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   by 3rd3 13y ago

   Why does it have to be a slow process? That sounds like a cheat workaround for the difficulties of defining "self" and "consciousness".
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   by 3rd3 13y ago

   Instead of paying people for typesetting new forms and letters you could instead pay people to typeset these in a digital format. Of course it would be smart to use less ink in case someone wants to print these. That's what I meant.
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   by 3rd3 13y ago

   Sounds like a good idea! While we're on it we could also focus on modernizing the overall bureaucracy by moving most services online. Edit: Removed "Instead of", clarity
4. 424.▲
   by 3rd3 13y ago

   Placebo effect?
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   by 3rd3 13y ago

   I wonder how brainstorming in a collaborative text editor compares to real-life group brainstorming. In my experience using an EtherPad for brainstorming can be very fruitful because there is an element of both synchronous and asynchronous
6. 426.▲
   by 3rd3 13y ago

   I think there is a wiki article explaining this by pressure and heat both activating cells on the retina.
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   by 3rd3 13y ago

   Is there an indicator that shows that an item tree is in pending comments mode?
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   by 3rd3 13y ago

   I wished they would show notebooks like these early in school: "Look, this is the pinnacle of human thought and it's full of corrected mistakes, scribbles, attempts and mnemonics".
9. 429.▲
   by 3rd3 13y ago

   I am curious what you think is so bad about SE? Are there people that contribute only for Internet points and prevent healthy communities from developing by doing so?
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    by 3rd3 13y ago

    My only complaint is that the verb 'to endorse' might be a little bit too strong. A button that says 'appropriate' might be better, because it's more clear then what exactly the intended criteria for an endorsement
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    by 3rd3 13y ago

    Maybe the verb 'to endorse' is a little bit too strong then. How about a button that literally says 'not stupid or mean' or 'appropriate', so that one doesn't have to indentify with that action as much.
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    by 3rd3 13y ago

    So as soon WolframAlpha has strong AI which can interpret and simulate the scene (maybe in 10-200 years?).
13. 433.▲
    by 3rd3 13y ago

    What would be the advantage of such tactic?
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    by 3rd3 13y ago

    I’ve found the explanation in SICP the most helpful one. It took several weeks until I could think in the basics of this language sufficiently fluently. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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    by 3rd3 13y ago

    Traitor
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    by 3rd3 13y ago

    Neutral
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    by 3rd3 13y ago

    Hero
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    Edward Snowden at TED(youtube.com)

    15 points by 3rd3 13y ago|0 comments
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    Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet (35 min.)(ted.com)

    8 points by 3rd3 13y ago|1 comments
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    by 3rd3 13y ago

    I wouldn’t mind if this was just version 27.1.
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    Ask HN: Isn’t it time for graphics in terminals?

    2 points by 3rd3 13y ago|1 comments
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    by 3rd3 13y ago

    Three years ago I had to pay about 1000 € in Germany for downloading a music album (I don’t remember which it was, but it certainly wasn’t worth as much). AFAIK there are laws on their way to restrict batch warnings.
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    by 3rd3 13y ago

    Your workstation is no longer defined by the physical space it resides in, so it can go with you wherever you want, such as on the train, in your self-driving car, etc. I was referring to this sentence. The input device will proba
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    by 3rd3 13y ago

    I wonder how big of a role artificial light at night plays in this problem. My experience tells me that the later I have to get up the longer I stay awake at night. At the moment I am experimenting with blue light blocking sun glasses that
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    by 3rd3 13y ago

    I didn’t read it all, but you don’t seem to mention keyboards which we still have to align our bodies to. Voice input is distracting to your immediate environment, gestures are non-optimal because of the lack of tactile feedback.
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    by 3rd3 13y ago

    There was an intersting comment related to that on reddit AskScience today: http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/204xxh/is_it_jus...
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    List of unexplained sounds(en.wikipedia.org)

    1 points by 3rd3 13y ago|0 comments
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    by 3rd3 13y ago

    You don’t acutally know what Spritz’ research exactly looked like. Maybe they tested thouthands of configurations (custom fonts, hypthenation, color coding of clauses etc.) to find that the optimal one is still rather simple (single words,
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    by 3rd3 13y ago

    Thanks, this crashed my browser!
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    by 3rd3 13y ago

    I’d be curious to see evolutionary or machine learning algorithms playing this.