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by otalp 10y ago
Org-mode in spacemacs is my choice, though that is more of a TODO list keeper than writing down personal thoughts. But it is plain text and has timestamps. It is also very flexible and powerful. https://www.youtube.com/watch
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Both. It's not often that a former VP of Google ends up at Facebook.
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The title should really be "Vegetarian diets alone are not going to save the planet".
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>What I think is even more stupid though is how the left is trying to compare Trump to Hitler Right, you're going to get those comparisons if you praise China for the Tiananmen Square massacre, praise dictators like Kim Jong Un and
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Depends on what model. I think the 2017 MacBook and MacBook Pro's are overpriced, but I'd say the MacBook Air post-2012 is still possibly the best laptop on the market for many people. For $999 you now get 8 gigs of RAM, SSD that
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by otalp 10y ago
I never liked all the multitude of list making apps - Evernote, Todoist, Omnifocus, etc. I prefer org-mode[1] on emacs. It's simple, flexible, distraction free and for some reason reminds me of writing on paper. You get the simplicity,
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Similarly, there's a strong need for more developers tools in varied languages. A lot of great minds are being wasted because they are not proficient in English, and don't have a programming language in a language they know, or ha
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Not necessarily minorities in the US(in fact a lot of US minorities are overrepresented in tech), but if you could make say, a few Spanish speaking people in poorer parts of Brazil contribute, they could spread whatever knowledge they gaine
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France gets more than 77 million visitors a year? That's astounding.
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There are serious privacy concerns[1] with spark though. One alternative to Polymail which is not often discussed is Canary Mail[2], which I've always found to be reliable and good looking. [1]- https://www.reddit.com/r
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A beginners introduction to Lagrangian Dynamics for dealing with complex systems(sharikrishnan.netlify.com)
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A legitimate criticism is that they make it hard for people who don't want to use play services to user their app. For the privacy of the messages themselves, google really cannot interfere, unlike WhatsApp/Facebook.
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Honestly this constant posting of Stallman opinions is getting tiring. I feel that the same principles he applies to one case carries over to the others, so to have 4 turn up in one day is a little annoying.
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The title is a double entendre. It's a show about doctors with the lead doctor being "Meredith Grey". So it refers to both the protagonist and the book, since it's a famous book in medicine.
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2 is a prime number...
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>No evidence is given that life at any point in the future will be better than it is currently. Because you cannot say that with certainty. He in fact addresses this very point towards the end: "Big problems remain. None of the abov
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by otalp 10y ago
A good alternative present today is Protonmail( https://protonmail.com ). Aside from being secure and their encryption being open source, their servers are also in Switzerland and subject to Swiss laws.
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I think that's true for everyone to an extent. Nobody like every single facet of technology, especially if it's the same repetitive job or a badly designed language.
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This multireddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/Lapper/m/depthhub/ Also, r/DepthHub collects insightful and researched comments from all across Reddit.
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r/AskScience, r/AskAnthropology, r/TrueFilm, r/DepthHub and r/TrueReddit are those that come to mind. None of these are some perfect, but neither is HN and IMO you find a lot of great content there that you wouldn&#
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Everybody knows you stay away from the defaults and stay on the smaller subreddits. There are a lot of small, specialized subs that have a great community.
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>life is a property of the universe not a phenomenon That is a bizarre, quasi-religious assumption. What evidence do have in support of it? I understand that you're making an assumption and proceeding from there, but it seems to rev
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by otalp 10y ago
To avoid confusion, CynagenMod will still be available, but I don't know how long it can continue without Cyanogen Inc. Cyanogen Inc. is what is shutting down. But this probably means no more OTA updates for current OnePlus's
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It is less a question of censorship and more a question of removing egregiously bad "news" that is explicitly written to collect views. If you believe flagging false headlines like “Michelle Obama DEMANDS Americans PAY UP To Give
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>There's no such thing as objectivity Obama being born in Kenya is objectively false. Podesta running a child-trafficking ring in pizza places around Chicago is objectively false. Moon landing and flat earth conspiracies are objecti
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Yeah, this changes everything about what the title seemed to imply. I think it's a case of people becoming tired with the same stuff that's churned out by those YouTube personalities with >10 mil subscribers. Once you reach tha
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by otalp 10y ago
Because the chips aren't optimised for that much RAM they sacrifice a lot of battery life. Apple could theoretically ship these MacBook Pros with 32 gigs, but their battery life would probably be halved.
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I appreciate the fact that they made the keys on the pro much more clicker than the MacBook. The butterfly keys on them seemed unusable for serious typing, though I've only used them in stores, so perhaps it takes getting used to.
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This is where it gets more bizarre. They did not use Chrome. According to their website: "We conduct our battery tests using the computer’s default browser—Safari, in the case of the MacBook Pro laptops." They proceed to find seri
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From their website: "Consumer Reports tests hundreds of laptops each year, using identical procedures in highly controlled conditions. For the battery test, we download a series of 10 web pages sequentially, starting with the battery

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