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by tarr11 7y ago
This article is confusing to me. I went to EFFIS and looked at the 2008 data. [0] There were 13832 forest fires in Portugal alone in 2008. The avg in this chart seems far less than that... Maybe I'm reading this wrong? [0] https:&#x
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Would a “technology” answer be to make telepresence technology better and invest in higher bandwidth infrastructure? If we could have high resolution video, audio and even VR for business, would people be required to be colocated as often?
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Glitch, Scratch, Tynker
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This is the theme of Breaking Bad. :)
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I’d suggest making the core functionality available via a command line and then make it easily installable via a package manager (apt, brew, etc) That way it is scriptable and easier to integrate into developer processes. Alternatively make
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45c = 113f
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Article about syprine in NYT (2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/health/valeant-drug-price...
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by tarr11 7y ago
Related to their previous battles with Google ("We're sorry for being such morons") https://genius.com/Genius-founders-rap-genius-is-back-on-goo...
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by tarr11 7y ago
Sounds like SIM Swapping. Listen to this podcast to learn more: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/v4he6k
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Watching this video turned on my Alexa when he started talking to Alexa. Feels like a kind of SQL Injection ("voice injection attack"?) .
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Curious if you’d give up your tea for ecological reasons? (Making some assumptions from your username ;) https://oxfordre.com/environmentalscience/view/10.1093/acref...
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I think comments like this are too dismissive of how important and valuable games are in many people's lives. Personally, I fear the opposite, that over-regulation of rapidly changing industries based on fear and anecdata will make peo
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okta?
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by tarr11 8y ago
When robots are sentient enough to do most human work, won’t they require the same rights and benefits that humans do?
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It could be related to this: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/brhow4/124-the-magic... Basically, amazon sellers will send actual items to legitimate addresses to mask fake amazon reviews.
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Tapping the Wires (1938)(newyorker.com)
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How has your TC changed since you’ve joined Google?
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“freedom of movement” should be free as in speech, not free as in beer.
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I have never seen a person do such a thing on Slack.
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Codepen experiencing multiday DDoS attack(twitter.com)
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$25K does seem somewhat pointless when you can wait a month and get that, with no dilution. Their offer was a bit low. However, it's not quite as insulting as you may think. Many bootstrapped SaaS businesses are valued at 3-6x profit
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Why not take the job, and start a lifestyle business simultaneously? Lifestyle businesses (aka “small business”) are notoriously difficult to time. It may take you 6 months, 10 years, or something in between. You can also use some of your e
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Is personal information really a kind of property, that can be stolen? If it is, aren’t we doing this all the time, any time we perceive anything about anyone? How is this different than taking a picture of someone? The image is owned by
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The parade of concerned parents writing these kinds of articles have conveniently forgotten how much TV and video games many of us consumed in 1980s and 1990s. This stuff reads like satire: “Rather than teach them to absorb material that is
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Amazon forced to pull products in India as new rules bite(bbc.com)
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The Paige Compositor(uh.edu)
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A career as an Amazon fake reviewer (2017)(fee.org)
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Similar thread from 2014 (lots of comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8550315
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Also, what happened between 2009 and 2012?
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SF restaurants are suffocating(medium.com)
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