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justsaysmthng
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> No government can reasonably expect from another to break its own laws and it is certainly not in US interest for Sweden to go down that route. I feel and respect your desire for and belief in integrity on the part of the system, but i
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They celebrated with a nice dinner afterwards though: http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Cassidy-...
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Suppose that you're accused of a crime in North Korea and somehow you manage to escape the country. Will you still respect what you said in the comment and return to NK to stand trial ? Replace North Korea with Iran, Iraq, Syria or a
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This is the thing I've been looking for ! Thank you for the 63 characters of wisdom, my project now builds !
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Tried that, but it seems the build setting now needs an explicit SWIFT_VERSION configured .. And carthage dependencies don't have that so the build fails. Basically, I couldn't get my carthage dependencies to compile with Swift 2.
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If you're thinking of updating to Xcode 8, hoping that your project will 'just build', don't get your hopes too high. I've already spent all day fixing, updating, searching around for all kinds of errors that the bu
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Some of you might disagree, but there's this thing happening right now with the younger generation: they don't seem to worship technology like we do. Which is to say, for them - it's not something 'wow cool', it jus
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> is to close your account, block social media bugs and encourage your friends and family to do the same. Much easier said than done. First, there is no way to 'close' your account - you can only 'deactivate' it. I di
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The two OSes you mentioned are used by less than 10% of the market - 6,49%, according to the link below. Windows 10 is used by 23% of users. https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share... There are many peo
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Albert Einstein was a smoker, as were a lot of other scientists. NASA mission control celebrated with cigars when the mission was successful... From my own experience, smoking sometimes helped me improve concentration and it gave me a 10 mi
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Yes, if you blow the smoke on them, they don't like it. But I was bitten countless times when I was a smoker, so it's not a very effective remedy.
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In the eyes of the traditional establishment, LSD is an extremely dangerous substance, not because of it's potential for causing physical harm (which is very close to zero), but because of it's consciousness altering ability, also
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The choice of the UI library depends a lot on the type of app you're developing. For many types of apps, a single page HTML/JS/CSS app bundled as an executable is the best choice. If your app will do a lot with the hardware (
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The author mentions this, but I'd like to insist on it a bit more: Scrum is a system of managing people, not a software development methodology. It's about transforming programmers into cogs and gently forcing them to obey certain
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That was an interesting read. I can also subscribe to the image of San Francisco - with homeless and ill people on the streets - it was what made me decide against moving to Silicon Valley, although the offer was very attractive. Beijing I&
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A lot of the software runs on open source libraries and applications. What if the licenses for said libs and applications (eg. GPL or MIT) added stipulations, which forbid the usage of the software in certain circumstances ? For example: &
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A good idea would be to create a website were self experimenters can log their results, describe their setups, take tests and answer questionnaires. Similar to what erowid did for drugs back in the days - the self reported "trip report
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I've just spend 30 minutes examining the cities on your site. Great work !
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Large layers of society unhappy and frustrated, become easy prey for radical ideas disseminated by populist politicians. When this reaches a critical mass, it becomes less risky to take up arms and eliminate the oppressors in exchange for t
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Note that it's not just a frozen fact, but a growing trend. Those charts go up up up, meaning that things are going to get even worse for more people if all parameters stay the same. This never ends well. Radical new ideas take hold in
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This is crazy, man ! Fantastic work ! I generate a riff and continue working, then I go and generate another one ... Future of music right here.
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And this isn't happening just to our political views. In music, videos, movies, etc - the whole 'recommended for you' concept is a bit of a paradox, because after an initial seed, the algorithm starts to influence your prefer
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> The world is full of people who aren’t realizing their potential in large part because their cities don't provide the opportunities and living conditions necessary for success. > A high leverage way to improve our world is to u
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Good, now I'm going to be even more paranoid typing ` npm install ` ` pod install ` And the likes. You know, third party services which we wholeheartedly trust and let them execute whatever they download from github on our development
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> Only because your mental map is old, archaic and will not allow you to see things any other way. I've done my fair share of acid and mushroom trips, explored the DMT hyperspace dozens of times, travelled through time and space in
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> He also points out that doing a task that a machine or computer do is pointless. This is true for some tasks - but not true for others, even if AI could in theory do them better. For example, a medical doctor. It is easy to see this as
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From the presentation: "There's a lot of talk about how AI is going to totally replace humans... (But) I like to think that AI is going to actually make humans better at what they do ..." Then immediately he continues that &q
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"Give some love to open source devs." It turns out that many users of open source projects (especially libraries and packages) are other developers ! It is hard to find a piece of modern software which doesn't depend on some
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My grandparents used to harvest most of their food from the farm around their house. Most people in that village did the same. And they survived and the food was very good - it had flavor and taste , attributes which are not applicable t
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This is pretty much how I see the future of agriculture. Give the FarmBot a bunch of wheels / robotic feet to move around and it could theoretically handle huge fields. The key thing here is the possibility to monitor each individua
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