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by drcode 8y ago
The days when typical food and drink in Europe is better than in the US are also mostly gone. Whenever I go to a fancy restaurant in, say Frankfurt, it doesn't measure up to a comparable restaurant in my home town of Chicago (with the
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by drcode 8y ago
This is like when my 4 year old daughter asked if she'll be able to have dessert and I used to say "maybe if you're lucky..." She quickly figured out this always meant "yes".
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by drcode 8y ago
Yeah, the guy probably thought interesting young people would come and have conversations with him after he became famous. Instead, he is just filmed all day on phones by visitors trying to bolster their social media likes with some desirab
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by drcode 8y ago
https://outline.com/YdhRj9
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by drcode 8y ago
It's not that it would decide to hate humans, but merely needs to be indifferent to humans.
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by drcode 8y ago
What good is that if you don't get the magic piece of paper at the end that says "I went to Harvard"?
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by drcode 8y ago
They probably knew they were close to the legal limit and their engineers probably said on a hunch "we can stay beneath the limit and retain adequate power with the right mix of tricks" and then just ended up being wrong on that h
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by drcode 8y ago
...but does statistical significance really allow you to distinguish real results from random noise? I think it's pretty clear that it isn't a good tool for achieving this goal, due to the "p hacking" phenomenon https:&
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by drcode 8y ago
I think the author deserves credit for an honest attempt to roll up their sleeves and using this opportunity to encode their own attempt from scratch and reporting the results... Requiring an actually meaningful scientific finding from a jo
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by drcode 8y ago
I think a stronger argument, along similar lines, would be to observe that the human skull underwent pretty drastic architectural changes in the last 200K years because of the rapid growth in size of the brain cavity. And, since the importa
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by drcode 8y ago
Extraordinary claims like this (being the only human ever reported AFAIK not requiring sleep) need extraordinary evidence, which likely are unobtainable for this anecdotal case. > His wakefulness caused headaches only when he didn't
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by drcode 8y ago
My impression was that the main cameras system was too complex for the police to be able to quickly extract video at the scene. However, the car had a redundant consumer-grade dashcam that the police were able to take video from.
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by drcode 8y ago
I guess the question is whether arrogance arises from high self esteem or as a compensation for low self esteem... My experience is usually it's the latter.
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by drcode 8y ago
That's exactly what I'm saying: The more ludicrous the art, the more likely it is that the product is not the art itself, but the artist.
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by drcode 8y ago
I'd say being an "influencer" and socializing with interesting people are very similar and hard to tease apart as separate concepts.
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by drcode 8y ago
I agree that makes 100% sense.
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by drcode 8y ago
Sorta, though arguably that podcast says the exact opposite: That taxes are high for art transactions and that people have to develop additional schemes to avoid them: I can buy GOOG stock without sales tax, but apparently you DO have to pa
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by drcode 8y ago
Can you provide documentation for these supposed tax benefits? (I'm genuinely curious) AFAIK there are no tax benefits at the point of buying the art, and cap gains benefits are no different than stocks, real estate, etc.
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by drcode 8y ago
I think those play a smaller role, for the following reason: If modern art was primarily about the social aspects, you'd expect most modern art to be stuff like a perfectly blank canvas or a urinal, because those are direct signals of
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by drcode 8y ago
I feel like modern art market is primarily a way for a subsegment of rich people to buy certain intangible goods: These are people that feel lonely, and have low self esteem... They really would like to socialize with cool and charismatic
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by drcode 8y ago
...so, what kind of rendering tech does a tool like this rely on these days? WebGL? What's considered best practice on this front these days?
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by drcode 8y ago
Thinner, smaller bezels, grip for holding, less duplication of identical cameras, likely a more durable hinge, much larger screen, lighter.
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by drcode 8y ago
Physics dictates the the samsung fold likely will have a "cleaner" fold, since it is pulled taught in the open position, whereas the huawei phone is at its loosest in the open position. But in my view the huawei concept is far bet
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by drcode 8y ago
Is some modest bulging really a problem? I'd say it has far less of an "annoyingness factor" than even your typical phone notch.
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by drcode 8y ago
Mainly because a 1st gen phone like this will have lots of custom components inside that are probably machined in-house, which limits how many they can make. It then becomes rational to put a high price tag on it, to make sure they don&#x27
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by drcode 8y ago
I respect the journalist here, and the Theranos story is endlessly fascinating, but I'm kind of underwhelmed by the content of this particular article- It kinda makes the "final months" at Theranos sound really boring... ...b
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by drcode 8y ago
Fair point, that does address my hypothesis.
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by drcode 8y ago
I think flies can detect carbon dioxide levels to find their hosts ( https://journeynorth.org/tm/crane/co2_traps.html ) Why is this fact never mentioned in this article, and did they do any analysis on how wearing a
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by drcode 8y ago
I agree this first-gen product is worth skipping, but given that many people spend probably 20% of their waking hours looking at their phone screen, it seems short sighted to me to argue that a 2x boost in screen size is merely a gimmick.
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by drcode 8y ago
When I saw the first Google deepdream images, they made me physically nauseous. But now, in 2019, I've fully acclimated such nightmare-fuel concoctions: "Oh look, another GAN cat!"

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