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by simongray 9y ago
> The simple litmus test we should use is that there are no profitable wind companies. It's not very hard to run one - so if this article is accurate, where the hell are they? "Vestas Rises to 9-Year High as Quarterly Profit Qu
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Computer Model of a “Sense of Humour” (1992)(arxiv.org)
2 points by simongray 9y ago|0 comments
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by simongray 9y ago
Steinberg is German spelling, while Stenberg is Scandinavian.
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by simongray 9y ago
Started using this in Cursive. Works pretty great for Clojure and other symbol-heavy languages, presumably.
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by simongray 9y ago
I live in Beijing and we use the air purifiers from Xiaomi to measure indoor air quality (and clean it up). It's true that eg frying bacon really makes the air quality index spike up a lot.
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by simongray 9y ago
China has just shy of 1.4 billion people. That is not more people than Facebook has users according to this statistic》 https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-net...
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by simongray 9y ago
> Thursday, May 12, 2016
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - presentation at GDC(youtube.com)
5 points by simongray 10y ago|1 comments
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by simongray 10y ago
> A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine > Put to words what I already mostly practise, it identified my issues I had with buddhism. Could you elaborate a bit on this? What issues did it identify?
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by simongray 10y ago
I don't read much fiction myself. "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse was recommended to me by 3 different people on 3 different occasions, so I decided to read that one. It's a great little book that will make you stop every f
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by simongray 10y ago
A lot of consumer hardware is assembled in China, but modern technology is "made" from globally sourced components and talking about a country of origin is disingenuous. And the software for Western brands is made in Western count
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by simongray 10y ago
While English is indeed very useful, Russian is spoken in quite a bit of countries as a first or second language (mainly in the former USSR).
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by simongray 10y ago
If you move here, you get free classes for 3 years.
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by simongray 10y ago
Same exact situation in Copenhagen. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only cyclist who respects red lights.
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by simongray 10y ago
Or not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
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by simongray 10y ago
Yes, of course your anecdote is true and the poll the headline is based on must be lying. My own personal anecdote is that everyone around me thinks the tax level is appropriate and that they are sad whenever the government wants to lower t
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by simongray 10y ago
That's a fair point. The wealth inequality is high because a lot of people rent rather than buy housing and because savings are less important with the Danish level of cradle-to-grave government services. A lot of things that you would
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by simongray 10y ago
I don't disagree with your point, but just wanted to point out that "Anyone who did an economics 101 class" is usually not the best people to get advice from. Economics is field where the agreed mainstream consists of some si
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by simongray 10y ago
Trump gave birth to the words "low energy" to describe Jeb Bush and his followers really like to use the term. Also, not specifically Trump, but alt-righters tend to use these words a lot: * cuck * cultural marxism * cultural enri
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Apple's new film about coding(apple.com)
1 points by simongray 10y ago|0 comments
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by simongray 10y ago
Ok. I definitely see the value then.
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by simongray 10y ago
This is a pretty cool research area, but isn't this implementation basically just a Javadoc search engine? A basic keyword search of the javadoc descriptions would return similar results in most cases, wouldn't it?
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by simongray 10y ago
HDI is actually a really poor estimator of Standard of Living. It is measurement of development, but it really cannot be used to compare Standard of Living, especially in developed countries. HDI before 2010 was useless for comparing develo
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by simongray 11y ago
The only flight we see in Denmark are people fleeing the quiet rural areas and moving to the big university cities, primarily Copenhagen and to a lesser degree Århus.
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by simongray 11y ago
Definitely check out Sam Harris' book "Waking Up" (the atheist guy). It was a great introduction to meditation for me.
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by simongray 11y ago
It's not a requirement. The reason many vipassana guides say to breath through your nose is because most people can easily feel the air at the tip of nose and it gives them a clear point of focus. You can breath through your mouth too.
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by simongray 11y ago
It's filmed with an audience (which Colbert regularly speaks directly to). I don't think it's a laugh track.
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by simongray 12y ago
Tried downloading the PDF and man... fuck everything about that intrusive piece of shit website.
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by simongray 12y ago
You're taking his quote out of context. He was talking about competition between Microsoft and Apple in the mid-nineties, not about smartphones (which did not even exist back then). The industry was dead in the sense that no one was in