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by V-2 7y ago
Korchnoi was still in the top 100 at the age of 76. Of course "easily" is a vast exaggeration.
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by V-2 7y ago
No salary in the offer is a red flag in my book
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by V-2 7y ago
"COBOL was also enormously complex, even for today’s languages" Is that true? What was the complexity about? I've never done COBOL, but I was always under impression that it was quite straightforward in its infamous clunkin
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by V-2 7y ago
You may be correct, but your point could have done without the "you've been brainwashed" slap in the face - rather unbecoming of HN imho
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by V-2 7y ago
It reminded me of Tokarczuk's (the recent prize winner in literature) Nobel lecture. She elaborated on the weather-related butterfly effect in history. See https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2018&#x2
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by V-2 7y ago
My hypothesis: it wasn't really the structure of faces etc. that looked weird to you. You were just baffled in general by the weirdness of watching such an old footage, and "blaming" this on what people looked like was a way
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by V-2 7y ago
It doesn't really appear that jerky after being slowed down. My taste apparently differs from people's in the past, since I'd rather have it that way than sped up...
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by V-2 7y ago
Well, quite a large share of job posts is from the US, so it has a significant impact on usability in practice
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by V-2 7y ago
It certainly will be, once the ocean is boiled = as soon as self-driving cars begin to comprise a significant percentage of cars on the road. This, in the long run, is a selling point that seems to be missing from most discussions in this c
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by V-2 7y ago
Humans (doctors) aren't perfect at medical diagnosis either, so any improvement over human performance is still a net gain, even if it's still below 100% accuracy.
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by V-2 7y ago
Or by training it against a flawed version of the algorithm that tends to overlook best defence like a human would. This was what made the romantic style possible in the first place: humans perform worse under pressure, so they tend to crac
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by V-2 7y ago
As a matter of fact, AlphaZero already plays more aggressively than typically expected of chess engines. Eg. in a well-known game it beated Stockfish (the strongest traditional chess engine), brilliantly sacrificing 3 pawns for a non-obviou
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by V-2 7y ago
And then - as one of the possible explanations behind the correlation - they speculate that "optimistic people might be more motivated to try to maintain good health — such as maintaining a decent diet, engaging in regular exercise an
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by V-2 7y ago
We kind of do the same thing, only in the form of prefixes (podać, wydać, zdać, zadać, oddać, poddać, nadać, przydać etc. and on and on it goes). Ultimately it boils down to the same thing - little syllabic bits altering the meaning of the
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by V-2 7y ago
I don't mean literally 100% of width. But this website - on my 24" monitor - uses merely 35%; 900 out of 2560px. You (should) know you've gone over the top when the margins end up taking twice as much space as the actual cont
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by V-2 7y ago
Sticky headers aren't necessarily full-width, or overlapping the content, which invalidates most if not all of the criticism. Eg. see the sticky headers in the mobile Google Calendar app (on Android at least). Even in this very article
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by V-2 7y ago
Maybe. Another interesting paradox about it, as one of my former instructors once pointed out, that it's actually harder to submit a white belt than to submit a blue belt :) The former one may be more clueless, but offers 100% ferociou
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by V-2 7y ago
It depends on the game. Eg. I'm fairly advanced in Brazilian jiu-jitsu (~10 years of practice, brown belt). The typical approach that I also follow is that when I want to practice some technique I'm not well familiar with, I try i
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by V-2 7y ago
> People die weeky in most hospitals because doctors and nurses don't wash their hands. And hospitals and doctors alike do get sued for medical errors and negligence - especially lethal ones. "But I saved 99 other lives"
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by V-2 7y ago
If it's indeed so hard to find a good Uber driver, you'd expect them to be driven out of the market by customers themselves. And if they compensate for that by eg. lower price, then how is it different from any other market. You w
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by V-2 7y ago
I imagine that future society will develop some system of "truth certification"; networks distributing "seals of approval / authenticity". It may become a very different world psychologically - just like the medieva
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by V-2 7y ago
"I saw it with my own eyes" is inherently more convincing than "someone told me [in writing] how it is". It will be naturally harder for humans to reject false recordings as deceitful.
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by V-2 7y ago
I rebind it to backspace, as in the Colemak layout. This works pretty great, especially since eg. ctrl + backspace (I don't know about Macs, does cmd + backspace work?) deletes the entire last word. Without remapping the capslock you n
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by V-2 7y ago
> Dictatorships rely solely on force. Not necessarily. Some dictatorships do enjoy genuine support. (Obviously they make it easier for themselves it by controlling the media etc.) > There’s not nearly enough police in the US to que
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by V-2 7y ago
While it certainly differs from country to country, FDA allows a discrepancy of 20%. That's significant. There have been studies that showed the labels to be off by 25%. And even if the numbers were accurate, they're still rule-of
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by V-2 7y ago
> One of Ubers biggest problems is that they have zero brand loyalty. It may not warrant as much customer loyalty as - say - Apple, but "zero" is simply untrue. To give a most ovious example, in a foreign country/city I&
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by V-2 7y ago
Much easier in a world where consumers stop trying to find the cheapest product they can.
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by V-2 7y ago
Pascal! My favorite language
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by V-2 7y ago
That comment didn't exactly add much value to discussion, given that this exact (and fairly obvious) example is prominently featured in the article, under a headline "Historical precedent". > If you can see how people mig
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by V-2 7y ago
Judgment: your way of communication is harmful and leads to conflicts. Observation: you tend to state facts along with an opinion about them. Exaggeration: your way of communication is violent. Observation: you're sometimes too eager t

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