I've seen the #avangers infinity wars twice now, but I still don't get #Thanos plan. Maybe someone who read the comics could help?
I understand he wants to kill half of the population in each planet, but:
* Are the lifeforms going to be like half of each species by individual, by the kilo..?
* Or will it be half of the total life, so it wouldn't matter how much of each species is present?
* Is he considering viruses a form of life?
* Will be half of each age, for example half of kids, half of adults, half of old people..?
* Will it be randomized in terms of location? For example, half every x square meters?
So many questions...
Who woulda thought #weed grows like a weed... This plant in particular is on absolute roids - here's just 3 weeks!
A Sound Card Before Its Time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17779741
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Show HN: git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17782121
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How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2017)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17781475
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@freemo 👍 add another user to your accounts base 🇺🇸✌️
For all the new users comign to QOTO from twitter I just wanted to let you know we have an option front end you can use that looks and feels exactly like the twitter front end. Just go to https://halcyon.qoto.org once there use the following format for your login name (remove the spaces): @ username @ qoto.org
Poland was shockingly liberal during the 1400s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17781330
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The https://qoto.org mastodon instance I run has had to increase server size twice this month to keep up with all the new users! A good problem to have really. We have enough funding to support server costs for a few years too!
A reply to @joel_olbrich on the “QWERTY” effect. Apologies to Joel.I don’t know (yet) how to make replies public. BEGINS
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English language keyboards have a letter-layout begining QWERTY... apparently because this order facilitated the mechanical operation of early typewriters. There was no linguistic logic in the design: there seem to be several layouts that would be easier to learn and faster to use. But the early manufacturers standardised, by default, on the QWERTY layout and it became universal. No typewriter having a different layout would sell because users had accommodated to the idiosyncrasy of QWERTY. The “QWERTY Effect” is, by analogy, any structure, however idiosyncratic, that has been entrenched by use. But, on reflection, the “Twitter effect” is not due so much to its QWERTY-ness but to the natural monopoly effect of network scale economies. First movers in many network spaces (railways, airlines, telephone networks, Twitter) who secure large scale quickly can often block new entrants simply because the scale of investments needed to compete against the reach of their established network is too large for new entrants (who have no customers, at first) to justify. #longwinded
Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17779816
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There are a million reasons why fat shaming is terrible, these are just a few. The same reasoning as for the plastic problem: blaming consumers, while producers really play the biggest role:
* Why our food is making us fat: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jun/11/why-our-food-is-making-us-fat
* The Behind-The-Scenes Marketing Tricks That Make Food Irresistible: https://foodbabe.com/the-behind-the-scenes-marketing-tricks/
* Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away From Bad Diets: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/coca-cola-funds-scientists-who-shift-blame-for-obesity-away-from-bad-diets/
* Food firms could face litigation over neuromarketing to hijack brains: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/25/food-firms-may-face-litigation-over-neuromarketing-to-hijack-brains
#fatshaming #obesity #obesophobia
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
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