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by hydrox24 8y ago
This article[0] appeared on HN the other day. I think it describes Richard Feynman using exactly the approach your talking about with an early distributed/parallel architecture. See the eighth paragraph of the "An Algorithm For Lo
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by hydrox24 8y ago
> You need a hierarchy to manage a file system. I find this a strange assertion after several paragraphs which vociferously assert hierarchies are redundant in the virtual space. In fact, OS/400 is a 'single-level' store u
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by hydrox24 8y ago
> The principles of human-centered design have proven to be effective and productive Perhaps this assertion is patently obvious within the field, and doesn't need a reference, but for those of us less familiar with human-centred des
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by hydrox24 8y ago
> political commentary sprinkled with humor. I think you're right about their shows, but both Hasan Minhaj and Samantha Bee are comedians, so why are we entrusting political commentary to comedians?
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by hydrox24 8y ago
You were not downvoted because people took your comment literally, you were downvoted because being snarky runs against the Hacker News guidelines, specifically: > Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don&#
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by hydrox24 8y ago
In the USA churches provide a substantial portion of the shelter available to the homeless.[0] Church tithing is often charitable, and churches often open their doors to provide community services. Churches may not regularly organise street
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by hydrox24 8y ago
> Therefore we've raised the social cost of a divorce until it's only accessible to people who really need to get out I don't know what the time frame for this statement is, but all over the western world, divorce has bee
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by hydrox24 8y ago
You will also see words like "feature-rich", or "all-in-one solution".
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by hydrox24 8y ago
I want to know if backburning is a common practice in California, or in the USA at all. In Australia a big part of a Firey's job is running controlled burns in the (relatively) low fire risk season to keep the amount of flammable mater
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by hydrox24 8y ago
What reading would you recommend about Chinese ride sharing companies in Canada? And is it Vancouver or Canada that is the ally?
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by hydrox24 8y ago
Australian scholarship and media has substantially changed it's tone on China in the last five years. While there are undoubtedly some forces from "above" pushing for this change, I think that government and corporate interes
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by hydrox24 8y ago
This is a good article, and the final paragraphs about the Norwegian model are welcome in a world where so many articulate criticisms fail to offer any positive suggestions. I am not sure about the following paragraph though: > For examp
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by hydrox24 8y ago
To what extent does simply enjoying life exacerbate the problems you point out? If enjoying life is the popular thing to do, the well connected, high IQ and high-grit people will succeed even more dramatically, assuming that such people are
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by hydrox24 8y ago
Hacker News uses points, (inverse) time since posting, and (inverse) number of comments to decide the position of an item. Lots of points in a short time with few or no comments will push an item to the top.
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by hydrox24 8y ago
> In the United States, it was somewhat more complex than that. The highway network was and is primarily part of the nation's military defense infrastructure You are right. I am not contesting the Highway system, which actually stil
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by hydrox24 8y ago
> (the car tax is) paid for by people in suburbia who _have_ to own a car to survive. I have been wondering for a little while now if the extreme libertarian position on private roads has been vindicated. I am not sure yet, but it seems
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by hydrox24 8y ago
> height is mostly genetic And yet until the industrial revolution, environmental factors were the dominant effect. Anyone could have been taller with enough nutrition. Genes are only ever expressed under certain environmntal conditions.
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by hydrox24 8y ago
I know very little about machine vision, so forgive the naïvete of this question: > an ability humans have that AI lacks: the ability to understand when a scene is confusing and thus go back for a second glance. Wouldn't the machin
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by hydrox24 8y ago
> It does not excuse the outcomes of their actions for the world at large. Absolutely not. But the grandparent was arguing that the push for clean coal is a result of corruption and people acting insincerely. The parent was pointing out
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by hydrox24 8y ago
> Neurons mostly produce actionable thoughts. I suppose you think this is true.
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by hydrox24 8y ago
I think you have been a little unfair the the argument cited. The author is not arguing for any of the modern annoyances you list. They are arguing for boredom, tedium, and for serendipity. Why are they arguing for some measure of these thi
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by hydrox24 8y ago
Yes, the database has been published. https://twitter.com/whatcd/status/923942203080273921 EAC was the standard because it was the only free tool that could bypass firmware error correction (with 'secure&#x27
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by hydrox24 8y ago
This is an opinion article; if you're interested in the fact in the headline, it was produced by joint CareerBuilder/Harris Poll study. The results and details are here: http://press.careerbuilder.com/2017-08-24-Li
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Doing with Images makes Symbols (1987) [video](youtube.com)
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> Yeah, just 4K at 200mbps (GH5 and co) and 10bit color, 6MP snapshots from video This is a good thing to point out, because video really has progressed substantially in the last five years. But most people still can't make videos l
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by hydrox24 8y ago
This reminds me of Sun Tzu's Art of War. His writing certainly is a kind of poetry, but the lines and stanzas are broken down not only by semantics, as done by Buckminster Fuller, but also by concept. Ventilated prose isn't only
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The Architecture of Open Source Applications(aosabook.org)
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by hydrox24 8y ago
> "anti-intellectual religious zealots" This is a ridiculous thing to say. Curtin, Hawke, and Gillard all left the faiths they were raised in, and the first two Prime Ministers were Spiritualist (no dogma, not really zealots) a
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by hydrox24 8y ago
But Subaru certainly hold a slightly more luxurious segment of the market than Nissan. Are you talking about raw quality or value for money?
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by hydrox24 8y ago
I don't know that it's fair to simply say his statement is false. The problem with your reductio ad absurdum is that the rich in such countries do not create wealth. Their economies are aptly described as crony-capitalism for th

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