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by scribu 8y ago
The main benefit of Neovim for me is support for async jobs. So, for example, if you have autosave enabled, it won’t block the UI while it’s writing to disk.
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by scribu 8y ago
No, ECS is a homegrown container orchestration service that has no relationship with Kubernetes. EKS is the optimized-for-AWS version of Kubernetes. There’s also AWS Fargate, which is a more managed version of ECS.
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by scribu 8y ago
Playing devil’s advocate: What if the link tax will replace advertising as the main source or revenue for publishers? Wouldn’t that be a Good Thing (TM)?
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The Birth of a New Hindu Goddess(twitter.com)
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First Big Steps Toward Proving the Unique Games Conjecture(quantamagazine.org)
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by scribu 8y ago
> I'm actually thinking of starting a website to create "comic-style" (as the author calls them) explanations of important papers and ideas in science. There already is a hub for such projects: http://explorabl.
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Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech(medium.com)
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by scribu 9y ago
Thank you for ellaborating. It seems like your argument is centered around inflation, which is a relatively new phenomenon. Regarding consumerism, perhaps you’re right that lack of inflation will reduce it. But what if, after a certain poin
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by scribu 9y ago
I like your idea about “pushing trust to the edges”, as it were. Food for thought... > There have been rumblings about Yelp reviews being manipulated for years. Small business reviews on blockchain don't allow for that kind of manip
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by scribu 9y ago
> And it's not hard to imagine blockchain technology replacing currency and consumerism altogether. It is for me. How exactly would blockchain replace consumerism? And replace it with what? > The deprecation of "easy" m
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by scribu 9y ago
A sewer pipe that could detect what’s passing through it would actually have all kinds of practical uses! I wonder how feasible it would be to embed chemical sensors into such an environment.
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by scribu 9y ago
Post from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16706546
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by scribu 9y ago
That jump at 1:02 is spectacular! And the quick reflexes on the ice are also pretty impressive.
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by scribu 9y ago
The article isn’t talking about someone quiting just any old job, but about the situation in which they believe they already have one of the best possible jobs in the industry. In such a case, I imagine it’s easy to keep putting it off, pre
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by scribu 9y ago
Thanks! That article offers much needed context for laypeople, such as myself. Among other things, it points out that, in the image, only the bluish glow is the galaxy under consideration. All other points are distant galaxies.
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by scribu 9y ago
Could you give some specific examples where a startup was sold at a loss and some of the investors actually got out more money than they put in? I know that when a public company goes bankrupt, the investors with preferred stock can, at b
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by scribu 9y ago
Since you brought up programming, iPads don’t seem like the best tool for writing code. Even if you get a physical keyboard, are there any mature apps for writing and executing code on the device?
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by scribu 9y ago
It’s mentioned as “troll armies”.
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Sociologists Examine Hackathons and Find Exploitation(wired.com)
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by scribu 9y ago
> But if your domestic society shifts to where building camps is an upstanding economic sector... Is that the case, though? It seems to me that in the last few years the tone has shifted in the opposite direction, where even the mainstre
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CS is a field that hasn’t encountered consequences(mobile.twitter.com)
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Corporate Courts Deemed Unlawful in Europe(globaljustice.org.uk)
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by scribu 9y ago
It might be the animation style, though it's not that different from Bojack Horseman, which I like a lot. Maybe it's the pose of the characters. For example, the hand wave of the white ladybird feels unnatural, somehow.
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by scribu 9y ago
> Can a monthly subscription support a collection of open source apps? Kind of. In the WordPress world there are several companies that ask you to pay $50/year to get access to their entire portfolio of themes and plugins. In theory
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Zeus: Analyzing safety of smart contracts(blog.acolyer.org)
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Twitter plans to measure “conversation health”(twitter.com)
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by scribu 9y ago
Instead of a fixed equity allocation, have you considered a dynamic allocation system instead? All contributions (cash, time, relations etc.) are converted into “slices”, with a certain multiplier for risk. For example: * if someone contrib
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by scribu 9y ago
What are some of those “anti-competitive” practices that you disagree with?
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Notice that all of the examples ilustrated in the paper contain similar scenes. The content image is a building, while the style image is also a building. Or an image of trees is styled using another image of trees. But how well does it far
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by scribu 9y ago
+1 to all of those ideas. > A point system that gives you points when you actually check-in to a meetup you RSVP to. For this to be reliable, the organisers would need to do roll call, which would get tedious for meetups with 10+ people.

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