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I don't think this article explains "why." I don't like the clickbaity misuse of "why." Here are the article's headings: > Apple is the iPhone > What does this mean for Europe? > What kind of taxe
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I appreciate the quick-math here: > With 24 different permutations of 4 digits and iPhones having "wipe the phone after 10 failed attempts" option this would have a little under 50% success rate. and I agree with this: > har
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When I came across Gell-Mann Amnesia I thought, "Wow I needed that concept." >Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case
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From reading the article I can't tell "any selfie" reveals one's PIN. Is it from smudges? If so, one's PIN would be revealed when the screen's image didn't get in the way. This article (I tried to find a m
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> The point I am making here is that Engelbart and Kay were unrealistic in expecting that their technologies would give quick results in the way of Tools for Thought. They had no appreciation for the vast and rich culture that produced t
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I struggle with changing my perception of Microsoft. I still characterize them by their Halloween documents and efforts to destroy Netscape. I would recommend the Surface to friends or family, which is a recent change. But I would never u
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it's "basic human decency" if you're in favor and "political correctness" if you're not. Both refer to an external virtue/sin. This lkml conflict would be addressed with statistics , that is: It woul
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The above poster is drawing a distinction between faster (top speed) and quicker (acceleration). Auto-journalism usually uses this language. In everyday speech, "faster" is ambiguous.
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It's implied in these types of articles that empathy has been permanently affected by technology. I believe cell phones are an invention with a time-limit. Computers have been getting smaller not since you started using them, which for
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Ooh I'd be excited to read this. I recently found "Linear Algebra Done Right." How, you ask? They defer using determinants until the end of the book. Determinants are hard computationally, hard to define, and not obviously us
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An extended quote: --- During an American election cycle you will see a lot of “opinions” that looks like this: “The Constitution clearly gives us the right to do X. Therefore, that’s the way it should be.” That sounds like an opinion, righ
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Reading this encouraged me to archive all my emails. Easy, but I needed the reminder. I've unfollowed a lot of my friends on facebook, but the author's scheme goes beyond mine. If you unfollow all friends, but turn on notification
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I notice that the old-school Common Lispers tend to call their language "Lisp." I (a new-school one) always say CL or Common Lisp. I'm not sure why they do that. When I say "a lisp" or "lisp" I'm refe
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You can find a lot of disagreement in the google groups thread linked. Erik Naggum, Ron Garret (posting as Erann Gat), and Kent Pitman show up. Naggum as usual penetrates the usual back-and-forth with a stimulating meta-argument. https:&#x
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My 2012 Thinkpad T530 with a core i5-3230m gets about 5000 on the geekbench 3 multicore test. That a 2015 phone gets 4300 astonishes me. I never feel like my thinkpad is slow, so I can't imagine how fast that phone feels. My highest pr
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The article mentions the importance of evidence in argument. Forgive me for my boldness: you have cited no evidence. You asserted, "the environmental crisis is now," which I can't easily verify. It sounds no different than, &
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You say "fear feeds competition" but there's an opposing view by rhetoricians: Nothing ever gets better without at least the threat of competition. I don't often find myself defending competition, but there you go. As to
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I'm happy you got to cathartically whine. I do that too. But I'll disagree with your cynicism. Here are some areas where people invented ways to overcome their caveman brains: democracy engineering mathematics modern legal systems
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I often see believers-in-climate-change ricule and name-call deniers. These days convincing deniers is at best "Look at this computer print-out!"[0] or at worst "You bonehead" or "Look at this dying polar bear.&quot
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I used mutt when I used vim, but after switching to emacs, I began using mu4e. Very keyboard-driven and scriptable. Glad to see others on HN using it. Speaking to your not using mu4e to compose mail, I compose mail in org-mode (I often make
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In your mind, it should sate. But their stating, "this isn't fair" means it hasn't. > Adobe has the right to price products how they wish. In a free market, they must (for a loose definition of "must") wit
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"It's the free market," does not sate a desire for fairness.
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> you do not know what the student is doing on their laptop, nor is it your job to police what they do on their laptop; some students are using their laptop to enhance their learning experience, and some students will have come to rely o
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> why the downvote. I made money betting the market would fall as well. Bully for you. But you're being downvoted because your comment is cheerleading ("take that you nonbelievers!") without information or commentary.
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Just to rabble in agreement, one recompiles xmonad (typically with mod-q), where recompiling means loading one's entire xmonad.hs file. "Reloading a file," especially when that file is typically solely used for xmonad resourc
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> Can anyone here who owned a legit copy of Windows actually say that this happened to them, or to someone they knew? I can almost say. I had a genuine Windows 7 license in 2011 that I used for gaming. When I'd turn on the machine,
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I agree with > The implication that tweets - and by extension, history - should be mutable feels like 1984. You've pointed out the problem: people in a democracy need access to the truest history possible; mutable history is a slipp
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I agree, both generally and specifically. Supporting your argument is Bell Labs' `sexist`[0], a commmandline tool, part of the Writer's Workbench. http://man.cat-v.org/unix_WWB/1/sexist A relevant sectio
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For as long as I can remember, on mobile Safari, links to Google Groups pages redirect to Google Groups' main page. "request desktop site" doesn't work. So frustrating. Can't read this article--my apologies that I&#
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What a find! Did OP discover this? This attests to the importance of reading the fine man pages. You can't guess the function of the command by its own name! a great one: > Another option is ffmpeg2theora, which despite its name is

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