Chimamanda has no time for white men on racism
14 de Novembro de 2016, 13:30
“I am sorry, but if you are a white man, you don’t get to define what racism is.”
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Why go vegan?
14 de Novembro de 2016, 12:47
I became vegetarian in April 1989 whilst on a trip to Koblenz in Germany. My coach party had no clue what meat we were eating one evening in the hotel restaurant and a rumour passed around the tables that it was possibly “horse”. I was sickened and later gave my reaction great thought. I wondered why I would be so grossed out at the thought of horse, but not cows, pigs, sheep and chickens. Surely all animal life is equally sacred? I stopped consuming flesh overnight and never once hankered after it.
My journey into veganism took a lot longer and I had a stop-start approach over many years as I was hooked on the taste and convenience of dairy. I always purchased plant milk instead of cow’s milk with the weekly shopping yet I would consume any type of cheese, free range eggs and products containing them. As someone…
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#EleiçõesEUA2016: dividir uma América dividida – O Insurgente
14 de Novembro de 2016, 12:45
Com a eleição de Donald Trump para a presidência dos EUA, reanimaram os esforços de secessão na Califórnia e Oregon. O mesmo tinha acontecido no Texas durante o governo de Barack Obama. Em qualquer…
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Start up: SoC wars, more Brexit PC price hikes, USB smuggling, Pixel reviewed, and more
14 de Novembro de 2016, 7:50
Can we blame Facebook for this? Makes sense to some folk. Photo by outtacontext on Flickr.
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A selection of 12 links for you. Trajectorified! I’m charlesarthur on Twitter. Observations and links welcome.
How the SoC [system on a chip] is displacing the CPU • Medium
Pushkar Ranade:
»The present decade represents a period of strategic inflection in the evolution of the semiconductor industry — the next five years are likely to see a confluence of several technology and market forces which will collectively have a profound impact on the course of the industry. These trajectories are discussed below.
…Trajectory #2: A Central Role for the GPU
Usage models of the tablet and the smartphone indicate that the GPU is the most heavily used block within SoCs…
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