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A groundbreaking study on the dangers of 'microplastics' may be unraveling(sciencemag.org)
5 points by themgt 10y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 10y ago
Seriously, when your "hello world" example is 150 lines of totally non-DRY code littered with constants and conditionals ... I feel bad for people trying to learn this style of web dev. It's ill-suited to the vast majority of
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by themgt 10y ago
Even at the time, knowing none of the characters or background I found Otto a very odd startup, one I almost didn't believe looked legit, and their rapid acquisition by Uber was one more "huh, strange" moment - how could they
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Snap’s IPO Shares Should Be “Junk Equity”: CalPERS(wolfstreet.com)
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by themgt 10y ago
Capsaicin (8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide) is the active component of Capsicum plants (chili peppers), which are grown as food and for medicinal purposes since ancient times, and is responsible for the pungency of their fruit. Besides it
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by themgt 10y ago
Gotta say it's a little ironic their Zebra's Unite DazzleCon[1] is itself being held in Unicorn-central San Francisco. Why not like ... Iowa? Not exactly helping the accessibility for real businesses nationwide by hosting this in
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Hard Truths about Obama’s Deportation Priorities(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by themgt 10y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 10y ago
This country appears to be on a very dangerous path. I don't remotely deny Trump and his administration's responsibility and complicity for taking us down this path, but given how widely understood his issues are within mainstream
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by themgt 10y ago
I find it really fascinating that there's been problems using traditional brain-computer interfaces with these patients, and the researcher who developed this device specifically believes it's because once completely locked-in the
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Considerations on Cost Disease(slatestarcodex.com)
1 points by themgt 10y ago|0 comments
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Physicists Are Closing the Bell Test Loophole(quantamagazine.org)
3 points by themgt 10y ago|1 comments
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CO2 toxicity and climate change: a serious unapprehended risk for human health [pdf](grapevine.com.au)
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by themgt 10y ago
If a tree falls on your head it can't be "wrong", the tree has no agency. If a human cuts down the tree, knowing it is likely to fall on your head ... is who is responsible really important? Trees fall on heads all the time.
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by themgt 10y ago
My gut says that React is perhaps the best choice if you're building your app as fully SPA and gonna go all-in on it. However I think the percent of overall web development this is appropriate for is perhaps 1-5% at mostly large compan
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Chrome: Cross-origin request failing after regular request is cached (2014)(bugs.chromium.org)
1 points by themgt 10y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 10y ago
Ding ding, there's the cynical and at least partly correct answer - Obama bombing poor Muslims while acting like it's a pained #LesserEvil choice was a-OK with liberals: shrug & grimace and let's go back to a craft beer a
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by themgt 10y ago
From the Iraq invasion, torture, black sites, rendition, Guantanamo, Libya/Syria/Yemen, 26,000 drone bombs dropped on mainly Muslims in 2016 alone, providing UN/economic/military help to Israel's apartheid state, cr
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by themgt 10y ago
I don't always like Gladwell, but his piece on the Ford Pinto and the NHTSA philosophy towards auto safety more generally is quite worth the read [1]. I hadn't considered the intersection of this and self-driving car tech, but I w
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by themgt 10y ago
Not to be a jerk, but I have trouble understanding how someone obviously intelligent can make such an oblivious statement. To be a successful self-taught software engineer and quant you likely have a IQ a couple standard deviations above av
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by themgt 10y ago
Not just North America. The "Out of Arabia" scenario for AMH expansion from the now-underwater Levant is quite compelling and revolutionary, but obviously difficult to prove. [1] http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2014&#
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Is Europe Disintegrating?(nybooks.com)
60 points by themgt 10y ago|177 comments
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by themgt 10y ago
What absolute bullshit, with the Atlantic just credulously slurping up the spin of a former NSA attorney. 12333 is an executive order! By its very nature Trump can rescind or update it on a whim the moment he's in office. How can you c
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The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics(nybooks.com)
125 points by themgt 10y ago|119 comments
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by themgt 10y ago
Did you RTFA, or not? There are some possible explanations for red chili peppers’ health benefits, state Chopan and Littenberg in the study. Among them are the fact that capsaicin – the principal component in chili peppers – is believed to
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by themgt 10y ago
Yeah, I should have stuck with homo sapiens / AMH / AMHS [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomically_modern_human
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by themgt 10y ago
I've been interested in paleoanthropology as a layman for a few years now. I find the Mousterian [1] culture / tools quite interesting, because it appears to be part of the history of hominid technological progress, the stepping s
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by themgt 10y ago
I'm still quite a n00b at Elixir, but it's already making me annoyed by Ruby and ES6, the other two languages I'm using day-to-day. Ruby mainly because of performance/concurrency issues, ES6 because the syntax and depend
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by themgt 10y ago
I think this is somewhat misleading. Antarctica likely is still gaining ice mass overall, for complex reasons, even as the overall stability and health of the ice shelves and sheets weaken. To boil it down to one key point, west antarctica
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by themgt 10y ago
294 hours on a 116 hour project sucks, but my general rule is once the code is deployed, we're not going to "take it back" over nonpayment. If you fail on your final payment we will ask politely and insistently that you remit
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by themgt 10y ago
No I'm totally aware you wouldn't be able to replicate BEAM/OTP on a JS runtime, but my guess is you could port enough of the syntax and some of Elixir's high-level abstractions, especially to ES7. The point wouldn'

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