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by pygy_ 7y ago
The new translations are indeed mentioned in passing, but the piece is a good introduction for people who don't know the author.
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You should have read slightly further: Preliminary data show that STF [i.e. short term fasting] is safe, but challenging in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. Ongoing clinical trials need to unravel if STF can also diminish toxicity
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Hi @pizlonator, the link you posted mentions that direct threading isn't needed anymore. I would have expected the Meltdown/Spectre mitigations to penalize indirect branches, making direct threading relevant again. From that post,
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by pygy_ 7y ago
The far right has been coordinating for a while. Besides its ties with Trump, Russia has also been financing extreme right parties in Europe (and probably elsewhere), and pushing divisive propaganda through its press divisions (RT, ...).
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There are local peculiarities, but we share a common core built around science an technology. You can learn to drive a car anywhere on earth. You'll learn the same maths, physics, chemistry and biology. You can use phones everywhere. T
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Alternatively, assuming the current automation trend holds on, our technology may survive the collapse of humanity...
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Science and technology (and maybe trade?) are our global culture.
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[2010], here's the paper referenced in the article: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09268 I knew we had fucked up the oceans with plastics and overfishing, but I didn't know that phytoplankton was down
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Letting a body burn, rot or being mummified isn't any more respectful in my eyes. I'm not too concerned about the transmission of diseases after composting (the presence of pathogens in the resulting compost will have to be assess
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Try reloading the page. It worked for me after a refresh (FF + uBlock Origin).
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I vouched for this one, which was [dead], but most of their comments made in the last 20 days are [dead], and so are all of their submissions since July.
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@mtgx your account has been shadowbanned you may want to contact YC to sort it out (hn@ycombinator.com).
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So does every living thing on earth... HeLa cells are remarkably adapted to growing in biology labs, not sure how they'd fare outside... Edit: it's been proposed as Helacyton gartleri , but not widely accepted because "Van V
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Actually, humans and animals have built-in brakes (predefined adult size modulated epigenetically, à lower fertility rate when the food is scarce). Ecosystems tend to evolve up to a point where the sun’s energy is optimally tapped. Species
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> And the existence of the vaccine industry does not prove that cures are always commercialized when possible. For once, the health industry works on planning its own obsolescence (as it should, generally), and a major conspiracy theor
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The wind and animals carry around the seeds and bacteria needed for soil to happen naturally. It takes some time though, not sure how long.
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The issue with fossil fuels isn't how much there is left, it is how much more CO2 we can release into the atmosphere while keeping the place livable. More generally, the larger the economy the more energy we degrade, and the more entro
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Anecdata: I switched back almost 10 years ago (because Google creeps me out), and the UI differences made it much harder. I ended up tweaking firefox with extensions to make it look and behave like Chrome as much as possible, then gradually
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by pygy_ 7y ago
“Stained” [1] and “A Study in Keith” [2] are two of my favorites by Andrew Sorensen, who’s mentioned in the article. Both start silent while he types the setup code. The first has a visual aspect, the second only has the code displayed. [1]
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Chimp gangs go on (chimp) murderous rampages, though.
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> do everything possible to keep the life in the soil alive: do not use pesticides, funghicides or herbicides since the toxins are not specific and kill all soil life. It should be noted that glyphosate has antimicrobial and fungicidal
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by pygy_ 7y ago
With Safari/iOS, all I see when I click your link is a full screen GDPR cookie notice with truncated text (the start is missing), that can only be dismissed by accepting tracking.
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Another way to frame it: you seem to believe that we can adapt arbitrarily at an arbitrarily fast rate. There is however inertia both in infrastructure building and in changing mentalities that means it isn't the case. I'm not sur
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For 1) WebRender was developed for Servo and is being ported to Firefox as part of the Quantum effort (Firefox Rustification).
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The current extinction event would seem like a tremendous amount of evidence that many species have a hard limit on how fast they can adapt. On a smaller scale there are many people that died in fire they themselves had started. Culture (in
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It's a matter of degree. The rate of change is growing with our ecologic footprint. Changing mentalities takes generations (think "Science progresses one funeral at a time") and we may not adapt fast enough this time. What mo
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We humans benefit from a stable environment. In stable-ish conditions, ecosystems evolve towards stable configurations where the sun's energy can be optimally tapped. Those disruptions bring unstability (boom-bust cycles of high amplit
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From the guidelines: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual cur
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They could have made a replaceable Magsafe cable. It saved my machines quite a few tines over the years since it came out in 2006.
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Life is fundamentally about getting resources to sustain yourself. In that regard, humanity is, more and more dependent on the industry. At the same time, the industry is less and less dependent on humanity, since it is deriving more and mo

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