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by hahajk 2y ago
Everyone here is saying cul de sac suburbs do not give kids freedom, but they do for kids younger than 12. We moved to this "mc same" neighborhood when my daughter was 5 and she's been able to leave in the morning on her bike
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by hahajk 3y ago
You could institute a UBI by building a tower that drops a $1 bill every minute. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35585305
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by hahajk 3y ago
Readwise has been really good for me to remind myself of highlights I made years ago. I set aside 30 minutes in the morning to go over a few highlights and write. I think that adding a "random bookmark" every day would be a good i
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by hahajk 3y ago
Measuring student outcomes is hard! For example, do you think we should encourage students to study for tests, or should we encourage them to just show up? After all, if you understand it intuitively why would you need to study the night be
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by hahajk 3y ago
Readwise Reader has a nice pdf reader with highlighting, notes, and an AI reader tool. I organize sources using tags. It's very new and in active development. Academic research is not it's main focus, though, so it probably won&#x
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by hahajk 3y ago
Is the idea that yoga/meditation are more efficient than sleep at redistributing the cerebral fluid? That would be very surprising.
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by hahajk 3y ago
The part at the beginning about how critical software is to our world reminds me of the time (or so I've heard, it was before my time) when there was a push to make software engineering a licensed field. A "real" engineering.
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by hahajk 3y ago
I wonder if it's because the average parent is not a very sophisticated bureaucrat. We get tired and just say yes because we need to survive. As children get older and interface with more institutions that have teams of people to tell
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by hahajk 3y ago
Wow, thank you. That was a real broccoli = kale moment for me.
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by hahajk 3y ago
The researchers quoted were explicit about this: > OpenAI researcher Harri Edwards tells Quartz that the idea for letting the AI agent flip through channels came from a thought experiment called the noisy-TV problem. The static on a TV i
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by hahajk 3y ago
I still believe the free market can work for self driving cars. If there's demand for offline self driving cars, someone will make them. Probably someone in Asia will make them affordable. But I believe regulatory capture and anti-co
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by hahajk 3y ago
> And a whole universe of potential trademark infringements with this single two-word prompt: animated toys If you flood the market and dominate children's culture with toys from your TV shows, you absolutely cannot complain when yo
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by hahajk 3y ago
I can't think of a situation in which "or" would ever be used in an exclusive sense unless it was explicitly called out as an XOR or included "but not both".
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by hahajk 3y ago
I believe Google Maps invented AJAX. Google Docs I think was actually acquired, but it was definitely ahead of its time.
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by hahajk 3y ago
But morality only concerns itself a certain complex class of organisms, right? We don't weep for loss of innocent life we inflict when we take antibiotics.
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by hahajk 3y ago
It would be easy to point to their recent acquisition by Bending Spoons and say that they're squeezing the stone for blood.
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by hahajk 3y ago
I heard Vint Cerf describe the original AI algorithms as basically "heuristic algorithms". "AI" was used to described a class of algorithms that only worked some of the time as opposed to the mathematically proven algori
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by hahajk 3y ago
Perhaps because of individual sovereignty, which I believe is the basis of our rights in liberal democracy. We have given up some of that sovereignty in order to live in a govt. We should ask if giving up the right to free exchange is neces
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by hahajk 3y ago
Wait, how so? Didn't most transactions take place in cash for most of history? Cash isn't reversible.
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by hahajk 3y ago
So, what's the story here? People don't read the listings close enough and accidentally buy miniature items? All the examples listed had accurate dimensions in the listings and didn't seem deceptive. They were also useful ite
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by hahajk 3y ago
> Computer science has evolved to include more than basic coding. A good class now includes lessons on artificial intelligence, media literacy, data science, ethics and biased algorithms, so “students know how to think critically to solv
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by hahajk 3y ago
How much of this is trying to get a higher IIHS safety rating[1]? I liken these features to the idle engine auto-off feature that allows manufacturers to add 1 or 2 city mpgs to their rating even though I've never known a human who lik
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by hahajk 3y ago
I didn't know what a Capsule Communicator was, I thought it was a piece of equipment used by astronauts in their space capsule. But it's a role if the ground crew; the person who is responsible for communicating with the astronaut
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by hahajk 3y ago
Does she not already pay property tax on her home? And sales tax on her purchases?
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by hahajk 3y ago
Bell 206s, still used today, have retaining bolts. And while I don't know what the engineers call things, pilots certainly do call them Jesus nuts.
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by hahajk 3y ago
Also to be fair, Notepad was exploited to execute arbitrary code. https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/major-security-flaw-...
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by hahajk 3y ago
You lived during a good time to sit around and play with computers. I doubt time spent with an ipad today will translate to useful technical skills.
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by hahajk 3y ago
> If somehow Gmail fucks me over in the future, I’ll deal with that when the time comes. You should at least try to imagine how catastrophic losing access to your email would be. How many accounts on other websites are linked to your ema
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by hahajk 3y ago
It's great that your congressperson was enlightened enough to pull the bill. Some states (such as Minnesota) apparently actively prosecute children for sexting. [1] https://www.aclu.org/news/juvenile-justice/m
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by hahajk 3y ago
It still doesn't answer the question: if women complain so much about a lack of pockets [0], why don't they buy clothes with pockets? This article by HSW [1] suggests it's a "male dominated fashion industry." That d

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