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aziaziazi

2,143karma·1,302submissions·September 25, 2016
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Ex cabinet maker, web developper, bicycle mechanist.

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Naive question: what’s the benefit here to scan downward (from the satellite position) over upward, from the ground?
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May you point them out? Not English native and I’ll be glad to improvise my writing.
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OP mixed the "central bank" as an unique one (it doesn’t exists, although MFI could be representative for the west) and the multiple national ones (FED for the US). They arguments doesn’t ho…
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> It honestly seems like it benefits Google more than it hurts them. It directly hurts advertisers, but not enough that it would stop anyone from advertising. GP fights agains ads , not Google . …
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> chicken livers are usually cheaper per amount of protein than most other kinds of meat Any idea why? My layman guess is it’s a non-famous byproduct of chicken muscle, that people tends to consume…
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I’m French and never saw the metal cap but surely it seems perfect for the non aging one. However tradition plays a big role - even if there’s better modern caps. Regarding the pre modern chemical tec…
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Consider also the missed market opportunity: my personal devices are 13yo laptop and 9yo phone. If an app isn’t compatible or makes it lag, I delete it and download a competing one. I’m not alone, and…
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> enough food and water in gaza Here’s what I read on Wikipedia: > The water resources of Palestine are de facto fully controlled by Israel […] The airstrikes led to a 95% reduction of water res…
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Not sure for all cork material but the one for wine bottle are saturated with glue (I’m taking about the « natural » one, not the fake plastic). You can do the experiment at home but there’s many vi…
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That’s a fair point. Even the most essential ends should think of optimizing their means.
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> the company [microsoft] plans to be water positive by 2030 which means that they “put more water into the local basins where we operate than we withdraw” > AWS has the same target, while Goo…
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The articles mention agriculture (farmers in opposition of data center for water usage), it seems fair to consider local food production as an important asset for your children.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20250611214056/https://www.vox.c... …
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This is the current project of Josh Worth, the guy that made "If the moon were only 1 pixel" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7341690 …
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> journalists are interested in stories about journalists > it has no implication on most of the population Journalistic content is still one of my main source of information that most of the po…
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Is any AI assisted coding === Vibe Coding now? Coding with an AI can be whatever one can achieve, however I don’t see how vibe coding would be related to an autocomplete: with an autocomplete you …
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> an optimal mix of nutrients not much: meats lacks A. fibers and B. carbohydrate. Some can argue removing B isn't a bad idea, it certainly is quire restrictive. Removing A. have many short an…
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I had the same question reading your post: > (problem description) your agent […] makes confident assumptions > (solution description) when it’s unsure I read this as a contradiction: in one sen…
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Cool project! Naive question: does mechanical turk uses llm now?
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Hi, thanks for that interesting tool. Totally unrelated question: I love the UI, did you use a public css framework/theme?
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How do you carve solid wood board ? I've done ten's of carving by gluing thin layers in a mold to create carved plywood. Those are extra strong but required to use quite a lot of glue and ge…
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It's fascinating how visceral the reactions are when someone introduce a comparaisons between humans and other animals, that doesn’t start with the conclusion that humans are superiors anyway. Th…
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Neuroelectron comment is provocative. I think he wants to demonstrate the absurdity to let consumer choices resolves value delivered to customers. A bit the same the same as I did in a peer comment, b…
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How do you define customers and good ? Consider someone starts a slavery business that grab easily pickable children to raise them as perfect specialized workers then put the to the free sell/…
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> unionization [...] is not allowed to by our laws. Ok sure but laws can changes, right ? And that previous sentence is itself protected by the law ? I understand your pessimism but that's not…
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I agree, meanwhile sometimes words not only describes thinks but influence those using them.
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Related: Interpol urges to stop using "Pig Butchering": > INTERPOL argues that the term ‘pig butchering’ dehumanizes and shames victims of such frauds, deterring people from coming forwar…
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The cost world you describe didn’t emerge because of fear of god (which has been prevalent for milleniums, mostly everywhere) but the abondance of cheap energy and goods, basically since oil starts ge…
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