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Text analysis based on second hand accounts and reputation? You would get kicked out of mentat school for that sort of silliness
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Text is nothing but an ad hominem attack on the product. It doesn’t invalidate it, but it sure isn’t a very interesting or nuanced billeted-list Edit: it is interesting that Thiel is a big investor
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The Korean practice is similar, according to some essay research I did a few years ago: work dangerously hard to get into a good school, then slack off. It harkens back to the old Chinese system of civil service examinations (copied somewha
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I’ve been waiting for this sort of thing. Naturally, since a TOS represents informed consent and is somehow a legally binding contract, then the next innovation is to add financial terms to them. Hopefully, such a company will push the boun
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Visit a seniors home and just ask residents what they do for fun. Then, just ask questions or do things with them if they want you to. Visit. They get extremely lonely, and you get to learn from their life experiences. Also, you can learn t
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> tried many times to learn new things but I always get bored with the courses and start another topic leaving the previous incomplete. There are a lot of tricks people might recommend, but learning to stick with something that is boring
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I find it unsettling in general that some app has the ability to do this. What are our other apps up to? How good is the sand boxing on iOS?
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Citation? It seems likely that men are less likely to talk about it afterwards too, which might be complicating
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I actually disagree somewhat: if I’m feeling terrible, happy music makes me feel worse but something a little similar to my mood is soothing. I think that’s why Marilyn Manson and NIN were so popular Edit: this is to an extent only. Burying
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A randomized double bind study probably has ethical issues. I guess this is the best we can do, unless Netflix volunteers viewing data for everyone
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Ie, if the algorithms fail to make you over-use it
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Let’s not forget the Game of Thrones books, which depict politics in a strikingly selfish and human way
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Preventative tech inspired by action/spy movies. Neat
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Teaching human-human communication by removing human inputs and having computers decide about quality... call me a skeptic. I feel bad for the students. Essay grading was bad enough before this Narrowly for grammar however - is even that a
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I really just want my car to drive and to last a long time. Aren’t these screens almost entirely bad? In 10 years, screens in cars will be the new smoking, except that they kill other people, and the NYT will be full of editorials about how
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How come more websites do not accept brave payments? If I had a website, what is the process required to begin accepting them? Edit: typo
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Could you clarify a tiny bit? I’m not sure I follow. If you are not including images or video in the ads, does that mean that you are downloading them at view time from somewhere, or that the ads have no images or video? Also, what are edge
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I find the XPS has a disappointing keyboard actually.
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> Through the mid-1990s, there was a difference between military-grade encryption and consumer-grade encryption. Laws regulated encryption as a munition and limited what could legally be exported only to key lengths that were easily brea
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I did not realize common lisp was still in use and was therefore planning on learning Clojure instead. Which is better to learn then?
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Superbugs. Sam Harris’s has a scary podcast recently with the author of the book by that name. Preventing the superbug future would be world changing
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Then again, Facebook uses your security QA pairs as personal info and adds it to your “what we know about you” profile. Even harmless security and logging features lately are being used for tracking beyond their original scope. It’s a bit o
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> We may share data that is not personally identifiable with third parties > Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We and our partners use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements
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The privacy.com business promise is privacy, but their privacy policy (as of several years ago) did not actually promise much. I emailed them about it and they said they were surprised by the oversight. I wonder if they changed it
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I used to love the abstract symbolic manipulation of pure math, but have not worked with it in many years and find it unintuitive now. I have a harder time trusting the abstractions. I wonder how to get my old sense back - it never, ever ca
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Are the Math olympiads similar to competitive coding?
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Engineers and scientists predict the future all day, and if our physical world is any indication, it’s working. You can’t so easily say “you can’t predict the future” Such an attitude makes us incapable of acting in the face of negative tre
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> While much attention has been focused on high-level software architectural patterns, what is, in effect, the de-facto standard software architecture is seldom discussed. This paper examines this most frequently deployed of software arc
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I find Fowler writes/speaks more clearly about topics than anybody else. A few of these topics like refactoring or RESTful design have been very helpful for me.
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The standard practice is to quiz based on algorithms and data structures. How is that quantifying anybody’s performance? I knew a smart young algorithms guy once who could solve anything, but he still liked storing all his data in the globa

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