cJ0th

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by cJ0th 11y ago
Huh ... interessting. They probably ran out of e-mails...
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by cJ0th 11y ago
You should be able to fix it by installing the latest updates. http://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-kindle-update-march-22/ But yeah, they should have let us known beforehand. I only read an article about it by acciden
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by cJ0th 11y ago
GettingThingsGnome is what I use. http://gtgnome.net/
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by cJ0th 11y ago
It is an interesting idea and I look forward to see how this will turn out. I just explored it a bit and so far the implementation seems solid. However, I reckon that I will probably loose interest very soon because the more I ask myself: &
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by cJ0th 11y ago
> Human beings are complicated and difficult to study Well that's a positive way to put it. I wonder whether it is possible to find steady cause and effect patterns at all. Same goes for economy (which IS basically a proxy for human
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by cJ0th 11y ago
Well, reality can be inaccurate at times.
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by cJ0th 11y ago
> Produce more work until it gets better. That's all. Yes, but get some valuable feedback (whatever that means in your concrete situation) on your way. Otherwise you could end up writing rubbish for the rest of your life.
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by cJ0th 11y ago
> But I think it's mostly survivorship bias I don't think so. Have you seen who wrote this piece? I'd say it is a classic case of the Barnum effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect
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by cJ0th 11y ago
These (excellent) videos made me realize that picking up AI as a hobby (which I intended) would not be a good idea in my case. There are simply too many different domains of knowledge I would have to learn about to be able to finally do so
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by cJ0th 11y ago
One (albeit small) thing you can do is to do much as possible offline. For instance you could download Wikipedia and use it offline only. The same goes for maps. For example, Open Street Map data can be used offline.
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by cJ0th 11y ago
I think they stay within reason. IMO they don't say that being money driven is bad. It is rather that big, money driven companies can pose a problem. Maybe there is no monopoly on AI but there is certainly a monopoly on, for instance,
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by cJ0th 11y ago
Hopefully. But I feel this is changing. See my reply to StringyBob in this sub-thread
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by cJ0th 11y ago
As a German I do know about what the Stasi did. The thing is that most Germans don't acknowledge the relationship between what was going on then and what is going on now. I don't know a single (German) person outside of tech who t
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by cJ0th 11y ago
> it looks to be a bit less one sided Yeah, it looks that way but where is the substance? Why doesn't he openly discuss the pros and cons of both sides to finally reach a conclusion? "But the dangers are real." is not a
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by cJ0th 11y ago
But where would you go? If the UK and the US proceed like this then, as with so many issues, the rest of the world will follow. Germany, for instance, looks rather pro privacy at the moment. But I am pretty sure they'd be some of the f
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by cJ0th 11y ago
Or just push it on git hub once and be done with it for good.
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by cJ0th 11y ago
Oh I bet you'll love this: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/21/business/math-book-salted-... Excerpt: > But a spokesman for McGraw-Hill said the publisher received no payments from companies whose
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by cJ0th 11y ago
> The best (and only) thing to do now is to come completely clean and develop new and much more rigorous standards for determining both correlation and causality. The question then would be who would want to provide funds for that? It is
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by cJ0th 11y ago
I think we had a discussion here on HN not long ago but I can't find it. edit: Found the article: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/the-inve... comments: https://news.yc
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by cJ0th 11y ago
I am wondering whether he did that on purpose just to get attention. But then again I saw many video interviews of famous artists who were using a pirated copy of Sylenth1. Many people probably really are that cheap.
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by cJ0th 11y ago
> The main thing is that getting 4 masterpieces is extremely likely if you produce 10,000 works Yes and no. Once you succeeded in creating a masterpiece it can become incredibly hard to ever create something worthwhile again because succ
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by cJ0th 11y ago
> 100% agree. And note that HN is already running this experiment; we have downvotes as well as upvotes. I'd say that even though upvotes and downvotes are somewhat helpful it is the mentality that differentiates HN from other commu
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by cJ0th 11y ago
Okular can open ebooks. Also, there is an extension for firefox which allows you to view and manage epub files in your browser http://www.epubread.com/
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by cJ0th 11y ago
So apparently Einstein has his own, official website (einstein.biz). Who knew? It has got a proper shop and everything! Treat yourself to this relatively expensive USB stick: http://www.shopeinstein.com/mimobot-16gb-usb-fl
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by cJ0th 11y ago
I only semi-regularly tar my dotfiles and dotfolders and then move the archive to an external drive.
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by cJ0th 11y ago
As far as I remember I never ate an American tomato but I can assure you that even in Europe homegrown tomatoes taste way better than those you can buy at the supermarket. Let's see whether our supermarket tomatoes will get even more w
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by cJ0th 11y ago
Haha .. That's actually a thoughtful, albeit rhetorical, question. ;) No, I am fine with alligators walking the planet. I admit, my initial response is a bit stupid. The point I am trying to make is that a.) new technology brings new
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by cJ0th 11y ago
That's quite true. Trusting a company to stay alive for ever is a problematic strategy, though. I guess the best we can do is to encourage people not to upload their stuff to soundcloud or any other for-profit website in the first plac
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by cJ0th 11y ago
I think we have to accept that life is messy and there won't be a perfect solution but many different tools that enable us to keep more and more stuff alive. Peer2peer technology could be part of the solution. Spreading stuff on bit to
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by cJ0th 11y ago
I am slightly optimistic that we will find better ways to archive important media in the future. However, there is also the danger that people will get too obsessed with the past and hold onto highly problematic issues that otherwise would

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