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Why isn't my child as clever as me? (2013)(theguardian.com)
33 points by Sandman 10y ago|16 comments
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The Longform Guide to the Brain(longform.org)
4 points by Sandman 10y ago|1 comments
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First mammal species wiped out by human-induced climate change(theguardian.com)
4 points by Sandman 10y ago|0 comments
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TensorFlow – An Open Source Software Library for Machine Intelligence(tensorflow.org)
3 points by Sandman 10y ago|0 comments
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Portugal runs entirely on renewable energy for four consecutive days(independent.co.uk)
4 points by Sandman 10y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 10y ago
> So Zuse's achievement is solely having physically built the first working computer, while Babbage's machine was never realized. And the fact that Z3 was based on binary, while the analytical engine wasn't.
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Is the universe expanding faster than the speed of light?(curious.astro.cornell.edu)
4 points by Sandman 10y ago|0 comments
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Hystrix: Latency and Fault Tolerance for Distributed Systems(github.com)
4 points by Sandman 11y ago|0 comments
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The 'for sale' sign is up at Yahoo(businessinsider.com)
4 points by Sandman 11y ago|0 comments
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A Radical Reinterpretation of Einstein’s Theory(pbs.org)
2 points by Sandman 11y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 11y ago
To anybody interested in everyday lives of people in ancient Rome, I can recommend this three-part documentary by professor Beard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Romans_with_Mary_Bear...
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Can Civil Comments Kill the Internet Troll?(techcrunch.com)
2 points by Sandman 11y ago|0 comments
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Artificial intelligence program ConceptNet matches 4-year-old child in IQ test(arxiv.org)
3 points by Sandman 11y ago|0 comments
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In Some Cultures People with Schizophrenia Like the Voices They Hear(braindecoder.com)
71 points by Sandman 11y ago|34 comments
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by Sandman 11y ago
I'm sorry, I still have trouble understanding why you did what you did? What was the reason?
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Federal Government Suffers Massive Hacking Attack(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by Sandman 11y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 11y ago
As a long-time HN user I completely agree with you, but it's worth mentioning that pg specifically stated that it's perfectly fine to use downvotes for disagreement (if I find the comment where he said that I'll edit my post
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A Glimpse Inside the Secretive World of Human Cannonballs(io9.com)
1 points by Sandman 11y ago|0 comments
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Breakthrough Propulsion Physics(hplusmagazine.com)
1 points by Sandman 11y ago|0 comments
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One year later, the homeless coder is still living on the streets(mashable.com)
13 points by Sandman 12y ago|1 comments
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by Sandman 12y ago
I don't know. By this logic ("Who's to say what is art and what is not art?") even my pictures of stick figures can be considered art. Except that no, sorry, they're not art, and I'm not an artist. Roy Lichtens
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by Sandman 12y ago
Cute, but this actually was an article. And Magritte's pipe wasn't really a pipe. I get the reference, but it kind of misses the point of what Magritte was trying to say with that painting.
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What it's like to be a 65-year startup CEO in Valley's youth-loving culture(businessinsider.com)
4 points by Sandman 12y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 12y ago
What hurts people the most is VAT (Value-added tax), and Croatia has one of the highest VATs of all the EU countries [1]. The US doesn't have a VAT, but it does have a sales tax, which is pretty low compared to VAT in most European cou
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by Sandman 12y ago
Well, there's this crazy concept called "saving money" where you don't borrow from a bank but rather put some money aside every month to be able to afford something expensive Yeah. Unfortunately this only works if you
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Robot jazz band showcases its freestyling skills(newscientist.com)
6 points by Sandman 12y ago|2 comments
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by Sandman 12y ago
Based on what you just said, the simulation "argument" is no argument at all. The three propositions cover all possible cases. How can you argue against that? What would be the counter-argument?
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by Sandman 12y ago
Hmm.. I don't think there's a difference. In two out of three cases, one of the remaining two doors contains a car. If the host opens the one that does, ok, bummer, you lost. But if not, there's a good chance that the other d
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by Sandman 12y ago
Ok. What do you propose, how should we pay for digital content?
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MIT students predict Mars One colonists will suffocate in 68 days(geek.com)
1 points by Sandman 12y ago|0 comments

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