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by plesn 16y ago
Just go back 50/100 years ago before the food industry. I mean in my previous comment I'm taking as example traditionnal dishes which where already quite complete even when people couldn't afford meat/fish at every meal.
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by plesn 16y ago
Our ancestrors did not eat meat or fish every day, today's vegetarians do not eat tofu everyday either. The goal is to be complete in nutrients: you won't be much wrong if you associate cereals, legumes, fresh vegetables, fruits/dried fruit
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by plesn 16y ago
My guess is that at a certain point we will have to reconsider our animal based food habits, not based on ethics but on efficiency mainly. We gain some specific contributions from them (B12 vitamin etc) but for others (most proteins include
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by plesn 16y ago
Addition and concatenation have different properties: concatenation is not commutative. So the problem is not the types, strings vs int, but different operations. In a language that puts an emphasis on principles like haskell, I find "++" a
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by plesn 16y ago
From what I heared here and there, one of their plans is try to "embed" Facebook, allowing people to view Facebook info or switch to "private" P2P mode when the other one has diaspora that. So it's not either/or. Concerning hosting, yeah th
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by plesn 16y ago
Identity and data access are a key part of simplifying UI on the web but also on the desktop. I should be able to log and access my data on my netbook, desktop computer, and the web through the same identity. This would also favor open APIs
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by plesn 16y ago
I'm kind of not so surprised there are 19 olds in PyPy team. This is a project that requires idealism and enthousiasm: "let's build python in python, compile to everything possible, and make it faster than cpython". Contrast this to the mor
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by plesn 16y ago
The question I'm asking myself: will this system crumble under it's own cost? If looting is made easier than producing that will happen at some point.
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by plesn 16y ago
Everybody should listen the idea of the last part, or read it here : http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Interview-Eben-Moglen-... Basicaly Elben Moglen says that many of our freedom/privacy problems (Facebook etc) could be solved by us
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by plesn 16y ago
That's not visionary only because that's what Facebook should have been from the beginning. All early internet protocols where distributed before the web became companies playground and Conway law followed. I think a visionary replacement w
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by plesn 16y ago
I was just thinking that their name is fantastic. It conveys such a strong meaning: "we can't be all in one place anymore but we still relate". Maybe it's not a web2.0 buzz name, but at least I immediatly remembered it.
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by plesn 16y ago
I the basic circuit componants are R, L, C and now M. I wonder, how one can build a transistor out of R,L,C ?
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by plesn 16y ago
Wow, I'm surprised I actually got them all right: I used the force for the mattel and toyota one's ;-)
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by plesn 16y ago
All parts exist on the web (OpenID, OAuth, JSON, RSS, microformats, etc...), but not in a usable form as easy to use as Facebook.
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by plesn 16y ago
I'm happy there are regularly quite a few links about typefaces on HN. For me it was part of realizing that form has an impact on perception, and I'm trying to develop my taste. I feel quite alone amongst my friends though, as I want to rat
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by plesn 16y ago
Ok, so now I need a social network obeying the following constraints: - I control my data. My data are where I decide they should be, on my server or web-hosted somewhere. So it is decentralised and everyone has it's node. - It's based on a
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by plesn 16y ago
> “It turns out we were searching around a position miles from the rover,” said Murphy. This guy should make a law about improbable things happening ;)
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by plesn 16y ago
But he is geek. He is owned by a lack of control, not a lack of knowledge. Everything is so interlinked on this kind of web services that even if he did back-ups, he would still be helpless without the access to his social network.
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by plesn 16y ago
The line length is very small here, so it may be a pathological case IMHO.
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by plesn 16y ago
It would be cool to integrate that to Readability ( http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ )
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by plesn 16y ago
A remarkably clear summary of the CDO/CDS fraud by a CS person. The second part is particularly interesting and clear even if I already understood the CDO/tranching part and what a CDS was. Basically, for banks to sell all those crappy CDO
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Shocking Fraud from Financial Scum(scienceblogs.com)
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by plesn 16y ago
Thanks! I did several times use manually "Inspect Element" and then delete stuff and add margins.. edit: well, hum, strangely, it does not work so well on some pages, skipping section's titles.
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by plesn 16y ago
I don't really want to continue this discussion here, as HN is not a political forum, and as I tend to agree with many of your points (the devil is in the details...), and I IMHO the problem is rather the way different actors are "in positi
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by plesn 16y ago
That's so true, and as I grow I'm trying to break social barriers/shields (being more open/authentic/personnal immediately) more and more with unknown people: it just makes relating to people much more enjoyable and profound! It's not even
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by plesn 16y ago
First point ("consumerism vs. repressive cultures"): reread my post, don't do amalgams. I fail to see the correlation between proponents of "authenticity" and dictator regimes. First, in the article authenticity proponents are pictured as "
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by plesn 16y ago
Motivators for cognitive tasks: not money but "autonomy, mastery, purpose." Hey guys: it's not anarcho-socialism, it's science!
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by plesn 16y ago
My bet is we are transitioning from a society of cheep energy to a society of cheap information: we'll be consuming less and interacting more. Unfortunately, that doesn't necessarily imply less powerful corporations: they're already fightin
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by plesn 16y ago
So in 2007 we switched from the Republic of Email to the Kingdom of Social Networking. Where is the Rebel Alliance of open distributed social networking protocols?
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by plesn 16y ago
The "authenticity hoax" is an intersting one, but the analysis is particularly shallow and consensual. Basically he points out that the quest for "authenticity" is both opposed to progress ("consumer culture"...) and rather a quest of socia

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