franciscrick1

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by franciscrick1 8y ago
This $20/hr beauty booth seems like a horrifying way to exploit people's insecurity for profit. Then again, .ai is a pretty expensive TLD. Somebody's gotta pay the bills.
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
What if users don't want you taking control of their computer?
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
"meant to be fabulous" is a weird construction.
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
What do you mean "Fab"?
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
Scott, did you flag my other reply to this comment?
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
Sounds like you have a lot of internalized self-hate. You certainly have a lot of guts saying this on an account attached to your name and resume.
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
I really don't care what you have to say, and I don't like you, but I don't particularly hate you. Happy?
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
You think anything that is an attack should be illegal?
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
It's called an abstract, and it's a thing for scientific papers. If you want literally none of the human side of a story or discovery, research papers are a great solution and don't need to be recompiled from longform journal
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
If you want concise descriptions of science, read the papers or abstracts. Complaining about journalistic style will literally get you nowhere. Edit: yes, please flag me because I upset you by providing helpful information. That's defi
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
Pieces of paper work pretty well. Edit: literally any text data storage medium that can be powered down and locked in a safe will work perfectly well for any of this. It doesn't matter if it's a flash drive, floppy disk, CD ROM, p
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
No, we don't. You might want to, but nobody else cares.
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
When did the Luddites come out of the woodwork?
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
Not from Tesla.
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
See also http://www.picospace.net/ , or http://www.leobodnar.com/balloons/ .
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
This is a great talk.
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
Get out of SA first.
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Ask HN: Why do undergraduates in physics/math want to work in academia?
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
Can an entire society perpetuate itself given that all members always make empirically bad decisions that work out in the end?
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
I don't see the algorithmically generated solutions as pretty, but the hand-drawn ones seem to have almost fractal detail and are really nice to look at.
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
Did you want them to say "This guy is a crank!" several hundred times to fill up space? How are we ever supposed to learn anything new if everything is run through your hypothetical credibility filter first?
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
I think this is pretty close to what Linus Torvalds does with his kids, but I might be mistaken.
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
> My hyper intelligent kid was able to direct himself to all kinds of educational content Is this the same child that was convinced sleeping under a tree would be fatal?
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
He obviously likes the iPad more than the laptop. As a kid, I would tear the keys out of mechanical keyboards all the time out of curiosity and boredom, but that didn't break them.
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
> They can use them prior to typing, reading or even fully speaking. Are you trying to say that this is a good thing? Do we expect our children to be able, say, to speak English?
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
I think the point with #797 is that the artists for each line are different, and thus there is compounding error. As it is, each line is identical to the last except for color.
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
Yeah, but is it RISCV?
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
One thing I am reminded of as I look at this page is that university sites almost never have advertisements on them. Can't say I miss phys.org or iflscience.
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
Why do they even have iPads? At least with a $100-200 laptop/chromebook they can learn things and build typing skills. Tablets are literally impossible (even for adults) to be productive on.
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by franciscrick1 8y ago
Google simply can't afford to be seen losing money on Youtube anymore - and the real economics of the situation are finally here. Easy money for producers is gone, and so is good ad-free content for viewers.

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