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by xenocyon 6y ago
I was introduced to markdown via RStudio. But what I really use the most nowadays is markdown for making notes during meetings etc, using a minimalist editor (Typora). I just wish it weren't so complicated/ugly to copy/paste
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How Do Aliens Solve Climate Change?(theatlantic.com)
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by xenocyon 6y ago
The article doesn't mention that this is a project sponsored by the American Institute for Economic Research, which is a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch Foundation. Bhattacharya himself, while a legitimate doctor and medical
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by xenocyon 6y ago
The visual/marketing focus on so-called "Damascus" steel is almost ridiculous: I own a "Damascus" knife. Like many well-designed modern knives, it uses a core of hard steel in the middle (VG-10 in my case) clad betw
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> arresting a person that set fire to a car in order to intimidate a witness in a sexual abuse case is a good thing The little problem is all the people who might have Googled 'how to set fire to a car' but who didn't actu
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> experience history as it might actually have been I think the might in the above is key. If you add new information to take the place of lost information, you're taking a risk that the new information does not accurately mimic t
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Aside: yours is the only post on HN regarding this topic that hasn't gotten flagged, AFAIK [1][2]. HN has a frankly shameful record on race and racism, I'm sorry to say. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2
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by xenocyon 6y ago
It depends on how you come across the paper. Peer-reviewed scientific journals (as well as some preprint channels that aren't peer reviewed) are fully explicit about the date of publication. However, if those same papers are published
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PayPal flags products containing the word “tardigrade”(geekwire.com)
1 points by xenocyon 6y ago|0 comments
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I find that I can usually predict which topics on HN are likeliest to spark low-effort comments :)
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by xenocyon 6y ago
That's not the only problem with obscurity. It not only obscures flaws from attackers, it also obscures them from you and makes a system hard to maintain. In any complex system, ultimately there will develop chinks in your armor that o
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Avoiding the smoke – how to breathe clean air(fast.ai)
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I think that's not quite the correct question to ask. The question to ask is: what purpose will your new community website/app serve that is not already being met by existing ones? Here's one anecdote: personally, I haven&#x2
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by xenocyon 6y ago
It depends on what you mean by being 'doxxed'. It is trivially easy to find out what city I live in and a few other non-identifying details. It's harder to pinpoint my real name or address without the active cooperation of we
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The loquat, San Francisco’s fruit, is hidden in plain sight(missionlocal.org)
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I think it's extreme to call it extreme, seeing as it is the norm for federal employees and most state employees - including, for instance, academics and other researchers, engineers, doctors, lawyers, and football coaches.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
Yes, that was my only reason for employing the abbreviation. In any case, it appears that the mods have chosen to switch out the title with a different one (my original carried an excerpt from the job posting which is now removed).
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by xenocyon 6y ago
'After this story was published, Amazon deleted the job listings and company spokesperson Maria Boschetti said in an email that "the job post was not an accurate description of the role — it was made in error and has since been co
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Amazon job ad for an intelligence analyst to track 'labor organizing threats'(vice.com)
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Doorbell Cameras Like Ring Give Early Warning of Police Searches, FBI Warned(theintercept.com)
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by xenocyon 6y ago
It is quite a well-established and uncontroversial fact; here is one article of many that discuss this: https://phys.org/news/2014-01-carbon-footprint-reveal-urban-...
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I think the bigger elephant in all of our rooms is climate change. Density is by far more climate-sustainable (as well as more environmentally sustainable in other ways) than sprawl. In addition, global economic forces are creating a mass m
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by xenocyon 6y ago
What's special in the rest of the world isn't just a metric system, it is one particular metric system: the SI system (also sometimes called the MKS system, for meter-kilogram-second). The SI system guarantees not only that we
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by xenocyon 6y ago
> I can get a product tomorrow Wait, what you're describing above isn't dropshipping.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
There's a pragmatic reason and a serious reason: 1. Pragmatic: you don't get tenure for publishing to your website. 2. Serious: peer review, despite its flaws, is a crucial safety check in science and it's not wise to side-st
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I'm having a hard time parsing your comment - you're making a lot of aspersions and ending with the generic platitude "there are no panaceas". Can you frame your objection a little more concretely or specifically?
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Telework mostly benefits the affluent and offers few climate benefits(theconversation.com)
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by xenocyon 6y ago
I want to agree with you, but: a company whose employees' lives must be subsidized by the taxpayer (because they aren't earning enough to live on from full-time wages) is a net economic negative to society. If you have a lot of su
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by xenocyon 6y ago
As someone who grew up outside of the US, I have found that Americans have a unique view on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. American schoolchildren are raised to believe that it was morally justified because it won - and therefore ended - the war.
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by xenocyon 6y ago
There's a distinction between assistance to renters vs assistance to landlords: assistance to renters prevents them from becoming homeless, whereas landlords are usually not at risk of becoming homeless. Mass homelessness would be hell

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