfree Portland cargo bike family of 4. I spent part of my no-car dividend on an electric longboard. :)
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Disallowing the use of race as a signal in machine learning / ad targeting could help intercultural awareness. Here's the last paragraph of the article: """ O’Neil also proposes updating existing civic rights orient
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DEA Rejects Attempt to Loosen Federal Restrictions on Marijuana(npr.org)
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Do some marketing of your brand, if technical team members are excited about you the titles and stuff don't matter as much.
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I hear this perspective but in my experience hiring people who've been pushing an open source project forward already, it can be more like unleashing a coiled spring. They'll bring code and question the culture in productive ways.
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In Portland Oregon drivers are polite for the most part, especially when you have kids on your bike. The infrastructure is lacking and it takes newcomers a while to learn how to chill out but it basically works due to the culture.
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I have an E assist cargo bike and it's average speed is close to its top speed (20 mph). It's not that it's faster, it's that I'm not going slow very often. It also makes me happy to stop at stop signs. I rode a S
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I find this talk very inspiring re: the power of poetry. http://longnow.org/seminars/02005/jan/14/religious-war-in-li...
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Update your Apple devices now to fix a terrifying security bug – Quartz(qz.com)
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One of the linked sites goes deep on some old tests. I couldn't find any recordings of the subwoofer tones they used though. http://staff.washington.edu/dushaw/heard/index.shtml
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The Heard Island Feasibility Test(staff.washington.edu)
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How One Group of Researchers Holds the Key to Using AI to Solve Real…(medium.com)
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Maybe someone can write an insurance contract that future DAO authors can hire, as an alternative to interventions. It would have to be bug free.
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There's also the argument that economic diversity is good for everyone. Non-market solutions to maintaining space for people of different income levels in the area might have positive externalities.
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No mention of the switch to sedentary lifestyles and processed food, which also happened at the same time.
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Centerlines encourage faster driving, so lately the fashion is to remove them where possible.
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"when progressive thinkers agree that offensive words should be censored, it helps authoritarian regimes to justify their own much harsher restrictions and intolerant religious groups their violence"
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You win the internet today! Too bad you'll be down voted by the type of people who think the value of a college degree is primarily based on its impact on future earnings.
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Congrats to the team for expanding their platform support. I'm still interested to see what sync looks like. If you are interested in mobile databases, you'd do well to evaluate Cocuhbase Mobile, which is 100% open source, availab
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I used to help my dad identify senders of spam faxes so we could get a court to issue summary judgment. I think the fine can be tripled if the violation is willful. Even with faxes from a whole bunch of his clients... as many as I could

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