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2 years ago
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on: Epicurus for Our Time
If one is already temperamentally inclined to the "serenity to accept the things [one] cannot change, Courage to change the things [one] can, and Wisdom to know the difference", then they may not need Stoicism.
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4 years ago
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on: On YouTube’s recommendation system
> I don't know quite why they keep recommending videos I've watched recently
You probably don't have kids.
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4 years ago
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on: “I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)
Snow Leopard was the best version for me. I used it for months only restarting to install updates and there was no impact on the performance or stability.
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5 years ago
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on: Notion for everyone
Good news.
But I've been using Roam [1] for a couple months and I don't know if I can live without "biderectional links" and "unliked references" anymore.
[1] https://roamresearch.com/
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8 years ago
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on: Operation Serenata de Amor – An AI project to analyze public spending in Brazil
I would start with "The causes of corruption" by Daniel Treisman. It isn't specific to Latin America, though.
In summary, Treisman will show that many factors appear to have an influence on whether a country is more or less corrupt. The colonial past of Latin American countries helps to explain part of it, but it doesn't appear to be a causa sine qua non.
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8 years ago
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on: Operation Serenata de Amor – An AI project to analyze public spending in Brazil
> countries where corruption is endemic and part of the culture almost always started out as "extraction colonies".
This is an overly simplified, albeit correct, way to explain it.
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8 years ago
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on: Operation Serenata de Amor – An AI project to analyze public spending in Brazil
Sorry, but there is no comparison.
None of them were elected by saying: "Vote Reagan (or Trump). It can't get worse than this".
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8 years ago
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on: A.I. And Big Data Could Power a New War on Poverty?
I fail to see how wealth inequality is a problem worse than poverty. I also fail to see why we can't try to fix both poverty and inequality at the same time.
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8 years ago
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on: Estonia is planning to launch Estcoin
"World" is neither a political nor an economic union.
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8 years ago
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on: Bacteria on the outside of the International Space Station
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8 years ago
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on: Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter Within Its Headquarters
Do you have a real world example of a politician that was elected recently without support of the rich?
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9 years ago
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on: The mystery of why some people hate raw tomatoes
tl;dr We don't know yet.
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9 years ago
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on: Understanding the economic significance of the light bulb
Innovation during the Space Race was driven by the competition between USSR and USA.
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9 years ago
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on: Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
I've seen a few complains that could be classified as customer feedback. They all came from people that actually bought the product but disliked one or two things.
Comments like: "Apple is doomed", "Touchbar is useless/gimmick", "Nobody wanted a thinner MacBook" are not costumer feedback.
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9 years ago
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on: Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
If you think their products are fancy crap, would it make a difference if they suddenly decided to sell them for half the price?
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9 years ago
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on: Comparing Elixir and Go
Agreed. It is apples to oranges but the article does an excellent job showing when/why to use each one. I believe the conclusion was spot on and IMO combining the stability of Elixir/BEAM with the performance of Go is the best of both worlds.
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9 years ago
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on: I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
The only issue I have with it is the alignment.
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9 years ago
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on: Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
I really hope that better "Unix with good UI" laptops will exist in the future. Right now, I'd rather buy a 2015 MBP than any of those "Dev Edition" machines.
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9 years ago
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on: Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
Yeah, people seem to be calling the 2016 models tbMBP and ntbMBP.
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9 years ago
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on: Pebble's next step
I'm really thinking about returning mine. I just don't know what I would get instead since the competition is either crap or crazy expensive.
