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by GuiA 8y ago
That's the mind blowing thing about fossils. The chances of one forming are one in millions... but there have been so many living organisms on Earth that finding them turns out to be pretty trivial. One of my most mind blowing memories
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by GuiA 8y ago
How many "quality of life" features does your website have that require some JavaScript that you end up writing as one off functions/endpoints/etc? (various kinds of autocompletion, live search, notifications, messaging,
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by GuiA 8y ago
The expression "outsider artist" is so silly, and very reflective of the culture and mindset that engendered it. As if there were a normative "inside" that "real artists" belong to, and that everything else is
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by GuiA 8y ago
The Chinese Communist Party has been imprisoning, torturing, and murdering journalists, researchers, artists, authors. The Chinese Communist Party is running concentration camps. Yes, it is completely unreasonable to think that there might
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by GuiA 8y ago
They are bored because they routinely ignore cases of domestic abuse, sexual assault and harassment, murder, they have corrupt agreements with the yakuza, and on and on it goes. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2
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by GuiA 8y ago
Also recommended: Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman. A literary exploration of relativity.
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by GuiA 8y ago
As a nerdy programmer and human computer interaction researcher, the fact that we are getting incredibly close to having all of the bits required (multitouch, extremely high pixel density screens, batteries/processors that merely add m
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by GuiA 8y ago
As another commenter pointed out the situation in Germany is not significantly better; I can vouch that France also has many areas of weirdness when it comes to those matters. Companies - specifically their legal teams - are incentivized an
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by GuiA 8y ago
One cements your spot as a “thought leader” (blue verified check, very visible follower/retweet/like count, routinely used as a source by the media), the other not at all.
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by GuiA 8y ago
Reading the comments is indeed fascinating. So many people claiming what a waste of time they now feel it was. Which is interesting, because obviously they didn’t think it was a waste of time when they played it the past few years. Did they
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by GuiA 8y ago
Well, the thing is that most of Japan’s Japanese experts on drugs and crime don’t spend a significant amount of their time interacting with the English speaking world, and there aren’t many people interested in merely translating their work
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by GuiA 8y ago
No refined sugar in the diet certainly plays a big part.
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by GuiA 8y ago
I read this book recently and... yeah. It’s filled with stuff like him bemoaning how “western” chemistry and the periodic table of elements are, and speculating about how “Japanese physics” would be. Oh and that’s not getting into the whole
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by GuiA 8y ago
I completely agree with your sentiment. Sadly given the state of privacy, healthcare, lobbying, etc in the US, it is something I am very worried about.
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by GuiA 8y ago
The future is your insurance company making you wear a smart watch 24/7 if you don’t want to pay a huge premium. I predict it’s going to be a huge quagmire over the next decade or so.
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by GuiA 8y ago
Is perpetuating an international public health crisis for short term financial gain any less myopic or childish?
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by GuiA 8y ago
There is no magic solution to preventing people from being people, but it’s still a good thing to not build systems that allow any entity with an internet connection to find, connect, and share content instantly to anyone and everyone all o
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by GuiA 8y ago
Saying people “get enough value out of Facebook to use it a billion hours a day” is a gross oversimplication. After all, don’t people get enough value out of cigarettes to smoke millions of them every day?
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by GuiA 8y ago
Well, the people who argue that these networks have an overall negative impact have plenty of examples to draw from - ranging from the last US election, to the genocide in Myanmar, the extremely fine ad targeting it enables perpetuating soc
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by GuiA 8y ago
Traditional shopping just gives you one tiny rush - when you buy the item. But with online shopping, you get the rush when you buy the item, and when it appears on your doorstep a couple days later!
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by GuiA 8y ago
> Engineers and physicians will generally employ whatever tool works best as well. That’s a common myth amongst people who fetishize “science”. Boltzmann committed suicide over the pushback on how outlandish his theory of the atom was.
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by GuiA 8y ago
If it’s just the result of societies getting richer, then why doesn’t a rich society like the USA have free higher public education/healthcare like most wealthy countries (that are yet less wealthy than the USA), or why doesn’t the UAE
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by GuiA 8y ago
Don’t you think that we got things like women’s suffrage, paid vacations, democracy, public healthcare, free public education, modern medicine, engineering, etc precisely because idealists can have an impact?
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by GuiA 8y ago
> This isn't going away. This is our society. Yes, this is our society in 2019. But you should have continued the train of thought here. It is our society because we made it that way; and in the process of doing so, other things t
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by GuiA 8y ago
> 7 videos a day at 30-60 minutes each I think you're looking at a very extreme end of the spectrum here. Is this channel a large company focused on pushing out content? Because I have a hard time imagining how an independent crea
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by GuiA 8y ago
> The UX is cool, but some of the UX choices are strange to me. For example, automatically dimming down when you turn the light on (you have to press the button to pause it) vs. the other way around I own one. If the brightness is anyt
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Write games, not engines (2007)(geometrian.com)
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by GuiA 8y ago
Well, it was designed by Hartmut Esslinger of Frog Design, who would design the NeXT cube a few years later.
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by GuiA 8y ago
Not certain, but perhaps: https://www.w3.org/2007/02/japanese-layout/docs/aligned/japa...
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by GuiA 8y ago
It has already started - most flagship phones these days have a litany of specialized coprocessors (for biometrics, neural networks, imaging, etc).

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