OvidNaso

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   by OvidNaso 13y ago

   I like how a few people have 'forked' your application on PenFlip. Would be lovely if someone made a few modifications and got accepted. Really like PenFlip btw. Keep up the good work.
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   by OvidNaso 13y ago

   I do wonder, in the early days of Chrome, how many people downloaded Firefox, did their first search with the default search engine, then downloaded Chrome.
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   by OvidNaso 13y ago

   But Mrs. Bezos mentions his use of all those thinking verbs he ascribes to Jeff. I was reminded yesterday of writing advice by Chuck Paluchink (thanks Reddit) to never use these "thought" verbs and instead to show. This is even mo
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   by OvidNaso 13y ago

   This was posted yesterday on Reddit in writing tips. It's advice from Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club) to never use 'thinking' verbs wrt your characters. It's for fiction, but I think it is every better applied for
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   by OvidNaso 13y ago

   Well, we've already had glimpses of this, with varying degrees of disruptions. CGI generated still pictures don't seem to have any real success except in some very niche communities. Video games are certainly successful with it al
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   by OvidNaso 13y ago

   You'd be setting up a straw man that presumably you don't want with this caveat. There is already some evidence that sexual orientation is not fully genetic in all cases. The real position, that I take, is who cares if it's g
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   by OvidNaso 13y ago

   *To put it differently: are you better off dead or with the NSA? To put some perspective on terrorism. A 9/11 size event would have to occur every 6 weeks to approach the causality rate from automobile accidents.
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   by OvidNaso 13y ago

   This is way out of my league and maybe not relevant at all, but the Demoscene has forever changed how much I think about what can be accomplished with tiny amount of code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
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   by OvidNaso 13y ago

   As the article states, it is a holdover term from a time they were Read only.
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    And claiming that a well respected long term reliable researcher is crazy or suddenly a paranoid schizophrenic after sharing a few preliminary findings, is indeed extraordinary.
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    Not one of those reasons, except the last, has anything to do with a vast majority of the revelations about what the NSA is doing that has people up in arms. And the only legitimate argument about protecting against terrorism, people are st
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    And this is, somewhat ironically, very bad news for Mr. Kurzweil.
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    You're using a lot of strong language concerning the morality of user action on service revenue, while ignoring your apparent apathy toward the financial benefit of your advertisers. This seems to happen quite often. When the service i
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    What are your feelings about this? What would your 30 year old self have thought?
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    Using an older phone, Firefox is unusably slow and Chrome is not even available.
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    Now if only we could install hardware upgrades...
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    Naturally occurring means nothing. Opiates are naturally occurring too.
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    Almost every human is capable of speech. We have a built in interpreter that can recognize and produce an infinite amount of understandable sentences. By your logic. Everyone who can speak is Shakespeare.
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    This is a really great idea. Just some feedback: The product photos, on my screen, look pretty low quality. I imagine this is because they are being scaled to the size of the browser. It also makes it a little hard to use as the photo takes
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    This also happens in the drug trade. But I don't think we can attribute it to finance domain knowledge.
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    We also know that they waited until he entered some keys on his laptop before they seized him. The likelihood it was these keys is probably low, but still should be considered.
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution.
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    Which makes his youtube analogy more apropos.
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    Don't forget weaving.
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    I recently stumbled on Chasys Draw Artist. It's pretty amazing coming from one person. Many more features over Paint.net, yet startup time is about the same as compared to Gimp. http://www.jpchacha.com/chasysdraw/i
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    This is about informational efficiency, very different from the physical efficiency he is talking about.
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    For desktop, there is Stylish. Write your own CSS. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    If the D-Wave is actually using quantum annealing for it's algorithms, how is it playing "fake it till we make it" simply by not having optimized its output to be currently faster than classical systems? I think it's pre
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    This has actually been pretty standard thinking in addiction medicine for a long time. 12 step programs were developed by thinking as addiction as a 'spiritual' affection. Many AA'isms reflect this: "I don't have a
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    by OvidNaso 13y ago

    I don't know the answer, but don't forget that Schneier got his initial fame from writing Applied Cryptography.