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Single-use plastics in countries with nonexistant waste management(phys.org)
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
> Does not need to be trained? The writer maybe wanted to say it does not need to be programmed in the traditional way. Nope, "trained" is correct. The current state of deep learning involves "training" and "infe
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Intel Nervana AI Academy offering free 4-week access to DevCloud(software.intel.com)
1 points by shawnee_ 9y ago|0 comments
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
> The only company on the list of browser makers that really has any desire to try to exclude DRM is Mozilla, and unfortunately, if they do that, the users will switch to the browser that makes watching Netflix easiest. This is simply no
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The AI chatbot will hire you now(wired.com)
1 points by shawnee_ 9y ago|0 comments
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Sea salt from around the world showing contamination by particlulate plastics(theguardian.com)
11 points by shawnee_ 9y ago|2 comments
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
People on this forum take the latitude to discuss the differences between the "letter of the law" and the "spirit of the law". They are both supposed to be factored into legal investigations and judgments when deciding
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Not necessarily. There have been numerous studies in the banking industry, for example, that show "poor people" bank accounts are more valuable than high-wealth bank accounts due to the overdraft fees, low-to-zero interest they c
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
screw ticks and fire ants Diatomaceous earth will do the job. It can be purchased at any farm supply store for pretty cheap. Works on fleas, bedbugs, millipedes, roaches, centipedes ... pretty much any little bug with an exoskeleton. Farm
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AccuWeather caught sending user location data, even when location sharing is off(zdnet.com)
5 points by shawnee_ 9y ago|0 comments
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
There's a huge logical fallacy in this debate that is constantly overlooked (or suppressed) ... it's that the older houses owned by these boomers tend to get converted into rentals. When they do get sold, the amount of work needed
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Better link: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGK-eZ3WsAAvqN0.jpg:large
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
I found myself laughing the other day when I went to Bing for what I used to use Google news for... because of all the alternatives tested, it seemed to provide the best breadth of what I was looking for. Redesigns like this make me wish mo
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Yes, a thousand times, yes. To me, this is the worst and most offensive redesign of something so pivotal to research, investigative reporting, everything beyond the surface. Being able to dig and dig and find out who is reporting what pie
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
This comment shows how little people really understand about the business model of credit card companies and their relationships with merchant banks. > but with 2.5% cashback there's not a lot of room to make money from transaction
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
> rather those who start taking drugs even when they should be able to see the consequences. The Just say No campaigning of the 80s and 90s didn't work. It became a parody and undermining of the core issue which is the invisible l
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
> the personal decision to use hard or addicting drugs is something of a moral failing. Watch the documentary I mentioned above. Also try this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4079250/ Addiction is a mental h
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Portugal's performance in perspective: Only three people for every million die of a drug overdose in Portugal, which puts one of the eurozone's poorest countries in a different league than rich international powerhouse Germany (1
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Show HN: Free and open-source templates for property sales contracts(ecosteader.com)
3 points by shawnee_ 9y ago|0 comments
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Okay... but I imagine dupes happen a lot when companies make an announcement. Doesn't mean we should bury all instances of a story. The one I noticed had 19 votes at the time I read it, and this was the one I'd planned to comme
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Between 2001 and 2016, the U.S.D.A. intercepted semislug-infested plant shipments from Hawaii to the mainland at least forty-five times. If the organism made it across the Pacific, it would have little trouble surviving in warmer parts of
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Rat lungworm, the tropical parasite that took Hawaii by surprise(newyorker.com)
1 points by shawnee_ 9y ago|1 comments
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Thank you, this was an interesting read. On the tangent of arbitrary and unneeded flagging, there seems to be quite a great deal of it lately... it's not improving the site. After I got off work, I tried to find a story that I'd n
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Let's acknowledge "nondisparagement" clauses for what they are: one party's intent to intimidate another. They are a coercive tactic not unlike those deployed by dictatorships or cults: designed to invoke fearfulness and
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
That is not how it was in the 80's, as the author of this article mentioned. High-tech companies had more intelligent strategies then; they knew that people are the real value of high-tech companies, so it doesn't matter where you
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Now everything’s changed. In 2016, the San Francisco metro area was the top location for venture capital investment in the country, hauling in $23.4 billion—more than triple the VC investment in Silicon Valley proper. Interesting numbers,
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
State-level speed tests aren't necessary, the cable and telecom lobby groups argued, because the FCC runs the Measuring Broadband America program to verify whether the largest ISPs' in-home broadband speeds match the providers&#x
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
:globe_with_meridians: "slashbin" = [the username of this Github user] "*" = [the projects or repos to which this styleguide applies is not defined > /dev/null] :pencil: "Use the Present
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
I think they've been trying to change that recently; they've been focusing more on content creators - people like Shitty_Watercolour who are known Reddit-wide for the original content they post. As you noted, they launched a new
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by shawnee_ 9y ago
Reddit has an opportunity to do right everything that Twitter has done (and continues to do) wrong. It took me about ten years to figure out that Twitter is a cesspool of useless noise and ego. Everybody tries to outdo each other with noise

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