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   by riffraff 7y ago

   on the contrary, to me it feels like they have people who only use the latest product, and know it 100%. So when something new comes along, nobody is confused. Just all of us who don't live at apple 24/7.
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   by riffraff 7y ago

   Not sure if it's the same story but there is also the Ivan Sutherland one reported by Alan Kay. > When asked, “How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, t
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   Dutch Supreme Court mandates government to reduce emissions by 25% within 2020(apnews.com)

   1 points by riffraff 7y ago|1 comments
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   by riffraff 7y ago

   I would argue the problem is not the broken tags, but the business disadvantage to exposing semantic data. Remember when microformats were all the rage, and you could get hReview or hRecipe or XFN data everywhere? Then every host in turn re
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   by riffraff 7y ago

   I'd say the game is the "genre" and the streamer is an author. If you are someone who produces music or literature, and you do it in a popular genre, you will get some of the genre's public through radio streaming, antol
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   by riffraff 7y ago

   I read "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" a few months ago, it's quite good. The narrative delivery makes it a very easy read, and it has some ideas which are useful in basically every situation where collaboration is necessar
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   by riffraff 7y ago

   "children of time" & the sequel "children of ruin" by Adrian Tchaikovsky; sci-fi with AIs, uplifted species, uploaded personalities, space travel et al. Very entertaining, and quite optimistic, compared to a lot of s
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   by riffraff 7y ago

   everything, I always try to research what I'm buying. I would say maybe books and movies are something I do get on principle without reading the reviews.
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   FAA let Boeing 737 Max continue to fly even as review found serious crash risk(theguardian.com)

   3 points by riffraff 7y ago|0 comments
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    the "nm" doesn't mean what you think it means, since some time ago it's become unrelated to actual physical dimensions, and now it just means "a better process". EDIT: for something to read https://e
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    I've seen crows do this on my own neighborhood, both on side streets with little traffic, and on main streets on the crosswalk. I had heard of crows doing this in Japan but was impressed to see this in central Europe (although it'
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    While I think coding experience matters, I've seen a lot of people with years of experience that never worked in environments favouring quality, who write functioning but very ugly code. What is 100% true, imo, is that you get better w
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    I meant that if your new eating regime helps you keep calories down, it's good. I didn't mean that you should try keto or if or paleo or WW or whatever for a month and then stop. If you are actively trying to lose weight in any wa
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    this seems to be standard effect of many dietary fads, i.e. they end up enforcing compliance with a low calories regime. Which is a good thing! But somehow we're always looking for other "magical" effects of diets.
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    IIRC I used litestep for a while, and it felt awesome. The weird themes were something that made sense in a world where Winamp skins where a fertile ground for UI experimentation, and would probably be shunned today. Still, AFAIR, there was
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    > he has failed to diversify Apple away from having one produc isn't Apple+ the largest diversification Apple has had in a long time?
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    Ericsson Pays $1B to Settle U.S. Corruption Probe(bloomberg.com)

    3 points by riffraff 7y ago|0 comments
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    I think where "estuary" was used the correct term might have been "mouth", i.e. a river gets to the sea through a delta or estuary mouth. I am not confident enough with English to be sure though.
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    pwn a couple ad servers and service the poisoned js. It doesn't seem something that a dedicated malicious hacker group couldn't do.
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    but it may also mean far less chance to innovate production practice. If vertical integration is always good, the ideal situation is a single producer for any kind of product and no suppliers, which doesn't seem to work too well either
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    libera[0], an italian anti-mafia charity. FSFE[1] last year. I'm not sure it counts, but Kiva[2]. Local charities. [0] http://www.libera.it/ [1] https://fsfe.org/ [2] https://www.kiva.org
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    I see the above comment downvoted, but it seems correct to me. For example, Assicurazioni Generali[0], just emitted a new 10y bond for €1B. That would increase the total corporate debt of the world, but Generali has a higher credit rating t
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    I do not, but if you case about identifying the story, the SciFi SE[0] is incredibly good at it :) [0] https://scifi.stackexchange.com/ tag "story-identification"
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    There is a fairly interesting sci-fi story[0] about an ever-increasing world-wide wind, I recommend it, and hope it doesn't go that way. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_from_Nowhere
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    > the long form of the title of the Russian monarch contained its name the British royals had "Emperor/Empress of India" in their full title until 1948. Titles don't doesn't mean much.
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    sorry I don't get it: what is Slovenia a counterexample of? It seems to be a fairly wealthy country now, with a market economy and liberalised services.
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    there's a ton of vegetables that grow in old climates. Basically all brassicae grow fine (cabbage, kale, cauliflower, broccoli, chard etc), and if you want to stick to roots you have carrots, beetroots, turnip, parsnip, radishes, cher
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    I can suggest you reading "factfulnes", by the late Hans Rosling. It's a good book on how to approach the world, and much like his talks, it really pushes the idea that our world, though flawed, is often much better than we t
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    I used to do that every night. It's easy to look back and see that even in a shitty day there are things you should be happy for. Somehow, I stopped. Doing it in the morning seems a good idea to start again.
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    by riffraff 7y ago

    I have been lucky compared to many most of my life, and I am always thankful for that. But my 3yo son was diagnosed epilepsy some months ago. It now seems medicines are effective at keeping him ok and there is a chance he may outgrow it. I