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by samvher 6y ago
Sources?
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This is such an underrated point. A lot of the lucrative “real” jobs are quite destructive and counter to the problems that many charities and NGOs try to solve. Also, if everyone thinks this way it’s going to be very hard for these chariti
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Why markets boomed in a year of human misery(nytimes.com)
15 points by samvher 6y ago|2 comments
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by samvher 6y ago
Same here (Netherlands) but it’s important to realize that greenhouses make a lot of use of natural light and soil and are therefore not entirely the same as indoor/vertical farming.
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by samvher 6y ago
Looks like the page is down unfortunately. I've seen headlines like this before, but at the time a lot of the vulnerabilities were in packages that were installed on the image but were not launched, or generally not exposed. I do wish
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by samvher 6y ago
My next machine is going to be a Linux machine. Having said that, Apple builds high quality products - my 2012 MacBook Pro is still very good, and the software is incredibly stable. Yes a lot of stuff is locked down but that also means the
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by samvher 6y ago
I share your view of the likely future, but unfortunately it seems very unlikely to me that the open source community is going to unite and prevent this in any significant way. What's happening might give a boost to open source hardwar
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by samvher 6y ago
Interesting. I definitely would not recommend this course as an only course in machine learning or indeed as an introduction, and I see where you’re coming from with the wrong mental models. I can’t be sure that I do have the right ones but
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by samvher 6y ago
I quite liked "How to win a data science competition" ( https://www.coursera.org/learn/competitive-data-science ) where I learned a lot about validation strategies and machine learning on tabular data. The cour
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by samvher 6y ago
What makes it worthwhile to you? It’s not entirely clear to me from the page what features set it apart. I guess part is familiar keybindings if you’re an emacs user? The screenshots look like it does some tiling, is that a good experience?
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by samvher 6y ago
I just started using Ansible and am quite impressed with its ease of use. We previously did our server setup manually, but we could automate the whole process pretty quickly (I would say 2-3 times the time it costs to set up one deployment
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by samvher 6y ago
Even in the non profit world senior management attaches a lot of value to prestige (not explicitly, but definitely in practice). If you want a high position in an NGO you might be better off starting your career at Facebook rather than at t
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by samvher 6y ago
One is about turbulence (i.e. structure of the flow of the liquid) while the other actually relies on there being something other than liquid water in the flow (air or in the case of super cavitation vapor). Not sure if that answers your qu
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by samvher 6y ago
I think if you're not aiming to be fully self-sustaining it makes a lot of sense to buy things like these and focus on growing fresh fruits and vegetables. From a sustainability perspective beans/wheat/corn and to some extent
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by samvher 6y ago
Why do you say so? Is the default different?
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by samvher 6y ago
Globally, no. In certain spheres (some influential), yes. And while I realize that my comment is (intentionally) pushing it a bit, I do think that when you look at the urgency of space exploration and climate issues that, per unit of urgenc
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by samvher 6y ago
Then let's do both, and not just space exploration.
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Ask HN: Which games did you find mentally/intellectually stimulating?
4 points by samvher 6y ago|2 comments
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by samvher 6y ago
I tried reading some of Asimov's work and I felt exactly the same way - I didn't quite understand the popularity. Seems like a fairly unpopular opinion though. Maybe there's still just something I'm missing, but this com
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by samvher 6y ago
Apart from the couchsurfing experience none of it was really dangerous, just really annoying. My reason for going to Thailand was that I had an internship in Australia (I'm from the Netherlands) and I was going to change planes there a
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by samvher 6y ago
In Bangkok it was mainly tuk-tuks taking me to places I didn't want to go and many attempted scams (magicians, dealers in jewels, someone pretending to be police). In Chiangmai I had my worst couchsurfing experience, really unpleasant
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by samvher 6y ago
Interesting - I also traveled around Thailand and had basically only good experiences in Koh Tao (the diving there is gorgeous), but a number of bad experiences mainly around Bangkok and Chiangmai (never setting foot there again! :) ). Spec
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by samvher 6y ago
The documentary "Helvetica" is worth watching if you're into typography: https://documentaryheaven.com/helvetica/
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Reminds me a lot of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y4KnPV5iBY
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by samvher 6y ago
Sorry - I think I read too quickly (assuming you didn't edit your comment?).
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by samvher 6y ago
Your 0 emission statement suffers from exactly the same criticism you're firing at Google. How was your bike built? How was your bus/train built? What's powering your bus/train? Also the assumption that a vegetarian diet
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by samvher 6y ago
We import tons of meat and feed though which does basically the same thing in poorer countries.
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I have spent countless hours on this game (especially Civ 5) - it just felt so deep. It actually triggered quite some interests down the road around archeology, history, military strategy. Reading about some historic character I really ofte
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And similar issues for powering air traffic, agricultural machinery, industrial applications requiring intense heat (metals and cement).
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Yes I definitely didn't mean for this to sound as a complaint, I think for what it is it's quite lightweight. It's just that it seemed to be using a single core and if they managed to make it multi-core perhaps it could be ev

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