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by niftich 10y ago
Take the example of Qatar, where a "modern" lifestyle is a clear and obvious contributor to the fourth-highest obesity rate in the world. A state which in just 70 years has ascended to the country with the highest per capita incom
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The obesity situation on Pacific islands is a complex interaction of genetics, economics, and geography/geopolitics: a small genetic predisposition to larger frames and more efficient fat storage (described in multiple papers, like thi
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It doesn't answer your question precisely, but I asked a similar (albeit more incredulous) question a few months back [1] and got a thread full of educated speculation from current and former Yahoo devs. [1] https://news.yco
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An ancient idea for this is sortition , i.e. selecting people into positions of power by randomly choosing them out of a large pool. It's got plenty of disadvantages, but it negates most of the perverse incentives of accumulating poli
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India is a former continent underlain by its own craton and its own tectonic plate that has collided with the much larger Eurasian plate in the epic Himalayan orogeny [1]. Eurasia is a multi-plate continent that forms a continuous expanse o
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See their Figure 5 [1] where they hypothesize how Zealandia was formed from the breakup of Gondwana, before which it did in fact lie adjacent to what later became a separate 'Australia' continent. Some of the definitions are compl
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The paper disagrees. Quote: The edges of Australia and Zealandia continental crust approach to within 25 km across the Cato Trough (Fig. 2). The Cato Trough is 3600 m deep and floored by oceanic crust (Gaina et al., 1998; Exon et al., 2006
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by niftich 10y ago
Catchy, but no. Mule ESB is more like a framework for declaratively creating (and executing these) flows that run through a series of components that react to events, in a sort of universal design pattern; these flows then execute in in a r
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They make a couple products that work well together. Mule ESB acts as a container for flows, which are declaratively-written processes of canned components that do a specific thing (like make an SQL query, make API calls, or call your custo
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Not sure where this essay is headed; it starts off by noting the increased cosmopolitanization of contemporary Eastern Europe as affected by peacetime capitalism, while pointing that the psychological stereotypes live on in fewer and fewer
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As others have said, driving really isn't a choice in much of the US, but rather an artifact of finding a residence with desirable attributes (price, size, form-factor, noise level, green space, school zone) in the same metro as one&#x
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The Washington Post has a good graphic [1] on which stations were cut-and-cover and which stations were bored. You will find that most stations were actually cut-and-cover, with only the Red Line having bored segments: one starting from aft
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That's eloquent and evocative, and resonates just as well today, 200 years later. I was going to comment on how such a mundane observation from long ago makes for an interesting read in and of itself, but it's clear from the conte
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I get what you're saying, but the definition of the term 'prominence' doesn't help you, because by definition, Mount Everest's 'prominence' equals its actual height above MSL. This special case is necessar
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I don't disagree, but this is basically the MO of almost every "free" social network, messaging service, or image or content host since forever.
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This project seems to be the culmination of a rhetorial question that the author posed a while ago: if the advice is 'don't roll your own crypto' [1], then how does any crypto ever come into being? [2] So perhaps the marketin
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by niftich 10y ago
Some write-ups and musings on this: [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-04-08/why-u-s-i... [2] http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/06/how-much-bang-... [3]
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by niftich 10y ago
Not sure why they decided to build an elaborate viaduct [1] to allow for a high-speed curve radius in Southeast Fresno, if Fresno will be a likely stop anyway. Just make all trains stop in Fresno, a place conveniently midway between SF and
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by niftich 10y ago
I wish intent and end result counted more strongly. Andoid's compatibility isn't transitive: once code goes through the Android build pipeline to produce an Android Application it cannot be meaningfully used in the context of Orac
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Ask HN: Retrofit manual snapshots into Git
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If only there were libraries that encapsulate best-practice plumbing and glue logic and offer a high-level API with sane defaults! A perusal of the awesome-go list [1] (allegedly, a "curated list", which may merit a debate) names
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WhatsApp was bought because it was popular in India and Brazil, markets that have historically been weaker for Facebook Messenger. Together, they ensured that Facebook would get a nigh-insurmountable lead in marketshare over Google in the m
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Wow, this takes me way back -- but that 'way back' was only 10 years ago. So much has changed in that span of time, it's mindboggling. Around the time that MooTools appeared, Prototype and Dojo were the cutting-edge of DHTML,
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The 'rapid iteration' of the web platform strikes again. In this case, getUserMedia has been replaced (edit: I should be precise, "is being replaced") [1] by MediaDevices, which provides a promises-based method for Media
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13576921
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13576921
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Deploy some game theory here. Regardless of what the drafters of GNU Affero GPLv3 intended, there are really four outcomes here (with wording since edited for clarity): Precondition: Take a GNU Affero GPv3 product, modify it, and expose it
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The GNU Affero GPLv3 has been a recurring topic during RethinkDB's existence, but I cannot substantiate the same having been an issue for MongoDB. Links appreciated. Some instances of people asking about GNU Affero GPLv3 and RethinkDB:
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There is little uncertainty -- the terms are in plain language. OP implied that the GNU Affero GPLv3 is an updated GPLv3 "in spirit" to reflect how today a lot of software is run on the backend, instead of distributed to clients d
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by niftich 10y ago
To build on my previous comment [1], and those by thinkloop, it's plausible to me that one of the layers of social commentary they targeted was about clickbait and 'fake news'. This story itself is purpose-made for viral spec

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