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fouc
5y ago
Frankly it's fine to create enough gap that people are passing in front of you.. My response is usually to widen the gap even more. It actually has the effect of helping to smooth traffic, reducing traffic jams.
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fouc
5y ago
Sounds more like Amazon or Microsoft. People seem to enjoy working at Apple from the sounds of it.
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fouc
5y ago
For Canada, it looks to be hard to acquire a used one for less than $250-280 CAD. So about $200-$220 USD. Still a solid choice. I find it hard to imagine there's any android phone that can beat this phone for the same price (used or n
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fouc
5y ago
It seems to be entirely based on NIC bandwidth, rather than the actual time it takes for information to travel between servers via ethernet or optics within a LAN.
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fouc
5y ago
I think UIUX is culture & context & device dependent. For example, Japanese had smartphones long before iPhone/Android phones got any significant market share.
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fouc
5y ago
I always wondered if part of it was due to japanese smartphones.
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fouc
5y ago
> compare https://www.kuronekoyamato.co.jp/ytc/customer/ with the same company's same page in English https://www.kuronekoyamato.co.jp/ytc/en/ Interesting to see the english vers
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fouc
5y ago
Given inflation, it's probably a thousand dollar word now.
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fouc
5y ago
It's spelled "caste" not "cast"
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fouc
5y ago
"Email is no joke" -> "It’s kind of a sensitive subject." i.e. someone did sue about email. it's relevant.
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5y ago
I think you've nailed the best possible UX
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fouc
5y ago
> the 2013 edition of Project Oberon and its results are intended to be presented "as-is", a teaching and learning resource kept reasonably static in the spirit in which the original book was written. This is a classic
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fouc
5y ago
That might be technically true, but most types of therapy seem to depend on some sort of theory of mind. Something like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is based on the idea that thoughts can control emotions & behavior. A p-zombie might c
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fouc
5y ago
Something that I was wondering about recently, are there any types of therapy that can help philosophical zombies? i.e. hypothetical beings that are physically identical to and indistinguishable from normal people but do not have conscious
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5y ago
If you're a utilitarian part-vegetarian then you'd preferentially eat cow over smaller intelligent animals. If we assume small animals and large animals experience the same amount of sentient pain during the slaughter, we can mini
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fouc
5y ago
I think the only time I've had octopus was when I tried Takoyaki a few times in Japan & Thailand. But honestly I found the diced octopus meat chewy and boring. Not very interested in it. As for health benefits? I doubt it.
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fouc
5y ago
It varies, several species have been found to be social.
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5y ago
Responding to a flagged comment: It is indeed possible to have a tool that could cross-post to both. Use something like OBS to record a copy of your video that you're streaming to youtube, twitch, tec..
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5y ago
> For example, the famous day care study mentioned in Freakonomics casts doubt on the utility of incentives when it comes to social problem-solving Technically it mainly casts doubt on monetary forms of incentives. But it also mentions
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fouc
5y ago
It's hard not to wonder if the people running Mozilla are being "influenced" to kill the company.
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fouc
5y ago
Interestingly the figure for "the eye has a resolution of 576 megapixels" comes from this article: https://clarkvision.com/articles/eye-resolution.html
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5y ago
General question about incentives.. How do incentives get fixed? Do we have any social systems engineers that focus entirely on designing or adjusting incentives to encourage social systems to organically produce the desired outcomes? Is t
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5y ago
Why would Lua be significantly faster than Python? Isn't it an interpreted language too?
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5y ago
RR.. Real Reality? Funny. I'm gonna remember that one.
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Is exercise with VR significantly better or more convenient than non-VR options? Were Wii Fit or Xbox One Kinect or DDR or other options any good?
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5y ago
Historically women that cannot produce enough breastmilk would ask other women to do the breastfeeding.
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5y ago
It kind of is. If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, then we can effectively treat it like a duck, even if it denies it in the legalese.
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fouc
5y ago
I think it's more about what parts of the internet people spend their time in.
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5y ago
The reference to "West Elm Caleb" forced me to look up what the hell it was. Not a good idea on a landing page.
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5y ago
Great idea! I wonder if there's anything similar to this in other programming languages? Would love to see something like this in Ruby or Elixir.
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