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by Phemist 9y ago
Also, if you're like me and you use Firefox & block 3rd party resources by default, the AMP page will show a blank screen for about 5 seconds, whereas the conventional link will load the text instantly.
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by Phemist 9y ago
AMP-usage is pretty contested in these regions, and using an AMP link can be seen as a political statement in favour using AMP. I would avoid it if possible.
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by Phemist 9y ago
Should this be changed to the non-AMP link? https://www.reddit.com/r/litecoin/comments/7kzw6q/litecoin_p...
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by Phemist 9y ago
"code" is the name of the intent extra. See: https://twitter.com/fs0c131y/status/930127615389851648 and: https://twitter.com/fs0c131y/status/930128095503441920
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by Phemist 9y ago
The "secret" password seems to be "angela". OnePlus == DarkArmy confirmed?
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by Phemist 9y ago
Interesting point! All I have to bring in is that if computational complexity is of no interest to inhabitants of a simulation, very strong assumptions about the nature of the simulating universe still need to be made? This, I think, means
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by Phemist 9y ago
Scott Aaronson wrote a great paper arguing around what you mentioned[1]. He tackles the issue of why a waterfall does not simulate a universe if we transform the waterfall in an appropriate way. He argues that the waterfall would indeed sim
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by Phemist 9y ago
Ofcourse, but textbooks are super-broad in scope. I don't think just referencing "Kandel, 5th edition" would be of much help and I don't have these books on hand to actually point you to the right page/section of th
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by Phemist 9y ago
So in response to the grandparent, 1-3 ms is way too short, but it kinda of depends on the definition of "react" in this instance. The delay from a photon hitting the retina to triggering neurons in the superior colliculus to spik
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by Phemist 9y ago
One of the issues is this type of neuroscience is becoming too "basic", so it's what gets taught in classes as the truth and professors don't necessarily give references anymore. Also I was typing on my mobile phone, but
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by Phemist 9y ago
The optic nerve is directly connected to the superior colliculus, which directly controls saccades and is sensitive to novel (bright) visual stimuli. If such a stimulus hits the the periphery just outside the fovea the time from stimulus on
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by Phemist 9y ago
Fingerprints are not private though, so they fail your very first criterium of passwords. Fingerprints are also not arbitrary[1], it is possible to combine two (or more) fingerprints resulting in a new "fingerprint" in its own rig
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by Phemist 9y ago
This article grabbed my attention the last time it was posted. The original research is severely flawed - see my post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14645120 I was a bit late to the party last time, but hopefully some
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by Phemist 9y ago
Considering Firefox is open-source, is patching in a backdoor to the EME implementation a feasible way of handling the DRM situation? I don't see many reasons why I would not want to be running client-side intentionally backdoored EME?
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by Phemist 9y ago
>> I guess some kind of biometric authentication/confirmation will take place as soon as a user will tolerate that. Hopefully our concept of authentication doesn't slip down the slope so far that we start allowing biometric
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by Phemist 9y ago
One of my thoughts as well. Also _hallucinations_ by Oliver Sacks.
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by Phemist 9y ago
To clarify a bit further as I can no longer edit my post: The points about the methodology stand, and I don't believe one should update ones beliefs in either way based on this paper. The "killer" finding is not necessarily a
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by Phemist 9y ago
They tested power-off vs power-on. No results on face-up vs face-down, but they probably didn't record it.
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by Phemist 9y ago
The control group were smart phone users and high smart phone dependence was in fact positively correlated with performance on the cognitive tests, on the condition that the smart phone was not on the desk in front of them. However, I would
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by Phemist 9y ago
I am quite skeptical of the results of this paper. The claims are very strong, but the paper was published in "Journal of the Association for Consumer Research". I would AT LEAST expect it to be published in a journal related to c
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by Phemist 9y ago
Not a magician, just a background in cognitive psychology. One way of manipulating these probabilities is by presenting specific cards ever so slightly longer while "ruffling" (not sure if this is the proper word, where you sequen
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by Phemist 10y ago
Interesting! Thanks, great answers (both this post and your response to its sibling post)
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by Phemist 10y ago
I'm a total layman to this stuff, but from my understanding isn't thinking about temperature in terms of linear scales (Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin) fairly misleading for understanding how hard it is to "hit" absolute ze
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by Phemist 10y ago
I think a good idea might be to do it for postfix/prefix notation, rather than infix. This will also get rid of the need for parentheses.
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by Phemist 10y ago
Permutation City's ending is actually quite uplifting. Has a very Star Trek-like "To boldly go where no man has gone before" feel to it. On the other hand, I wouldn't blame you for not wanting to finish Diaspora. Althoug
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by Phemist 10y ago
>> On a related note, I also find it incredible how people can make a living out of these kind of businesses and sleep well at night... What we do is legal, therefore it is not unethical; if it were unethical, it would be illegal.
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by Phemist 10y ago
What I can distill is that a simulating universe may be computationally stronger than the simulated universe, and not computationally equivalent. However, given Church-Turing theorem (ie, the simulatung universe does not need to be in a hig
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by Phemist 10y ago
This is the German Tank problem applied to simulated universes. What is the maximum likelihood state space of the simulating universe, given that the simulated universe has a state space of X?
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by Phemist 10y ago
Not having read the article at all, so going purely on the title and GP's quote, the question seems to me to be whether bad decisions are always irrational and whether this was an experiment that successfully induced bad decisions (whi
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by Phemist 10y ago
I'd also like to call attention to Belgian men finishing a respectable second place for men (although Belgian women don't feature in their respective top 10). I would argue this supports my Port of Rotterdam and cost-effectiveness

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