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by lake99 8y ago
> And they’re just two of the many parrots in the world who have surprised us with their intelligence, skills and longevity. About said longevity, it was my understanding that parrots (most birds?) commonly get arthritis in their wings a
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by lake99 8y ago
The gist for those wondering if they should watch this half an hour long talk: it's meant to be funny. You'll probably learn nothing about Clojure or any other technology.
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by lake99 8y ago
Repeatedly hit the Tab key. It's likely you'll see 'o' link getting outlined.
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by lake99 8y ago
Ugh! This is getting tiresome. Yes, NY Times hates Facebook. I get it. Can we please stop posting story after story about that here?
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by lake99 8y ago
Learn from Kernighan. Most tutorials are dry and teach "follow these steps". The better ones explain the "why" of the feature. Kernighan comes up with fun examples to keep the reader engaged.
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by lake99 8y ago
I don't like the "gotcha, Dawkins" stance of the article, but apart from that, it looks like they were doing their best to fill in the gaps that Venter left. If memory serves me right, this discussion panel met shortly after
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by lake99 8y ago
Definitely not agreeing with GP. Progressives are not economic liberals. But you're right, the article has it backwards too. The phrase "staunchly conservative on regulation" seems to have a special meaning in the US that&#x2
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by lake99 8y ago
The locations seem like gimmicks to me quite a lot of times, and I don't mean ICLR conferences specifically. This time it happens to be politically motivated. At other times, it seems like they are picking exotic locations (Hawaii, Bah
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by lake99 8y ago
If we're talking about single-celled organisms, it's quite possible that there are hundreds of "kingdoms" living among us. The trend to abandon the Linnaean classificaton is quite prominent among those analyzing macrosco
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by lake99 8y ago
You have it backwards. Liberal economics means fewer regulations, less federal planning, etc. In their more "socialist" phases, China and India had the government in control of a lot of manufacturing, trade, etc. After their econo
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by lake99 8y ago
I guess it's a reference to George Orwell's "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".
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by lake99 8y ago
I don't work in this field, but I would like to know out of lay interest. Are there translators that to convert proofs in one system to another? Such a translator would prove (pardon!) to be useful to collaborating researchers. I know
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by lake99 8y ago
But still centuries behind liturgical music. Sing "Kyrie eleison" in this manner for 5 minutes, and then sing "Kyrie eleison" in a different manner for 10 minutes. Sing "Christe eleison" in between for a few mi
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by lake99 8y ago
You're using the emacs definition of major modes. "Modal editor" has a different meaning. Vim has three modes [1]. Emacs is not considered a modal editor, but some of its features are similar to Vim's last-line mode. [1]
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by lake99 8y ago
Does the text-to-speech feature not work on desktops? I'm using Chromium on Linux, and I don't hear anything when I click on sentences. TTS works on Android though.
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by lake99 8y ago
I was hoping for an article on nuclear physicists, and how working with radioactive materials when it was still not well understood has left some residual radioactivity detectable in their hair to this day, long after their deaths. I was di
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by lake99 8y ago
I agree completely. Copyright is badly broken, and it's broken in favour of the big players. Independent classical musicians are the most severely affected by it. A few of my favourite classical players have received copyright strikes
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by lake99 8y ago
> there is still the other side that subsidizes all that Connect the dots for me. How is the existence of crazy people uploading videos to YouTube subsidizing educational content? Advertising is subsidizing educational content because th
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by lake99 8y ago
I don't watch children's videos, so I'll leave that factor aside. All your citations are to opinion pieces written by people with an agenda to push, i.e. not fact, not by a long shot. I watch YouTube for education and enterta
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by lake99 8y ago
> both a chemistry department and a chemical engineering department. They are different (but related) disciplines I used to think chemical engineering is about chemistry until I talked to some chemical engineers on the bus I used to comm
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by lake99 8y ago
The Bose-Einstein condensate that the article talks about is one of many low-temperature states. There are a few kinds of high-energy states too... the most famous ones being electron degenerate matter (found in white dwarfs) and neutron d
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by lake99 8y ago
No, I had looked at those too. Both under Image Search (for Jews, Muslims, and "gril") and under Videos (for Michelle Obama). All the related searches were completely innocuous. The autocomplete suggestions were the least innocuou
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by lake99 8y ago
That was my first thought too. But then, I live in Bangalore, and my sense of proportion is biased by this. The Jewish population is about the same as my city's.
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by lake99 8y ago
What? I tried these searches out when the article was just three hours old on HN. I could not reproduce any of these results. Safe Search was set "Moderate", and my results did not change significantly when I switched it to &quo
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by lake99 8y ago
> surely this is a dishonest retort to a label that is being applied very specifically to a radical nationalist It's not dishonest at all. I have noticed this trend in the last couple of years, where the likes of Sam Harris and Doug
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by lake99 8y ago
Reading the first paragraph, and the article already seems off to a shaky start. > The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, cites V. D. Savarkar, a far-right Hindu supremacist who was accused of involvement in Gandhi’s assassination, in
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by lake99 8y ago
I wouldn't go as far as to say the company hired people who had no moral values. Just different from that of people who advocate anti-censorship values. Progressive political values are the current mainstream. Liberalism has long bee
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by lake99 8y ago
> Are they "just" sucking up to management or are they maybe the only ones who buy the propaganda? IMO, neither. I don't like this purported dichotomy between "management" and "colleagues/employees&quot
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by lake99 8y ago
> "computer software look more like real-world analogues" Skeuomorphic design. That's the term for it.
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by lake99 8y ago
I'm not in the western world, but News Republic is on plenty of phones around here, as part of the initial bloatware. I have not used the product myself, so this is not a comment on the quality of the product.

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