ExactoKnight

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Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia(canadiangeographic.ca)
245 points by ExactoKnight 8y ago|80 comments
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
It doesn't help that coconut oil legitimately has anti-fungal and anti-microbial properties that probably make it a benefit to foods that its added to, despite its possibly harmful lipid profile. Perhaps that's the nuance that is
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
It's very possible that coconut oil could have simultaneously good and bad effects on the body. E.g. it has known antibacterial and antifungal properties. Meanwhile, it's a saturated fat of the kind known to be bad for people&#
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
But wait... isn't HDL supposed to be the good form of cholesterol? As if it wasn't already hard to know what to believe... sigh
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
It's what scientists have to say to get into the headlines these days. That doesn't mean his underlying point lacks merit. But it is absolutely frustrating how inconclusive and frequently contradictory science around food and he
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
SkipTheDishes provides an objectively better user experience than UberEats, especially with the Apple Pay integration.
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
> And perhaps a warning about shouting at the Universe. Although it's probably too late to fret too much about that. Any civilization sufficiently advanced to threaten us already has the capability to see we exist. For those with a
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
Very interesting. My only criticism? Perhaps too much of a focus on procedural justice. Peter Thiel has a great talk on how one of the biggest problems in western societies is that we have moved away from having a determinate view of the
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
The reasoning in that RAND article is pretty effing bad. North Korea could successfully invade South Korea?! Yeah right. That's not a credible scenario whatsoever, even if the U.S. withdrew.
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
The scandal led to the election of a different party in South Korea, replacing the conservative militant party with one that's more conciliatory to North Korea. So yes the recent Presidential scandal definitely had an effect.
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
Germany is now an economic powerhouse. The unification paid off big long term.
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
This statistic is mentioned a lot, but it would be interesting to see a breakdown by amount of traffic on those sites. In these metrics thanks to the big web companies, the reach of Wordpress is much lower and other application frameworks
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
The thing is, features like Postgres' native UUID column types, JSONB and HStore are killer features that give developers data flexibility they didn't use to have before, meaning with one database I can go between relational or Mo
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
>MySQL got reliable enough MySQL still doesn't support nested DDL's, and this has caused me extreme amounts of pain in old projects where consistency was expected and we did not receive it on crucial payment processing.
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
But in this case it doesn't work. I don't repeat the name "Chrome" 20 times a day like I will for a Google Home. This is a serious f*cking flaw and it actually makes me worry for Google's stock price that they can
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
Open Media is pretty good at social media and pressure campaigns. The BCCLA is top notch if you actually need to win a court case. When they take on a case they don't fuck around, and they have high powered lawyers working pro-bono fo
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
"Computer" should be the wake word, and everyone would be happy with that thanks to global, english interoperability in all places and contexts. But thanks to the hubris of corporate branding and marketing departments we are unlik
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
The "Hey" gets extremely grating after the fifth time in a row. Amazon has it right on this with Alexa.
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
It's utterly astonishing that Google still has the hubris not to give it a personal name. People want to believe they're talking to a personal assistant, even if that isn't true, and Google is stupidly stripping them of tha
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Facebook's new data-sharing policies are crashing Tinder(wired.com)
3 points by ExactoKnight 8y ago|1 comments
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
They all do. I have Canadian friends I know from all the parties working on campaigns. They're basically Americans, just looking for career opportunities. They are not foreign agents with a foreign agenda, and this is not the scanda
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
Chris lived in BC, so this would be what his driver's license looked like: http://www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver/2013/02/15/new-b-c-id... It's an 8 digit number. The keyspace for the str
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
Dude Obama's team was the first to spearhead true micro targeting. Their Voter Activation Network (VAN) was even bought by the Liberal Party of Canada, and forms the core of their Liberalist voter tracking software.
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
Why would HN penalize tweet links!? Hacker news is a perfect place for stories that intersect technical and journalistic expertise to be explored more in depth with a focus on truth. In journalism tweets are how evidence of a story evolve
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by ExactoKnight 8y ago
Where can we download the codebase. Seriously interested in seeing it.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
I had an idea for Firefox, which is to restrict copy/paste overriding completely from the DOM. This would put a stop to Google's BS of overriding normal links top google-analytics-full redirect urls.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
This New York Times piece on Bitcoin written right before the last mega-crash reads the same way: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/style/bitcoin-millionaire... To quote Warren Buffet. When people get
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Peter Thiel has a strong critique of this where he asserts the opposite: that both governments and science research spending today is too indeterminate. Governments don't believe in the capacity to make big plans any more, and it'
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
To Snapchat's credit they did pull off some amazing features with that surge of investment money. The facial recognition/filters they built was truly innovative and very advanced. The engineers involved in that were undeniably e
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
It's actually very little work to maintain Steam once the core functionality is there. Valve is actually a good example of a company that's now incapable of doing anything really ambitious that has real demand. You know, like

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