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by jrs99 13y ago
dfan, you make good points. But also we need to keep in mind that today's top players on an absolute level, really probably are better than previous era's top players. They simply have access to the past, and technology. More data
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by jrs99 13y ago
it may mean he went from being a more calculating type of player(tactical), which you can win many games with, to being a more positional type of player (strategical) which takes a much greater understanding of the game.
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by jrs99 13y ago
you can't compare the numbers. you have to look at their games in the era in which they were played.
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by jrs99 13y ago
I'll agree that the analogy is poor. But I think Carlsen is not the Lebron of chess. Not yet at least. Not with his end game.
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by jrs99 13y ago
James Harden is may be the best shooting guard in the NBA right now. Jordan was the best shooting guard in his time.
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i don't think there's a paradigm shift. winning the world championship in Chess is not like winning a World Championship in Boxing. These players play each other all the time, including in blitz. The paradigm has been clear for a
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by jrs99 13y ago
Carlsen is not dominant as Kasparov. He may get there, but right now, there's no comparison.
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by jrs99 13y ago
Thrun didn't really fail. Public education failed. You can't educate someone in one semester. Thrun is trying to actually teach understanding. But in all their lives, students never needed to understand anything. They just needed
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by jrs99 13y ago
but the company image is a company that provides me something for as cheap as possible, sometimes at ludicrously cheap prices.
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by jrs99 13y ago
why is vanilla android not the answer? i don't even need apps. just a browser, really.
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by jrs99 13y ago
maybe they are changing it back
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yea
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by jrs99 13y ago
great way to spread the publicity of aereo
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by jrs99 13y ago
So politicians are all a bunch of teenagers in adult bodies. Who would have thought?
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by jrs99 13y ago
either you're not seeing everything, and you're missing some details when you examine the products, or the original copy sucked in the first place. I can buy an original cd or blu ray and the case and the disc and everything are e
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by jrs99 13y ago
Do you think there are only 120000 angry users?
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by jrs99 13y ago
you were programming for 6 years before hacker school?
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by jrs99 13y ago
g+ needs to succeed. if it don't, then google is done. Search with no ads is something a startup can figure out. video with no ads is something a startup can figure out.
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by jrs99 13y ago
i understand why you think it is amoral. However, your definition of something being moral or not is very different from someone else's. Someone might think it is amoral to abort at 8 months, while there certainly are many that think i
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by jrs99 13y ago
I'm not saying that it's a good policy to limit children. But more to spark dialogue. It's an interesting question. What happens when there are 100 billion people on this planet, and if possible, what happens if one day there
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by jrs99 13y ago
what's the moral thing to do if the world's population was 250 billion?
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by jrs99 13y ago
i'd feel better if Google had asked each owner of the copyrighted material for their permission to scan the book. It's the copyright owner's choice to be in a program that may increase sales. If he wishes to decrease sales, t
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by jrs99 13y ago
this must truly be for the public good. I doubt Google can profit off the data from millions of books of well-written, gramatically correct writers of the english language.
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by jrs99 13y ago
not every author wants to increase sales. I would rather opt out even if that led to a decrease in sales. I can't make someone else increase sales by making them use my new sales platform for free.
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by jrs99 13y ago
i don't think any justification is going to change your mind. My opinions are shared by many other people. I know that many people view this issue as black and white, that a corporation should have rights to scan books and use that dat
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by jrs99 13y ago
then you should leave your phd program for a garage.
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you can loan a book out to one person at a time. i think it's a little different.
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i've seen people who didn't know what a lac operon was get a PhD in biochemistry.
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maybe the card still works but you just can't select another card.
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i don't think there's any ambiguity. that's just my opinion.

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