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by drawkbox 8y ago
Gell-Mann amnesia effect is the same with movies or other information that is packaged for mass consumption or pop culture, getting details wrong might be a simplification for understanding and consumption, or a first impression that might
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Jeff Bezos "Regret Minimization Framework" [1] A regret minimization framework "I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, 'Okay, now I'm looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of re
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by drawkbox 8y ago
In 6th grade there were Apple II's at school I was part of a group of honors kids that got to code BASIC on Apple II's. I made a Tron disc game, it wasn't good but the ability to create a game, render block graphics using tex
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Yeah wireless internet and mobile devices were talked about for a long time, then suddenly wifi/wireless networks and mobile devices appeared quickly and took over in a flash. Same with flat panel screens/tvs etc. At some point a
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by drawkbox 8y ago
> This type of memory happens more often than people realize to athletes and coaches. I was blown away how much Mike Tyson knows about boxing history. Great athletes are skilled but they are also students of the game [1][2][3]. You can
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by drawkbox 8y ago
> Only thing I don't use is the Git extension, I still us git shell. I prefer my SCM integration outside of my editor or IDE as well. I don't need my IDE to get in the way and spend CPU cycles telling me what files I have chan
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by drawkbox 8y ago
> any company that isn't Waymo is simply burning money Waymo/Google is winning and has self-driving vehicles all over Chandler, Tempe and Gilbert Arizona at any given time. For the most part it is going well, sometimes they a
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by drawkbox 8y ago
> I doubt it's trivial to add more capacity to ISPs. Running new lines takes time sure, but it is very easy to dedicate more of the line to data over tv channels which take immense data. With DOCSIS 3.1 they can multiplex but more
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> Water utilities also generally do not offer "unlimited water" plans (unless you're coke/nestle I guess) True, it is a physical resource as well but they aren't throttling water and they meter it, so if you us
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Look at the bright side, at least Verizon doesn't run the water utility. The water companies weren't throttling down water asking for price gouging. ISPs like Verizon just run the network utility, that only the ISPs don't thi
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by drawkbox 8y ago
There was a story about toggles in apis on HN a few months ago [1][2], basically the toggle function was called for the garage door, which is clearly not idempotent, rather than an action like open/close so that is wasn't repeated
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We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive. …” And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and t
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Health pricing is a weird fixed pricing with all sides in insurance companies, medical suppliers and doctors holding the cards to get the highest prices within the gamed rules with the consumer left out in the cold and each bill a random ou
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Edit: https://www.sinemia.com/ looks like it supports all theaters and will probably pick up the MoviePass customers who want independent from the theater chain subscription movies.
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Yeah, those are nice features, but I was mainly talking about when you check the app or buy the tickets ahead and it is sold out or doesn't have ideal reserved seating left, from there if you want to see it now you have to pay full pri
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Plenty of customers probably don't mind, but the moment they will mind is when they want to see a movie that is sold out at one of their common theaters and go to another theater not in the same chain. People do tend to use the same th
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by drawkbox 8y ago
In the end a service like MoviePass will be needed, noone wants one just tied to one theater chain most likely though it will be that way for a while if not indefinitely. It looks like this iteration of a movie service independent of movie
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by drawkbox 8y ago
The deeper tech you know the more underground and probably experienced you are. The more languages you know, you are probably better in all of them because knowing multiple languages is better to see core parts like standards, systems and
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Yeah Flash was amazing at attracting both developers and designers and led to awesome games and some really innovative interactive experiences. The web is a better place due to Flash and Macromedia did a killer job, I wish Adobe had kept it
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In a way yes. However there is other tech like WebGL, Canvas, web audio, web video etc, even apps, that make up good portions of what Flash brought, where WebAssembly is the compilation part of that and brings other languages into the mix
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by drawkbox 8y ago
jQuery really pushed forward the base plane for standards in the browser. It was a common well tested library that allowed developers more time in developing their app/game/etc rather than testing in browsers fixing standards hol
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Germany has the best configuration regarding work/life balance as usual. When you are overworked you are too tired long term to create productivity improvements. When you can work less or make improvements to help you work less, you ha
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Yes, a great look into some of them is on Hamilton's Pharmacopeia on VICELAND [1] and early version of the show on Youtube [2] that delves into many of psychedelics and other drugs. Hamilton Morris does the show and is the son of Errol
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I should have said parabolic or quadratic but was mainly focused on the project management / team aspects and how it affects individual team members of ever-increasing team sizes.
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Communication channels formula where n is team members: n(n-1)/2 [1] As teams grow, not only do communication channels increase exponentially, individual contribution decreases overall and there is less ownership/responsibilit
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by drawkbox 8y ago
Silicon Valley and Curb Your Enthusiasm aren't mentioned enough and a big reason I subscribe. HBO used to be the pinnacle of stand-up shows, but Netflix has taken that torch now it seems. For comedy series they do well though. Curb, S
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The Straight Dope from Cecil Adams is like lots of that neat content that was essentially the internet before the internet. Books and mags like MAD Magazine, Nintendo Power, comic books and more were where you learned about life and it&#x27
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by drawkbox 8y ago
The Controlled Substances Act is flawed because of the locked and immutable nature of it, besides the fact that the drug wars are a failure and it is a health issue not a criminal one. Any drug on the CSA should have to be re-proven every 1
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Good solution if local, most of the winners were all over the US. Lots of people just didn't believe it and thought it to be a scam or maybe denied it due to the taxes, or maybe they were trying to stay on the down low due to collectio
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by drawkbox 8y ago
As mentioned, this is only asked of winners to collect their prize, after the draw. If they won they must be contacted to verify and get info to send them the prize. Since it is a transfer of value, the SSN has to be known for the 1099 form

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