Timpy

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by Timpy 7y ago
Mark Zuckerberg's wealth is measured in billions [0], I think we should measure the fine in billions too. "Facebook agrees to pay .0005b GBP fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal" Looks pretty meaningless from this perspectiv
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CGP Grey did a really nice, concise video on the topic of traffic and he addresses your point in the first 30 seconds. Coordination, not cars, is the problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzzSao6ypE
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> Its users are scientists and engineers; not computer scientists and software engineers, but the real ones That's an unnecessary slight
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I genuinely did love the John Carmack episode. I'm sensing a pattern here.
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That's a fair point. Maybe the technical language isn't very friendly to a wide audience, that hadn't occurred to me. I'm trying to keep a wide perspective, but I might just be fanboying.
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Snowden is really clever with these interviews. Right away in the interview he establishes his concerns about the government, then briefly mentions the government smear campaign against him without hanging on the point too much. He calmly
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> I gather we call them "killer whales" because of a mistranslation of "whale killers". I thought this was a stupid assumption so I set out to prove you wrong. I was wrong [0]. I could use practice humbly admittin
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by Timpy 7y ago
I don't have a Twitter account and I agree that Twitter (and all the other platforms) use misleading tactics to collect data on their users. To play devils advocate though, Twitter genuinely has a problem with troll accounts don'
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Do the owners tend to look healthier for their demographic? I bet keeping a high morale probably contributes to better health outcomes as well, and dogs can be good for high morale.
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The Taiwan Flag Emoji topic got a lot of attention too. I think that's a fair spread. Censorship, Unicode standards, and Blizzard is kind of the expected overlap of interest topics for Hacker News.
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You're absolutely correct that phonetics are really bad in English, but that's not the only metric of sanity in a language. English is pretty simple when you compare it to other languages, even considering our nightmarish spellin
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> And many native speakers think the less of people who struggle with English, even unconsciously. This can affect you even when you're aware of it. I've spent a lot of time with non-native speakers and I've been the non-
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I think we need to refer to the Unix philosophy, each program does one thing well. Make an English to English translation tool. I once had an English student use the word "aubergine". I had never heard the word aubergine before
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Right, that's how I read it the first time, and that's exactly the point I aim to refute. Imagine a sheep that is sneaking out of their enclosure. Either they manage to mate, or the human catches them and deems them too unruly t
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> Natural selection dictates that intelligence, if possessed, will be put to use to further survival and reproduction. I disagree with this. Intelligence will only further survival and reproduction if it helps whatever selective pressur
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Let users contribute idioms, or request idioms for their language and use case... and we've reinvented the StackOverflow wheel
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That's a self selecting group though. All of the Americans I met while travelling and living outside of America seemed disinterested in pop culture too. It's not the "Chinese" part of your observation that's relev
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I don't think availability of documents was at all implied to be the issue. It's more about two actors arguing over semantics, but each actor has a different set of rules to make their case.
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I think fast food is a sort of health crisis in America, but comparing it to things in the category of "smoking" isn't fair. It's not like food, people don't need to smoke every day to stay alive, lack of smoking i
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My first taste of grit was on a skateboard too. I would daydream about landing cool new tricks far outside my skill level. I was young, I didn't really know how to acquire new skills, I just repeatedly made the decision to try again
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What inspired your decision to make the line of sight of other users visible?
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The article only touches on US currency, but it seems that Crane Currency makes paper for currencies all over the world. I couldn't find an explicit statement, but the homepage[0] carousel photos definitely imply they make at least Sw
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If your goal is "increase useful lifespan" the list of of fitness goals is nearly inexhaustible. You're optimizing too early, and your target goal is too abstract. Consider grabbing some more near-term goals (ones that will
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by Timpy 7y ago
This is an interesting update on the state of iris detection, but I don't think "stolen eyeball" is a realistic threat model that you would have to protect yourself against. Sure, detecting the difference between an authenti
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At my first professional programming gig the company I worked for was selling items on Amazon. The listings were big ticket items that had several sellers competing on them. Any seller could change some of the details of the listing, so su
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I ctrl-s or :w every time I take my hands off the keyboard. A friend of mine, considerably younger, was lamenting that their computer crashed while they were working on a 3d model in Maya and they lost an hour's worth of work because
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How many body parts can I replace with my spare-parts-clone until I don't have anything of the original left? We have a Ship of Theseus question about human identity. As interesting as this rabbit hole is, I think the pragmatics of &
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I wish there was a socially acceptable way to negotiate this. I just want the same comfortable silence you get from a massage.
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Sounds like "Apple's business model" to me
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It was my understanding that Hawaii is one of the two best places in the world for ground based telescopes though? I'm not refuting you, just interested in your insights. Wouldn't the light pollution in Spain have a noticeable e

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