nether

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by nether 9y ago
It chugged on a 2 GB csv for a personal project, but it was tolerable. I wouldn't use this machine for work.
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by nether 9y ago
My mid-2011 MacBook Air with 4 GB memory has been running really well. Occasionally Safari (the Metal version in High Sierra) gets slow, but it's still faster than Chrome. I've been using it for general casual computing and machin
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by nether 9y ago
We could build new universities. Take up the slack in all the excess PhD's, increasing the supply of good secondary education, and help stave off exploding tuition costs. Build it from scratch like Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, or Olin. W
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by nether 9y ago
Thus the Formics were defeated.
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Reducing isolation at work is good for business(hbr.org)
98 points by nether 9y ago|27 comments
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by nether 9y ago
nvidia gpu for ML training
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What Do Gravitational Crystals Really Look (i.e. Move) Like?(blog.wolfram.com)
2 points by nether 9y ago|0 comments
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by nether 9y ago
In Seattle, many trips of 3-6 miles are fastest by bike. Faster than transit or car even without including parking time. There are quite a few dedicated bike paths that make it smooth sailing for most of the trip.
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by nether 9y ago
Looks like Detroit today.
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Effective altruism(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by nether 9y ago|0 comments
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by nether 9y ago
GiveDirectly. They give cash, no strings attached. So hardly any overhead. NPR Planet Money tried to have a guy build a school in Haiti. They were flush with donations. After all was said and done, a year later they barely had a concrete fo
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Taking away Uber is like taking away part of our lives(ft.com)
1 points by nether 9y ago|0 comments
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by nether 9y ago
You should move there.
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by nether 9y ago
Where I lived in a suburb of Los Angeles, we’d have inexplicable traffic light outages. Well, some times it was due to rain. Invariably traffic would be backed up for half a mile. It was terrible.
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by nether 9y ago
Granted, Boeing’s cutoff is 2.7.
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by nether 9y ago
And this is why sperm banks require donors be at least 5'9" tall.
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by nether 9y ago
I think in 2003, NYC was a swampy Dutch trading post. I was born around then - I'll never forget it.
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by nether 9y ago
We need to blast off into space sooner than later to escape this tyranny. We must declare independence.
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by nether 9y ago
"The white people, who are trying to make us over into their image, they want us to be what they call "assimilated," bringing the Indians into the mainstream and destroying our own way of life and our own cultural patterns. T
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by nether 9y ago
A Roman makeup container was found a while ago, with fingerprints still visible in the cream: https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/makeup-scienc...
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by nether 9y ago
But nobody wants to move there. I loved my four years in Ann Arbor, but any other metro area just blows it out of the water.
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by nether 9y ago
Why haven't you done all manner of things to improve the world at your expense? How much are you donating to Harvey relief? Why haven't you sold your gas car to buy an electric? Etc.
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by nether 9y ago
People say traffic is bad in LA, but Seattle is next level congestion.
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by nether 9y ago
Please no. Leave Denver alone.
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by nether 9y ago
Finally the obsession with white collar careers is ending. I much prefer the German system of presenting trades and office jobs as equally valid. This is the first step to revitalizing skilled trades in the US.
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by nether 9y ago
Does it matter if the economic benefit of Amazon's presence in a city outweighs the initial tax breaks?
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Universities rush to add data science majors as demand explodes(sfchronicle.com)
1 points by nether 9y ago|0 comments
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by nether 9y ago
I would not. Kids should be outside playing and interacting with other kids, not coding.
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by nether 9y ago
Plagued with millennial self-obsessed fluff. Ugh. https://youtu.be/Sz0o9clVQu8
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Stop Faking Service Dogs(outsideonline.com)
280 points by nether 9y ago|250 comments

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