matt4077

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by matt4077 8y ago
A font family with the weights and other options a newspaper needs is a major undertaking. It's maybe 5 to 10 person-years of rather specialised work. For a publication constantly fighting to even break even, the costs aren't triv
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by matt4077 8y ago
> I can't see more commercially-oriented paper/website open-sourcing any of their code, even if it's a (good imho) recruitment ploy. https://github.com/nytimes https://github.com/BostonG
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by matt4077 8y ago
Alcohol: It provokes the desire, yet it taketh away the performance! (I mostly appreciate that line (from Macbeth) because it's just extremely relatable.)
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by matt4077 8y ago
I'm not sure if these decisions are purely based on legal (and financial) reasons. After all, there are now countless examples of how be compliant. The only group of websites that I have encountered blocking me are small-town newspaper
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by matt4077 8y ago
Of course US urban planning, and especially its reliance on cars and the wrongheaded deprecation of mixed zoning are a problem. But telling people "you're idiots" just doesn't seem to change any minds. It being a politic
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by matt4077 8y ago
Congrats for the PR successes, and also for turning what I can only assume was a worrying SimCity habit into a career & a tool for good. To expand that SimCity analogy to its breaking point: I've long fantasised a game/simulat
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by matt4077 8y ago
Even given the dynamics you're describing, the basic idea still makes intuitive sense to me: it's easier to convince someone with a pretty & intuitive simulation than it is without. Your case would require complete rejection
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by matt4077 8y ago
I would believe diplomats would be somewhat resistant against mass delusion, considering their selection (and possibly training). Mass delusion has also been one of the leading hypothesis from the very first story on this phenomenon. Being
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Hence “analogy”
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by matt4077 8y ago
But do hey switch at the same moment... or one hour apart?
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by matt4077 8y ago
That’s a stupid idea. Not only will all references to times in movies etc stop making sense. It will not even help to solve any of the perceived problems, like scheduling calls. You might be able to specify the time without a time zone, but
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by matt4077 8y ago
This isn’t true for most any location in the EU, except maybe southern Italy.
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Treasures from the Color Archive(newyorker.com)
1 points by matt4077 8y ago|0 comments
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by matt4077 8y ago
The law isn’t some mindless algorithm. Do you understand what these terms are intended to do? Good, so does ever judge.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Funny you should mention Albania: It's exactly where I learned never to doubt Google Maps. Specifically, never to assume that "It's like ten meters between these two points... I don't see a reason why we would need to go
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by matt4077 8y ago
I'm pretty sure that Google Maps does auto-discovery of hiking and biking trails by simply watching peoples' positions? At least I've had rather good experiences using Maps for biking. Even small, unofficial paths were mapped
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Russian Trolls Used Vaccine Debate to Sow Discord, Study Find(nytimes.com)
29 points by matt4077 8y ago|20 comments
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by matt4077 8y ago
(1) They do have the DNA... That's actually how this discovery came about, and the reason for all the progress in this field over the last few years. Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute and his team invented a method to extract DN
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by matt4077 8y ago
yeah, this is the rather basic flaw in what lots of people, including on HN, are proposing: They seem to demand a sort of proof from first principle for journalism, where every reader can (and must!) verify an article without any heuristics
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by matt4077 8y ago
It's just basic reputation, a mechanism humans have used to improve cooperation since before they had become homo sapiens. There's absolutely nothing nefarious about remembering previous interactions you had with someone. In fact
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by matt4077 8y ago
I actually think Bing is ahead of Google for image search these days.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Russia, and Putin specifically, are suffering from a serious case of inferiority complex ever since the USSR broke apart. They could obviously prosper easily by integrating themselves into Europe & the west economically. Instead, they a
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by matt4077 8y ago
Every self-declared "professional" I've met spent most of their time unproductively fiddling with their equipment. While a select few can push the envelope with technology alone, a bit of talent seems to easily compensate for
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by matt4077 8y ago
They don't suddenly fail any more, and performance in production is fine... This is a rather empirical science right now. If forced to speculate, I'd say far larger datasets are part of the answer. If you can afford to hold back 3
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'Sharp Objects' and the Unethical Female Journalist(theatlantic.com)
3 points by matt4077 8y ago|0 comments
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by matt4077 8y ago
It’s funny how the HN crowd’s infatuation with nuclear persists, long after economics alone, ignoring outright any safety arguments, have rendered the technology obsolete. It was the environmental crowd you hate, by the way, plus the often
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by matt4077 8y ago
The idea here is, quite obviously, that blocking these services, plus everything that runs on their cloud infrastructure, is too high a price to pay. That mechanism is well established, if only by these governments previously being unable t
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The Freedom of the Press Is Yours(theatlantic.com)
1 points by matt4077 8y ago|0 comments
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by matt4077 8y ago
I doubt you can get two crypto enthusiasts to agree on a common plan. But, more significantly, a "crypto utopia", when realised in an actual, physical, location, also needs to be a "non-crypto utopia", i. e. a functionin
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by matt4077 8y ago
The NYT is still far ahead of the WP. I like to get the actual print edition once in a while. On the weekends, it's positively massive . It's also far cheaper than any comparable subscriptions in my European country (Germany), at

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