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by coatmatter 4y ago
Yes and you should also be aware of how pronounced the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect is here. You'll probably figure it out if you come across any discussion on a topic you're keenly involved in and have some level of knowledge about.
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by coatmatter 4y ago
Gold at least is shiny, dense and virtually indestructible, and we humans naturally value things that draw our attention like that. Gold has also stood the test of time as something that most people appreciate when they see/touch it. I
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by coatmatter 5y ago
Redefining percentile or who is considered an active participant as the author did is the greater self-serving misunderstanding. Following from my earlier comment here, this weekly graph already shows active players - those who aren't
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by coatmatter 5y ago
I'll use a shopping list on the rare occasion where I really need to buy something, and very much am in tune with how to use both digital and paper lists / notes, but with the vast majority of the time, I know what I want to buy o
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by coatmatter 5y ago
Or, one could be like Elizabeth Swaney or "Eric the Eel", or "Eddie the Eagle" and be the top competitor from their represented country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Swaney Compared to th
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by coatmatter 5y ago
Yep, I'm forever 'amazed' (read: not surprised) that this type of content continually makes it to the top of the front page of this website. With the way the author described Overwatch, it sounds like the equivalent to 95th p
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by coatmatter 5y ago
Both of my hands are quite dexterous, but I still often find myself typing with one finger if it's on a smartphone (I'm still not used to typing with my thumbs), or one hand if I'm on a normal full sized keyboard (such as whe
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by coatmatter 6y ago
Facebook has released an official statement which appears to confirm my suspicions about how the data was more or less obtained (i.e., via number search): https://about.fb.com/news/2021/04/facts-on-news-report
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by coatmatter 6y ago
I think you may have allowed Facebook to allow other Facebook users to search for your profile via your number. Can you check my earlier comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26712835 and let us know whether or no
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by coatmatter 6y ago
This statistic isn't applicable to me.
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by coatmatter 6y ago
Non-technical speculation, but based on my own experience as an ordinary Facebook user: I'm increasingly confident that this breach/leak has come about mostly through the privacy search setting (buried in Facebook's privacy
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by coatmatter 6y ago
Fixed now.
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by coatmatter 6y ago
This set is missing Australia yes, but not the other set Troy Hunt was sent - he covers this in his blog post and tweets. There are at least two sets floating around. The ones loaded into HIBP do contain Australian numbers - I've check
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by coatmatter 6y ago
Yeah, I feel Messenger or WhatsApp doesn't really come into play here. Facebook has at least two different privacy settings when it comes to phone numbers and how it's shown to people: 1. At https://www.facebook.com&#x2
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by coatmatter 6y ago
So far it doesn't seem to be clear but to me it appears Australia so far isn't as widely distributed. Earlier, it appeared Troy Hunt was sent both Australia and Austria: https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status&#x2
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by coatmatter 6y ago
87% sounds pretty good to me if it encourages a lot more people to get tested. I do wonder how many are avoiding a test because the know from others' reports that it's most uncomfortable. Think about the number of people who are
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by coatmatter 7y ago
Chess Grandmaster David Smerdon (PhD, Economics) noticed a similar correlation with chess too: https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-best-and-worst-countries-t...
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by coatmatter 8y ago
> "Turning into Reddit" also includes anything about quality generally decreasing over time. That's not on the page you linked - is that your own interpretation of a one-liner?
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by coatmatter 8y ago
The shortest time control I play is 10+0 and I feel that at my very average level, I don't learn anything from it (especially if I get on a discouraging losing streak). These days, 15+15 is what I try to stick to on Lichess so that&#x2
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by coatmatter 8y ago
More people (including love him or loathe him Kasparov: https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1067125702712004609 ) are finally starting to see that the (rapid) tiebreak is not a foregone conclusion. While people k
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by coatmatter 8y ago
Ubuntu LTS isn't really the appropriate distro if we're trying to cut down the frequency of major upgrades. RHEL/CentOS is what we should be talking about if we're going like-for-like.
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by coatmatter 8y ago
The whole motor industry is quite crazy if anyone stops to think about it. Changing the fuels and technologies used still doesn't remove much of the irrational craziness that's inherent. Going further, building multilayered tunnel
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by coatmatter 8y ago
> This is not 1950 anymore. There seems to be a lot of confusion over his podcast appearance and people are focusing too much on the cannabis debate. It's not about that. Consider for a moment this hypothetical scenario instead: How
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by coatmatter 8y ago
> "Pedestrian council chairman Harold Scruby"... Any time this so-called "Pedestrian Council of Australia chairman" (Harold Scruby) is covered by an Australian reporter, doubt should be heavily cast on the validity of
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by coatmatter 8y ago
It's a creative writing problem. It's fine when creative writing is writing for writing's sake, but when dubious facts and over-generalisations are mixed in, myths start to develop. It reminds me just a tiny bit of the "
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by coatmatter 8y ago
I've seen this story pop up several times before in different guises based on dubious evidence of only one or two cities. Most buttons in Australia work - or rather, the lights won't work for pedestrians who think it's alwa
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by coatmatter 8y ago
strongtowns.org isn't a website about tech - don't get confused by the title, it's not really talking about the Internet of Things. The article is talking about cities and community as most of the good articles on that site a
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Juicero is still the greatest example of Silicon Valley stupidity(cnet.com)
5 points by coatmatter 8y ago|2 comments
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by coatmatter 8y ago
I believe the biggest hurdle is that the bar has been set too low for what constitutes an acceptable standard of driving/casualty rate. There's so much that can be done to improve the situation but few answers are politically pala
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by coatmatter 8y ago
Those interested (or not interested) in self-driving cars might find this thread quite interesting: https://twitter.com/amir/status/1034442936774258688 "Just out: The truth about Waymo..."

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