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by jka 5y ago
Following through some of the Center for Disease Control links on the page, there is a chart at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db427.htm that displays how the leading causes of mortality in the
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CERN Council responds to Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022-03-08)(home.cern)
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by jka 5y ago
See also: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...
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This submission is related to reading about the UN FAO Food Price index[1] (for which there has been some recent HN discussion[2]). Although all commodities measured by the index are increasing in price over time, there has been a notable l
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UN FAO: Oilseeds, Oils and Meals – Monthly Price Update (Feb 2022) [pdf](fao.org)
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by jka 5y ago
The live-news feeds on BBC News aren't as straightforward to link to and archive as they could be - this content also appears at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60635927?pinned...
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by jka 5y ago
That may be reasonable; I think it's important to consider how any party's involvement will be remembered as well, though. What groups will be glorified? Will that affect the way that those groups behave, what they feel proud ab
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by jka 5y ago
I was confused by this because that text doesn't appear in the article currently. Time for the equivalent of some git bisect[1] using the Internet Archive.. ...it looks like a couple of paragraphs in the article changed[2][3] during 20
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by jka 5y ago
Unless you're hoarding some material that emits a verifiable, secure random information into the future while itself being depleted in the process?
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by jka 5y ago
A practical idea. I wonder whether a more consensus-based alternative to this could use some aspects of the current-highest-block from a blockchain to incorporate proof of a previously-unknowable, globally-verifiable value.
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by jka 5y ago
> I'm pretty sure almost every army has a disproportionate amount of far-right extremist. Would anything about your opinions change if this turned out to be extremely incorrect?
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by jka 5y ago
Some questions that spring to mind: - Could someone with first-hand experience of MS Teams confirm that the ability to notify someone every two minutes for twenty minutes is genuinely a feature of the product? - Is there some context missin
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by jka 5y ago
I have a theory about what's going on here, and I don't doubt that it has occurred to other people smarter than me in all areas of the globe: Russia's invasion of Ukraine may be partly -- mostly, ostensibly -- about Ukraine,
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by jka 5y ago
Isn't it possible for more recent versions of GCC to build binaries (linked libraries or otherwise) that can be distributed and run correctly in older operating system environments? (in other words: my understanding is that software la
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Cybernetic Serendipity Archive(cyberneticserendipity.net)
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See also the Charles Csuri website[1] for some examples of his artwork. [1] - https://www.charlescsuri.com/
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Merge requests between GitLab instances(gitlab.com)
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by jka 5y ago
(self-reply; speaking out loud here, basically, while thinking about this more) If businesses that operate communications services are considering shutting down in Belarus/Russia in protest, perhaps something akin to "data rationi
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doccano – open-source annotation tool for machine learning practitioners(github.com)
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If this is such a bad deal, why is the U.S. allowing it to be negotiated?
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The approximate way I've been thinking about decisions like this so far is: - Shutting down the means for people to communicate is not OK - Deciding to be selective about who you do business with is OK The former seems to affect in
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by jka 5y ago
NB: also available from the FreeBSD foundation here: https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/048...
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...if your customers believe that maintaining your code can be done more cost-effectively than the rates you're currently charging them. (and note that cost-effectiveness != cost -- they're correlated, but not the same)
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by jka 5y ago
Does Cloudflare share any of the data they collect from users/subscribers with organizations that are headquartered in Russia, I wonder? Do they attest not to? They do mention that they may collect your information in order to protect
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by jka 5y ago
insert into comments (parent, comment) values (' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30511124 ', 'Exactly :)');
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by jka 5y ago
Many people would like to view success as similar to a gradual hill climb: you may begin randomly anywhere on the hill, but regardless of where you start, everyone has the opportunity to reach the summit (choosing between easier paths, slow
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by jka 5y ago
Thank you - I'm not sure I have further thoughts to add at the moment, but wanted to acknowledge having read your message.
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by jka 5y ago
A trade-off here is that it seems unlikely for a legal team to be able to humanly attempt tens of thousands of slight variants of a legal argument and still be allowed to participate, whereas with computers and network services, fuzzing ten
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by jka 5y ago
Possibly - although if the prospect of energy independence (and the ability to showcase that ability) thanks to renewables isn't far off, it could make sense to skip both pipelines (and all the associated infrastructure, security, envi
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by jka 5y ago
Nice idea - you could trial it as an interface to your favourite link-sharing site. > select * from homepage; -- a view that selects the most recent content from 'posts'; > select * from posts where submitted_at between &#x

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