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Smuggling of silkworm eggs into the Byzantine Empire(en.wikipedia.org)
166 points by monkeybutton 3y ago|90 comments
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Oh, the invisible hand is definitely there. Though, it's just slipping into your back pocket and lifting your wallet.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
For anyone interested: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Corporations that pay employees below subsistence levels are indirectly bailed out by food stamps programs. I wouldn't depend on them for moral anything.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
From an organizational standpoint its better because it lets a sysadmin/security person sandbox anything and everything instead of having to become proficient with the tooling for every different language (which may not even exist).
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
I think the key to being happy as an introvert is not depending on the approval and adoration of others for your accomplishments. If you do, you're going to be bitter and toxic over not getting it when you feel you should.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Perhaps it's the combination of AI being so overhyped in the general public plus media that's already inundated with CGI, that it just doesn't blow them away?
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Best one I've encountered is: "Customers whose accounts are up for renewal, are the ones most at risk of churning"
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
They're basically following this process to build their products: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
If you need big data, the thing you are looking for is small and the effect size of what you are optimizing will also be small.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Just reading certain code is enough to taint a human programmer though. Some companies have policies against hiring developers with experience on some OSS projects because they have their own clean room implementation they want to protect.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Just need to reword it a bit, "This Disney character doesn't exist" can also be "This is not a Disney character (because it doesn't exist)". Sums up the assertion being made well too. Not a Disney character. Ex
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
An interesting exercise would be recreating an entire program/tool that is GPL using copilot and releasing under a less restrictive license. Could one could argue that the effort put into cobbling together a knock-off is enough to cons
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
I used it a long time ago in a program that read large structured text files. What was 100s of MB of text in memory became a fraction in size after interning the tokens.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
>We have evidence suggesting that cannabis use, primarily THC in cannabis, in genetically predisposed or at-risk populations, leads to earlier diagnosis of psychosis/schizophrenia. This tells us that THC in cannabis has a small caus
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
This is it. Even with keeping photos and music on a micro SD card, the internal storage for the OS and apps is often woefully undersized.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
>Customers don't even want to download more apps, let alone pay money for them. I'm at the point where each OS update means another app gets purged from my phone.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
The best datascience projects are ones that started collecting good data 3 months ago. The hardest thing I've had to do is convince engineers to involve DS people in the design phase of their work. Initially they just don't see us
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
All the confluence hate speaks to my soul. It's where ideas go to die. If you want to start a successful internal project and someone tells you to start documenting your ideas there, you might as well just move on to something else. Wh
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
People have elderly parents too.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Everything turning into an edit action when I just want to click a link or copy a bit of text is super annoying! Also is thinking you're in a text field, typing out something and realizing you've done a whole bunch of random actio
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
I find it really interesting that one of the consequences is increased obesity in offspring. It's basically evolution passing on the message from one generation to the next: "Pack on those extra calories when you can kid, you&#x27
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
DNA methylation! I first read about it from this study in 2014: https://reporter.mcgill.ca/dna-signature-found-in-ice-storm-...
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Is the ice-cream barge a recent revelation or am I just attuned to seeing references to it? I only learned about it recently and since then it's popped up multiple times.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Given the amount of modern day graffiti carved into benches and tables in parks and scratched onto bus windows, probably not that angry?
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Water, air, chicken, dirt, star stuff. Seriously though, by mass, aren't plants by mostly carbon that was separated from CO2?
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
You're only going to see the salty and bullish takes, the truly neutral have nothing to say about it.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
How well did that go with how anti-adult industry the banking industry is?
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Came here to say this. I feel like text autosummarization has been commoditized by now.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Methinks you are replying to the wrong comment? But for the fun of it, the large three letter mainframe company made an effort to rewrite their COBOL compiler's backend to use the same JIT compiler they have for Java (check slides 5 an

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