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by cJ0th 11y ago
I was merely responding to GP who just mentioned music. And I think that most of what is released on soundcloud has no substance but that is fine. > saying that anything of value is released on CD already would be like saying that the pe
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by cJ0th 11y ago
> there is tons of music that has been created in the past 5+ years that exists exclusively there, and it would be a tremendous cultural loss if it were to disappear. I don't know. We would obviously loose a fragment of history but
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The vast majority of comments is indeed positive. Could be that most of those who don't support him just don't dignify his post with a comment, though.
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> Good damage control by Zuckerberg Sort of. I mean it sounds lovely but he is just saying words. Do people really pay attention to PR and if so how would this comment influence what anyone is feeling? He is emitting positive signals but
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Until some kid finds out how to hack and hijack these cars just to enjoy a game of real life GTA. People are that stupid, look at that guy who threw a live alligator through a restaurant’s drive-through window for a laugh. https:/&#x2
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This kind of advice is a double-edged sword. It does point you in the right direction but when you meditate shortly on the meaning of the words "quality" and "quantity" I think you're likely to conclude that the the
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An AI-powered Super Mario and Luigi can now learn from each other(qz.com)
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I've subscribed the Quarz RSS feed (not the daily newsletter). I am mostly pleased with their articles. They do have a weird obsession with women's issues, though. It's not that I don't care about these but articles on t
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by cJ0th 11y ago
Your comment may is tongue in cheek but I'd say that if that is indeed what they want then that's fair enough, isn't?
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As for many popular social scientists I can't even tell whether they aim at becoming famous or whether they're just very ignorant fellows who really think they've "cracked it".
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Ironically, these days you find more useful self-help advice by finding similarities between different religions than by reading up on brand new scientific findings.
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This also tremendously affects human culture. While the information you need to perform a piece of classical music can easily get stored for ever (high quality, archival grade ink and paper plus loads of copies from time to time, stored in
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This is very impressive in itself but what is the practical use? I mean you probably could get (almost) the same result with much less work. For instance, "Academic" is every mail send from an .edu domain, "financial" is
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by cJ0th 11y ago
I just realized that App isn't just the first three letters of application but also Apple. Very clever move when you think about it...
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I get what you are saying but I think that (sadly) you are mistaken. From one perspective, Apps is just the short version of application. But from another, more significant perspective the binary blobs we call Apps live in an ecosystem (The
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by cJ0th 11y ago
> As someone who works with youth, everything can backfire depending on you kid, circumstance, tone, and so on. Amen. Dweck's thesis is alright in that there are worst things you could teach a kid. But the overwhelming support that
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Hackers and Heroes: A Tale of Two Countries(hackaday.com)
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2016 - Year of the Android Desktop ;)
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Interesting .. my laptop's screen has a slight blue tint ;)
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> Your may well perceive variations of latency, just not on a conscious level as a delay. I agree. If you "want" to feel it consciously don't type text on a keyboard but play a melody on a midi keyboard. A latency of 10 ms
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Intersting point! I haven't considered that.
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Back in the days my sister enjoyed playing Tetris on the Game Boy. A couple of weeks ago I decided to buy her a Game Boy and Tetris and make it part of this year's Christmas present. As I am usually not interested in (vintage) gaming I
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by cJ0th 11y ago
> You must discover what you are good at. It requires brutal honesty with oneself. But isn't that circular reasoning? "I am not a math person" -> [discover growth mindeset] -> "Math is fun" -> [weeks&#x
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by cJ0th 11y ago
In case you are from Europe you may want to try https://www.qwant.com/web It certainly doesn't match google when it comes to local searches but I find it a bit more pleasant than DDG.
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What about that guy who clearly can't sing yet applies for every casting show there is? Maybe by the day he will die he's got performing Rihanna's Umbrella down to a fine art. But what's the point?
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> Sadly, in a lot of cases this will lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy where you will stop trying to improve your math skills because you weren't "made for it". But isn't this just semantics? That is, if neither you
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> Perhaps overconfidence can become a risk, but it seems a much lesser evil versus the cost of believing the opposite: "Here is your definitive level, for ever (don't bother)". I think it depends on the individual (situati
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> You want to be able look back on your life from some point many years in the future and say "I lived it the best way that I could". You don't want to look back on your life on your deathbed and think "Man, my whole
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> If you wanted UK rap, you at least used to be able to search for the tags "uk" and "rap", but I can't see that on the new website... In case of my example such a search would work. However, I guess there are l
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I am not sure whether this is a problem that can be solved entirely with software. Oftentimes it is not so obvious what's the relationship between what you have and what you'd like to discover. In fact, one of the biggest issues I

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