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by gohrt 10y ago
In other words, some people just discovered the children's joke that you can lie to someone and then make fun of them for being "gullible", destroying your credibility in the process.
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by gohrt 10y ago
The homepage ad is amazing. It makes me want to put my phone away and play outside.
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by gohrt 10y ago
the anti-piracy crippleware garbage is the worst part.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Iwata was right until video game hardware became deeply commodified. "AI" toys are getting big (as annoying as that is), that's where Iwata's vision has potential.
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by gohrt 10y ago
You _know_ Nintendo is going to publish a high-quality game, because they've been doing that for a hundred years.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Maintain a single-unified opt-out, meticulously maintained, centralized voter registration database, is at risk for authoritarian abuse for cataloging and targeting people. Why should Federal government care who lives in Florida, aside from
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by gohrt 10y ago
> Should you be able to vote without registering? Maybe. Maybe voter rolls should be some sort of bio-token that proofs your uniqueness and existence, and your approximate location (to determine local eligibility) but uses a pseudonym an
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by gohrt 10y ago
If something is harmful, ineffective grandstanding (and then losing a FISA fight) are worthless.
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by gohrt 10y ago
ordinally, not cardinally. Ordinal means Order, Cardinal means Size. And choosing "0" to mean "absent" is as arbitary and misguided (unless you are optimizing bits and cycles on a low-powered machine) as choosing "-
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by gohrt 10y ago
Offset (distance, 0-based) and Ordinal (position, 1-based) are two different things, and the confusion disappears when your program/language properly treats different types. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-based
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by gohrt 10y ago
it's a measured correlation.
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by gohrt 10y ago
There's also a lot of denial of autism in the Somali immigrant community, with traditional supernatural explanations of autistic behaviors.
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by gohrt 10y ago
likely hard to get good data on that.
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by gohrt 10y ago
The levels overlap and vary by environment. Your truck can be level 5 on long stretch of highway, but then ring alarm bells and (if necessary, if the driver does not take over) slow down to a graceful stop on the shoulder before exiting the
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by gohrt 10y ago
Rebelliousness, while may be a valuable skill, is different from intelligence.
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by gohrt 10y ago
So you practice patterns to raise your score.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Also, "general intelligence" ("G) is a hypothesized abstract concept, not well-defined. The non-existence of a non-gameable IQ test shows that G is not well defined.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Professor Gelman's preferred term is "PPNAS". You mustn't forget the prestige.
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by gohrt 10y ago
People with families or physical social obligations care.
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by gohrt 10y ago
if people have so much flexibility, why does rush hour exist?
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by gohrt 10y ago
If one driver in 20 is a rubbernecker, all the cars slow down.
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by gohrt 10y ago
that part is saying that once an IP gets a password correct, don't count past mistakes against them.
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by gohrt 10y ago
Yes, but Disney never solved the problem of how expensive it is to run that service -- they just got people to pay. Will self-driving cars be cheap enough? They save money on the driver, but cost money in the automation hardware and securit
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by gohrt 10y ago
Progressivism is tricky -- the definition of the word is for continual change. So, no progressive agenda of Year X would be progressive in Year X+20. A successfu progressive in Year X would be pushing progress the margin choices of the day.
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by gohrt 10y ago
"authoritarian" isn't a left/right issue. Mao and Stalin were leftist authoritarians. Your claim that authoritarianism is non-centrist is not obvious, I don't even agree it's true.
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by gohrt 10y ago
And here you see the problem in the US having a fixed inauguration date. In parliamentary countries, where the government can vote to dissolve itself, they tend to call for elections whenever the governing coalition is unstable, and electio
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by gohrt 10y ago
> Indian manager fresh off the boat didn't help me understand the point of your story, but did cast doubt on your credibility.
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by gohrt 10y ago
It seems like the article is long way around of saying that people want or need nicer accommodations than today's shelters. The difference between a "shelter" and a "hotel" is (a) of/how you pay (minor detail),
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by gohrt 10y ago
an automated truck doesn't mean a driverless truck. it means the driver can be sleeping/tweeting/whatever during the boring hours between checkpoints/stops.
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by gohrt 10y ago
No, grandparent's point was the the AI data dump is misdirection from the actual trading logic.

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