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A ‘false solution’? How crypto mining became the oil industry’s new hope(theguardian.com)
5 points by vanusa 5y ago|1 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
If they’re putting in 2 hrs/day on a remote job and not making the cut it’s not worth my effort to try to coach them out of that. Right, but it's your job to treat them like adults, not babies. And the first rule of dealing wi
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by vanusa 5y ago
https://archive.md/4p4um
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Gen Z Is Done with the Pandemic(theatlantic.com)
6 points by vanusa 5y ago|2 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
Going to the library, reading books, that sort of thing. Oh and thinking about what you read and asking yourself it can actually be true.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Are most of us secretly lying about how much we are working? Maybe many of us are. But the bigger lie by far is the allegedly meritocratic standard of performance we are held to -- to be always relentlessly efficient, always "on&quot
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Melania Trump launches NFT venture, promising ‘an amulet to inspire’(theguardian.com)
4 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
I bet it will be great solace to these children to know that the company that helped fuel the pogroms that led to their expulsion .. is now offering software to animate their drawings: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12&#x
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Bruce Springsteen Sells Music Catalog in Massive Deal(nytimes.com)
7 points by vanusa 5y ago|1 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
Gehlen was FHO, not SS. His postwar organization employed SS members, but that's something different. To say it was an "SS Division" is just nuts. There's no information that I'm aware of that connects de Mohrensc
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New Arabian Nights translation to strip away earlier versions’ racism and sexism(theguardian.com)
1 points by vanusa 5y ago|1 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
Downvoting for your arrogant tone ("some people still actually believe ...") in regard to a topic that is genuinely murky and has a lot of conflicting indications (and about which there's still a lot of misinformation kicking
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by vanusa 5y ago
Right - something for studios, not the man on the street.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Video can refer to non-digital media, see: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/video It still doesn't say that video includes "film". You can make a video recording of a film of course, but tha
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by vanusa 5y ago
The commenter thinks the Zapruder film was a "video" is what I'm saying.
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by vanusa 5y ago
I'm referring to the fact that the "video" in question was an 8mm color film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapruder_film Obviously "video" existed then in the sense that there was television -
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by vanusa 5y ago
It wasn't a "video", back then they only had ... never mind.
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North Korea Executes People for Watching K-Pop, Rights Group Says(nytimes.com)
13 points by vanusa 5y ago|1 comments
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Documents link Huawei to Uyghur surveillance projects, report claims(theguardian.com)
4 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
Right - it's am 80/20 thing. Sometimes debuggers are more useful.
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Preservationists Want to Save Penn Station. Yes, That Penn Station(bloomberg.com)
1 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
But … how do you know? Because some people who are really smart and who work really, really hard on this topic (we call them "climate scientists") have done the work and are pretty confident of their results. Plus it's alr
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by vanusa 5y ago
With that much in savings - quit now for the sake of your mental health, and your soul.
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Six dead giraffes: Kenya drought horror captured in single picture(theguardian.com)
5 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
How many times has story been posted today? Since obviously neither of these fields is a "walk in the park", and it takes years of training to be able to do them -- basic intuition suggests that other forms of intelligence are i
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by vanusa 5y ago
https://archive.md/xVT0y
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by vanusa 5y ago
The bigger point is: the company clearly is no position to threaten to fire people for making their own decisions about personal safety in situations like this. If anything, that simply adds to the anxiety, and amplifies risk. And unfort
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by vanusa 5y ago
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements. Brian Kernighan, “Unix for Beginners” Finally someone has the courage to tell the truth. s/debugging/testing/g
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by vanusa 5y ago
A changing climate doesn't mean an unlivable earth. Unfortunately this isn't true - certain parts of the earth (perhaps affecting as many as 1B people) will in fact become unlivable, as we approach warming scenarios above 1.5 de
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by vanusa 5y ago
My secret weapon with learning Spanish was really just studying a lot and practicing, and not wasting time doing other stuff. That's the secret weapon for learning just about any language, actually. That, and this thing known as &qu

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