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Nassim Taleb on why IQ is baloney(twitter.com)
50 points by l33tbro 8y ago|46 comments
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by l33tbro 8y ago
I would actually be interested to hear you explain why, in terms of social isolation, phones are not a fundamentally different mode of isolation than any other human tool.
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by l33tbro 8y ago
> In his films, Kubrick exists as a kind of deep state, while his fans are conspiracy theorists. I love Kubrick, but does anyone else grow a little tired of the legacy management around him? With each generation of film fan, he's b
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by l33tbro 8y ago
The obvious counterpoint is that much of civilization has been stasis. Also, the sum total of years in the post-surveillence world we now live in may be too small a sample-duration to conclude that it isn't subject to the same fluctuat
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by l33tbro 8y ago
Tap/click the rendered text and it will link to the original text post.
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Ask HN: What relatively uncommon thing have got into this year?
9 points by l33tbro 8y ago|0 comments
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by l33tbro 8y ago
How does posterization differentiate from banding? I know when I encode videos from an 8-bit color space, I sometimes have to generate an additional layer of noise so that I don't end up with those horrible macro-blocking blotches you
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by l33tbro 8y ago
Fair enough. All that I can say is that the people I've met have certainly been devout, but not to a degree as extreme as a scientologist.
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by l33tbro 8y ago
So Falun Gong has celebrity drop-in centers? Aggressively pursues you if you leave? Has a central structure to where people donate all of their money? I'm not sure you know what you are talking about.
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Powers of Ten (1977)(youtube.com)
3 points by l33tbro 8y ago|0 comments
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by l33tbro 8y ago
Falun Gong is pretty harmless. I used to go along to mooch off the free meditation and qigong during my salad days. While there is a fundamental cult of personality around the leader, the values seemed morally sound and in accordance with
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by l33tbro 8y ago
I'm not sure Peter Arnell (the guy who authored the Pepsi rebrand) was ever setting out to be profound. I think he was just a brilliant opportunist who recognized that Fortune 500 marketing managers would pay hand-over-fist for his ut
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by l33tbro 8y ago
> The American Council on Science and Health is a research and education organization operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are fully tax-deductible. ACSH does not accept government grants or contr
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Ask HN: What next-gen tech is experiencing the 'Trough of Disillusionment'?
3 points by l33tbro 8y ago|1 comments
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by l33tbro 8y ago
I read the subtext as OP being concerned that the same degree of dystopian data collection and race-to-the-bottom work culture eventually may occur in their own backyard. That's also a pretty common human fear. It's also tricky t
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by l33tbro 8y ago
'The Act of Killing' is arguably the most forward-thinking documentary of the last 20 years. Heavy going, but unflinching. That both Erol Morris and Werner Herzog executive produced after Oppenheimer made it should tell you how f
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by l33tbro 8y ago
> The difference now is that the variables that determine art’s monetary value are no longer seen as dicey. Instead, they’re understood as art itself. "The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive." - Robert
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by l33tbro 8y ago
I also have a mild degree degree of prosopagnosia (1). I'm constantly embarrassed by it, but most people are cool about it if you explain. It's the ones that I might be regularly blanking that I worry about. (1) https:/&#x
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What's Behind Netflix's Sky-High Employee Salaries(hollywoodreporter.com)
2 points by l33tbro 8y ago|0 comments
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Steelmanning the NIMBYs(slatestarcodex.com)
60 points by l33tbro 8y ago|115 comments
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by l33tbro 8y ago
Don't be too hard on yourself. 12 hours a day is likely an overstatement. If not, going over 5 hours of intense "flow state" each day would bring diminishing returns. You can be disciplined at staring at the screen, but you
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by l33tbro 8y ago
Agreed. Would have been nice to hear a little more from her in this piece. While I deeply admire Eric for his incredible talent and follow-through, his partner must have gone through hell to facilitate his ambitions.
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by l33tbro 8y ago
Good read. But kind of underwhelmed how the author glosses over how the steps of how developer finally connected with the real world and got his creation out there. I think many of us can relate to the obsession with detail, but hearing ho
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by l33tbro 8y ago
Virtuality is arguably only less real in terms of its very dependence on the Real, in that you cannot you have virtual worlds without the physical worlds that generate and power them. I think as we go along, a lot of Baudrilliard's ide
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US police using Tiger Text app to conceal evidence(aljazeera.com)
14 points by l33tbro 8y ago|0 comments
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The Elon Musk Fiction: How Myths Paralyze Progress(medium.com)
5 points by l33tbro 8y ago|3 comments
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Why the world is full of buttons that don't work(edition.cnn.com)
5 points by l33tbro 8y ago|1 comments
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by l33tbro 8y ago
Currently working alone in my own windowless office in an almost completely windowless building. Compared to the previous 'open-plan' gig where I sat opposite opposite Jill-from-Comms and Sales-bro Bryan, it rules so hard. So yea
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What Would a Socialist America Look Like?(politico.com)
5 points by l33tbro 8y ago|0 comments
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by l33tbro 8y ago
Interesting. What was your next move after Google?

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