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by adatavizguy 6y ago
In places they are using Grindr and other apps to target and arrest people. [0] Worse than what the phrase 'wrecks lives' connotes. [0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/egypt-l...
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by adatavizguy 6y ago
How did the farmer get his donkey out of the deep ditch? He filled it in with dirt. This is just Aesop's fable. But it falls into the same abstract thinking as where does fat go, C55H104O6+78O2 --> 55CO2+52H2O+energy[0], or what hap
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by adatavizguy 6y ago
Likewise, where does that tree in your backyard come from? It is the product of carbon dioxide and water. edit: The significance of this thought is when a child is asked where a tree or plant comes from, at least in the US, they inevitably
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by adatavizguy 6y ago
Off topic. When something is on the tip of my tongue, I don't search for it because I have a strange belief that what my mind is trying to do to remember it is fire off neurons associated with the thought or idea, near it, to create th
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by adatavizguy 6y ago
I wonder if the Cheesecake Factory and Applebees use A/B testing with their menus the same way Netflix uses A/B testing? There is probably a huge demand for data driven decision making for restaurants rather than these spares stud
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by adatavizguy 6y ago
It is interesting that recipes are not art but rather fact. The same with fashion. I think that SpaceX has trade secrets rather than patents because there is nothing stopping China using the information in a patent whereas a trade secret is
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by adatavizguy 6y ago
I read the title and thought this article might have more to do with my spending 10 minutes finding the perfect variable name.
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by adatavizguy 6y ago
Elixir is synonymous with Phoenix. If that is the only reason to choose using Phoenix over NestJS, the later is clearly the better choice.
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by adatavizguy 6y ago
> I admittedly struggle with is knowing when to create a new Nest Module versus a new service in an already existing module I use the same logic as where to put a font end component. If I'm creating a component for the first time, i
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by adatavizguy 6y ago
This is like saying building an abstraction of assembly language like C will put all the software developers out of a job. Rather it creates more opportunities.
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by adatavizguy 6y ago
I wonder what Bertrand Russell would say about that?
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by adatavizguy 6y ago
Would there have been a path of honesty at Theranos such that they would thrive in the age of covid-19?
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by adatavizguy 6y ago
It's been years since I've asked a question on Stack Exchange. There comes a point when any place I get caught up nobody can help me. So there are several questions I've answered myself. Of course, working in the same space s
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by adatavizguy 6y ago
We are culturally obsessed with "Luke, trust your feelings." There is something extremely wrong and dangerous with Star Wars and that idea to put away reason and just trust our feelings. Joseph Campbell what did you do?
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Ask HN: Good or bad, how are you doing?
1 points by adatavizguy 6y ago|1 comments
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by adatavizguy 6y ago
Linus Pauling really messed this one up. He went for the C but really wanted the D.
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by adatavizguy 6y ago
I hate to be the one to have to explain this to you. A private entity is deciding what content is and is not allowed to be hosted on their private servers using their private services. This is very different from government officials that y
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by adatavizguy 6y ago
What are the best resources to learn how to structure a Chrome Extension? I find the API very difficult to grok.
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by adatavizguy 7y ago
Makes you shrug when the US military is dependent on India and China for a huge portion of the medicine it uses including antibiotics and other supplies like this.
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Ask HN: How are you going to cope living in the time of a pandemic?
3 points by adatavizguy 7y ago|4 comments
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by adatavizguy 7y ago
There are lots of recommendations for protection against coronavirus which are the same as the recommendations for protection against normal flu. If people are implementing them which is very likely, there should be a decrease in normal flu
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by adatavizguy 7y ago
All the people who were made fun of in middle school for being a 'mouth breather' will have the last laugh.
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by adatavizguy 7y ago
Looks like they use Rematch.[0] [0] https://rematch.github.io/rematch/#/
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by adatavizguy 7y ago
Same, but different, for New Orleans which already below sea level is sinking a few inches a year. [0] Saving New Orleans and the surrounding coastal areas starts with the soil too. For example, one non profit is paying people to remove cem
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by adatavizguy 7y ago
We still maintain Loran C[0]. Interesting to note receivers have been developed to grab the radio signal from all available stations, up to 40, and triangulate location with eLoran. It's a nice to have as backup to GPS however I'm
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by adatavizguy 7y ago
In the next 10 years, there will be a major change in education which will resemble Alfred North Whitehead's the Rhythm of Education.[0] This will not happen independent of John Dewey's philosophy of pragmatism, learning by doing,
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by adatavizguy 7y ago
If you use the ad manager, try setting the demographic to people interested in a specific ski magazine, not in 'skiing' as a hobby. Notice how the number of potential audience reach is equal to the number of people who liked &#x27
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by adatavizguy 7y ago
It is nice to be able to throw up a nice interactive data viz app in a day on Reddit that can handle millions of POST requests with minimal effort.
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by adatavizguy 7y ago
As someone who has web apps in production written in backbone.js, Angular, and React, I can say selectors with Reselect to transform all the data being passed into props, Sagas to manage all async workflows, and Ramda with Redux reducers is
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by adatavizguy 7y ago
I wonder if your computer is more valuable in 1983 running the first version of Lotus 123 compared to 36 years earlier in 1947 or more valuable now compared to 1983 with everything it can do? Not sure how to quantify that but it might be si

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