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by GuiA 8y ago
The core computing needs of the vast majority of people has not changed in the past 10-15 years or so (perhaps even more). Text processing, image/video editing, web browsing, spreadsheets, presentations, etc are all fundamentally the s
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by GuiA 8y ago
Victor Hugo did a great job at reviving interest for the cathedral with his book. If it hadn’t been for him, it is entirely possible it would have been destroyed instead of restored in the mid 1800s, and you wouldn’t care much about it :)
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Venture capital firms are investing in astrology apps(nytimes.com)
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There’s no room for “obvious points to restate” in science. Only hypotheses that can be tested through experimentation.
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If you care about an artist, buy things from them. Records, tee shirts, posters, concert tickets, etc. Streaming revenue is essentially a rounding error.
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It raises the question of how much runaway success is due to pure luck, rather than repeatable execution.
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Vinyls, film cameras, typewriters, camper vans, and other objects which have been superseded by the ever turning wheels of progress have known notable regains of interest lately. I wouldn’t be surprised if Urban Outfitters started selling v
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A Room for Understanding(uxdesign.cc)
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by GuiA 8y ago
The problems you outline do not need AI to exist; see Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc for those phenomenons at play in the wild. And so the answer to your questions are clear: there are people who, for a paycheck big enough, a title fancy e
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by GuiA 8y ago
> Shares of companies associated with Fan plunged by 10 percent, the maximum daily limit on the Chinese stock market. ?! How does that even work?
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An attempt of mine from many years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559904 It’s a hard space to define and navigate, as the comments indicate.
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Ironically, an increasing number of parties has been having dollar signs in their eyes as of late, trying to get some of Steam's pie. It's entirely possible that this fate will befall the PC gaming industry at some point.
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by GuiA 8y ago
It absolutely does. Many European cities are in a Christmas Market frenzy for the most of December.
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Being able to allocate a few thousands dollars a year out of a budget for splurging is "way far out of the norm" on HN? On a message board that frequently discusses 6 figures salaries, Tesla cars, etc, I find that a bit hard to be
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by GuiA 8y ago
They are “migrant workers and students from rural areas”. They are willing to live in such abysmal conditions for a few years because it holds the promise of a strong quality of life improvement after that.
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Plum and peach trees are also common in Japan, and Japanese people frequently mistake them for cherry trees. A handy guide: https://m.imgur.com/a/zSpjPk0
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Business class is absolutely worth paying for. It’s certainly not for the luxurious appeal of it, but if you’re going to splurge on one thing, air travel is not a bad one to pick. I travel between the US, Europe, and Asia a couple times a y
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by GuiA 8y ago
Yes, and if an academic in an interview brought up boyfriend theft as a concern, it would be as ridiculous as this statement is. Don’t worry about the phenomenon itself, which is 2 entities acting legally and of their own volition. Worry ab
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by GuiA 8y ago
Publicly funded educational institutions can compete by reassigning some of their budget dedicated to sports and administrative roles to their researchers, for starters. For instance, the public US university I attended for grad school has
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by GuiA 8y ago
“Stealing”, in the USA in 2019, is a statutory offense punishable by law. Making a job offer to an academic that they accept isn’t a statutory offense punishable by law, and therefore is not stealing, no matter how much you play with semant
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by GuiA 8y ago
It is unclear if they are lacking technical expertise, but they are certainly being significantly more lax than one would want a regulatory body to be. https://www.npr.org/2019/04/04/709431845/faa-is-not-
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by GuiA 8y ago
It is because you experienced these things during your formative years that they have such a unique luster, and that nothing seems to quite compare. People who are in their formative years today will look back upon the current times with si
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by GuiA 8y ago
How do the ingredients get to the restaurant for preparation?
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by GuiA 8y ago
git stash actually changes what's on the filesystem though (i.e. you cannot randomly open up something that is stashed in an arbitrary text editor).
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by GuiA 8y ago
There is nothing fundamentally different between AI and “traditional algorithms” when it comes to ethical considerations. Sure, the current crop of AI systems perform unbelievably well on tasks that “traditional algorithms” suck at, but it
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The article describes the concept of a loop invariant and gives examples for a few algorithms, but unless I am missing something, it is not giving you any way to computationally verify those invariants? (I guess I am a bit surprised by the
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by GuiA 8y ago
I have been casually following a few general advice kind of subreddits for a long time (/r/relationships, /r/relationship_advice, /r/parenting, /r/TwoXChromosomes, etc), and there's definitely be
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by GuiA 8y ago
This question could be posed better, but it does deserve an answer. "Meat" does not have a precise biological meaning; its meaning is largely cultural. Some people distinguish "red meat" and "white meat"; other
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by GuiA 8y ago
The core insight, in my eyes at least, of the Dynamicland project is that a projector + a camera is more interesting for deploying computation in a manner that permeates the physical world than screens. Weiser’s vision [0] could not see bey
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by GuiA 8y ago
His books are considered seminal. His seminars are, in my personal experience, a light introduction to his work for the high points, and him spending 20 minutes showing us his twitter timeline for the low points. I’d recommend buying the bo

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