21echoes

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by 21echoes 3y ago
You can wax poetic all you want about anecdotal values differences between the first and third worlds, but speaking in terms of actual practical impact: what you are saying is simply not true. Greenhouse gas emissions scale super-linearly w
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by 21echoes 3y ago
the reason they are named differently and are notated differently is that they serve different functions. they're more or less homophones. or, perhaps to keep it within the artistic sphere, they're like https://en.wikip
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by 21echoes 3y ago
The tradition of using shift registers for automated music generation very much lives on! These days they are typically called "Turing Machines" (I know, kinda of confusing for us CS folks), due to the influence of a popular versi
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by 21echoes 5y ago
This seems to be exactly the definition given in the article?
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by 21echoes 5y ago
a documentary presenting an impersonator as the real person has always been unethical, yes. this one is newsworthy because it was done in a new way.
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by 21echoes 9y ago
I figured that, but I wanted to give the chance at clarification, because we were mainly discussing operational expenses, and there's no way data centers even clears 1% of the cost of running Harvard
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by 21echoes 9y ago
Of course! The point was to put the number next to a number known by the typical HN reader, not to imply the businesses were at all similar. > Most universities get by with a dozen clustered on campus serving administrative, educational
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by 21echoes 9y ago
Invests it, and runs the university on the returns. Assuming a 4% yearly rate of return, then that's around $1.5B a year in money available for operating expenses. As a point of comparison, Facebook spends ~10x that (~$15B), Uber spend
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by 21echoes 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13226078 When I'm in my working tab group, that's like 8 tabs or so. Most of the tabs in the storage groups are months old (more like bookmarks I didn't have to hit Cmd+D
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by 21echoes 10y ago
Ctrl+tab'd thru all 56 tabs in this group, waited for them to finish loading, opened activity monitor: CPU at 20%, RAM at 811MB. So yea, a fair amount weren't loaded, but loading them didn't make too big of a difference.
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by 21echoes 10y ago
Firefox with Tab Groups and AwesomeBar fits very nicely with my workflow-- 1. I dont have to think. I Cmd+Click links as I find them interesting, switch tabs as my attention changes, etc. and the tabs just stay there, waiting. 2. AwesomeBar
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by 21echoes 10y ago
Mmmm that's true, I don't. I tend to close GMail tabs once I'm done with them because I also noticed they tend to leak and are poorly optimized for non-Chrome browsers.
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by 21echoes 10y ago
Mac El Capitan, FirefoxDeveloperEdition (which iirc is basically equivalent to Firefox Beta), not many addons (Tab Groups, uBlock Origin, No More 404s). I can screenshot my Activity Monitor if that'd help?
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by 21echoes 10y ago
Mac El Capitan, FirefoxDeveloperEdition (which iirc is basically equivalent to Firefox Beta), not many addons (Tab Groups, uBlock Origin, No More 404s).
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by 21echoes 10y ago
> But I remember the times when we had the amazing Opera browser. In Opera, I could have a hundred open tabs, and it didn’t care, it worked incredibly fast on the hardware of its era, useless today. You may ask: why would a sane person w
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by 21echoes 10y ago
In most contexts, an entertainment event being "presented by X" just means that X funded the event in exchange for having their name associated with it. E.g., "Thursday Night Football, Presented by Bud Light" -- Bud Ligh
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by 21echoes 10y ago
The one issue I see with bringing Flux/Redux to iOS is that iOS shipped with unidirectional data flow from day 1 with KVO: view => IBAction on controller => model method (incl. any API or CoreData work) => controller is notifi
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by 21echoes 10y ago
...which is why I spent my entire last paragraph discussing why addressing inequality is often considered as a way to tackle inequality. We don't get to pretend they're separate things for at least another few centuries.
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by 21echoes 10y ago
> Ignoring [the mental state of the people being optimized for], what is wrong with inequality between groups? A bit cheeky, I know, but I don't think you can just write off emotional results of systems. But to answer in better fait
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by 21echoes 10y ago
> The corollary is that you have to worry about the DAC in the phone if you have an analog jack, and they're not good. So with digital only, you have the option of buying a good off board DAC (if you care), or otherwise selecting di
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by 21echoes 10y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/08/is-jazz-enteri...
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by 21echoes 10y ago
well maybe listen to more than one ;D I included that one as an example of how artists are merging instrumental hip hop back in with Jazz; there's plenty of other styles of Jazz in the list! You're right that a global statement of
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by 21echoes 10y ago
different senses of innovation /shrug for stuff in the more progressive vein, check out: Jaga Jazzist : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVIFUQV20NM or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws25EyTGdTg Jacob
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by 21echoes 10y ago
dead on. for more examples of what goes by "jazz" these days: Takuya Kuroda - Rising Son : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mUymaxWmMw Hiatus Kaiyote - The World It Softly Lulls : https://www.youtube.co
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by 21echoes 10y ago
No disrespect, and I could be misreading your point, but I think it only seems hand-wavey to you because you're not familiar with the definitions of the terms being used. It's just statement of facts that is in basically no disput
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by 21echoes 10y ago
If it's true at the county-level, it's true at the national level (which is also stated in the abstract). By specifying it's additionally true at the county level, it makes a much stronger claim -- that high racial bias does
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by 21echoes 10y ago
re: 2, this is covered quite clearly in the abstract: "There is no relationship between county-level racial bias in police shootings and crime rates (even race-specific crime rates), meaning that the racial bias observed in police shoo
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by 21echoes 10y ago
Of course, no one is saying that companies and employees have to value ISOs the same, but no one is saying employees who value ISOs at zero should be working at a startup either
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by 21echoes 10y ago
Because startups are, effectively by definition, equity rich and cash poor. Trading $100k/yr in ISOs for $100k/yr in cash across 10 employees increases your cash burn by $1M/year, which is make-or-break for a lot of startups.
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by 21echoes 10y ago
This. Bitcoin is currently paying transaction fees through inflation, but as the halving process continues, those fees will shift back into the marketplace in a less implicit way, as miners need to continue being paid. https://bl

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