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by vages 8y ago
The pipe operator alone makes this worth using.
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by vages 8y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something, but the title seems to exaggerate the following paragraph: > Perhaps more importantly for people with autism, Davidenko found that the tilt leads people to look more at the eyes, perhaps because it mak
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by vages 8y ago
Going in with the mindset that I will probably fail (badly) the first time I try at something. Most people, including an earlier version of myself, are discouraged by it. I now find comfort in it, and I also find I'm a lot quicker at t
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by vages 8y ago
The mass movement is getting there. I just came home from a rally for a more climate friendly state budget in my home country of Norway. I'm energized and glad to find that there are many like-minded people in the world. I think I&#x27
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by vages 8y ago
Monthly sponsor of this for $2.
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by vages 8y ago
Being disheartened by one warm summer is as anecdotal as dismissing global warming after a warm winter. It's true that it was hot, but that may actually have been good, as people may finally be getting their act together (the chances o
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by vages 8y ago
And the brits would be wrong, for the reasons I have already mentioned. The remains of their empire are more visible than that of any other. Again, I do not claim that there are no ecological problems. I just think that they are solvable if
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by vages 8y ago
I don't see the prediction of humanity's immediate extinction on the front pages of these organizations. From what I have gathered, their perspective, like mine, is that these challenges are substantial, but surmountable. And we c
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by vages 8y ago
Where did you get these claims from?
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by vages 8y ago
I recommend Steven Pinker's “Enlightenment Now” as an antidote to pessimistic views of the future with regards to climate change: We have to act, but the outlook is not as grim as many environmentalists paint it. We are acting, and we
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by vages 8y ago
You could have asked the same question in 1700: What will the state do with its inhabitants when they no longer work the fields or make wool? The answer is “something else”. The economy adapts, and unimaginable professions and social struct
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by vages 8y ago
The point of surviving is not to last forever; it is to last longer. Feeling slightly depressed that your civilization may undergo changes during the next hundred years or that your species may not be able to last until the end of time is a
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by vages 8y ago
I have read Harari's “Sapiens”, but I did not want to go on with the sequel. The main reason was his way of always seeing clouds on the horizon and predicting doomsday, probably because fear sells more books. I believe the metaphorical
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by vages 8y ago
Be courteous and add a (2015) to the title.
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by vages 8y ago
Where is the (2008) in the title to denote that this is ten years old? Does anyone have access to any recent articles about the same subject?
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by vages 8y ago
The HTML page takes an order of magnitude less time to load than the PDF (1 vs. 8 seconds) on my phone.
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by vages 9y ago
I also adore old programs for their simplicity. However, I've come to terms with "unnecessary" complexity as a necessary cost of growth and abstraction. Each part of a bacteria, relative to its mass, may be more cost effectiv
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by vages 9y ago
Network effects: The sufficiently large pool of competent programmers who already know Javascript makes it easier to hire people. The many people you don't hire often make some of their work available for reuse for free.
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by vages 9y ago
Yes, it is technically the same abilities being used. The reaction comes because of how they're used: to indiscriminately delete old messages that may potentially be harmful to themselves while not offering the same options to its user
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by vages 9y ago
"Specific laws for data privacy": GDPR at the least.
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by vages 9y ago
What worries me is not the unrealistic notion that a single algorithm will ever replace human emotional judgment (it will not): It's the amount of frustration that blind faith in such algorithms will cause before we settle on supplemen
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by vages 9y ago
Main backer is the online learning service NoRedInk. The language's creator works there.
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by vages 9y ago
Doesn't help me read more than the first two paragraphs
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by vages 9y ago
Page rendering peculiarity in IOS Firefox: The content shrinks about 5% whenever my finger touches the screen.
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by vages 9y ago
Most interesting part was the reply from the Comcast employee.
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by vages 9y ago
«It was so weirdly (but not entirely) reminiscent of some of the problems that developed societies are facing today that I'll try to recount the story in English to make it available to wider audience.»