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Are Black Holes Actually Dark Energy Stars?
2 points by teucris 7y ago|3 comments
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by teucris 7y ago
> I look at a well-executed brutalist structure and get a shiver down my spine Well, yes, well-executed things tend to imbue some value or ideal. The vast majority of humans are exposed to extremely poor brutalism that is simply oppressi
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by teucris 7y ago
quote of the month: “Code, in itself, is not an asset. A solved problem is an asset.”
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by teucris 7y ago
Pun intended?
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by teucris 7y ago
Super interesting, because I was drawn to Ableton years ago because I thought the aesthetic made it feel more professional and serious. I love how there’s no one absolute in design, or anything with humans for that matter
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by teucris 7y ago
Do you think that people care about the difference between only detecting wakewords and actual continual listening? My understanding from people I’ve talked to with smart speakers in their homes is that they’ve accepted that it’s listening
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by teucris 7y ago
“When it comes to writing code, the number one most important skill is how to keep a tangle of features from collapsing under the weight of its own complexity.” This resonates with me for sure. But the article was written back in 2013. Do e
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by teucris 7y ago
The title first made me think this was going to be an article about OCaml and Reason.
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by teucris 7y ago
> Everyone is obsessed with status and its markers, Obsessed? Some. Aware? Everyone is aware of them, consciously or not. > because it determines everything about your life - who you can talk to, who you can date, who you can work wit
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by teucris 7y ago
An example I’ve used to some effect is payment systems. How we pay for stuff has changed tremendously, and more and more business is done through Venmo/Cash/Apple Pay/NFC/etc. But that transition needed some major infras
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by teucris 7y ago
The original comment is only discouragement, not critique. There’s a huge difference! Some people work harder when simply discouraged; it sounds like you’re that type of person. Not everyone is like that.
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Genocide of Native Americans May Have Caused a Little Ice Age(allthatsinteresting.com)
1 points by teucris 7y ago|0 comments
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by teucris 7y ago
I am in an extremely liberal city, my community were all major Obama supporters, and we were furious about these things.
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by teucris 7y ago
This is awful and as someone who generally supported Obama I consider this one of several shameful moments in his presidency. The issue with the Trump administration isn’t just about putting people in cages - that’s the sound bite, and one
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by teucris 7y ago
I think you’re on to something when it comes to discovery, but if you have a known audience with a need/want to fill, driving down the cost of development opens up the huge world of situated software [1], where the ROI rebalances itsel
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by teucris 7y ago
Choosing not to put in effort is still a choice. And a more significant one than people realize. At some point I imagine that those who wear swag t-shirts daily had to come to the realization that it was acceptable to do so. In many realms
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by teucris 7y ago
How about something a little less demonic, like finding an economic system that doesn’t rely on endless growth as a catch-all for humanity’s problems?
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by teucris 7y ago
I had a debate about this with a friend - is there a chemical cycle using silicon that could work like respiration does for organic life? Silicon dioxide is, well, glass...
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by teucris 7y ago
1000% agree. My team is in the middle of building a new system, and it’s gotten to the point where I’ve found myself saying the phrase “let’s not paint ourselves in a corner” 2-3 times a day. An additional benefit is that you get to testin
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by teucris 8y ago
I get the idea but I had learned it wasn’t an effective sequestration method. Do you have references I can check out?
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by teucris 8y ago
1. There are tons of externalities at point of sale. Was the item produced using water from a common source like a river? How were non-solid waste products disposed? When it’s source materials were extracted, what impact did that have on th
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by teucris 8y ago
That causes anerobic composting which turns the carbon into methane. This is either recaptured and burned or goes into the atmosphere.
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by teucris 8y ago
Except that disposal costs are highly distorted - depending on where you are, it’s much cheaper than it should be because of cheap land for landfills, cheap shipping to shift the problem away, etc. Proposals to add cost to disposal are mean
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by teucris 8y ago
The only excellent, productive teams I’ve ever worked with wrote software as a team. Not pair programming or mobbing, but a group discussing the plan and codebase constantly in person or over chat, reviewing eachother’s PRs, occasionally me
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by teucris 8y ago
No idea why OP found it interesting, but this really caught my eye: “Given the properties of bilinearity, orthogonality and magnitude, a nonzero cross product exists only in three and seven dimensions.”
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by teucris 8y ago
My takeaway from this article is to use what you know if you want to ship something. With every new project, you’re given the choice to use a new stack. I think it’s pretty rare that you want to ship something, have the chops to ship it, bu
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by teucris 8y ago
My understanding was that Castillo’s work was building nuance around existing work that showed cognitive biases in structures that perceive themselves objective, eg https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii
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by teucris 8y ago
I won’t try to represent the whole #defundICE movement, but I think that ICE is seen as the government manifestation of immoral immigration policies. So it’s more like #defundICEandReformImmigrationPoliciesToBeMoreHumane but that makes for
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by teucris 8y ago
I think we need to be ensuring there are great jobs for Americans too. I think our economy needs both, and they’re not at odds. But regarding expanding population, I totally agree with your skepticism. I think growth for growth’s sake is th
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by teucris 8y ago
Definitely no monolithic opinion but my cohort (i.e. those I speak to regularly about this issue) believe there should be major reforms to vastly simplify legal immigration and enable a clear path to citizenship. You might call this open bo

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