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by snthd 6y ago
The monkey experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg&t=71
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by snthd 6y ago
https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_mosquitos_malaria_and_e... >12:11 > Once somebody has taught for three years their teaching quality does not change thereafter. The variation is very, very small.
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by snthd 6y ago
Off Topic: The URL clearly suggests your link was posted last year (and I'm sure I've read it before), but the inline article "date" is Jul 9th 2020.
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by snthd 6y ago
France might be a bad example. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/19/17590302/t...
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by snthd 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy might be a better analogy - you don't want to lose everything, just to clean out the necrotic bits.
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UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature(private-eye.co.uk)
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by snthd 6y ago
Jamulus is another take on this. It's server based and uses lossy compression (opus). People host public servers and the software has a server browser. http://llcon.sourceforge.net/ http://llcon.sourceforge.
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by snthd 6y ago
Different road types have different fatality rates. Per mile driven, generally motorways are the safest by a significant margin. You would expect freeways to have disproportionally less traffic than other routes due to CORVID precautions. S
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by snthd 6y ago
It's called GPS :-) You can use a GPS as a time source for an NTP server (on your airwalled network).
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by snthd 6y ago
Tangentially https://forum.bela.io/d/1277-c-real-time-audio-programming-w... >we just released a course on C++ Real-Time Audio Programming with Bela. This is aimed at beginner to intermediate C++ users, so if you ha
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by snthd 7y ago
firefox support isn't all the way there yet. https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758
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by snthd 7y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/18/tip-of-t... >“The wet market in Lagos is notorious. It’s like a nuclear bomb waiting to happen. But it’s not fair to demonise places which do not ha
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by snthd 7y ago
Sounds like the XY problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
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by snthd 7y ago
It's owned by a non-profit.
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by snthd 7y ago
https://meet.jit.si ?
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by snthd 7y ago
.xpis are just zip files. You can literally just save them from addons.mozilla.org and look inside - it's js so it's not compiled, and obfuscated code is against Mozilla policy. Automatic updates are optional too. Microsoft Applic
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by snthd 7y ago
See also https://www.xkcd.com/862/ 's alt text > After years of trying various methods, I broke this habit by pitting my impatience against my laziness. I decoupled the action and the neurological reward by set
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by snthd 7y ago
32GB :-(
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by snthd 7y ago
The timing of the articles (both in the same week) makes it appear to be a PR push. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by snthd 7y ago
We're evolved to be in a social environment (the physical world) that regulates our social interaction. The internet abstracts that all away. If there are natural limits on what and how you engage with online they're vastly diffe
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by snthd 7y ago
> Frequently, when I try to bring this up, the cause is waved away with "oh they're just stupid/ignorant/angry" or some other such explanation. The current-year favourite is "they just believe fake news&quot
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by snthd 7y ago
By making it possible to find, but not explicit it avoids low hanging outrage, which doesn't help anyone. If anyone contacts this company they need to assume good faith and be understanding - it's possible there are good reasons (
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by snthd 7y ago
> Can't demand others to do it you won't do it first. Saving the environment is not about individual choice, it's about fixing an unsustainable system. It's unsustainable because negative externalities are not effecti
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by snthd 7y ago
>The upstream is also more sustainable to interference and impairments. s/sustainable/susceptible/ ?
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by snthd 7y ago
Maybe evolution's doing just fine and we're just overestimating it's speed relative to the speed of environmental change. Also evolution can make some very crude selections - https://www.quora.com/Why-do-women
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by snthd 7y ago
It works with local media, but requires an internet connection to initiate the stream (by connecting to Google's servers)
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by snthd 7y ago
https://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com
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by snthd 7y ago
ditto Chromecast (with local media)
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by snthd 7y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/GrantWhiteTZ/status/1144077131602... >Boris Johnson has created the #BorisBus situation to bury the fact that three years ago he campaigned with an actual bus, promising Brexit millio
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by snthd 7y ago
>I don't really understand what makes it so special You don't have to use YAML? :-)

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