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by Zanni 7y ago
Crimes committed when he was ages 17-20, according to the article. He was only a minor for the first year.
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by Zanni 7y ago
We are getting new form factors, they're just so radical you don't recognize them: laptop->tablet/phone, phone->watch, desktop->VR headset, home assistant. None of them are perfect substitutes yet, which is why the o
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by Zanni 7y ago
I think you mean "as distinctive as it does," but yeah, you're bang on. Ditto for the Prius.
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by Zanni 7y ago
Multiple locations was my first assumption. In fact, multiple locations, some of which had closed since the peak.
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by Zanni 8y ago
Struggling with the limitations of the parser was one of the recurring frustrations with Infocom games. "GET LAMP" is fine, but anything more complex quickly becomes challenging. I remember getting stuck in "The Lurking Horro
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by Zanni 8y ago
Indeed. I missed "hanrd" on my first read through, but "Vaires" and the stray "?" jumped out at me. The original slide is much more readable, and "Flight condition is significantly outside of test database
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by Zanni 8y ago
There's at least one company doing this. Not sure how successful they are. [0] [0] https://www.earplay.com/
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by Zanni 8y ago
Most current IF authoring tools allow you to create web-playable versions. The SpringThing Festival of Interactive Fiction [0] is running right now, and of the 20 entries, all but 2 are playable without a download. And Choice of Games has b
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by Zanni 8y ago
Save humanity from an extinction level event. Think asteroid impact or global nuclear war rather than climate change. Musk has been pretty explicit about his intention to make humanity a multi-planetary species. [0] [0] https://w
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by Zanni 8y ago
I had this exact problem in my gas-powered rental car recently, driving between Vegas and LA. The gas stations along the 15 were hectic, and I was planning to turn off onto a more scenic route which, I imagined, would have low-key, low-traf
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by Zanni 8y ago
You've got some stray punctuation that breaks your link. Fixed link for the lazy: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=duneroadrunner
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by Zanni 8y ago
It's real. I was at Microsoft from 1986-1991, working on Windows (2 and 3). We heard frequent stories of this C#, exactly as described, but never got our hands on it.
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by Zanni 8y ago
If you drop the self-sufficiency requirement, then cruise-ships--which are now the size of small cities--fit the bill.
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by Zanni 8y ago
This is how timeshares are sold. The testament to their success is that they offer much more than $5, typically show tickets or hotel stays.
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by Zanni 8y ago
Sorry, forgot my audience. :) STEM folks tend not to be slackers (in their subject). Caplan also mentions this is where most of the measurable learning takes place. And there are non-slackers, to greater or lesser degree, in every class. Bu
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by Zanni 8y ago
That's a side effect of Caplan's main objection, that a college degree has become a credential, used for signaling, and not indicating any real merit or learning. Once students recognize that (and they have), they put in the bare
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by Zanni 8y ago
If you want to make the argument that two-spacing is legit for monospaced fonts in text editors, great. I'll buy it. But to claim that because HTML and LaTex exist that source and presentation are orthogonal concerns flies in the face
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by Zanni 8y ago
If I'm reading this right, the Apple Watch was actually more accurate in detecting arterial fibrilation episodes than the ECG patch they used for initial confirmation. The Apple Watch identified 2,000 people. The patch confirmed 33% of
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by Zanni 8y ago
It really doesn't though. Facebook paid for WhatsApp because it was worth more to them than money. Their resources and influence have increased .
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by Zanni 8y ago
What are you going to put in the space above it? You don't want to put the driver or passengers there, they need the protection of the crumple zone. And anything else impedes the view of the driver.
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by Zanni 8y ago
Not disagreeing with your larger points, but the Model S is a hatchback, though it doesn't have that image.
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by Zanni 8y ago
While the findings on discrimination based on holding meritocracy as a value are interesting, the premise of the article--that meritocracy is wrong--is itself wrong. Or at least, it's arguing against a strawman version of meritocracy i
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by Zanni 8y ago
Fascinating. There's a sentence I picked up from a friend in childhood, "Although the Moon is only an eighth the size of the Earth, it is much farther away," which seems to be similar, but not quite a CI, if I'm reading
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by Zanni 8y ago
Okay, this may be off-topic, but I think the specific problem mentioned in the article would be much more easily solved by Queensland University of Technology providing context for the gift--which is already expected email etiquette. No nee
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by Zanni 8y ago
I expected to feel that way when I got my Tesla, but it's turned out to be the opposite. I switch back and forth between a Model S and an Audi TTS, and whenever I get in the Audi, the engine rumble feels primitive, like a spinning hard
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by Zanni 8y ago
I think you need to reread 1984. Telescreens were used to spy on the populace. That's more than potential indicated by overly broad language in a privacy policy. No one's made the case that Grammerly is spying, hence "p
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by Zanni 8y ago
Ugh. He makes some good points, but the framing is incendiary. "Summary of the Grammarly privacy policy, and why you might want to be cautious" would be better.
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by Zanni 8y ago
Yeah, this is closing the gap in a significant way. It's still not "charge on the way to work" fast, but it wouldn't be a painful delay on the way home. More important, it's an improvement . I still switch back and
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by Zanni 8y ago
I think there is a delight that happens, at the edge of understanding, from trying to fill in the gaps and succeeding. You read (or hear) a sentence you don't quite comprehend, but you get the gist and the remained becomes very evoca
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by Zanni 8y ago
My first thought, on reading the source of the data, is that the article was probably prompted by a press release from Zumper. I don't know this, but if reporting a record high gets them press for their app, they'll certainly be

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