Maybe it was just an assumption that I never thought about, but I had always thought STEM to mean the intersection of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. There's already a large overlap between them, so the intersection was also large. So STEAM would not be the addition of all Arts but the intersection of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and the arts. For example, something like the Mona Lisa is not a part of STEAM, but the aesthetic design of a UI would be. In that sense, the arts matter very much. If we ignore the arts, we have ugly and non-intuitive designs, which lead to lower usability.
> And the decentralized video sharing network whose name I can’t remember.
Most decentralized video sharing services I've seen are built on blockchain which this site explicitly denounces in regards to social media. The only federated video sharing alternative I'm aware of is PeerTube: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
Even on desktop. They have a modal pop up when I try to read page 2, requiring me to register. It doesn't even allow me to exit and disables the content behind the modal. Turning off javascript for the site worked, but sheesh.
Interesting. The way I read the article, I got the sense that it was emphasizing exactly that, by highlighting examples of how far the tech has progressed in less than 10 years.
A lot of people use cash to buy giftcards, in order to pay for bitcoin anonymously. So now it's cash -> giftcard -> bitcoin -> giftcard -> physical thing. The future is odd.
Interesting that in the nsf data it shows that during the 2000-2004 time frame the number of CS grads rose and then peaked in 2004, while the number of CS women grads during the same time frame was flat, and then dropped in 2004.
Maybe not many products that end up on your doorstep, but they dominate in supply chain management. It's a very high and expensive barrier for any startup who would want to compete with Amazon.
That's essentially what my bookmarks are. An index of self-curated articles, tutorials, tools, books, etc. of things I'm generally interested in. Before I put something in my bookmarks I do a quick skim and decide if has value, even if it's not relevant right now. So that in the future instead of a Google search, where I'd have to browse through a pile of results to identify the gold nuggets, I can instead search through my bookmarks knowing that whatever pops up is going to be immediately useful because I've already screened for it.
It's a valid question. There have been lots of grants given out for Blockchain applications. I'm curious why this particular one is receiving attention from Hacker News. For example earlier this year DHS awarded 6 separate companies for Blockchain solutions[0], each of which were awarded $100,000. Some of them will probably move on to phase 2 and receive $800,000.
I've used both, and cVim is superior to Vimium in every respect except for one: the scrolling. In cVim when I hold down 'j' to scroll down, it does an initial jerk, and then scrolls down. Doing the same in Vimium, it has a smoother scroll and doesn't have the annoying initial jerk. That one thing has kept me from switching from Vimium to cVim.
I'm fine with words gaining additional definitions due to how they are popular used, but when a word is defined as one thing, and the exact opposite of that same thing, and both definitions can be equally valid within the context of the same sentence, then that's literally the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Hmm I disagree with point number 7 under 10 Rules of Bad Studying
> 7. Neglecting to read the textbook before you start working problems.
I think it's a perfectly valid approach. I found that trying to solve the problems first helped me form questions which I would then seek to answer by reading the text. Of course then I would go back to the problems and try to solve them again. Rinse and repeat until I could solve them with confidence.
There's a lot of controversy regarding the specific contents of the TPP, but for me personally, I am against the cloud of secrecy that it (along with most trade agreements) was developed under. It took WikiLeaks to even let the public know of its existence. And after that they refused to let members of congress (our elected officials) from even reviewing the document except for selected sections, under the watchful eyes of a USTR official. No matter what the pros and cons of the TPP, the people had no say in it, nor did our elected officials; and when we tried to get a say, they refused. That's inherently anti-democratic.
Never heard of that site, but I browsed through the first page of CS videos[0], and all but two courses were just links to Coursera courses. The other two were links to edX.
I don't know the answer to your question, but I can imagine how something can expand if it's infinite. Imagine an infinitelylong rubber band in front of you. Now imagine grabbing it with two hands and pulling them away from each other, causing the rubber band to stretch. If you take a sharpie, and paint dots on a spot representing planets or whatever else, they will pull away from eachother as you stretch the rubber band.
I'm curious what new information was contained in this article that convinced you. I might have missed it, but other than the new promo video, it was the same information on the actual technology that we've already read on magic leap, packaged in a prettier article with a nicer story around it.
Turns out that in many cases, forming a company within the US can be more secretive that forming in British Virgin Islands, Panama or the Bahamas.
> If you form a British Virgin Islands company you have to declare who you are to the person forming the company for you; if you form in Nevada, for example, you don’t… So Nevada is great because it’s much more secret than the British Virgin Islands.
> many times the robbers do realise in their aftermath that they should in fact have killed you
Well I agree that you should get to as safe a location as possible immediately following a robbery, however I really would like to see the post you had in mind. Maybe I have a different percentage in mind when I read the word "many", but I'm highly skeptical that this is a common occurrence amongst robbers. Granted they tend not to be the best critical thinkers, but why would they risk adding homicide to the list of charges should they be caught?
Interesting. I'm using uBlock Origin with pretty much all 3rd party filters enabled, and only have 19 requests blocked. Would you mind sharing what tools you're using?
It would have been nice if this article addressed the negative consequences of these companies skirting labor laws. The only mention of this is here:
"she alleges that these firms exert the kind of control that employers would have over employees — without providing any of the benefits employees, by law, are entitled to."
But it doesn't explain what specific benefits are being withheld from employees, so I don't know what bad thing she is trying to prevent, or the magnitude of the problem, if there really is one.
The app is developed, maintained, and used by a terrorist group where the primary purpose is to showcase terrorist activities and propaganda. There is a world of difference between monitoring citizens on tools primarily used for non-illegal purposes (though sometimes those tools are abused), and monitoring people using a tool with the explicit aim of displaying terrorist activities.