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by lijf 8mo ago
” As a matter of fact, political obfuscation has tended to use many words rather than few, long words rather than short, to extend rather than to reduce. Every leader of inadequate education or limited intelligence hides behind exuberant in
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by lijf 2y ago
Sorry about the podcast link, the gist is that Ukraine now can build drones from cardboard, controlled from Kiev, London etc. that can destroy Russian tanks. https://www.ft.com/content/8793e218-9dc4-43a8-8183-e2a092bbb.
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by lijf 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdygrcFcyyY Jon Stewart & John Oliver Welcome America to Its Trump Monarchy Era | The Daily Show
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AWS CEO Matt Garman Talks Amazon's Big Bets in AI Chips etc.(bigtechnology.com)
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by lijf 3y ago
I've built one with Lego. < https://www.lijf.org/chess/DSCF1392.jpeg > < https://www.lijf.org/chess/DSCF2887.jpeg >
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Silicon Valley on the Couch(pushkin.fm)
1 points by lijf 3y ago|0 comments
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The Gradient Podcast – Terry Winograd: AI, HCI, Language, and Cognition(thegradientpub.substack.com)
11 points by lijf 3y ago|0 comments
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Masks for Children, Muzzles for Covid-19 News(wsj.com)
3 points by lijf 5y ago|2 comments
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by lijf 5y ago
Alternative link: https://archive.is/ghEGf
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Coronavirus test in a Nespresso capsule (CoroNaspresso)(youtube.com)
1 points by lijf 5y ago|1 comments
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by lijf 5y ago
LAMP = 'Loop-mediated Amplification, which allows detection of small amounts of viral RNA from oral/nasal swabs even in an early stage of the infection.' (definition from the linked preprint paper)
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by lijf 5y ago
https://gossipsweb.net/ ? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26446516
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by lijf 6y ago
Part of this comment made me think of Albert Hirschman's 'Exit, Voice, and Loyalty' [1] - at least as I have understood the argument, comparing the 'standby passive observer' to the 'loyalty' standpoint, a
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by lijf 6y ago
No, not just you, I’ve had the same problem, and I have youtube premium. Though it’s not consistent, sometimes it works, which makes me think that it might be related to some choice of the content creator.
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by lijf 6y ago
I actually arrived in New Zealand with mud under my walking boots once - we had been trecking on Rarotonga, Cook Islands the day before, and I had not read the customs rules for NZ before filling in the paper slip, shortly before getting o
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US weighs ban on TikTok as friction with China rises(ft.com)
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Show HN: Thesounds.se(thesounds.se)
1 points by lijf 6y ago|1 comments
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by lijf 6y ago
A simple one page frontend to The Sounds of Spotify - for music discovery. As stated in the 'About': "Some summers ago I discovered the user The Sounds of Spotify and as I was scrolling through all its playlists I thought it
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by lijf 7y ago
You are of course right about the cost and accessibility, low field not necessitating specific rooms or ‘no go’ zones, and presumably easy operation (controlled via iPad app) being very interesting with regards to increased availability of
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by lijf 7y ago
Being a neuroradiologist (at Karolinska in Stockholm, Sweden) I really love the idea of this and almost can’t wait to start doing comparative studies to find how sensitive it really is. As I see it there are a couple of areas where it could
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Introducing the yellow-vest indicator(ftalphaville.ft.com)
1 points by lijf 8y ago|0 comments
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Initial Coin Scams(project-syndicate.org)
1 points by lijf 8y ago|0 comments
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by lijf 9y ago
https://xkcd.com/1425/