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by karaterobot 1y ago
I don’t think designers hated Nielsen. I was doing web design at the time, and the general sentiment seemed to be: “Sure, he’s probably right—but the client wants it done their way instead, so…” Still, his bite-sized advice stuck around and
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> Japan Post plans to spend about a decade to promote broad adoption of the new system. The actual feature doesn't seem mind-blowingly useful to me, in the era where most of my form fields get populated for me automatically anyway.
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> The fact that AI can do your homework should tell you how much your homework is worth. I mean... if you removed the substring "home" from that sentence, is it still true in your opinion? That is, do you believe that because A
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by karaterobot 1y ago
College students may have no concept of how much stuff costs when their parents buy it. But to be fair, I'm in my 40s, and throw out a lot of expensive stuff too. When you're moving house, you're often tired and anxious, and
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> Airbnb announced a new design and we’ve all just collectively accepted that it’s the future? Don't overindex on one guy with a newsletter. My read on this article was this is someone trying to be the guy who called the next trend.
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by karaterobot 1y ago
I sort of wonder whether they realized gamification works for certain kinds of tasks, but not for others, and then decided to design their language learning app for gamification, rather than designing a gamification system to support langua
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by karaterobot 1y ago
I'm the kind of creative whose job is threatened by AI, but if I'm being honest and cold-blooded, I'm not actually sure that I'd call what AI training does stealing—apart from any illicit acquisition of the data, that
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Your comment reads like you're questioning their right to have an opinion based on demonstrating their qualifications to your satisfaction. That, and they have to reveal their identity on the internet to satisfy your requirements. I do
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by karaterobot 1y ago
I didn't see them say it's not harder getting hired over age 50, I think they're questioning that the reason is really job hopping.
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Sometimes two collaborators make each other better than either are alone. I get the sense that's how Steve Jobs and Jony Ive were. I've not seen anything Ive has done since be as good as what he did before. Someone has to hold the
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by karaterobot 1y ago
I think this is true. There was an article on HN the other day about how Moderna has already re-organized its leadership structure around AI. It makes sense to me that AI could conceivably already be as good at making the hard, data-based d
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Oh no, I'm sorry to hear that. In the early 90s, my family didn't get the newspaper, so my friend who lived in town would save the comics page for me to read every week. Dilbert was one of the big ones! It was funny and subversive
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by karaterobot 1y ago
I like the taxonomy of animal-human relationships as a model for asking how humans could relate to AI in the future. It's useful for framing the problem. However, I don't think that any existing relationship model would hold true
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> The biotech company late last year announced the creation of a new role, chief people and digital technology officer, promoting its human resources chief Tracey Franklin to the spot. I've been wondering recently when boards of dir
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Well, I'm responding to someone who said one of the purposes of the coin was to make money to pay for infrastructure, which the article specifically says is not true. It sounds like you're making a separate accusation, which I hav
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> I'm not accusing Elbakyan's character or ideals in any way. It really seems like you are though. The linked page says the transaction is between the article requester and the article contributor, and that she's not takin
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by karaterobot 1y ago
They make it very clear they aren't taking a cut. The quote in the linked page is "payments go to fellow researchers, not to the platform."
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by karaterobot 1y ago
It seems like this coin mechanic is just for people who want to request specific articles that aren't already on Sci-hub, and those who upload requested papers. So, for everyone who doesn't want to engage with that system, there&#
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by karaterobot 1y ago
I bet they do, but it's not a question of learning the skills in school. It's more about using those skills, which I don't think is as common today.
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by karaterobot 1y ago
Looking around, I don't see too many people exploring higher order skills using that spare brain power. I think at the margins, you've probably got really smart scientists/engineers/philosophers doing that, but what does
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> No one lamented the advent of calculators. It's interesting that he lists a number of historical precedents, like the invention of the calculator, or the mechanization of labor in the industrial revolution, and explains how they a
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by karaterobot 1y ago
No need to ask. As mentioned in the article, the U.S. has the right, by treaty, to build military bases in Greenland already.
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by karaterobot 1y ago
I think that's a lot of rules to try to carry around in your head. If it works for this guy, more power to him. For my money, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you shows up in some form or another in most major civilizati
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by karaterobot 1y ago
In general, I think having an unrefined palate is one of life's great gifts. I admit there are areas of food where I'm a snob, but that just means I can't enjoy examples of that food which I consider sub-par, which is more of
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by karaterobot 1y ago
It's hard to say for sure without knowing his whole situation, but I will agree with you that when I hear someone say they've submitted 750 applications, my first thought is that they're taking a machine gun approach, applyin
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by karaterobot 1y ago
https://archive.ph/aC1el > As of May 10, there have been four shootings in the United States in which four or more victims died this year, compared with 11 at the same juncture last year. ... > The truth is these even
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by karaterobot 1y ago
For the sake of argument, let's grant the implication that Google is in danger of going out of business. Even so, if our economy is at the point where one company going out of business would cripple it, it's almost certainly worth
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> What I want you to take away is this: Don’t bother with the Deathbed Fallacy. Look at happiness research... Right, don't make the mistake of overindexing on what people say as they're dying, instead base your life on somethin
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by karaterobot 1y ago
> What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible. And when the problems get bad enough—as they might do for example with another serious terrorist attack, as they might do with another
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by karaterobot 1y ago
There aren't a lot of examples of a country being unwilling or unable to fight in a full-scale war, and instead launching nukes at their next door neighbor. I don't think this is part of the playbook, or based on evidence, I think

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