cecilpl
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Comment · 4 years ago
Why should I use this instead of appwrite or firebase?
Comment · 4 years ago
I wish I had discovered Marcus Aurelius years ago. I would have had a much different life.
"Meditations" has definitely changed my life. I have learned to be more patient and to not let the small things bother me. I have also learned to be more mindful and to live in the present. And also how to effectively rule a global empire.
Comment · 4 years ago
uBlock is starting to become a one-stop shop unicorn!
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm surprised that it's only MacMillan and List for organocatalysis. There's plenty of others that come to mind, like Jacobsen.
Regarding MacMillan, his student used proline (which opened the whole proline organocatalysis area) and he said he had "no idea why she did that experiment". He definitely guides his students well.
Comment · 5 years ago
I can't help myself but to write that Chef Kinopio is a yellow Toad who works at the restaurant in Overlook Tower in Paper Mario: The Origami King. :D
Comment · 5 years ago
To be honest this is one of the more real proposals I've seen for an Interstellar probe, and there are still many problems to be worked out as both the paper and the comments here point out.
I admire the optimism in the paper though, even if its misplaced. Maybe pooling together resources in the scientific and engineering communities to develop an interstellar probe system could give a working result, but there are some significant hurdles to overcome first. It would be a big project, taking many years to see fruition, but at the same time it could also be a game-changing development and a hugely inspiring feat.
Could we see probes in other star systems by 2075? I think its not an unreasonable suggestion.
Comment · 5 years ago
Today’s new motels are often branded as “boutiques” and charge four-star rates to match that kind of exclusive service and local experience.
This is ridiculous... The idea of a "motel" is to be cheap. I'm not too fond of this article. It wasn't well written. Nothing great about it. Some chain hotels purchasing old motels and rebrand them. Whatever.
Comment · 5 years ago
I love this:
David Spade (Kuzco): It was me and Owen Wilson. We were going to switch jobs. I was an emperor and he was a peasant, and Carla Gugino was a princess. The first time I did my voice, I was naïvely saying, “What do you want? This kind of guy? A deep voice? Or an emperor like, ‘Ooh,’ a highfalutin guy?” And they said, “No, just your nasally, normal, annoying, sarcastic voice.”
Comment · 5 years ago
I've used a bunch of these tools in the past as part of tools like Wordstream and Opteo. While basic, they seemed to work well enough. What would make me use our service which doesn't have the other ad management tools built into it just to do simple ab testing?
Comment · 5 years ago
The subject of the antitrust suits filed against Facebook came up in a Facebook comment thread for me yesterday.
Some guy piped up and stated, essentially, that "Zuckerberg is too rich and too big and nothing will happen.". He evidently had never heard of Standard Oil or Ma Bell.
Comment · 6 years ago
Every time Facebook is buying something I feel sad and imagine Facebook like the black plague that will swallow that normal organism.