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   by ximeng 7y ago

   The official websites are not always up to date.
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   by ximeng 7y ago

   Nice gesture but you don’t have contact details to ping in your profile
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   by ximeng 7y ago

   https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaaw4132 - original article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdrup - unit of flow for ocean currents 145GW of power needed to raise water up 6
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   by ximeng 7y ago

   https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9YqLNT5yumI Chinese Character Hero is the closest equivalent I guess
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   by ximeng 7y ago

   Not everyone picks up fliers. They're also not anonymous.
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   Electric cars: New vehicles to emit noise to aid safety(bbc.com)

   4 points by ximeng 7y ago|0 comments
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   by ximeng 7y ago

   Linked paper on using this for Google Keyboard ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.10635.pdf ) highlights that there are nevertheless still privacy issues with this approach: While Federated Learning removes the need to upload
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   by ximeng 7y ago

   I think this probably needs a proper analysis either way, but Oxfam (I realise not a source everyone agrees with) claims 50% of emissions come from the top 10% (this wouldn't just be the "West" - Middle East oil states, rich
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   by ximeng 7y ago

   I’m not intending to be uncharitable - I agree that there are plenty of people of all sorts. My point is that there will be some people who really don’t care - these could be younger or older, childless or whatever. I am not sure if there i
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    by ximeng 7y ago

    Without climate change inequalities might well increase, but with it they will increase more. I’m also saying that the wealthy may not actually be better off, but they may be relatively better off compared to the less wealthy (e.g. absolute
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    by ximeng 7y ago

    The wealthier will be disrupted relatively more by mitigating climate change as they consume more and have the means to invest. The poor will be disproportionately affected by climate change and are less able to adapt. So even if everyone i
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    by ximeng 7y ago

    A wealthy retiree without kids is going to naturally live for today and not care too much about tomorrow. Suspect there’s plenty of them too.
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    by ximeng 7y ago

    If sea levels rise by one meter, how much does the coastline shrink by?
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    by ximeng 7y ago

    This feels like a good start on this topic but it runs out of steam pretty quickly. Will be interesting to see further instalments.
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    It can be useful to introduce a canonical term for a phenomenon, even if there is limited immediate explanatory value.
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    Also competition over limited resources means that it is in nobody’s interests to reduce energy use first. The only way this gets fixed is with cleaner energy mix and active carbon removal.
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    I only recently realised that tapping the “stacked horizontal lines” icon to the left of the url in iPhone safari enables a reading view which removes this stuff.
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    Stayed in an airbnb and had someone come round and say the manager was illegally letting it. No official response to a complaint to airbnb. Haven’t used it since.
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cswmqx - More here from 07:40. Amazing stuff
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    Unmatchable type, following terminology from the paper. This is contrasted with a matchable type which is "injective" and "generative". Basically these unmatchable types are potentially ambiguous under certain operations
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    On large databases, the Sql Server tool simply failed to complete its analysis for me.
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    "As an example, the kind of Maybe remains ⋆ → ⋆, but DbType now has kind ⋆ ↠ ⋆" - the kind of Maybe remains star type arrow star, but DbType now has kind star unmatchable type arrow star.
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    -> could be read as type arrow and ->> as unmatchable type arrow?
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    The government (or sufficiently powerful corporations, which effectively take on some aspects of public governance) sets up the framework that the market operates in. Corporations operate in a society which may break down if sufficient pres
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    http://mh370.radiantphysics.com/2018/11/17/ocean-infinity-fi... “Unfortunately, the acoustics generated by the impact of MH370 on the ocean surface would not propagate along the “deep sound channel” (DSC) the
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    The IPCC reports are authoritative. Basically there are a number of pathways to reduce emissions sufficiently quickly (and then to suck out pollutants from the air) to limit climate change: https://www.ipcc.ch/2018/10&#
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    Hmm, I'm getting downvoted, but even the opening ones look arguable to me, e.g. in the hotel room on the first page the lamp shade and cushion near the sofa don't look great. Some of the HED artifacts could be improved with some p
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    E.g. on page 7 of the paper where the head is cut off in the "ours" picture and less so in the "HED" picture, or the helicopter is similar or worse in quality to the "gPb" picture.
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    Quality doesn't seem much better than the comparison algorithms in the paper.
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    This is a neat git setup for managing dot files: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/best-way-to-sto...