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   Don't Be Judgmental, Be Discerning (2011)(psychologytoday.com)

   1 points by philshem 6y ago|0 comments
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   by philshem 6y ago

   One could do that, too https://github.com/thisisparker/cursewords
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   by philshem 6y ago

   Her status as “data scientist” was discussed in previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25810942 She answers in this post quite clearly. > Q: Do you consider yourself a GIS person, or a data scientist, or a
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   Rebekah Jones to GeoHipster: “We work at the cross-section of Earth and people”(geohipster.com)

   1 points by philshem 6y ago|1 comments
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   by philshem 6y ago

   Many bootstrapped startups go with the cloud provider that gives the them largest startup bonus, which can be up to $100k to use in 12 months (AFAIK).
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   by philshem 6y ago

   - two guys wanted to know what boxes of cereal they had - read recipients for 30+ pieces of mail - read prescription med bottle refill instructions (As the reader, the app has the feature to turn on the flashlight of the remote smartphone.
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   by philshem 6y ago

   my mom uses at least python3.8
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   by philshem 6y ago

   The platform offers a recurring monthly donation. Divide by 12?
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   by philshem 6y ago

   Thanks for the reminder. I donated. I've been using Signal for a couple years now. Finally deleted WhatsApp this week. This is the first outage of Signal that I noticed. It's a shame, but growing pains do happen.
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    by philshem 6y ago

    the data is being processed by archive team https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Parler Grab status: https://tracker.archiveteam.org/parler/ and will be hosted by archive.org
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    by philshem 6y ago

    They were downloading at 50 Gbps for a while https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348497204940595201 https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348440720504401921 Also, auth provider (twilio
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    by philshem 6y ago

    here's the source code: https://github.com/trungdq88/hn-big-threads the data comes from the firebase API: https://github.com/trungdq88/hn-big-threads/blob/master/code... the da
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    by philshem 6y ago

    when I saw the first() function, I thought it was some default python that was new to me. But he defines it above in his commonly used functions: def first(iterable, default=None) -> object: "Return first item in itera
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    Block Mac/iOS apps from accessing your contacts(apple.stackexchange.com)

    1 points by philshem 6y ago|0 comments
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    by philshem 6y ago

    On iOS you can remove access to the contacts for individual apps. I did so for WhatsApp this morning. Privacy -> Contacts -> App Name https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/272067/ (scroll down) -- The real probl
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    Can You Poison Your Way to Good Health?(nytimes.com)

    1 points by philshem 6y ago|0 comments
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    by philshem 6y ago

    > Most of the images are found footage, taken from YouTube. Their emotional impact comes from the way Jafa has put them together, shifting and editing and choreographing to create a flow of deeply resonant juxtapositions... As I read the
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    Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation(newyorker.com)

    8 points by philshem 6y ago|14 comments
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    by philshem 6y ago

    Or a backgammon clone of https://lichess.org
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    by philshem 6y ago

    Before reading Patrik Svensson's "The Book of Eels", I first read the New Yorker article from May 2020 [1] (and corresponding HN post [2]). The article is very much worth the read. [1] https://www.newyorker.com&#x2
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    by philshem 6y ago

    > Unlike chess, backgammon is tactile, fast-moving, even loud, with checkers slammed down and tiny dice sounding like rattlesnakes as they traverse the board. Casual players who believe that they are good persist in the illusion because
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    The Chaos of the Dice: A backgammon hustler’s quest to gain an edge (2013)(newyorker.com)

    63 points by philshem 6y ago|34 comments
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    by philshem 6y ago

    Emily Wilson, whose 2017 English translation of the Odyssey is extremely readable, is now working on translating the Iliad. https://www.capstan.be/british-scholar-emily-wilsons-fresh-a...
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    Advisor or Adviser? A data-journey for one word that goes both ways (2014)(smalldata.dev)

    1 points by philshem 6y ago|0 comments
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    by philshem 6y ago

    Try Backgammon. The game is full of strategy but you play with “the chaos of the dice”.
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    by philshem 6y ago

    [dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25426195
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    by philshem 6y ago

    I guess the question one would have would be the reason or relevance of posting.
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    by philshem 6y ago

    "Ghosting" sounds as if you will take the money and disappear... > Ghosting is a colloquial term used to describe the practice of ceasing all communication and contact with a partner, friend, or similar individual without any a
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    by philshem 6y ago

    It’s a 19th century essay from Mark Twain about the difficulties learning German as an English speaker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awful_German_Language The title translated into German is "Die Schrecken de
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    by philshem 6y ago

    Yesterday there was an HN post about Google Web Stories.[1] I was curious about creating self-hosted web-stories.[2] In fact, it's possible. This site allows you to build and export your own source code to host your own stories: https