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by eavc 15y ago
Known credentials, not necessarily. But it would put a priority on increasing the visibility of good input and diminishing the snark and bluster, and culturally, it would be tuned toward intelligent civility. Think HN-style comment ranking,
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Ask HN: Is there a service for asking others to poke holes in your plan?
4 points by eavc 15y ago|5 comments
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by eavc 15y ago
Doh! I misspelled "ask." Deleting and remaking.
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by eavc 15y ago
I want to stick to the common meaning of 'disabuse.' That sounds like a good problem worth solving, though.
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by eavc 15y ago
The Wii's appeal is about multi-player gaming in the same physical space. iOS, Android, and Facebook don't compete with Wii on that count at all. MS and Sony have made efforts at this, but still, the Wii is the most genuinely social gaming
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by eavc 15y ago
Before saying your parents don't want one, it might be worth waiting to see what exactly is presented at E3. For instance, what if the four controllers can essentially function as light tablet computers networked centrally to the console?
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by eavc 16y ago
Can function or can function optimally? Some research shows that mood is impacted more drastically than function. Since burnout and perseverance are such key topics (and emotionally dependent ones), maybe heroic sleep deprivation is an unde
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by eavc 16y ago
I'm sorry for the harshness of the earlier reply, but yes, I imagine that it was a kind of eager, if sincere, pedantry. I get where you are coming from, and again, the harshness was more aimed at the community's collective tendency.
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by eavc 16y ago
Why are there two comments essentially saying this? My comment never included that word.
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by eavc 16y ago
Unfortunately, there's a sizable segment of the HN crowd that foams at the mouth to practice pedantry.
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by eavc 16y ago
I find Lehrer frustrating. He's sort of a psychological Malcolm Gladwell. He's good at framing things in a pat and interesting way, but he's often making a lot of compromises on being thorough and accurate on the way to that narrative. I wo
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by eavc 16y ago
"It's customer centric, and, if they pull it off (With a good streaming, book reading, and content delivery platform) - brilliant." I don't see how this is customer-centric in the traditional idea of the term at all. Customers want to be ab
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by eavc 16y ago
How is effectively booting popular services from their devices in the interest of their customers?
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by eavc 16y ago
Great point. For the less mature, I think the library helps strip away the pretense a bit too. Sipping lattes and being on Twitter seem to go together. Being at the library and doing real work seem to go together too.
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by eavc 16y ago
At that point, you might as well find co-working space with decent coffee.
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Offer HN: Free Proofreading and/or Editing
5 points by eavc 16y ago|3 comments
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by eavc 16y ago
Solid ground was gained rapidly up until philosophy had sired all the major disciplines. What remains are the most ethereal and intractable problems, and while certain possibilities have been ruled out and others have gained popularity, the
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by eavc 16y ago
As someone who once dabbled in coaching, allow me to say that I always noticed you as an example of a person doing it in a way that I found honorable and admirable. The integrity you mention here is certainly a large part of why.
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by eavc 16y ago
You could maybe reward the wealthy in the same way people currently reward philanthropists -- offer to name things for them.
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by eavc 16y ago
How is that fundamentally different from someone observing 2500 years ago that drinking wine could affect the same processes? That is the point many in this thread are trying to make. The essence of the question is usually more persistent t
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by eavc 16y ago
When I was in school, there were still some debate about ontology. That doesn't mean there were serious papers about how much the soul weighs, etc., but rather that some were still puzzling over whether strict materialism is fully satisfyin
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by eavc 16y ago
I last took chemistry in 10th grade, and I too was exposed to the progressive chronology of atomic theory. While today I would appreciate it for what you point out, at the time, those lessons were lost on me, and I was a thoughtful kid. I t
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by eavc 16y ago
I participated in high-level interdisciplinary courses in philosophy and science and philosophy and mathematics. While I grant everything you've said, the lack of rigor cuts both ways. In my experience, many if not most who come from the no
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by eavc 16y ago
Generally I agree with your critique of this approach to a subject, but I think philosophy is an exceptional case, more like a hybrid of mathematics and literature than something like physics. If philosophy was taught the same way physics i
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by eavc 16y ago
There are some places you'd prefer not to have bacteria, though. In dealing with the sick and in preparing food come to mind. I wouldn't mind it for electronics either.
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by eavc 16y ago
He's artful in the worst way.
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by eavc 16y ago
Up to you, I suppose. It's not a point I'd ever raise in trying to sell Facebook stock, though.
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by eavc 16y ago
I just want to point out our confusingly similar user-names. Looking through your comments, it seems we are both interested in psychology and are non-technical. This may or may not be problematic, but I figured I'd let you know as I just no
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Conceptualizing a Viable Whitelist Search Engine
2 points by eavc 16y ago|0 comments
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by eavc 16y ago
It's important not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The enterprise of psychology and its application is a worthwhile and fruitful one despite errant ideas and applications in the past or in some of its member practitioners. To even

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