NH_2

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by NH_2 11y ago
I get that lab meat is largely considered a transcendent technological solution to the ethical dilemma of slaughtering livestock, but at the same time I can't help but think that this dooms chickens and cows to obsoletion and eventual
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by NH_2 11y ago
Sort of. I taught middle-school students programming using Scratch (and a whiteboard) for three summers, and found that its interface of dragging and dropping blocks of code worked well for teaching programming fundamentals (conditionals, l
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by NH_2 11y ago
I'm curious about this too. Also, what's the retrieval rate of the data? How much of it can you query at once? Is it different/faster on Ethereum?
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by NH_2 11y ago
Agreed -- would also love to see an incentive structure around publishing negative results. One of the areas of research I think is the most exciting is artificial photosynthesis, and it's currently at the phase where the researchers a
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Dear Jack: Twitter needs to become more open or it will die(fortune.com)
3 points by NH_2 11y ago|0 comments
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by NH_2 11y ago
Agreed. I'm actually starting a link aggregator ( http://www.filter.news ) and would love to implement this in the future. Besides supporting quality journalism, I think the signaling could be important as well.
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by NH_2 11y ago
> It's not that your article isn't worth a nickel, it's that it's not worth my mental energy to debate whether to spend a nickel. I agree with the above, but disagree that this makes micropayments for online content a
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by NH_2 11y ago
> Of course not everything on the web needs to cost something, and I’m not arguing that every site charge for its content, and go behind paywalls. I can't help but think that if the implementation becomes easier then more sites will
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by NH_2 11y ago
I think this will be good for Twitter. Jack will be able to make big identity and design decisions over the next few years with less pushback from the employees and users than any non-founder CEO. He's already begun by declaring that t
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by NH_2 11y ago
It works by finding commonly shared article links, which can be tweets or retweets. We're working on adding email registration as well as making our topics available to users who don't want to register. Right now, we're using
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Show HN: Filter – News from Twitter Communities(filter.news)
17 points by NH_2 11y ago|3 comments
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by NH_2 12y ago
I don’t agree that the YouTube personalities, despite being given access, didn’t ask the President tough questions. During the interview with Obama, Hank Green (the author) asked the President about several things: - the feasibility of
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by NH_2 12y ago
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by NH_2 12y ago
Someone just rocked me with a step function. I'm intrigued.
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by NH_2 12y ago
I'm working like something along these lines for news. Email me (it's in my profile) if you're interested in finding out more and potentially working together.