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by iak8god 9y ago
> Don’t get me wrong: it’s a well-written article explaining the biology to a lay audience. But it doesn’t hold any striking new insights. This "article" in the Harvard Gazette is basically a press release about an invited lect
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by iak8god 9y ago
I've never seen a spurious click with press to click, but I am still on a 2015 MBP.
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by iak8god 9y ago
You might consider turning on "Tap to click" in your Trackpad settings. Instead of pressing anything, you can just lightly tap a finger anywhere on the pad to send a click. There's another option for a two-fingered tap to cou
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by iak8god 9y ago
I'm hoping for a future where the machines do all the work required to provide everything human beings need to survive, AND where we've figured out a reasonable way to distribute resources in a world where not everyone will be abl
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by iak8god 9y ago
> Upon choosing a career, you should consider the longevity of that career. Isn't it lucky we humans are so very good at predicting the future!? When I was taking computer vision courses little more than a decade ago, self driving c
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by iak8god 9y ago
How about "[men] are conditioned to hide our mental health and true feelings/emotions"
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by iak8god 9y ago
I'd be happy if such sites would just support more serious options than SMS, without necessarily requiring it.
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by iak8god 9y ago
> the whole effort was all about standardizing Lisp There are more Lisps now than ever, so perhaps that was not as successful as was hoped. > why not just say Scheme or Clojure when talking about Scheme or Clojure? Why not just say &q
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by iak8god 9y ago
Common Lisp has CLOS. I'm aware some purists don't think Scheme is a Lisp but, regardless of one's stance on this, there are most definitely other Lisps than Common Lisp.
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by iak8god 9y ago
Is this supposed to be some kind of joke, or do you really imagine that lesson planning and grading alone for 4 daily hours of classroom instruction would take less than an additional 4 hours?
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by iak8god 9y ago
The SUNY system offers free tuition to NY state residents with annual income under $125K. That may not be too relevant for the children of HNers, but it's a huge proportion of households in NY state. https://www.ny.gov/
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by iak8god 9y ago
How about "eccentric"?
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by iak8god 9y ago
> Hope the explanation helps. Absolutely. > We can either adopt a norm of honoring what the writer intended or a norm of honoring what the reader observed. I think a lot of people who are most vocally pro-diversity use the later norm
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by iak8god 9y ago
OK, I kind of agree with you. Logically , it doesn't entail that, but it would be insane to treat natural language as pure logic. Pragmatically, taking context into account, I think the original statement is more likely meant to imply
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by iak8god 9y ago
> "If you want to increase diversity at Google fire all the bigoted white men" — this can be read as all the white men at Google are bigots. It really can't.
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by iak8god 9y ago
> It also makes elections a more accurate reflection of everyone's preferences The main preference this may reveal is a preference to avoid being fined.
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by iak8god 9y ago
> Crypto means cryptography I hope that's considered obvious on HN. The suggestion was that "cryptos" could be a suitable plural abbreviation for "cryptocurrencies" (unless it's typically used as an abbrevia
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by iak8god 9y ago
How about https://matrix.org/ ?
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by iak8god 9y ago
"cryptocurrency" is a bit of a mouthful, so I at least understand the urge to shorten it, but I wish we could agree to at least shorten it to "cryptos," as in: "A Cryptos Website Changes Its Data..."
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by iak8god 9y ago
> Only run Javascript on domains you really need and trust, and even then the minimum amount required for the site to function. This is so inconvenient that practically no one is going to do it. I used to use NoScript but found I was jus
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by iak8god 9y ago
Just to add to your list, I recently came across Thyme (probably in some HN thread) and it's pretty neat https://github.com/sourcegraph/thyme
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by iak8god 9y ago
No, I'm imagining, and I'm sure we'll get there eventually, but BTC has a lot of inertia at present.
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by iak8god 9y ago
Well, for sure it's better than using your mother's actual maiden name. But I'd rather see security questions done away with altogether.
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by iak8god 9y ago
> Imagine the hash rate of the BTC network going towards some useful calculations. Unfortunatly BTC mining now runs almost entirely on ASICs that can't be used to compute anything but SHA-256.
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by iak8god 9y ago
Sure, but you're not spending all day running customer service "DoS attacks" against people's bank accounts. Even if "it's gibberish, and I forgot it, can't you please help me out" only works one time
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by iak8god 9y ago
I shares worries I've seen expressed elsewhere that this opens up a social engineering attack vector where an imposter gets through to phone support and says "oh I just typed a bunch of gibberish for the answer and can't reme
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by iak8god 9y ago
I don't know about the cause, but I just want to say that it's extremely frustrating and at least a little distressing to deal with US banks in 2017 that don't offer proper 2FA, with SMS being the highest security option.
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by iak8god 9y ago
> in the future they might be marketed in terms of THC:CBD ratios I don't know about marketing per se, but I was at a dispensary in a recreational state a couple of years back and the THC:CBD ratio was prominently displayed as par
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by iak8god 9y ago
OpenSecrets.org Influence & Lobbying / Lobbying / Industry: Pharmaceuticals/Health Products https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=h04
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by iak8god 9y ago
> If only those clowns could focus on making the absurd bit of theater they currently have even just the slightest bit more efficient. Maybe efficiency is not the goal. Cui bono? We got all those nifty body scanners in part because Micha

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