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by lrobinovitch 6y ago
If I recall correctly he talked further about this in one of his autobiographies (Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman possibly?). It was about the repeatability of counting to a minute, and he experimented on the difference between seeing a ti
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by lrobinovitch 6y ago
Corporations, policy makers and markets are often shaped by public will. Where we do or don’t give money and what we do or don’t express support for as a collective will shape the future. You can’t save the world alone. But working with a c
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by lrobinovitch 6y ago
I don't disagree with your take that escapism is popular, but this can partially be attributed to the capable people you reference building technology that exploits our psychology to encourage further escapism. I don't understand
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Show HN: Color Controversy(colorcontroversy.com)
6 points by lrobinovitch 6y ago|1 comments
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by lrobinovitch 6y ago
I made an app that presents a color and asks you to categorize it. Then it shows you how others categorized it. It doesn’t adjust for or collect data on display settings, environment, color blindness, etc. - more of a simple toy than a scie
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by lrobinovitch 6y ago
As we're seeing right in our face on the West Coast of the US right now, climate change is going to continue to get worse, affecting the globe at least as much as the pandemic and for much longer unless we take serious action now. Does
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by lrobinovitch 6y ago
Stuff that Saul Griffith works on: https://www.saulgriffith.com/ In particular, Otherlab companies: https://www.otherlab.com/
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by lrobinovitch 6y ago
To be clear, RC is run by friendly people that encourage learning (i did it last year). This situation isn’t great, but it can’t really be mapped to a universal RC experience. With the new remote setup, I’m sure there’s a balance between
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by lrobinovitch 7y ago
This was a really interesting and worthwhile read despite the two pop ups. The Beau Brigham case mentioned is sad[0]...guy seems to have been given a shit lot in life (bedridden with illness for 5 years), payed a token $3.50 for an assassin
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by lrobinovitch 7y ago
Same, Rage Against The Machine - Killing In the Name came out sounding great. Very cool.
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by lrobinovitch 7y ago
This is cool! Would easily replace the slightly tricky to grok code I came across to make a binary trie last week: # in for loop: node = trie for char in number: node = node.setdefault(char, {}) (from here: h
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by lrobinovitch 8y ago
That is false. Almost always, cheaper != environmental. Environmental practices often cost more, and this gets passed on to the consumer. Case in point, soy gets 8% the share of agricultural government subsidies while feed for animals gets