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by seren 7y ago
Maybe I am a bit grumpy because it is Monday morning, but I don't think that question makes much sense because it is too broad. There isn't a universal single book that everyone will enjoy. It depends what the person like : rather
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by seren 7y ago
Often you can deduce the "why" from the code because it makes some sense, but you can almost never find out is the "why not" . Have they tried something else ? Was it the best solution chosen after a review or something
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by seren 7y ago
From : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20773297 > This exactly the kind of Bot problem which another HN post was talking about, the user patwalls recently boasted on reddit/twitter about automating reddit submi
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by seren 7y ago
> he's an extraordinarily profitable businessman, with extreme revenue returns. This is a genuine question : how do you know the profitability of Donald Trump's investments or companies ? From my understanding, he has always w
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by seren 7y ago
This is strategically released just before the G7, to make sure that this will be discussed, or maybe to put some pressure on the US before negotiating with its allies.
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by seren 7y ago
Every climate change mitigation has different trade off, different winners and losers, different sacrifice to be made. So generally deciding what to do as at the scale of the society, or maybe in this case the global civilization, is politi
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by seren 7y ago
For what it's worth Project Drawdown [0] has in the top ten solutions : 6 Educating Girls 7 Family Planning This is only a polite way to say we are overpopulated and should have fewer children. [0] https://www.drawdown.org
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by seren 7y ago
There are some information on the SDK here : https://www.upmem.com/developer/ or more directly https://sdk.upmem.com/2019.2.0/ It seems you have to compile an executable for the in memory processo
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by seren 7y ago
I don't know enough about the actual story to comment much further, and I don't know exactly how many followers had the account before & after, so this might not be realistic, but blocking really obvious fake followers would m
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by seren 7y ago
I can't help but feels some sense of entitlement though the story. How dare they to ban me from Twitter ? If you paid a consultant and suddenly your number of followers greatly increase, aren't you a bit naive to think this was du
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by seren 7y ago
You're correct there were more bunker built 50 years ago than today. I am not sure about the whole survivalist/bunker mentality, if everything goes down in flame, at most the bunker will only give you a few months respite, assumin
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by seren 7y ago
> The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and
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by seren 7y ago
Regarding Lumineye, there is a market for elderly people at home, which are already monitored by bracelets or some other devices they are suppose to wear, that they usually forget, to detect fall, or other adverse events. No one want to hav
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by seren 7y ago
It is the fate of most platforms, initially there are only early adopters that are selected, hand picked or invited, and as the platform progress there is an influx or more mainstream content producer, and the quality tends to be more avera
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by seren 7y ago
Holy grail, sounds like a moon shot. It got AI, robots, if it wasn't vetted by YC I would think it is some sort of vaporware. On the other hand, if they can pull off automatic research and experiments at scale, it seems to be a real ga
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by seren 7y ago
I don't want to downvote you but you cannot ask us to believe your intimate conviction versus the scientific community.
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by seren 7y ago
I started meditating using some written guide/books and Headspace. An app is helpful to guide you at the beginning, but past a certain point having someone talking during most of the session seems a bit detrimental to your actual focus
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by seren 7y ago
Although if we somehow could apply a global one child policy, it would halve the population every generation, it would help tremendously with carbon emission (but not so much for our growth or financial system)
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by seren 7y ago
Not answering directly, but the advantage of us humans is that our culture is pretty malleable. Something that was trendy a few decades ago might become horrifying by today's standard. For example, I would say that colonization was sti
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by seren 7y ago
> Furthermore, I'm not really sure what the author thinks we should do? How can we maintain modern civilisation without factories etc.? Reverting to some primitive state seems neither realistic nor desirable. We could probably rever
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by seren 7y ago
It was, it has been sold by GE a long time ago (at least 5 years). Maybe some of the staff still feels some sort of loyalty (or relief) I don't know but there is no reason now that CNBC should be more harsh or gentle on GE news.
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by seren 7y ago
I don't but maybe I should. But this is a an important step of the "Getting things done" or GTD method, you are supposed to review your life at different level regularly.
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by seren 7y ago
My impression is that it is a bit not very self-aware > I find it extremely difficult to feel any sympathy for these folks because they have it much better than I do, and extremely better than millions of people in the United States and
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by seren 7y ago
This is the most shocking part > “the only way to deal with all the heads of the medusa is to no-platform all of them.” Shouldn't it rather be the heads of the hydra ?
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by seren 7y ago
Same here, I don't feel that it is necessarily great, but it is not terrible either, and it is better for persistent goup chat that any group chat IM. I believe some teams have used Matterhorn or Slack internally but it was not necessa
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by seren 7y ago
Due to the ocean currents, i.e. cold water coming from the North on the US East coast, and hot water coming back from the South on the European West coast, it does not make much sense to compare latitude on the 2 sides of the Atlantic. Famo
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by seren 7y ago
Ideally, with the rise of work from home, you should not have to be physically next to your job for a lots of office work. The other aspect if that if people can essentially travel less because of the transportation cost, there should be m
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by seren 7y ago
If we were a bit more forward thinking as a species, we should probably implement a progressive carbon tax and use the tax revenue to transition to less carbon intensive replacement, and not wait for a global crisis. Not sure we are good en
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by seren 7y ago
Found another one from the previous link for a more HN friendly topic, a social network. https://core.network/ What is fascinating is that the partner organization are always referencing other organization in the same &quot
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by seren 7y ago
It reminds me of the Steorn / Orbo free energy machine. They were so confident they bought a whole page ad in the Economist and setup a public demo of their device. At some point, you don't know if they are scammers or if they hav

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