infinite8s

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by infinite8s 22d ago
The collapse of Syria was partly due to an extended drought causing famine. A lot of the current xenophobia in Europe is due to the small amount of refugees escaping the effects of this famine and subsequent civil war.
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by infinite8s 2mo ago
And at a meta level, every medium of communication shapes its receiver as well (think about the dumbing down effect of TV vs a book).
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by infinite8s 4mo ago
This is like "Picture Cook: See, Make, Eat": https://www.amazon.com/Picture-Cook-Katie-Shelly/dp/16460416...
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by infinite8s 5mo ago
QRT?
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by infinite8s 5mo ago
>The UK system takes the national insurance contributions of workers but doesn’t invest them in anything on behalf of the individual. So despite decades of payments you technically have nothing at the end and survive on the goodwill of t
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by infinite8s 5mo ago
That's because they know their kids will be set no matter what they do in life.
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by infinite8s 5mo ago
But they might be pushing in the wrong direction.
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by infinite8s 5mo ago
The opposite - the incumbent party is destroying America.
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by infinite8s 6mo ago
Is this like some scale-independent version of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?
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by infinite8s 7mo ago
There are definite costs to this in terms of continued US taxation as an expat, especially if there isn't a tax treaty in place.
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The Housing Crisis as a Land Crisis(progressandpoverty.substack.com)
1 points by infinite8s 7mo ago|1 comments
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by infinite8s 8mo ago
Who's legally responsible once someone's agent decides to SWAT someone else because they got into an argument with that person's agent?
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by infinite8s 8mo ago
Those poor people voted for something for which they were explicitly mislead. The results of Brexit have in no ways made their lives better.
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by infinite8s 11mo ago
Binding people to a shared worldview due to a fear of an unsuccessful afterlife?
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by infinite8s 11mo ago
As someone coming back to C++ after more than a decade away, do you have any recommended resources on C++20 or open source projects you've seen that utilize the language this way?
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by infinite8s 1y ago
Would you have gone to the streets for it?
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by infinite8s 1y ago
He's been talking about doing it since he was inaugurated.
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by infinite8s 1y ago
Don't be so sure of that. Network effects are still subject to tipping points.
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by infinite8s 1y ago
The economic benefits are clear - what social costs are you taking about?
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by infinite8s 1y ago
In what other country does a jail sentence mean you get sent to another country to serve the sentence? (Except maybe the US now with detained immigrants)
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by infinite8s 1y ago
Did you study chemical engineering knowing it's applicability to software engineering? Your observation is interesting because early ideas in object oriented design were likewise inspired by biological robustness in the face of a non-z
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by infinite8s 1y ago
Folk.computer ( https://folk.computer ) is an open source version of DL-like system, and even though the code uses TCL it's pretty easy to reimplement any bits you see in the DynamicLand archives (I've done this). For ex
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by infinite8s 1y ago
I think you and the GP are probably talking about different scale orders of magnitude.
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by infinite8s 1y ago
Hi Don, do you know if this ever happened (I think it's from the 2007 email - but tough to say for sure given above formatting)? > (BTW, Etoys is kind of an OO event-driven Logo (not an accident), and the next version of it has as a
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by infinite8s 1y ago
From a purely humanity-improving perspective this lack of dissemination is quite sad. > No one writes it down because it sort of feels wrong to claim second-hand knowledge of unknown origin as your own, or to even lead people to assume a
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by infinite8s 2y ago
I love histogram sliders! I think they were originally developed by Chris Ahlberg in Ben Shneiderman's group, and were later commercialized in Spotfire (I have yet to see them in any other infoviz system except Panopticon - https:&#x2
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by infinite8s 2y ago
Pushing atoms around by mechanical means only seems plausible if you've never really studied molecular chemistry - see the Drexler/Smalley debate - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexler%E2%80%93Smalley_debate.
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by infinite8s 2y ago
What's the current state of the art in terms of being able to regrow teeth/regenerate alveolar bone?
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by infinite8s 2y ago
This quote is great! Where is it from?
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by infinite8s 2y ago
Do tell - what is the US-paid coronavirus?

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