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by jl6 3y ago
It might be an overstatement to say that science says the universe definitely has a beginning. We can talk about an early hot, dense state, and subsequent expansion, but there is no direct evidence of exactly what the initial state was. It’
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by jl6 3y ago
I like the bit where it uses the deadly food poisoning bacteria. Feels thematically on-topic.
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by jl6 3y ago
> Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. Even Sauron knows them not. They are older than he. Now I have walked there, but I will bring no report to darken the light of day. The lack
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by jl6 3y ago
Oil company revenues derive from the aggregate of consumer demand and behavior. Big Oil’s villainy in demand-generation campaigns and climate change denial is inexcusable, but this is a relatively small aspect of their nature. The majority
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by jl6 3y ago
Poetic use is a distant second behind “did you know” articles.
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by jl6 3y ago
> Nor are we at fault. Yes, we are. The vast majority of our (first world) consumption is not something we are forced to do. We (again, first world, but particularly here, in tech world) have comparatively massive disposable incomes and
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by jl6 3y ago
You can choose not to buy a bottle of water at all. You can buy a reusable bottle and get refills.
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Show HN: An Amiga Soundtracker Mod / PDF / CSV Polyglot File [pdf](lab6.com)
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by jl6 3y ago
I worked at a corp that had built a Hadoop cluster for lots of different heterogeneous datasets used by different teams. It was part of a strategy to get "all our data in one place". Individually, these datasets were small enough
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by jl6 3y ago
If a community intends to exclude certain political affiliations or classes of people, I’d want to know about it up front.
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by jl6 3y ago
This reads like a masterpiece of passive aggressive malicious compliance.
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by jl6 3y ago
> scattered small meteorites on the ground at the impact site about 37 miles (60 kilometers) west of Berlin Do we know how fast those small meteorites are travelling when they hit the ground? Are they like bullets or more like snowflakes
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by jl6 3y ago
You can’t preserve something that was lost (but perhaps you can recreate a substitute).
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by jl6 3y ago
Headline: All arabica coffee is genetically similar But: > The study found evidence of significant chromosomal rearrangements, especially in a varietal of C. arabica called Bourbon. There were deletions, in which fragments of chromosomes
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by jl6 3y ago
It's related, but consider that tech companies are close to the forefront of sourcing renewable energy compared to other industries, and AI has the potential to supplant higher-emissions activity, so it may be a false economy if regula
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by jl6 3y ago
They're rather expensive though, so you might be able to get more of what you like using the money differently.... instead of a single $750m 100-story tower in one block, build ten 10-story towers over 10* blocks, and you'd probab
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by jl6 3y ago
I don't imagine it's easy to get a global /32, so do you mean for purely local networks? In which case why not use 1::1?
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by jl6 3y ago
$10m could be worth it for a nation state actor targeting a specific high-value individual known to use the extension.
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by jl6 3y ago
Two non-egalitarian reasons might be: * The kind of teams that are hostile to female programmers are usually hostile about lots of other things too, and hence are less pleasant places to work. * Female programmers tend to be better communic
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by jl6 3y ago
This, plus I log all terminal output: script -q "$LOGDIR/$LOGTIME.log" --timing="$LOGDIR/$LOGTIME.timing" The log files are noisy with ANSI codes, but they can be stripped, and I only refer to the logs
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by jl6 3y ago
A lot of people live in bubbles and local networks that don’t have regular access to the normal tools of skepticism that you and I might take for granted. If you’ve been brought up to believe what you’re told, these people can be very convi
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by jl6 3y ago
Looks like Archive Team didn’t manage to get anything before it disappeared :(
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by jl6 3y ago
One thought that we should not neglect to provoke is that we manufacture things “badly” by choice, in order to reduce cost, in order to make products accessible to more people. Sometimes that sucks and costs more in the long run, but someti
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by jl6 3y ago
I am reminded of the story of the plumber who was called to fix a water leak. He replaced a washer and charged $100. The client was outraged: “That washer was only a dollar’s worth of parts!” The plumber replied: “Sure. I’m charging you $1
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by jl6 3y ago
If your goal is just to publicly document a resolution, stackexchange sites let you post a question and answer it yourself.
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by jl6 3y ago
Things to commit just before leaving your job if you don’t intend on working in a position of trust again.
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by jl6 3y ago
It’s circular too. What is the nature of the human experience? Humans are animals, so it’s all just biology, right? But biology is just a bunch of chemicals, chemistry is just the proclivities of atoms, physics is just one possible instanti
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by jl6 3y ago
Could you clarify what trend you want to accelerate?
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by jl6 3y ago
Is there a market for private "local" power plants, like maybe a small out of town solar farm?
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by jl6 3y ago
Makes one wonder what the purpose of calling something a social construct is, if everything is one.

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