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by agarden 7y ago
He is comparing to the '90s, not 2010. Search was terrible in the '90s.
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by agarden 7y ago
Thibault commented on the post: "Before anyone asks, no, this has nothing to do with the Regium scam." Thibault is the guy behind lichess and the one who wrote the post exposing Regium as a scam. https://lichess.org&#x2
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by agarden 7y ago
Trevor Bauer has been loudly stating that the Astros' pitchers are using foreign substances on the ball to get the tremendous spin rates that they do. McCullers throwing 24 straight curveballs might in fact be suspicious.
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by agarden 7y ago
Interesting. I have very little mental visualization and find ignoring TVs to be extremely difficult. I had thought it was because I grew up in a house that did not have a TV on very often.
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by agarden 7y ago
And I never experience dreams with that kind of visual detail. Occasionally I dream a dream that leaves an impression of being very realistic, but even those don't have any visual details to the point where I could read letters. My wak
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by agarden 7y ago
I cannot do this at all. Wish I could. But have you heard of Bob Milne? He can listen to four different symphonies in his head at the same time: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/14867...
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Nearly All Mass Shooters Since 1966 Have Had Things in Common(vice.com)
5 points by agarden 7y ago|16 comments
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India is trying to build the world's biggest facial recognition system(edition.cnn.com)
2 points by agarden 7y ago|0 comments
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The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor' (2018)(theatlantic.com)
143 points by agarden 7y ago|121 comments
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The 2018 Olympics Cyberattack(wired.com)
89 points by agarden 7y ago|4 comments
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by agarden 7y ago
Federalist #62, section III: "The equality of representation in the Senate is another point, which, being evidently the result of compromise between the opposite pretensions of the large and the small States, does not call for much dis
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by agarden 7y ago
> It doesn't matter how many people live there. Exactly. It gives, and is meant to give, sparsely populated states an equal voice to the more populous states. The GP was talking in terms of red states versus blue states, and I was h
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by agarden 7y ago
You talk as if this were an unforeseen consequence of the way our legislature is set up. It is not. Giving the people who live in sparsely populated areas an equal voice with those who live in densely populated areas is the whole point of
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by agarden 8y ago
The author put two years of work into reporting it. A lot more detail and strong evidence that contrary to what was claimed 12 years ago, Tim Donaghy was throwing games.
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by agarden 8y ago
Ah. There is someone I know who when we talk, just listens and acts very interested, but never really engages with what I am saying or argues his own opinion. I think I understand why now. But while he makes excellent initial impressions, t
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by agarden 8y ago
I don't see any of his examples as Gettier cases. He thought his code caused the autofocus problem; it didn't. He thought someone else's push had broken email, but instead the service happened to go down at the same time. A p
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by agarden 8y ago
Doesn't it matter more if those beliefs are correct?
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The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor' (2018)(theatlantic.com)
2 points by agarden 8y ago|0 comments
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by agarden 8y ago
I bought Sennheiser HD 280 Pro for this reason. Am pretty happy with them so far (which is just a couple weeks). I had a pair of QC25s and while they were nice, they did the worst at blocking out the noise I most wanted to block out.
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by agarden 9y ago
People with phonagnosia are incapable of recognizing anyone's voice. If it is like face-blindness, then probably there is a spectrum of ability to recognize voices, and so what sounds obviously computerish to you might be indistinguish
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by agarden 9y ago
I don't understand where you see a conflict. To be all-powerful means you have the ability to effect any and all ends that you desire. It means you can realize all your purposes. If one doesn't have any desires (i.e., purposes), I
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by agarden 9y ago
That God created people with different prospects -- "paupers and princes" -- is explicit in the bible. The ninth chapter of Romans is quite clear about it. Jacob and Esau were twins, but God loved one and hated the other. Their de
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by agarden 9y ago
I don't quite understand. If I were interviewing the OP and asked this chess question, then got his answer presented much like it was on Quora ("Well, the thing to understand about representing a chess board is that if you want to
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by agarden 9y ago
Politics is the opiate of the people.
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by agarden 9y ago
The World Championship cycle is open to women. Hou Yifan partook in the Grand Prix. I believe Judith Polgar partook in a Candidates Tournament about a decade ago. It isn't segregated. Nothing prevents a woman from becoming the World Ch
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by agarden 9y ago
That would be rational. I am assuming that even in a post-apocalyptic scenario, people will not be rational. I imagine people being willing to pay an awful lot for the experience of tasting M&Ms again and for a few brief moments being a
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by agarden 9y ago
Two cynical explanations spring to mind. 1) Those genetically programmed to believe in free will might also genetically programmed to be more optimistic and work harder. 2) People who believe in free will have not yet run into their limitat
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by agarden 9y ago
If I were convinced the apocalypse were going to happen in the next couple years, I would start storing up ramen noodles, Hersheys chocolate bars, and M&Ms. Cheap to purchase, easy to store, and likely to have astronomic value post-apoc
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by agarden 9y ago
> On a more serious note, I can't believe any government can keep a tight enough lid on something like that. Someone, somewhere is bound to defect or to leak it is somehow. Except that what you are swatting away with that comment is
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by agarden 9y ago
I am inclined to agree with you, but on the other hand, according to that WikiPedia article the FAA concluded it was an unexplained weather phenomenon. That is easier to believe, but it makes it no easier to understand how no hard evidence

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