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by 3rd3 12y ago
Yes it is.
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Yet, they always had small inconsistencies and no one really cared in the end (except for an oversensitive minority).
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by 3rd3 12y ago
I cannot imagine a scenario that any of the points of criticism mentioned pose a real problem. UX problems arise when things are ugly, when they get in your way, when they surprise you more than they should or when they limit the accessibil
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by 3rd3 12y ago
> There are still many rough edges in the new OS ... I hate to say it, but that blog post is mostly bike shedding. Do people really care that the toolbar icons aren't perfectly aligned, that the folder icons lack a little contrast
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by 3rd3 12y ago
http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.3225
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Seth Lloyd: A Turing Test for Free Will [9:15](youtube.com)
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Is there evidence for preconceptual experience? It seems to me that there is no experience without concepts.
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Being able to move a window wherever you click is actually pretty old (the oldest example I know of is the Aqua brushed metal type of windows in OSX 10.3 Panther, I believe). Compact window headers don’t seem new either. For example iTunes
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Same story was submitted 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7808505
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Hopefully there are some of Bret Victor’s "lost" ideas in there: http://worrydream.com/Apple/
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Please note that this is from 2011.
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by 3rd3 12y ago
This interrupts my procrastination.
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Using probability theory for the definition of interesting numbers is a daring thing to do. There is a rather surprising mathematical result (I unfortunately don't remember the context) that contained the number 27/32 (or somethin
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by 3rd3 12y ago
It's just that it's a non-sequitur to say "oh, that looks rather simple and it has a 10 in it, there must be something special about our number system" (which is what you say in your first comment). I implicitly subsumed
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by 3rd3 12y ago
The beginning of the conversation made me crack up. It's almost like a Loriot sketch.
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Rational numbers tend to have easily recognizable patterns in their fractional digits in all bases (at least as long the numbers aren't too big), so it wouldn't imply there is something special about base 10. In fact, you can al
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by 3rd3 12y ago
That appears to be directed at individuals too, or am I missing something?
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by 3rd3 12y ago
I think you are not considering that the range of privacy can be larger than complete isolation.
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by 3rd3 12y ago
I remember a few years ago when I didn’t know MetaFiler, I often left MetaFilter pretty quickly when it showed up in search results because it looks like one of these spammy link aggregator websites. (I had the same initial hurdle with Stac
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Wormholes that may stay open long enough to send a photon through(phys.org)
1 points by 3rd3 12y ago|0 comments
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Is it available world-wide?
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by 3rd3 12y ago
The deleted comments claimed that Elm would not fit into the usual definition of FRP (giving references to Conal Elliot).
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Won’t machines take over most labor making unemployment normality?
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by 3rd3 12y ago
I think I would start working very late (with 35 or even 40).
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Rationally Speaking: A podcast on rationality and skepticism(rationallyspeakingpodcast.org)
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Ask HN: How would you change your life if there was a basic income?
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by 3rd3 12y ago
Not exactly what you are asking for, but the first book mentioned might give you a good overview: Ask HN: Math books like SICP? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7577810
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by 3rd3 12y ago
I think you misunderstood what I said. I only facetiously pointed out that given these projects lack funding one could conclude that there is no super rich person on this planet which cares about extraterrestrial life (e.g. as a hobby).
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by 3rd3 12y ago
On the other hand there might be the possibility of the existence of Kardashev type ≥0 civilizations that skipped our level of intelligence in their evolution and to which basic number theory is so trivial that it’s not worth mentioning, ju
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by 3rd3 12y ago
I cannot understand why these kind of projects lack funding. Is there no super rich person on this planet who is obsessed with the thought of extraterrestrial life?

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