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by arrrg 11y ago
But that’s not the experiment that’s being conducted. The question you ask is whether people are able to identify their own horoscope, not whether they think the horoscopes are correct, i.e. they might well believe that on a 1 to 10 scale t
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by arrrg 11y ago
That effect doesn’t matter for the way this experiment is set up (except if there are ceiling effects because of this effect – but I would doubt that).
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by arrrg 11y ago
In this case you would not look at how correct people think the horoscopes are, you would look at whether they think their own horoscope is most correct (they don’t know which is which of the ten). The average “subjective correctness” of t
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by arrrg 11y ago
In the name of hating on PC for completely irrational reasons everything is fair game for certain people. You see, they hate it so so much. Ugh, so icky.
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by arrrg 11y ago
Natural selection very much is a guided process. It is obviously not guided by anything, but it very much is not random or aimless or any of those things. On the mirco level, sure, it is all of those things, but not when looking at the macr
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by arrrg 11y ago
The question is whether this additional effort is strictly necessary or whether it’s just nice to have. Why do complicated things when something simple already works pretty well? Your thinking that just because something is possible it will
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by arrrg 11y ago
Eh … targeted advertising certainly worked on me. Pretty definitely and pretty much guaranteed better than non-targeted ads. My purchasing decisions tend to be pretty long and drawn out (it will take me months to decide that I want, for exa
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by arrrg 11y ago
You are supposed to search for Twitter as a test. Tweetbot doesn't make much sense as a search term, at least for finding other Twitter clients. I think the search results are actually quite great, considering. (The calculator is an ap
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by arrrg 11y ago
I'm really struggling to see what's wrong with that … Priority number one should be to find those responsible and put them on trial. The second priority (connected to the first one – the organizers are probably still posing some d
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by arrrg 11y ago
Americans introduced me to this concept using pedestrian traffic lights … so I'm not sure how universal your definition really is? (I know it just as any non-legal crossing of a street by pedestrians.)
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by arrrg 11y ago
I was ticketed for jaywalking in Germany. It’s a €5 fine. Police was hiding in an unmarked car, watching a traffic light in front of a supermarket with the singular purpose of catching jaywalkers. I was crossing the street (definitely not a
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by arrrg 11y ago
The fade out at the end makes it possible to identify it. I couldn’t do it perfectly (also played over my laptop speakers because I’m lazy), but I still got 8/10. Even though, the difference is obviously small.
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by arrrg 11y ago
Is that how you view the world? Is politeness a pointless distraction to you? I really, really don’t get people like that. I do think that politeness is fundamentally important in human interaction and to expect it (and to be insulted by
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by arrrg 11y ago
Zero relationship to this issue, though. I really don’t see the connection to greed.
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by arrrg 11y ago
There are 2.7 people in the average US household. If homes are equivalent to households (I don’t know how they are defined – I think they might be identical) then this power plant can power two thirds of your city (presumably minus all the
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by arrrg 11y ago
That’s exactly the reason why those vendor prefixes exist, right? You test the waters in a way that can’t (or is at least unlikely to) screw things up for everyone else. The functionality provided here is obviously useful and should probabl
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by arrrg 11y ago
Can’t have it both ways. That’s the issue here.
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by arrrg 11y ago
When you invite someone you clean up … I mean, what’s with the weird conspiracy mongering? That just makes no sense. This is the most ordinary thing in the world, Apple just doesn’t normally do this, so it’s kinda surprising to see it from
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by arrrg 11y ago
There is no need to think in conspiracies. This is dead simple: If you give a journalist access to Apple’s labs they will write about it. If you are Apple PR you pick a journalist you know who shares your values and you are done. That’s it.
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by arrrg 11y ago
Yeah, KSP is great for getting an intuitive feeling for what one would have to do to navigate space successfully – at least to the point where one would be able to identify grossly inefficient behavior immediately and be able to do somethin
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by arrrg 11y ago
I always thought that the Lunar Module† was the single coolest piece of technology of the Apollo program. (Sorry Saturn V, raw power doesn’t really do it for me and beyond that you are mostly … boring.) It’s such an astonishing accomplishme
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by arrrg 11y ago
Those were paintings made for cigar boxes. Of course they are not supposed to be accurate. They are jokes, visions of the future in the same way that Idiocracy is a vision of the future. (Okay, that might be a sensitive topic for some, sinc
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by arrrg 11y ago
Apple blankets the world with ads. Apple has recognition. The iPhone is relatively focused in its additions and it's not like they added a million different things, all of which they have to tell you about. There is only one iPhone and
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by arrrg 11y ago
Sure, but you don't have to hit that right pressure point. No matter how hard you press, when you first engage it you will always only be at the first preview step. Then you can press harder still, sure, but you cannot just skip a step
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by arrrg 11y ago
Just press hard. That’s it. No need to differentiate. The interface does not make that mistake you are assuming it makes.
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by arrrg 11y ago
Long press is annoying to use. It’s just so, so, so slow.
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by arrrg 11y ago
That’s an awfully awful defense of bigotry. So unaware, so unempathic, so awful through and through. I really hope that I will never think that way, no matter how old I am.
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by arrrg 11y ago
6S Plus has OIS.
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by arrrg 11y ago
Look at the lens of those devices … I mean, really, it’s a basic physics problem. The device itself can obviously be very, very small. Obviously. No one is disputing that. But the lens is the issue if the sensor gets larger and a smartphone
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by arrrg 11y ago
There is nowhere to go, not with the available physical space. I expect noise to get lower and lower and low light performance to increase, leading to sharper (due to less noise reduction) and less noisier images in the coming years, though

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