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by machinerychorus 5y ago
This is also ignoring a crucial aspect of human behavior: we have moved past simple evolutionary optimization. Our behaviors can now change very rapidly due to spoken and written language. In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins called this &q
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
I made an Android live wallpaper with a similar premise: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.machineryc...
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." "Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and stru
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Ask HN: What programming language should I teach my child?
7 points by machinerychorus 5y ago|17 comments
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VX Junkies Forum(old.reddit.com)
3 points by machinerychorus 5y ago|1 comments
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
While it is typically railed against by crackpots, it also shouldn't be assumed to be safe/correct. We've been adding flouride to water for a long time, without much understanding of the risks, benefits, or proper dosage. Her
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Ask HN: Dependency Graphs for Cloud Services?
29 points by machinerychorus 5y ago|13 comments
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Nixery: Ad-hoc container registry, powered by Nix(nixery.dev)
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
This is a great article, I just have one tiny nitpick: please add the publication date! Information like this is very dependent on the context of when it was written, and something that is "best practice" or "an anti-pattern&
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
It's my understanding that caffeine doesn't have a diuretic effect on chronic users with a tolerance for caffeine. IOW if you drink a few cups of coffee every day, it isn't dehydrating you; but if you don't usually drink
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
> Certainly the "edge" could be even closer to the end user than data centers would allow. Isn't this essentially what browser+js does? you download someones code and execute it locally. Reminds me of this xkcd https:&#x2
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
This is an Android Live Wallpaper that displays the percentage of your life that has already gone by. Being constantly reminded that life is finite will force you to think about how you spend your time. The inspiration for this wallpaper ca
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Show HN: Life Perspective Wallpaper(play.google.com)
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The article explains that they searched 88k peer-reviewed studies.
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
Did you even read the article? It gives a brief explanation of the methodology. The full paper is found here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2966
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
It's not a prediction about the future, it's based on measuring what has happened. "Humans caused climate change". This statement implies nothing about what will happen in the future
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
Maybe google does something like this, with their myriad services? but then everyone complains about them constantly killing off products
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
I don't think the premise of the Awesome List is to tell you which tool to use, and despite their name there are lots of tools on these lists which aren't awesome! But I still think they're useful as a way of browsing all the
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
They downsized 90%! Saying that they haven't failed yet strikes me as needlessly pedantic. Yes, employees of a tech startup are probably compensated pretty well and have great job prospects. However, their wealth is probably negligib
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because it's a perfect symbol of the breakdown our society is experiencing. His life is completely unaffected by the failure of his company, while the employees who were passionate about the mission are left with nothing.
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
It's still possible to share things just for the sake of sharing
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A 7 year old WebSocket bug in chromium was fixed today(bugs.chromium.org)
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
I think you have to find a healthy balance, where you give it your best effort but also accept that it'll never be perfect.
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
I made a live wallpaper for android based on this idea. It shows what percentage of your life has already gone by. Some people find this depressing, but I think it's a good reminder to think about how I spend my time. app: https:&#x2F
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
makes more sense at first glance maybe, but when you dig into it more it's perfectly logical. "positive" refers to adding stimulus, "negative" refers to removing stimulus. "Reinforcement" is anything that
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
This was a clever take back in 2008. However, by now most people understand that an increased average global temperature doesn't mean it is uniformly warmer everywhere, it means more extreme weather events. One cold month doesn't
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
ACA is a federal level law that does several different things. As I understand it, the main points were increased insurance regulation, the individual mandate, and an option for states to expand medicaid [0]. I'm not sure why there is
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the app doesn't use any data, just a bluetooth connection for exchanging keys with nearby devices, and wifi for downloading the keys published by people who tested positive
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Here is the platform that the app is built from: https://github.com/google/exposure-notifications-android And here is the code for the two services it talks to: https://github.com/google/exposure-n
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by machinerychorus 5y ago
Sounds like it could be the scam where they put in your email address and hope that you pay the bill for them: https://jameshfisher.com/2018/04/07/the-dots-do-matter-how-t...

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