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Re:Stop Telling Kids They’ll Die from Climate Change (2021)
on Friday June 16, 2023 @09:52AM (#36356587)
The current IPCC report is readable and pretty comprehensive: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...
Re:Experience: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)
on Friday August 20, 2021 @07:06AM (#28244740)
Spending two weeks in a hotel room with all the amenities you can imagine (Contact to your beloved ones, television, internet access) is in no way comparable to solitary confinement, especially given the short time and the fact that you know when it will end. The gp comment is incredibly tone deaf.
Re:In 2019, there were only 13 PhDs in CS granted to African Americans...
on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @08:26PM (#23483826)
Groundbreaking idea there. Why has noone ever before thought of just giving everybody the same opportunities?
Re:A pessimistic vision of India’s looming environmental and economic ...
on Sunday February 04, 2018 @08:03AM (#16302582)
You could consider going to Laos, the air is definitely better here
Re:'No longer kill animals': Bill Gates, Richard Branson back 'clean m...
on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @05:10AM (#15123043)
What do you mean by victim culture in this context?
Re:Infosys accused of racism
on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @08:35AM (#14603156)
This still has nothing to do with the point they were making, that black people in the U.S. are still disadvantaged due to historical reasons.
Re:Infosys accused of racism
on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @08:01AM (#14602931)
I think it's pretty clear they were talking about the U.S., which IS a white majority country where white people DO have an advantage
Re:A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system
on Thursday May 11, 2017 @10:04AM (#14316054)
More like strangers taking pictures of you without your consent (and often knowledge) with the intent to increase their profits and not sharing any of that with you.
Re:Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips
on Friday March 10, 2017 @02:18PM (#13841212)
Maybe the Heaviside step function would be fitting :-)
Re:Pakistan airline admits taking extra passengers in aisle
on Saturday February 25, 2017 @10:19AM (#13731898)
In 1991, Israel evacuated 14325 Ethiopian Jews in 36 hours using 35 aircraft, with up to 1122 passengers on a plane [1]. It's such an impressive feat, those must have been some of the best pilots, to be able to fly such an overcrowded plane (even though they stripped the seats from the planes it was probably still overloaded)
Re:Writing an Interpreter in Go: The Paperback Edition
on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @06:05PM (#13710109)
That is what is well-done in the Haskell book imho, the combination of someone just learning everything and an experienced programmer
Re:Lyft surges to the top 10 on App Store following the “DeleteUber” c...
on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:33AM (#13528774)
They did not say that blacks don't kill blacks, just that the reason for those killings is not the victim's skin color.
Re:Make America Hate Again
on Monday January 30, 2017 @08:53AM (#13521128)
They are not simply banning new foreigners from entering the country (which alone would be bad enough, imho), but also many green card holders who were legal residents and now face an uncertain future.
Also, does "In addition, the United States should not admit those [...] who would oppress Americans of any race, gender, or sexual orientation" apply to everyone? That would mean bad news for Mike Pence, among others
Re:Rust sucks because
on Monday January 23, 2017 @11:48AM (#13463506)
I thought the same, e.g. this:
> There's actually a special Haskell search engine to search for anything related to Haskell, because of the funky syntax not playing nice with Google.
Hoogle is so extremely convenient, it's a big plus imho
Re:Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine
on Friday January 20, 2017 @04:16PM (#13447041)
I think LFE is at least not unheard of, but anyway, that's not really the point here probably ;)
Re:Dragons' Den winner has £100,000 funding withdrawn
on Monday January 09, 2017 @07:30AM (#13355841)
I think what it means that they got the idea for the tracker after losing the laptop, they didn't lose it after securing their funding
Re:Ask HN: What are your favourite computer programming quotes
on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @08:47AM (#13219675)
A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?
Re:FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps
on Friday September 02, 2016 @12:53PM (#12414400)
Chlorophyll does actually help against bad breath, since it absorbs gases. You can still buy dragees in pharmacies
Re:Ask HN: Transpiling a dynamically typed language to a statically ty...
on Saturday June 11, 2016 @01:30PM (#11884343)
Ok.
Re:The Lost Sign Language of Sawmill Workers
on Thursday June 02, 2016 @07:51AM (#11821757)
Maybe if you think about the local environment (rainforest) as the medium in which the population is dispersed, like colloids :-)