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by jpfed 8y ago
It doesn't show that they're harmful ; it shows that they have a cost. The question is whether the benefit exceeds the cost, which depends on making some sort of quantifiable conversion rate between "acrimony and uncertainty
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Think of it like this. Linear models in statistics break out the prediction for a given case in terms of main effects and interactions. All women get hit by the main effect of being a woman; it just so happens that some women are buoyed by
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by jpfed 8y ago
>What kind of heartless monster trains kids to be as literal as possible all the time? Kids start out as literal as possible all the time, no training necessary. As far as my kids are concerned Amelia Bedelia's a documentary.
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by jpfed 8y ago
The thing about G+ is that it wasn't their core business. There are a lot of replies to my comment talking about existing solutions... which are also peripheral to the companies offering them. I hope that at some point someone makes wh
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>There's something to be said for having an album of photos that you pull out a couple of times a year to show a select group of others. My perhaps unreasonable hope for a Facebook killer is just a paid personal archive of your own
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>The issue is that the reason why governments have tax cuts for certain groups is because that's how they win votes. Isn't that an oversimplification, though? Governments also use tax cuts to shape behavior.
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...which leads immediately to the question of whether they're using the fact that HDDs have multiple platters.
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I would be very surprised if these situations would be mirrors of one another. The way MeToo played out in my social media, I never saw friend A sharing an experience that friend-of-friend B posted. Rather, friend A shared their direct ex
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by jpfed 8y ago
Yes, that is possible. Part of MeToo, as interpreted by liberals, was establishing a sort of quorum of those who had been victimized. The fact that other survivors were coming out with their experiences made it seem safer for each person to
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by jpfed 8y ago
MeToo is an interesting example. I suspect that Facebook and Twitter have their own linear algebra models of who is interested in what, and that factors into their choices of what content from your friends makes it into your stream. After t
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by jpfed 8y ago
I call this the "attractor basin hypothesis" of problem solving- your mental state is in one attractor basin and you need to be in a different one; a break gives you another chance to enter the right one. If true, it may be possib
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by jpfed 8y ago
Can we say that a CA is reversible if, in order to deduce the previous state, you must know the initial conditions? With your CA, if you did not know that the current state ultimately descended from one cell, you would not know whether the
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by jpfed 8y ago
Kids vary dramatically in terms of what they need from parents. For some, a high degree of autonomy is appropriate. For others, very much not so.
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by jpfed 8y ago
Well, there's a pretty cool DJ with the username "mkb" across a few different sites. Aaronson is correctly noting that any superconducting quantum computer needs to be at least ten times as cool as that guy in order to work.
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by jpfed 8y ago
One problem from the fossil fuel industry's perspective is that, while scrubbing doesn't suppress their activity, doing it is essentially an admission that there's a carbon problem. And once you do that, you give up the prote
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by jpfed 8y ago
>Is it possible for Rust to have any new or surprising mechanisms that cause loss of constant time execution? The ubiquitous assumption that all code should be executed as fast as possible isn't new or Rust-specific but it will be a
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by jpfed 8y ago
I don't know if it's centrism that enabled infrastructure, so much as the two major parties seeing each other as legitimate rivals that could be negotiated with. Without a common enemy since the Soviet Union disintegrated, the p
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by jpfed 8y ago
If burn-in is a serious threat to the usable lifetime of the display, I wonder whether the laptop could be configured to display a continuously varying image in an attempt to save the screen.
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by jpfed 8y ago
Where I come from, the solder is not much of a problem. We paid everyone a ton of money to replace their pipes, leaving only solder and fittings as lead sources, and we have very little lead in our water to speak of. https://www.
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by jpfed 8y ago
I think a lot of people (especially on HN) view racism in terms of internal processes rather than results. If the current implementation is race-blind, that satisfies them. https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comment
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by jpfed 8y ago
Similarly, if you want to give up e.g. soda, don't say "I can't drink soda". That's just some arbitrary restriction imposed on you. Instead, say "I don't drink soda". That's part of who you ar
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by jpfed 8y ago
>None of them has been successfully replicated, and the ethical problems that plague them would preclude them being re-run now. This is false; Milgram's work was replicated many times in a variety of settings.
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Cool, thanks!
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by jpfed 8y ago
>Bindings to Lua (raylib-lua), Go (raylib-go) and more! Is there a list of other bindings somewhere? I didn't see one in my admittedly cursory look.
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by jpfed 8y ago
It's possible to use salt water and limestone to capture CO2; I wonder whether brine could be used for this purpose.
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by jpfed 8y ago
This made me think about code. I've long thought of incremental refactoring as "following the gradient" of good design principles, but this essay opened up new connections for me. For example, I've heard elsewhere that g
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by jpfed 8y ago
One scenario that may allow another player to dethrone Facebook is with a service that provides value without absolutely requiring network effects.
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My suspicion is that the way to improve legibility is to consider ways to make symbol images more robust to noise. In particular, if a symbol image were perturbed, would the context help you figure out what that symbol should be? For each l
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by jpfed 8y ago
Actually serious- have scientists tried given study participants psychedelic drugs specifically to understand the mechanisms underlying people's sense of what is significant or important?
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by jpfed 8y ago
This was a very useful guide for me a couple years ago. I had to print html documents (thankfully, just a reasonably-well-defined subset) from a .NET Winforms app, but driving a browser to do it was too slow and flaky. So I used the OP as t

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