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by sasaf5 7y ago
+embargoed. Soft power is crucial to prevent that, that's why the surpluses of such system should be directed to arts and technology.
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by sasaf5 7y ago
The benefits not happening automatically doesn't mean bloodshed is the solution. I like to think that we could solve the problem with intelligence and design. I forsee that some nation will come up with a better system that does not re
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by sasaf5 7y ago
The whole idea of a private car is to be as convenient as possible for the owner without any regard for others. Considering how deadly they are to pedestrians and how damaging they are to the environment, noise polution due to alarms is jus
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by sasaf5 7y ago
Black tape also works to muffle buzzers, just cover the holes with tape and it gets much quieter.
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by sasaf5 7y ago
Tutorial on CoQ, a proof assistant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21185624
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by sasaf5 7y ago
> "We won't be able to move furniture!" Also frequently used to justify buying a big SUV, just to learn that the average piece of furniture doesn't fit in the average SUV.
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by sasaf5 7y ago
there's also carrier aggregation, you could multiply that throughput by the number of carrier components provided by the telco (rarely more than 2 or 3).
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by sasaf5 7y ago
Interesting, I did a similar analysis for music scores before and arrived at 30 bits per second.
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by sasaf5 7y ago
New concept of the day: Object-Relational Mapping, converting an object, with all its members of diverse types, to a format suitable for storage in a database, roughly a table of scalars.
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by sasaf5 7y ago
For a moment I thought you were talking about System on Chips.
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by sasaf5 7y ago
>Joint surgeries are some of the highest risk for infection. In fact, when doing open joint surgery, orthopedic surgeons will wear what looks like a space suit with helmet and air supply and work under a giant air suction device to keep
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by sasaf5 7y ago
Genetic improvement, just like eyeglasses and unlike college admission, is not a zero-sum game.
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by sasaf5 7y ago
hahaha, *constantly swapping. it's either this or another editor that has 2 modes: beeping like crazy, ruining everything.
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by sasaf5 7y ago
Yes, that's the closest I could find.
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by sasaf5 7y ago
Particularly I miss low-spec, high quality items. I want a good laptop for writing, it has to be only powerful enough to run emacs and a browser. but it has to survive being trashed around and the battery must be available 10 years from now
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by sasaf5 7y ago
I think it would be impossible to completely isolate them. Even if you completely air-gap all the computers in the plant, still the workers carry internet-connected phones. Even if you ban those, the staff can still become target of disinfo
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by sasaf5 7y ago
Here we call that "full-words". It has another interesting property: it punishes over-specific, under-abstracted code. And even when you do need over-specific code, the full names will be there to help making sense of the complexi
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by sasaf5 7y ago
Not sure exactly what you mean by "make PDF". In my flow I sometimes use Inkscape to save something as PDF, or PDF Latex to generate documents. I hope it helps you.
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by sasaf5 7y ago
"The SDT began emerging in the West after World War II. As societies became richer and goods cheaper and more plentiful, people no longer had to rely on traditional families to afford basic needs like food and shelter. They could look
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by sasaf5 7y ago
The article misses another important cause for the surge in travel: demography. The baby boomers are retiring, many of them with spare money for traveling.
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by sasaf5 7y ago
As an oblivious Firefox user on Debian and Android, am I missing something by not using Chrome?
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by sasaf5 7y ago
I like this sentence. Please elaborate or give some links, I would like to read more. Edit: why the downvotes? I am sincerely interested to read more about the necessity of growth or the lack of it.
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by sasaf5 7y ago
The problem I see is: fact a) free will isn't scientific; fact b) Christianism depends on free will to make sense; fallacious conclusion) liberalism inherited the notion of free will from Christianism. There are many philosophical lin
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by sasaf5 7y ago
With all due respect to Harari's historical analysis, he seems to make some logic jumps that are unacceptable in a serious philosophical discussion. From the article you cited: "'free will' isn’t a scientific reality. It
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by sasaf5 7y ago
We can see a bit of this celebration of old tech in horology.
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by sasaf5 7y ago
Maybe lasers then?
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by sasaf5 7y ago
Is piling parentheses coding? Is teasing with a feather coding? Is having a violent reaction coding?
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by sasaf5 7y ago
I felt that a similar thing happened with those thai kids stuck in that cave. An international effort was made to rescue them. What if this year one of them is dying because their parents can't afford healthcare? Would that create an i
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by sasaf5 7y ago
This agreement is about property claims, not about war crimes against civilians.
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by sasaf5 7y ago
Japan demands the issue to be "settled" or "forgotten" after mulling quick apologies. Imagine Germany demanding that the Holocaust be forgotten.

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