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by alasarmas 3y ago
I disagree with you that “Hardware goes out of date” is, in fact, a solvable problem. The truth is, macroscopic writing, in the sense of scratching or applying pigment / dye to a surface, is a very old technology, and we know very well
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by alasarmas 3y ago
What’s more, funding schools from local property taxes keeps the good schools in the rich communities and the bad schools in the poor communities. It prevents equality of opportunity. It is cynical, mean-spirited, and appalling.
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by alasarmas 3y ago
I call this Mozilla being Google’s antitrust beard. However, just like Apple playing that role for Microsoft, and AMD playing that role for Intel (if I remember correctly), it could be possible for Mozilla to transition back into being a t
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by alasarmas 3y ago
If you hold down <Alt> (I tend to think of it as Meta due to Emacs-induced brain damage), all of the targets on the ribbon should get associated keyboard characters, so you can quickly drill through the layers of the ribbon. After you
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by alasarmas 3y ago
https://archive.ph/pOPco
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Space Billionaires Should Spend More Time Thinking About Sex(nytimes.com)
3 points by alasarmas 3y ago|2 comments
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by alasarmas 3y ago
After checking a widely-used hub of scientific articles, in this case unsuccessfully, a possible next step is to send an email to one of the authors of the article to see if they have a draft or preprint version of the article that they can
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by alasarmas 3y ago
I agree that AI is totally capable of rating a business plan. However, I think that the act of submitting a business plan to be rated requires some degree of humility on the part of the user, and I do doubt that an AI will “push back” when
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by alasarmas 3y ago
Actually I think this is a good point: fundamentally an AI is forced to “color inside the lines”. It won’t tell you your business plan is stupid and walk away, which is a strong signal that is hard to ignore. So will this lead to people wit
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by alasarmas 3y ago
May I humbly suggest that VHS is superior to DVD for young children, because you can manually censor naughty bits out of “too adult” movies by scratching the magnetic coating off the tape
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Allergen of the Year(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by alasarmas 3y ago|2 comments
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by alasarmas 3y ago
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by alasarmas 3y ago
It seems to me that the FBI can break into iPhones now, but they want to pretend that they can’t. The FBI strategy appears to be to fake the lack of capability to break in now, in order to be able to claim that there is a crisis and get law
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by alasarmas 3y ago
https://archive.li/RFJLr
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by alasarmas 3y ago
And will we finally see a transfer rate higher than USB 2’s 480 Mbps? If we got 5 Gbps, I would finally be able to do local backups easily and effectively…
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by alasarmas 3y ago
The sound you heard was most likely caused by the meteor: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-blogs/astronomy-space-...
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by alasarmas 3y ago
Maybe it would be more accurate to say that, for a corporation to act in such a way that maximizes financial gain, it must disregard ethics. Perhaps the optimal behavior from a financial perspective is also ethical, but in many cases it wil
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by alasarmas 3y ago
https://archive.li/jpVut
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by alasarmas 3y ago
So I decided to dig into this a little further… I looked up some relevant regulations for California. So the following arguments are probably only relevant in the state of California. I would be surprised if they are not subject to change i
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by alasarmas 3y ago
The original(?) article on chumboxes is still the best: https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...
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by alasarmas 3y ago
I believe that you are saying the important thing here is that the driver of the vehicle lacks the ability to remove the cone from the vehicle. However, this is not accurate. The driver of an autonomous vehicle is not an algorithm, nor a co
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by alasarmas 3y ago
Federation will end faster than you can say “The Gmail web client does not have an interface for joining chat rooms on other [Jabber] servers” [0] 0. https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/12237/how-can-i-...
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by alasarmas 3y ago
I agree with you that it’s not great performance, but it seems that the figure you want is 30%, not 60%.
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by alasarmas 3y ago
For parent, maybe. For me, no.
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by alasarmas 3y ago
I remember SoundJam MP very well, I still have the box somewhere. The box that I bought from some store in a strip mall on Route 1, maybe CompUSA? Circuit City? The Wiz? It came with a stereo RCA to 1/8th inch adapter cable, for digiti
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by alasarmas 3y ago
You can come close, using distilled water and some powdered minerals that are available at homebrewing supply stores: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/san-pellegrino-clone.56...
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by alasarmas 3y ago
You can’t “just say no” to network effects, though. If you’re trying to, for example, attend a pickup game of baseball, and that game is organized on a Facebook group, what is your alternative? If you’re trying to get a job, and the recruit
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by alasarmas 3y ago
Yes, these kinds of “second-order effects” are real, and common. There is probably a good summarization of it in game theory, or economics.
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by alasarmas 3y ago
I agree with your point in general, that alphabetic systems are easier to pick up. However, it’s not true that you can’t guess the sound of a Chinese character. From Wikipedia [0]: Radical–phonetic compounds, in which one component (t
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by alasarmas 3y ago
I think people are really only interested in commercial messages when they come at a much lower frequency than they do these days. Other than that, it’s just noise that we suffer through in order to get the information or content that we wa

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