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by podiki 9y ago
For a US consumer making choices and understanding the impact of what they eat that doesn't matter, what matters is what ends up on the plate. A ton of exports ends up as feed for animals, which can then be re-imported as well.
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The Mongols built an empire with one technological breakthrough(arstechnica.com)
4 points by podiki 9y ago|2 comments
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by podiki 9y ago
The US also imports quite a bit of food (I'm not finding a definitive figure right now, but seeing 15% in several places), so that complicates the calculation a bit. Also, you'd want to see a breakdown of how much transportation c
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Arcade group promises ticket and claw games will no longer be “rigged”(arstechnica.com)
11 points by podiki 9y ago|1 comments
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by podiki 9y ago
Or you can use things like evil [1] to have your vi-style modal editing and eat your Emacs cake too. [1] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
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by podiki 9y ago
While I don't want to start a debate over VIM versus Emacs (I think they can both be used very effectively once learned), I can't help but share a video [1] on Emacs that made me go "wow!" (The video is somewhat similar,
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The hijacking flaw that lurked in Intel chips is worse than anyone thought(arstechnica.com)
208 points by podiki 9y ago|95 comments
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by podiki 9y ago
The website is no longer up, but I think this is the most recent snapshot before it went under. There is now a book available, but the old website had many superb articles on the real story behind the making of the franchise.
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The Secret History of Star Wars(wayback.archive.org)
2 points by podiki 9y ago|1 comments
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by podiki 9y ago
Link to the competition page: https://herox.com/HPFCC
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by podiki 9y ago
Very cool, thanks. Would still love a mostly automated system for home enjoyment; I've spent many a good hour lost in music and MilkDrop.
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by podiki 9y ago
I enjoy those beats, and the visualization is pretty good...but is it really that much beyond MilkDrop [1]? I haven't exactly kept up with the visualization scene, but I've never come across anything that is nearly as good as Milk
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by podiki 9y ago
Getting lost without purpose is often a trap I fall into with open world games. However, probably the two great things that open world games can achieve is a sense of place and wonderful emergent stories in gameplay. And this reminds me tha
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by podiki 9y ago
I'm glad it mentioned it (though buried/saved at the very bottom): line width! I'd rather have too narrow than too wide, but good design should have a pleasing font size and line width (and all the other factors) on very diff
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by podiki 9y ago
Sadly there are too few retractions and proper responses when it comes to scientific fraud (as anyone that reads Retraction Watch knows all too well). Some more reading about this development Science Mag: http://www.sciencemag.or
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by podiki 9y ago
Link to paper [paywall]: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376635716...
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Empirical Evidence: Cats Love People(nytimes.com)
3 points by podiki 9y ago|1 comments
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Widely-Reported Study on Fish and Microbeads Might Have Been Faked(gizmodo.com)
1 points by podiki 9y ago|0 comments
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Roguelike Radio: A podcast about roguelikes(roguelikeradio.com)
1 points by podiki 9y ago|0 comments
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by podiki 10y ago
Or (for those on the Emacs side of the old holy war), directly from org-mode: https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal
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Watson IoT with Common Lisp(developer.ibm.com)
4 points by podiki 10y ago|0 comments
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Pretty-Printing Trees(lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com)
2 points by podiki 10y ago|0 comments
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Hajime worm battles Mirai for control of the Internet of Things(symantec.com)
2 points by podiki 10y ago|0 comments
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by podiki 10y ago
Such amazing work, I can't wait to pour over it in detail, glad to hear you like it as well! I saw it on Rock, Paper, Shotgun [1] and thought there might be some people here that would appreciate it. [1] https://www.rockpape
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by podiki 10y ago
Same here. I remember seeing it when I first heard D&D RPGs on the computer, the 'C' distinguishing it from pen & paper (PnP?).
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by podiki 10y ago
There's also albums on Flickr with 18,000+ images from the games: https://www.flickr.com/photos/crpgbook/albums
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The History of Computer RPGs(crpgbook.wordpress.com)
229 points by podiki 10y ago|91 comments
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by podiki 10y ago
#3 [1] on the Top-10 Platinum list on WineHQ [2]. Platinum being "applications which install and run flawlessly on an out-of-the-box Wine installation." https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&amp
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by podiki 10y ago
I'm not sure why people get defensive, but my guess it at least has a little to do with that most people recognize that at the very least animals had to directly die for the food (they would be uncomfortable with doing that themselves,
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by podiki 10y ago
When I started out with veganism (went "100%" immediately) I thought I would eat animal products when eating out with friends if it was easier, or on occasions when it was something special. While I still go more vegetarian than v

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