mbroncano

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Great Bitter Lake Association (2019)(99percentinvisible.org)
1 points by mbroncano 6y ago|0 comments
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The algorithms that make Instacart roll(spectrum.ieee.org)
100 points by mbroncano 6y ago|59 comments
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Phoebus Cartel(en.wikipedia.org)
16 points by mbroncano 6y ago|0 comments
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by mbroncano 6y ago
Could you please elaborate on that? Which particular law are they abiding?
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The algorithms that make Instacart roll(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by mbroncano 6y ago|0 comments
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by mbroncano 6y ago
iPhone 12 Pro - 397 GFlops!! Sometimes it’s just hard to realize that we’re carrying a super computer in our pockets ...
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by mbroncano 6y ago
Congratulations to the OP, what a fantastic demo! One small thing, when navigating on my iPhone it seems unavoidable to enable the text selection hint, covering the whole screen in blue and displaying the ‘copy-paste’ popover. In any case,
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by mbroncano 6y ago
In my experience, pretty much everywhere else out of the US you will find plenty of women in STEM. Admittedly not 50% but it’s certainly much more common.
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by mbroncano 6y ago
They don’t need to happen at the same time ie you could possibly have a market crash and subsequently a hyper inflation crisis.
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by mbroncano 6y ago
I find it difficult to believe that progress stopped at some point in the later 70's
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Using Combine (2020)(heckj.github.io)
1 points by mbroncano 6y ago|0 comments
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Britain Has Lost Itself(nytimes.com)
5 points by mbroncano 6y ago|0 comments
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by mbroncano 6y ago
And as they mentioned above, the book (short story actually) from Ted Chiang is possibly even more profound
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by mbroncano 6y ago
Superconductor-based technology, obviously
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by mbroncano 6y ago
Space X and the Falcon 9
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by mbroncano 6y ago
Recently passed, RIP
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by mbroncano 6y ago
Thanks for this. It’s beautiful book, and I remember similar books laying around some old relative during my childhood.
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by mbroncano 6y ago
They also popularized decaf https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/decaf-coffee-nazi-part...
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GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)(blog.printf.net)
314 points by mbroncano 6y ago|56 comments
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by mbroncano 6y ago
The EU is by far the biggest contributor though: > Europe is responsible for the largest portion of construction costs (45.6 percent); the remainder is shared equally by China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the US (9.1 percent each)
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by mbroncano 6y ago
That was awesome, thanks!
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by mbroncano 6y ago
I’m running Pianoteq indeed
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by mbroncano 6y ago
> Even the earliest Spanish expeditions were (in part) state-approved, armed and essentially get-rich-quick plundering schemes. Maybe I’m not getting your point, but how does that fit with building up universities? What were they expecti
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by mbroncano 6y ago
I found out today that the first university (!) in the continent dates back to the 1550s [0]. What made the Spaniards so successful that they were able not only to defeat a full blown civilization (as opposed to the weaker natives in the no
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by mbroncano 6y ago
I've started to use a RPi4 instead (output is through a simple USB DAC) and the quality is pretty much the same. Additionally, it makes for a simpler setup if you have a dedicated unit for the purpose.
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Seikilos Epitaph(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mbroncano 6y ago|0 comments
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Dune Official Trailer(youtu.be)
2 points by mbroncano 6y ago|0 comments
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by mbroncano 6y ago
It’s debatable whether there’s an actual difference nowadays.
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by mbroncano 6y ago
It’s remarkable they changed the spelling in the title to match the British customs, one would think this is a proper and not a common name in this context.
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by mbroncano 6y ago
Sure it has! The question is, do the positive effects compensate for the negatives? Another question is, who’s job is effectively obsoleted if most of the work force (for this particular context eg STEM) works remotely?

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