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Amazon rainforest fires: global leaders urged to divert Brazil from suicide path(theguardian.com)
4 points by tropicalia 7y ago|0 comments
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by tropicalia 7y ago
If you come at it from the perspective that Google is your friend, as in not like a real friend (who I wouldn't let change my passwords), but a friend that's even better than a real friend, then sure, these points are paranoid.
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by tropicalia 7y ago
How can a planet scale coordinated governmental effort by committee work? The same way countless other endangered subsets of humanity (particularly those facing essentially total annihilation by, or permanent subservience to a foreign occ
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by tropicalia 7y ago
The point is that the original text was such an over-the-top and just plain logically off-base rant so as to not be worth reading past a line or two. So whether it's about software coming from GNU or FSF (or something endorsed by Googl
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by tropicalia 7y ago
You're right and I stand corrected - it's not that hard of a problem. I found this out when (sometime later) I actually sat down to solve it, without considering any of the hints posted elsewhere in this thread. At least there se
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by tropicalia 7y ago
TL;DR basically any software not from the GNU project is malware, in case you haven't heard already.
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by tropicalia 7y ago
[2006]
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by tropicalia 7y ago
title fix: "Nicotine"
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by tropicalia 7y ago
Aside from the fact that it's been called the Holland Tunnel for nearly a century (no one ever refers to it as the "Hudson Tunnel") -- the author provides this rather provocative assertion: In other words, a good chunk of Ne
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by tropicalia 7y ago
After running late for your flight after a 30-minute security line only to have TSA confiscate your Fiji water bottle, you’ll now have to stop at a crowded water fountain to fill your own metal flask. Or buy an overpriced glass or aluminum
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by tropicalia 7y ago
Sure it can, in principle. But (massive) empirical evidence demonstrates that, by and large - the private sector won't do the right thing (or even "the common sense thing"), in this regard -- at least not at adequate scale --
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by tropicalia 7y ago
With chilling, but not entirely unexpected consequences: Indicating the intimate involvement of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the investigation of the airline, Hogg's resignation was first made public by Chinese state-run media
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by tropicalia 7y ago
Is there research about this? Yup - we might say that as a topic, it's been discussed throughout the ages. For example there are the findings of this guy Paul the Apostle (as summarized by an unknown transcriptionist sometime in the
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Why does no one ever tell you how brilliant ageing can be?(theguardian.com)
9 points by tropicalia 7y ago|3 comments
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People on rescue ship off Italy at breaking point, say doctors(theguardian.com)
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Professor who quoted James Baldwin's use of N-word cleared by university(theguardian.com)
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by tropicalia 7y ago
Now tractable for smart undergrads who are into competitive programming. Even if we leave aside the question of to what extent facility at competitive programming contests actually correlates with success in real engineering environments
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by tropicalia 7y ago
Even if you do not expect them to solve it. The unstated implication in most cases is that you damn sure are supposed to solve it - or get "flushed". As to "seeing how the candidate behaves in front of a difficult and concr
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by tropicalia 7y ago
Without the chance to repair any lack thereof by demonstrating technical competence. As if it's a given the whiteboard process actually provides a useful measure of technical competence.
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by tropicalia 7y ago
Let’s begin with a technical interview problem. Consider the following coding question from LeetCode, an online platform for preparing software development candidates for interviews: [statement of the Maximum Subarray Problem] Before g
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by tropicalia 7y ago
As one of the last bastions of free people in the world, we have a strong ethical and moral obligation to help these freedom fighters. Taking no action or even worse, barring them entry is tantamount to murder. We need to be courageous and
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by tropicalia 7y ago
Come take a free tour at an Amazon fulfillment center and see what our warehouses are really like. Check out the locations and reserve your spot online. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
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Satellite photos show Chinese armoured vehicles on border of Hong Kong(theguardian.com)
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by tropicalia 7y ago
Nothing against the dam removal - but I wish someone would think of something to "Change Everything" so that one day we'll see fewer clickbaity article titles.
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Lawyer fights for victims of online harassment, deepfakes and revenge porn(theguardian.com)
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by tropicalia 7y ago
Not disputing that I may be horribly wrong -- but the same source puts Larry Page's (obviously symbolic) compensation at $1 (ignoring equity) - so I'm not sure what to make of it.
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by tropicalia 7y ago
Do you think the programming language you start with makes that much of a difference? Yes (and you'll find a lot of advice from experienced hackers emphasizing this point). If not exactly the first language you start using -- at some
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by tropicalia 7y ago
My eyes are hurting from seeing these articles whining about their misery while collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. Multiple easily findable sources suggest that the median tech salary at Google is well below $150k -- p
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by tropicalia 7y ago
true evil is... This is a straw man argument. The critique made of Google is not that has come to embody "true evil". But that it has (by degrees) slouched towards moral ambivalence, and acquiescence of (yes) evil. Serving ba
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by tropicalia 7y ago
If you (really) don't know where to begin -- that is, you don't have enough "monkey grease" under your belt to just pick up some examples and documentation and propel yourself along -- then you should probably start with

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