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by _Adam 12y ago
Is anyone else having issues with the site? I'm using Chrome, and some of the text blocks are truncated on the left side.
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by _Adam 12y ago
This was obviously fake because measuring blood pressure isn't something you can do via the ear canal in a non-intrusive way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_pressure#Measurement Kind of sad that even a single
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by _Adam 12y ago
That depends how you define happiness. For some people, simply pursuing their dream makes them the happiest. It may be painful, miserable, and ultimately end in failure, but for a certain set of people that's the only way they can live
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by _Adam 12y ago
"No Exit makes it very clear that the life of a startup founder is a miserable one, and that engineers are invariably happier when they’re working for a big company." Any book that tries to tell me how I'm supposed to be happ
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Great story, but there's one part of it that bothers me. I really don't like how it portrays humanity as a race where only a tiny percentage have the ability to innovate. All humans have this ability! Not all may use it, but we al
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by _Adam 13y ago
I don't remember the source, read this over six years ago, but there was a case where a women born with stereo blindness just suddenly regained depth perception.
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by _Adam 13y ago
I can imagine someone proposing this at some meeting with managers. "For our next product, we're going to use FUCKING SHELL SCRIPTS for configuration and deployment". What would the managers' faces look like... I wonder
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by _Adam 13y ago
Wolfram Language has much more functionality than what existed in Mathematica, so it remains to be seen if it will have applicability outside of toy problems. So, it isn't fair to judge it solely on the merits of Mathematica. Also, soc
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by _Adam 13y ago
I don't think it's laziness. That can be part of it, but I believe the core issue is a specific mentality these type of people have. They see the world in a black and white. "Us" and "them". Their view of the w
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by _Adam 13y ago
What I find actually amazing isn't your ignorance, your misunderstanding of Objectivism, Libertarianism, and Silk Road denizens. Nor do I find amazing your inability to separate the individual from the collective. No, what I find actua
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by _Adam 13y ago
I wonder if they want to use their experience with the "curse" as proof of their intelligence? I'm sure anyone here could find some example of it. But I can think of way better things to do than talk about being smart on HN.
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by _Adam 13y ago
You're probably trying to think about it in spatial terms. But it's impossible to understand a 4D object with 3D spatial reasoning. I would say ALL humans are too "dumb" to grasp this concept. Of course the math is fairl
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by _Adam 13y ago
This is an interesting study, but I'd like to see it with four control groups: Exercise + mental stimulation, Exercise with no mental stimulation, no exercise + no stimulation, and no exercise + stimulation.
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by _Adam 13y ago
That remains to be determined; with sufficient control transmission is less likely to occur. From: http://ragoninstitute.org/hivcontrollers/patients/about/ Studies have also shown that people with higher v
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by _Adam 13y ago
While our market may not be as free as I would like it to be, the lack of USB cable selection is separate from the issue of market freedom. I like the cable you're describing. If you start selling them, I might buy one. You might know
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by _Adam 13y ago
How to build a good robot, you mean. If you want to be a robot, you need a lot of practice. Walking that way is surprisingly hard.
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by _Adam 13y ago
Of course - freeing humans from their jobs reduces their economic power. But that's expected. Remember that humans aren't entitled to economic power by default. We need to earn it. If a machine has more economic power than a human
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'Nanosponge vaccine' fights MRSA toxins(phys.org)
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by _Adam 13y ago
If anyone is interested in the actual technical details, check out the docs here: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ There's a 37.7MB zip and the USB PD specification (328 pages) is packaged within. In order
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by _Adam 13y ago
You call it "eliminating jobs", I call it "freeing up humans from doing pointless work" The point of life isn't employment. There are so many incredible problems to solve in this universe. Humans are very smart and
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by _Adam 13y ago
You may not gain anything correcting your sixth grade teacher, but by not correcting her, something can be lost. A world where teachers can spout bullshit without any opposition is not one I want to live in. And given we only have one world
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by _Adam 13y ago
Sad to hear, this was one of my favorite places in Akihabara. They have really good selection in tools and parts, I got some mini-XLR connectors and inductors. The first few guys I asked didn't have them, but they pointed me to the sta
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by _Adam 13y ago
Google is blocked. How do they get anything done?
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by _Adam 13y ago
I've seen some explanations that make it seem like subjective recognition of a quantum system in superposition is what caused it to decohere. The word "observed" doesn't imply interaction (to the lay-person, at least), s
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by _Adam 13y ago
How do you define 'white collar'? To me, it's any job that can be done at a computer.
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by _Adam 13y ago
I believe these positions are a percentage of all white collar positions, and that this percentage hasn't changed much in the last few years. Technologically, there's been no major advance that makes working from home any better t
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by _Adam 13y ago
Interesting. My understanding is that office space is a function of the number of white collar workers in the economy. I expect this number to increase slowly over time. But perhaps we're approaching a point where a sort of equilibrium
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by _Adam 13y ago
It's certainly possible that one day we'll have desktop genome-printers. Any technology can (and often is) abused, and that would be no exception. Hopefully, there will be a Kaspserky for this era. A "Gene Kaspersky", if
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by _Adam 13y ago
But as I said, they are ultimately bound by the laws of nature. Evolution can only happen so quickly; they can only evolve their genome so much in a given period of time. What you're suggesting is they'll evolve to look like human
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by _Adam 13y ago
>I suspect bacteria can, and will, evolve around almost any mitigating technique we develop. That's a baseless suspicion. Bacteria are ultimately bound by physical laws, and while they've proven resilient, there's no reaso

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