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Imagine if during the height of the Greek golden age most of the largest cities were razed to the ground and their populations systematically exterminated. That means Athens as we knew it would have been reduced to rubble.

That's what happened during the Mongol Conquests. The fall of Baghdad alone caused at least several hundred thousand people to be killed. The main library, which had collected countless works over the centuries, was gone.

Baghdad was rebuilt, of course. Economically and politically it bounced back since it was still right on the silk road. But scientific study never really recovered there.

The Arab golden age was very important.

I am also unclear what you mean by "especially". Are you saying that there was actually more scientific output in Arabic before 1400 years ago?

In addition to that, OP said they got less equity because they were "remote".

You're probably right that for those of us in developed, western nations data collection isn't quite as bad as some other issues (for now).

I do think that in the rest of the world this sort of data collection has severe human rights consequences. What happens when oppressive regimes are willing to sign a contract with any of the dozens of adtech companies out there?

Imagine one working with some authoritarian government to help them track people considered some a "risk". It might be a criminal risk at the beginning, but it could easily turn into people using this data to track and spy members of the opposition party. Or even just to track people who have voiced dissent or the people who've only _talked_ to those people.

It goes beyond pure politics, too. What if some entity is trying to crack down on members of a particular religion, sexual orientation, or ethnic group. People who might have been able to hide those well enough may not be able to do so if so much of their online activity is being monitored.

Yeah, it's neat how roots mostly just bring in phosphates, nitrates, and water. Incidentally, carnivorous plants only get their phosphates and nitrates from whatever they trap. All of the actual carbon in all plants come from the air or from dissolved CO2 in the water.

I bought some houseplants a bit back and it's been fascinating to see how quickly they grow. The vast majority of that new mass literally comes from thin air.

Remember that that's just the interface they present to you. It's entirely possible that they simply haven't put much effort here and no one's worked on improving those models.

However, what they present to advertiser could be completely different, since that's where the money is.

Yep, the saying is generally that if you don't pay for something, you're the product.

But I've noticed that more and more, even when you do pay for something there's a good chance your data will still get sold.

Exactly, small increments of money like that can mean all the difference. It can be enough to stop worrying about paying the power bill, to buy enough healthy food for dinner, or to save up more easily to get the car fixed.

Agreed, and I've seen this elsewhere too. There's always this implicit assumption that people who don't have kids will naturally spend that extra time at work.

Work/life balance is important for everyone.

Interesting, I went through the exact opposite. I think I like the "tuh" pronunciation better because "too" sounds too much like "two". That can confuse people since tupples could be any size.

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It's obvious that it affects your brain while you have depression. However, I don't think it's obvious that the effects would be permanent.

Seems like OpenAge is just a clone of the engine, not a full standalone game like 0ad.

No one uses that definition anymore.

If you're a fully remote team it'd probably be wise to figure out some fallbacks.

This makes sense for plants and cold-blooded animals, which rely on light/heat respectively in order to function well.

This doesn't explain the huge number of nocturnal animals that sleep during the day and are active at night.

Yes, cetacean evolution is one of the most well-studied areas, with decades of research behind it.

This particular finding seems to be about early baleen whales, back when they still had teeth (not just baleen). Seems like early baleen wales had very sharp teeth that were likely used for cutting, not for some sort of early type of filtration.

You might be interested in the actual paper: http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/13/8/20170348

Many plants do have defensive measures to ward off herbivores. For example, when grass is damaged it releases numerous chemical signals into the air. This is what causes the freshly-mown lawn smell: http://mentalfloss.com/article/30573/what-causes-fresh-cut-g...

These defensive measures have a huge range. Some might only increase healing, others might attract life higher up in the food chain to attack the herbivores, and still others might be able to actively damage the herbivore.

My point is that eating plants may be less passive than we think. All of life has had billions of years to evolve, so the interactions can be pretty sophisticated all around.

Just because they can stretch that much doesn't mean they're comfortable.

I think the article is talking about the entire bear population eating 40k each day.

Pretty sure the "hash" is just some encoded debugging data and logs.

On top of that, maybe only send requests when a user hits enter or submits the form. Could ease up the load a bit.

As of right now I am unable to get anything to happen.

It's entirely possible to be on the same team as someone and not need to know the details of what they are working on.

Dene-Yeniseian is a bit smaller but much more widely accepted proposed family. Pretty neat to see evidence of a link going back to the ice age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den%C3%A9%E2%80%93Yeniseian_la...

Slippery slopes have happened before.

You can hide a loop behind a function call in Go, Python, really any imperative language.

What makes map different is that it separates the looping mechanics (incrementing, initializing and appending to the collection) from the actual computation we want to perform on each element. It's just separation of concerns.

map doesn't do any magic behind the scenes, it goes through a sequence exactly once.

Can you given an example where map might increase algorithmic complexity like that where the imperative version would not?

Maps are explicit transformations of data. For some, making the business logic explicit is simpler.

Gitlab's team is worldwide. YP seems to be someone in EU time, which right now is UTC+1.

That would mean that the incident happened around 11pm or midnight in YP's local time.