josinalvo

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by josinalvo 7y ago
EDx's videos are served straight from youtube, I think
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by josinalvo 7y ago
You could also implement a cheap mirror of the data, I guess... So that is no excuse
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by josinalvo 7y ago
not crazy, i think but my cards are hard to read by other parties, when I optimize for my own learning
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by josinalvo 7y ago
Did someone measure it and proved them wrong? I am not saying you are wrong, or he is, but the ancientness of the claim is not an argument in favor or against it
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by josinalvo 7y ago
I have seen ample consensus amonsgt reputable scientists that the earth is getting warmer, and this fact is due to human activity (e.g https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/17/do-scientists-agree-on-clima... ) I have not ye
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by josinalvo 7y ago
> Ultimately, it was just a fun, harmless experiment, and as a bonus anyone arrogant enough to expect current human genetic engineering to beat evolution got a lesson in humility. Why is is any more "trying to beat evolution" t
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by josinalvo 7y ago
It is dumb if you want to protect people. Not so dumb when the goal is to look tough and win votes...
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by josinalvo 7y ago
Maybe they should have for jobs that are physically dangerous/have a high incidence of workplace physical or mental harm. Like, say, working on a mine. The argument goes like this: Person A is in such a bad situation that A will accept
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by josinalvo 7y ago
> no clue what they're doing when you put a controller in their hands. May I agree to that? I am a power user by any measure (CS major and program for a living) but still fail to grasp the controls of the simplest video game, to the
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by josinalvo 7y ago
Just remember that your desire for productivity, for time to think, and your ambitions, all come from that same place that makes you want to have sex and maybe kids. You get to decide what kind of slave to your genes you'll be, but no
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by josinalvo 7y ago
they have invented many... that might be part of the problem
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by josinalvo 7y ago
Can you be more specific? What is the nature of this toil?
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by josinalvo 7y ago
> nontrivial enough not sure I understand... did you mean trivial enough?
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by josinalvo 7y ago
Also lingering affection. Afaik, it means mostly something like "still there, after all that time" see: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lingering
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by josinalvo 7y ago
I assumed 5 times in an hour meant once every 12 minutes. But I admit I dont know enough about the network to understand if that even makes sense
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by josinalvo 7y ago
Just watched the video about scuttlebutt. To confirm: a copy of my messages and images is permanently stored in my friend´s and my friend´s of friend´s diaries (up until the point where they delete them, I presume)
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by josinalvo 7y ago
lingering brings other ideas besides "long". something like "fading but still there". does not seem appropriate for the text
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by josinalvo 7y ago
>> It's too slow >In my recent experience, payments confirm ~5 times within an hour or so. Really not fast enought for the camgirl/camboy use case
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by josinalvo 7y ago
for this use case, I use favorite rather than the upvote
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by josinalvo 7y ago
If population is steady,GDP still must grow. Otherwise, most of the people who get ahead/gain a better life will do so at the expense of another. That is not a nice world to live in.
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by josinalvo 7y ago
Without growth above the population growth, life becomes zero sum or negative sum. That means that taking and fighting becomes more rewarding than building. It is either growth or war, no way around it.
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by josinalvo 7y ago
> I'd probably get a really loud exhaust for my car too. Why?
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by josinalvo 7y ago
I think you need to understand the origins of the emotion, but you can (after understanding it) see it as mistaken. Say you are pissed because you did not finish a job, but your job performance is increasingly better. Your emotion is not gu
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by josinalvo 7y ago
That is the thing, though. Violence had social norms around it. It was not the case that you could escalate forever. I remember one message from a father to a son, for example, that said "never throw the first punch unless he is X inch
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by josinalvo 7y ago
Before people had a firm idea of homosexuality, men did show affection for other men as well. It went like this: it is ok to hold hands with a man (because no one will think you are gay/because no one thinks anyone is gay) -> it is
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by josinalvo 7y ago
What problems do you see with those apps? How do you feel their need to scale affects negatively the experience of users? (Not saying you are wrong, I just wish more details on your insight about it)
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by josinalvo 7y ago
I meant more as a visual way to demonstrate, once the page is open, what you will get out of it (better interface. but then again, it might make too many people use it)
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by josinalvo 7y ago
If you want to make that clearer you could perhaps create a gif of a generic location and put it at the start of the demonstration? Or even just a screenshot. (you probably could not do it with a streetview photo, because of their terms, bu
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by josinalvo 7y ago
How do you feel it compares to "just a normal linux distro with a bunch of edu apps thrown in"?
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by josinalvo 7y ago
Have heard the worst things about Nestle, and that baby formula fact does not seem surprising. I agree it could be on the national interest of a country to forbid nestle formula given like that (or, for that matter, basic internet given by

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