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by cowpig 9y ago
http://www.gitxiv.com/
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by cowpig 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udNHsk57f24
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by cowpig 9y ago
The point is there's a difference between saying I'm biologically predisposed to some preference, and I'm biologically ill-equipped to achieve something. If you don't see how important this difference is, consider this:
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by cowpig 9y ago
Ill-equipped: I'm ill-equipped to play basketball at a professional level: I'm not particularly huge, I have weak knees, and I broke my arm as a child in a way that prevents me from shooting correctly. However, I love basketball a
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by cowpig 9y ago
> There's no way we can be absolutely correct in emotional diagnosis, just the same as we cannot always be in the black when speculating on the stock market. There's too many factors at work and they'll never (rarely) alig
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by cowpig 9y ago
I am completely shocked the author of this article has published 200 peer-reviewed articles, testified before congress, etc... > Let’s begin with the assumption that you can detect emotion in another person accurately. [...] People who a
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by cowpig 9y ago
> Find collaborators take a look at The Recurse Center www.recurse.com
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Ask HN: How much equity to give a new (3rd) cofounder, ~1 year in?
2 points by cowpig 9y ago|2 comments
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by cowpig 9y ago
> It’s not entirely clear why the University of Washington team gets such a weird result — since their data isn’t public, we can’t check it — but it’s worth noting at least two important issues with their study. I cannot understand how e
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Segwit, the Lightning Network, and How They Are Related(cowpig.github.io)
6 points by cowpig 9y ago|0 comments
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by cowpig 9y ago
I wish I understood this language
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by cowpig 9y ago
Source? I haven't heard of a single crash in the US in years, despite millions of flights...
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by cowpig 9y ago
Is there a reason that this would be a bad thing, pragmatically speaking?
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by cowpig 9y ago
Blitzka | Web Dev | Bogota / Medellin | FULL-TIME or CONTRACTOR remote: no Early-stage startup in online gaming & cryptocurrency space. Stack is python/Django back-end, with React+Redux frontend (and a in-house animations libr
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by cowpig 10y ago
Flavour: Ubuntu Desktop Headline: Allow me to remap capslock Capslock is the most useless key on my keyboard and it's in such a nice spot for ctrl/alt/whatever. What I'd really like is for it to be a new key for modifyin
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by cowpig 10y ago
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Somehow Rick & Morty really reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut. Similarly dark sense of humour about our meaninglessness in a vast, chaotic universe.
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by cowpig 10y ago
this--plus evidence too if you can find it please!
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by cowpig 10y ago
AI: A Modern Approach (Russell, Norvig) and Deep Learning (Goodfellow, Bengio) have been mentioned already. I'd also recommend: Godel, Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. Might not be exactly what you're lo
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by cowpig 10y ago
You've used a lot of incendiary language here but I am struggling to find a concrete point. What rent seeking opportunities? Who are "bleeding heart liberals" and what "demands" are you talking about? What fraud are
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by cowpig 10y ago
How does this add to our discussion about the content of this article?
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by cowpig 10y ago
I interpret the phrase "be yourself" to mean "don't be afraid of being judged". People are often preoccupied with managing the guilt or shame that they experience when they face social disapproval for (otherwise inn
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by cowpig 10y ago
sure: https://medium.com/startup-grind/how-the-trump-campaign-buil...
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Tech and the Fake Market tactic(medium.com)
4 points by cowpig 10y ago|0 comments
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by cowpig 10y ago
I think parent post was referring to people who are generally considered to have been excellent leaders (and lack humility).
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by cowpig 10y ago
"Stress" applied to a lab rat is effectively psychological trauma. My interpretation of this experiment is that social skills play a part in sexual attractiveness for rats, and that traumatizing them as teenagers adversely impacts
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by cowpig 10y ago
The fact that nobody's used a nuclear weapon offensively since WWII doesn't mean nuclear proliferation is fine. Similarly, the proliferation of extremely powerful information is obviously dangerous, regardless of whether it is cau
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by cowpig 10y ago
:(
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by cowpig 10y ago
The study only looks at positions in which there is a defined set of moves that can be shown to be winning (endgames), and treats all non-winning moves as "blunders". Then it considers the "difficulty" of the position, a
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by cowpig 10y ago
> Apparently, there’s a dollar value which not only makes you happy, it makes you as happy as it is possible for humans to be. > If people rebound from both bad events and good, how is it that making more money causes people to be hap
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How the US Economy Has Changed: Obama's Thoughts(nytimes.com)
1 points by cowpig 10y ago|0 comments

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