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by brownbat 8y ago
> If he was right, people should stop philosophising. Slight asterisk-- if he was right, philosophers would be employed as counselors, to help people realize that the deep problems they are wondering about are probably just problems with
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by brownbat 8y ago
What constitutes reasonable? Here's an example of someone explaining something to five different levels of audiences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJCfOvochA None of these approaches are prima facie "unreasona
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by brownbat 8y ago
There's a hard dilemma between discoverability to audiences and obscurity to censors. Steganography can work in some applications, but it's not a general solution. Common memes like Winnie the Pooh as a stand in for Xi are a way p
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by brownbat 8y ago
> Since the led wall was being flooded with inappropriate content we had to implement a whitelist system... That was probably inevitable. The last scrolling LED message I read was "Uncaught type error: Undefined is not a function.&q
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by brownbat 8y ago
> What's upsetting about autoplay?? I should have been clear, I meant the trailers. I'm browsing for specific content but getting blasted by ads for Netflix originals. > did you ever think maybe you should just not subscribe
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by brownbat 8y ago
Several Netflix UI changes have been pretty anti user. I'm more upset at the way they mask an incomplete catalog by pretending most Hitchcock films or French new wave don't even exist. I'm more upset about auto play. I'm
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by brownbat 8y ago
Wow, paperback is available used for over a thousand dollars. Good example of the Amazon algorithm going nuts, or just a really amazing old book.
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by brownbat 8y ago
Tariffs have benefits that are easy to imagine but costs that are hard to trace. When economists do the full analysis, the cost per job saved usually ends up being many multiples of the yearly salary: http://www.aei.org/wp-c
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by brownbat 8y ago
I know Stephenson was mostly joking, but a part of me felt sad visiting Seoul and seeing just how phenomenally better at food delivery they are than America, and I assume anywhere in the world. They'll strap an inexpensive meal to the
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by brownbat 8y ago
Per footer, there's an issue with the API so there's no data that year or for parts of 1978.
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by brownbat 8y ago
There was a cat and mouse game with adblockers and websockets a couple years ago, but I'm not sure how things work now. Is anyone keeping an annotated list of annoyingsite techniques, to see what's still broken? I'd love to g
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by brownbat 8y ago
Classic and important question. By some rights, stack overflow is a site designed to help people escape vim, and fills time between users getting trapped with off topic conversations about programming: https://stackoverflow.blog&
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by brownbat 8y ago
Apparently fruit salad is as much a salad as a piece of steak. Sushi is as sandwichy as a hot dog, but a bit more salady. Pretty sure this is the path to madness.
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by brownbat 8y ago
Interesting point. To expand on it... By analogy, western Europe has a long history of basically continual war, generally featuring some combination of France, Prussia, England, and Spain. No one analyzes Brexit as a return to literal weste
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by brownbat 8y ago
The bars at the end of the article are some of my favorite in hip hop. Jay Z is tackling the claims that the most skilled rappers don't sell head on... He's taking our assumption that good art isn't the most popular art, or t
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by brownbat 8y ago
I feel like MC Paul Barman would have a shot, his whole schtick is his inflated vocab. He's kind of a stunt rapper though, and had some dated offensive shock lyrics that are hard to listen to. I'd much rather listen to Aesop. Mac
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by brownbat 8y ago
Yeah, I know you can rent goats, was just joking about an Uber for goats because of how many comments worried this wasn't yc enough. E.g.: http://rentagoat.com I should have added an /s tag. Not complaining though, I t
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by brownbat 8y ago
There's a new line of analysis every two paragraphs in this article. None bad, just... it can be a bit dizzying. I liked this point, somewhere in the middle: “The middle price band is nonexistent,” says Reith. The current U.S. cell pho
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by brownbat 8y ago
> The problem is licensing... It's led to larger tech companies rolling their own, which often means just taking something already out there and changing a few corners slightly and calling it a new work. https://www.arun.
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by brownbat 8y ago
Matt Levine has a half-joking article on whether or not automated trading would one day provide the ultimate fulfillment of Marxism: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-08-24/are-in... If you beli
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by brownbat 8y ago
I was pretty alarmed by the culture described by This American Life: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/647/ladonna Even if we were just erecting pure security theater, it'd be great if we could not build a refuge f
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by brownbat 8y ago
Radio4 published Hitchhiker's Guide online for an anniversary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml The article boasts that the fish puzzle isn't even that hard for the game. Curious which
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by brownbat 8y ago
Feed, like I acknowledged in my original comment. > ...corn and soy subsidies that in turn make cheaper feed...
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by brownbat 8y ago
Mostly hair, it turns out. My theory: this post is a precursor to the launch of an Uber for goat rentals. It's the grass and weed trimming solution of the past, and also the future?
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by brownbat 8y ago
> negative effects on its health I had an indoor cat growing up, came from a family of barn cats. He outlived three generations of relatives. This doesn't seem out of line with the averages: https://www.catster.com/l
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by brownbat 8y ago
Something I've thought about throughout the day is karyomapping, which has been repeatedly successfully used to screen out heritable diseases, but absent from this conversation... The discussion in the news could really benefit from re
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by brownbat 8y ago
Repl.it is a pretty neat solution too, don't get me wrong. And IDLE has always left me unimpressed relative to the terminal... but using Unicode on Windows, suddenly code pages get involved, which no one should ever have to know. There
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by brownbat 8y ago
> just cutting meat farm subsidies Most farm subsidies do not go directly to meat. In fact, current subsidies probably shift some land away from pastures and grazing to oversupplied field crops: https://www.downsizinggovernmen
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by brownbat 8y ago
Judging from 14 and 15, the gross irresponsibility here is masking a tension in the scientific community: Should gene-edited babies be a scientific goal, and if so how should risks be reduced? (Or, alternately, are they inevitable and how s
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by brownbat 8y ago
For absolute beginners, I'd even prefer something like this: 1. Hit install on Python and accept the defaults. 2. Install a simple text editor with syntax highlighting. 3. Open a file right on your desktop and type two commands in it a

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