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by Joof 11y ago
I had this thought years ago. A smartcard coupled with a biometric seems easier to use and more secure. Even just a card. You can only have one per person (as opposed to passwords that can have infinite copies and are likely to be unknowing
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by Joof 11y ago
Emphasizing socialization is one of the big tools of highly-ranked education systems. Students benefit from explaining it to others by forcing them to clarify and solidify their own mental models; the other kids understand their peers more
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by Joof 11y ago
I'm sure iPads can be useful, but you know what's more useful? Good teachers.
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by Joof 11y ago
As much as I want to say yes (I would be horribly excited to work with Clojure) it seems to be something of questionable value to a non-engineer. Depending on the application there is probably a productivity advantage and you're certai
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by Joof 11y ago
Why the fuck are we patenting things that are effectively art (games) or design ideas?
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by Joof 11y ago
Maybe, but that unfairly biases towards writing types of code that scales when that isn't always the case. Lots of work doesn't scale in the same manner and still needs to get done. Plus the company owns those workers you made now
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by Joof 11y ago
They often have different personalities. Also: Marketing has a measurable outcome. Lawyers work like slaves (very well paid ones) and have a measurable outcome. Politicians do a lot of marketing / fundraising. Programmers don't al
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by Joof 11y ago
Open source development might be arguable with Darwin (although I think IBM still has earlier major investments), but open source philosophy is certainly not the case.
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by Joof 11y ago
It was indeed a joke
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by Joof 11y ago
I'm assuming that Satya's strategy is targeting Microsoft platforms only. Satya's strategy encourages platform lock-in (which is good for Microsoft), but at this point Microsoft needs to encourage consumers to buy the thing t
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by Joof 11y ago
As stupid as it is at least it makes sense now. Our political system has certain reached similar levels of insanity as well. They might have even been correct in their thinking in the past.
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by Joof 11y ago
Oh god, the lawn. I'll never understand the lawn thing. Space to hangout outside is good, a garden or landscape is a cool hobby, but a lawn is a time/money sink that doesn't look that great, is a poor use of water and I'
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by Joof 11y ago
Firstly, your typical shared space (dorm, apartment) is designed to be cheap and you probably hear your neighbors through the walls. This isn't a requirement. Secondly (this is more a theory), having a roomie is often just too informal
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by Joof 11y ago
Secretly most of the sales of macs and profits of iOS are from developers.
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by Joof 11y ago
Bring up communes in America and everyone assumes you are crazy or in a cult. It's not like I just think it would be optimal to share a kitchen or bulk meals and maybe actually talk to my neighbors. Living in tiny isolated groups is th
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by Joof 11y ago
I was up too late and grumpy, but the peer review process (while necessary) does prevent good papers from being published in a reasonable time frame. And acceptance is closer to random than you might expect. Here's a review of the NIPs
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by Joof 11y ago
It's cool; we can let a small, overworked group of people who may or may not actually be very knowledgeable in that subject peer review it first. Might as well keep the data private forever too because reproducing the work might show s
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by Joof 11y ago
What research do the Japanese do with whales? Actually curious.
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by Joof 11y ago
Flip 1000 pennies and calculate the results enough times and you'll get a gausian curve. Some results will consistantly flip heads the majority of the time. It's harder to model with VC's because they are measured in rewards
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by Joof 11y ago
Given that he gets tax credits, it feels more like he's rich enough to single-handedly decide how to spend a decent chunk of the government's money (not that they can spend it effectively, but normally thousands of people work to
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by Joof 11y ago
Basically you're saying it needs to be a realistic option for it to be an option. Yeah, pretty much. I think the knowledge from college is pretty useful and I enjoy having it. I also think the format sucks and it's really expensiv
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by Joof 11y ago
Okay we're going to sit down and talk about the interface for this. Tinder is a dating app, we judge quickly based on pictures and meet people solo. It's awkward but physical attraction is largely the criteria we judge love intere
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by Joof 11y ago
I wonder if such a jump is actually bad for people. Many would allow lifestyle bloat and have difficulty going back down to market value when they transfer jobs.
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by Joof 11y ago
Microgravity is like alcohol; it effects so many systems in your body that it's really difficult to pin down exactly what is causing problems where. I imagine this question won't be seriously answered until we have an artificial g
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by Joof 11y ago
Without knowing physics, maybe we should find a good simulator, change the speed of light constant and see how the interactions change. Alternatively, see if different equations scale differently based on the speed of light.
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by Joof 11y ago
To a degree. Vaccines and autism have some different qualities. One, there doesn't appear to be any link between vaccines and autism and two, if there was a link it's closer to the "do we kill 5 people or 1 person" ethic
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by Joof 11y ago
I'd like to give this some thought actually. For now here's an observation. Situations which produces large amounts of "externalities" seem to produce this strange scenario where we fight against potential nightmare scen
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by Joof 11y ago
>Citation needed. Like, really. I'm of two minds about this. This is an excellent piece of writing and is extremely persuasive and accomplishes all of it's intended goals. This is very effective writing and may change someone&#
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by Joof 11y ago
Give accreditation for MOOCs. Many are well designed (more so than community college and often regular college) and provide a far more social experience than showing up to class and not asking questions (which is the case 99% of the time).
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by Joof 11y ago
As an aside; I've been playing with rust and it's built-in documentation solution has an interesting quality to it. Code snippets in documentation are compiled and can be tested at compile time. It's one excellent way to ensu

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