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by farias0 6y ago
What is the timeframe you imagine for us to see the first consumer BCI-based products? Gabe seems to talk a lot about "inserting" data (like feelings) into the brain, instead of reading it. Is the technology really there already?
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by farias0 6y ago
The implication of what you're saying is that fighting for net neutrality isn't enough, we need to ensure ample platform to everyone. But is it true? Isn't free speech more about not suffering legal persecution?
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by farias0 6y ago
Actually I'd bet on the opposite: They don't think it makes sense to ignore it. They want to process this data, and they're confident in the weight it's assigned to it.
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by farias0 6y ago
I wouldn't say New Vegas was the only good one, I thought FO 3 and 4 were fun in their own way. But New Vegas was the only great one, and a benchmark when it comes to 3D CRPGs.
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by farias0 6y ago
>it's more like a new Deus Ex game Yes, I'm pretty sure it's the opposite. I was expecting a cyberpunk New Vegas, but it seems more like a cyberpunk Fallout 4.
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by farias0 6y ago
I thought it was widely understood that bias-less journalism is impossible in practice, and that this doesn't diminish its value.
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by farias0 6y ago
I don't know, I think that if we treated it as less of a taboo we could popularize regulations and unions and stuff like this.
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by farias0 6y ago
You mean the table on Wikipedia? Because the numbers lowered substantially after 2005.
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by farias0 6y ago
Hypothesis: The reason having to stand up (or more generally put physical effort) on games turns you off is because you're looking for a different thing in games, probably just turning off your brain. The appeal, unarguably I believe,
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by farias0 6y ago
I don't get your point. Bolsonaro is the fourth Brazilian president since 2008. And yes, environment weren't the top priority at any point, but there were actual efforts to lower deforestation, and the last URL you linked illustra
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by farias0 6y ago
As a Lisp and Clojure beginner, ehhhh. I could get work done, but I depended on the terminal for REPL and compiling & running. I ended up using Emacs, which along with .NET were the only cases where VSCode didn't feel ideal for me.
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by farias0 6y ago
I'm doing Clojure for the Brave and True right now and it has been an amazing resource. It even incentivized me to get into Emacs as well, which has been a blast. I'm not a fan of the humor, but it does not get in the way at all.
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by farias0 6y ago
Are they interested in keeping the Ulgurs alive?
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by farias0 6y ago
But I think the discussion is not only about how much money, but who gets it. The government? Will they give it to local farmers? The past administrations were happy about fighting illegal deforestation. In this case they still could levera
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by farias0 6y ago
This is one of my favorite videos on all YouTube. I know in retrospect it seems obvious, but when it showed that it was all running on a NES it blew my mind. This video felt like transforming nerd hackery into an art form.
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by farias0 6y ago
The fact that mass media profits with curated information does not imply that "uncensored mass media", as you put it, has had a positive impact. It has become apparent that the "uncensored mass media" can be controlled t
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by farias0 6y ago
No, the child separation policy I decry is the byproduct of the zero tolerance policy regarding illegal immigration on the current administration. It does not matter if there is suspicion of child trafficking or not. https://www.
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by farias0 6y ago
I don't think we want to foster a sense that we're okay with companies being completely amoral just because everyone's tired of politics. We need to draw lines on basis of basic decency, i.e not supporting slavery, child traf
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by farias0 6y ago
Are you sure the media started reporting on these fake news before they became relevant? What makes you believe this? I think the easiness with which algorithms + human psychology helps the propagation of fake news are well documented and
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by farias0 6y ago
Don't you think this public worrying is deserved, given the rise of Facebook and algorithms, troll farms and everything else?
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by farias0 6y ago
Dude, FL Studio is so much more complex and flexible than Ableton! So much that I'm switching to Ableton for a while to see if I can get more productive and spend less time troubleshooting stuff I'd say the opposite: Ableton is mo
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by farias0 6y ago
What? Are you saying FL Studio is a dumbed down Ableton? I must be misunderstanding you
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by farias0 6y ago
Or you predict you'll be drinking beer and playing video games when in reality the apocalypse is happening. It goes both ways. We either give up on trying to predict stuff or we do our best and refine our models over time. If you (and
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by farias0 6y ago
Exactly. What's the point in giving up on Firefox? It's putting up a hell of a fight (except for some performance and a very occasional broken site I don't miss Chrome at all) and it's our only realistic hope. Why don&#x
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by farias0 6y ago
I don't think it's comparable. If social network is the new newspaper, everyone is free to create your own newspaper. That's why I'll always defend net neutrality. But forcing a private institution to adopt a specific ed
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by farias0 6y ago
This will surely come in handy. Thanks a lot!
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Ask HN: How to hands-on learn Data Science
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by farias0 6y ago
...and they've been flocking to Instagram (also Facebook is still huuuuge) Companies that are willing to play dirty are the ones that get investment and also are the ones who retain users. They have an inherent advantage over any platf
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by farias0 6y ago
Do you really see most people leaving the likes of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter? I don't think they care about privacy enough to stop doing what's easy and fun
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by farias0 6y ago
The exactly same goes for Brazil. Am I seeing a pattern here, i.e. countries that are supposed to be great but really aren't?

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