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by dvanduzer 10y ago
Aristotle[0] is credited with starting that conversation. But the belief that humans have "equal capabilities aside from their environment" is held by almost nobody. Most disagreements are about what we should do about both unequa
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
The goal of the experiment was not to measure irrationality. The goal was to measure neuronal activity involved in decision making, while fuzzing the decision making system with too many options.
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
Biting a pen with your teeth or your lips should induce one of two different "Type I Thinking" facial expressions, associated with Kahneman's "fast thinking" as I understand it. This study appears to discuss the lin
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
Like some FGT[0]s? [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx0z9FjxP-Y
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
IBM is older, larger, and has better insurance.
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
Another example: The phrase "an armed society is a polite society" is born of the frontier. The clearest (to me) boundary worth discussing here, is Apple as iCloud provider versus Apple as iPhone producer. Do we think of cryptogra
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
Indeed. The third leg that solves this problem is known to the industry as Accounting.
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
The lesson is that you can't authorize indiscriminate access to public services on the internet for single-factor authenticated users. edit: Ugh, Wordy. Shorter: Identity is more than a public key.
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
Someone should write a retrospective on the Twelve-Factor App. Have these guiding operational principles changed with the technology / available network bandwidth?
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
This comment will have already been perfect.
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
Indeed, for any given nomad, you'd have to ask them their goals to know which ones they had.
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
The idea is to make yourself visible as someone who is friendly, so that people approach you . (Granted, this might not be something you want to start out with as a total newcomer to a neighborhood like London.)
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
When I talk to experienced motorcyclists, the biggest issue isn't the physical sensation of wearing a helmet. The problem is changing the acoustics around your ears. An enclosed helmet that "hears" like a human, but filters t
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
I'm in. Just need to set our watches back, right?
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
What would be the equivalence class of Nancy Reagan (or whoever it was) tying speed limits to interstate high funding? Seems we could use something like that for revamping Amtrak.
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
Crowdsourcing your opponents online is a perfect way to train a skill. (Assuming you've identified a clear skill you wish to train, and that you're willing to make that time commitment to train it.) Anonymous opponents can take th
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
I don't mean to say that every child shows a natural interest in programming. But I didn't have access to YouTube 30 years ago when I was first learning to program. And even with the resources available, we were the privileged few
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
There's a hip startup downtown working on something just like that.[0] Will these systems be any better than an automatic scoring system with spaced repetition? Well. More fundamentally, what are a student's needs? Sesame Street a
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
Would you consider the Wozniak/Jobs story part of the canon? The hero's journey from #1 to #2? (i.e. #1 Cops & Robbers -> #2 Realpolitik)
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
Granted, I didn't think to ask you, but I've been walking around with the same face, same name.
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
This problem applies to any app store.
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
It weighed heavily on my mind to upvote this, based on your username, but it is a truly insightful comment.
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
A room that you want to leave, but can't, is usually called a Prison. Escape the room, already!
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
> control This is the heart of the issue. If you are in a room that you don't like being in, then leave the room . Communicating with other humans is difficult. If your team can't come to an understanding about how you have
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by dvanduzer 10y ago
That is one way of thinking about the world. Another way is to consider all software as support software. The machines are supposed to be there to help us. There are countless players offering transactional support systems, and just lik
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by dvanduzer 11y ago
My family left the east coast when I was 9, so I don't really have any experience of commuter trains, but I think of this as the moral equivalent of people who won't shut up on the Quiet Car.[0] Public and semi-public space is imp
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by dvanduzer 11y ago
Laptops are a fantastic way for more introverted people to meet each other. Why do you think it's all the rage to paper your Macbook like a NASCAR driver's jacket? Sure, part of it is just the pure hustle of startups, and the low
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by dvanduzer 11y ago
To be fair, there is a small handful of people in the world for whom Mark Zuckerberg would be punching down. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by dvanduzer 11y ago
I'm approaching 35 years old, and HubSpot is a publicly traded company, ergo, a grown-ass company. If they need to cut labor costs, they do a layoff. When I was 17 years old, I got fired without any warning from a mom-and-pop computer
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by dvanduzer 11y ago
The poster has dropped the "self preservation" law when re-mapping robot -> autonomous legal entity.

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