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by yboris 5y ago
The author of the article, Carissa Véliz, also wrote a great book Privacy is Power : https://www.amazon.com/Privacy-Power-Should-Take-Control/dp/...
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Construction's Graphene Revolution Has (Finally) Begun(youtube.com)
1 points by yboris 5y ago|0 comments
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by yboris 5y ago
No, but it would be good to understand the intentions of the original comment. It feels like the author meant to communicate something but because of how vague it is, it feels like it was worse than having no comment. It makes me think &q
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by yboris 5y ago
Could you elaborate? I don't know if you mean "Freakonomics = bad" or "Freakonomics = good", and if so, why?
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Good readings for getting up to speed on methane(yaleclimateconnections.org)
1 points by yboris 5y ago|0 comments
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We can make the steel of tomorrow without the fossil fuels of yesteryear(engadget.com)
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by yboris 5y ago
A short story by Kurt Vonnegut: Harrison Bergeron about a society where everyone is brought down to the lowest level to make everyone equal. The protagonist has massive weights on his body to make his strength more equal to others'.
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by yboris 5y ago
side note: instead of t-SNE consider UMAP - provides better results (and it's much faster) https://github.com/lmcinnes/umap
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by yboris 5y ago
An promising approach to solving these problems comes from Health Impact Fund which aims to "Delink the price of drugs from the cost of research." https://healthimpactfund.org/en/
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by yboris 5y ago
https://www.eyebuydirect.com/
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by yboris 5y ago
Ray Bradbury was one of my favorite authors when I was in High School. What novel(s) by him would you recommend now that I'm in my 30s?
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Human History Gets a Rewrite(theatlantic.com)
167 points by yboris 5y ago|106 comments
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by yboris 5y ago
Is there any VR for the Mac? Seems like the machine is more-than-ready for VR!
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by yboris 5y ago
Has there been, in the last few decades, any concerns about the validity of the Visa transactions?
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by yboris 5y ago
Fair point about a lot of this. But if you want to make it fair, you're going to have to include the hardware costs of all the mining machines for the upkeep of Bitcoin. Furthermore, it doesn't seem appropriate to include the &quo
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by yboris 5y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-co... 1 bitcoin transaction ~ 1,800 kWh 100,000 visa transactions ~ 150 kWh
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by yboris 5y ago
Never forget the enormous pollution that Bitcoin generates! https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/ Currently comparable to the entire energy consumption of Poland!
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by yboris 5y ago
A slightly-related project I created: TypeScript Call Graph - generate/visualize a call graph of your TypeScript files in a variety of ways. MIT open source ;) https://github.com/whyboris/TypeScript-Call-Graph
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by yboris 5y ago
Nice quote: > During the six decades since that first sighting in Gombe, Tanzania, many further examples of tool manufacture and use among chimpanzees have been discovered. It has become clear that each chimpanzee community has its own r
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by yboris 5y ago
Fontana - https://www.tokyocityapartments.net/ I have not used other companies and I used Fontana just once, but it was a great experience. On the paperwork front - there was gas, electric, and water that I had to pay (you
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by yboris 5y ago
I lived in Tokyo for 2.5 months in a furnished 2br apartment ~7 min walk from 3 different subway stations (2 stations away from Shinjuku) for $1,500/month. The company renting the apartment caters to non-Japanese-speaking tourists and
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by yboris 5y ago
Alex Tabarrok's Marginal Revolution write up on this: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/10/th...
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Large percentage fear having children because of climate crisis(thehill.com)
110 points by yboris 5y ago|204 comments
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by yboris 5y ago
I suspect "music" means different things for people. Any time I have vocals / lyrics in music, it drags my attention away - so I only listen to non-vocal (in my case electronic) music.
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by yboris 5y ago
> Samsung To Mass Produce 2nm Chips in 2025 https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-foundry-to-produce...
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by yboris 5y ago
Consider joining Giving What We Can - an international community of people who have pledged to give at least 10% of their income to causes that they think are most effective at eliminating what they think are the world's biggest pr
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Samsung To Mass Produce 2nm Chips in 2025(tomshardware.com)
6 points by yboris 5y ago|0 comments
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Linux Finally Runs on Apple's M1-Based Computer Natively(tomshardware.com)
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by yboris 5y ago
Shouldn't we be betting for SPARC from MIT and not ITER? https://www.psfc.mit.edu/sparc
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by yboris 5y ago
I thought that .heic has patents on it and is thus not free in some cases. Which I think is an overwhelming reason to bury it and not use unless you have a very good reason to. Having fewer browsers support .heic format would be a benefit -

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