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by mcbits 10y ago
The first I heard of Wix was a few months ago when a local news site deployed their new design. The page would be completely blank for 10-15 seconds while it made hundreds of requests for useless little React turdlets. As far as I can tell,
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by mcbits 10y ago
I can't help but imagine the origins. Long ago, someone either found an egg or tried to preserve an egg this way. They opened it up and found ... that ... and ate it anyway. After not dying, a delicacy was born.
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If the test depended on understanding that it's supposed to represent the real hand, then humans wouldn't fall for it. The brain just sees a hand and starts integrating the visual and tactile sensations despite full knowledge th
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by mcbits 10y ago
I think it's a mistake to conflate sentience or self-awareness with intelligence. There is a prank (it might have originated as a real experiment) where someone pretends to be a researcher and gets a victim to put their hand in a box&#
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by mcbits 10y ago
I would enjoy having a separate view that tries to rank content by what others with similar voting patterns have upvoted. Though it might not work very well with comments because I often upvote comments merely because I thought they were un
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Possibly, but they weren't really testing to learn about the effects of old vs new foods in general. It's more a test of whether "metabolic junk" is significant to aging, so they used food sources that would have more or
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When our granparents did this, they called it satire and had to chop down a lot of trees to like and share.
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by mcbits 10y ago
AFAIK those are images posted publicly or semi-publicly and getting flagged by prudes, or at least that's how it gets portrayed. But my friend sent a series of Middle East carnage images to me in "private" messages, and they
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by mcbits 10y ago
The policing of private messages is not new or sudden. Facebook has censored "offensive" (yet legal) private messages for years. One can assume they also already detect and report criminal activity to some degree. But it's un
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by mcbits 10y ago
I assumed this was going to be thousands of images and 10s-100s of GB, so I started the download just to see how much it would be. Was pleasantly surprised when it was done as soon as it started.
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by mcbits 10y ago
I can't predict if it would actually be better, and I fear you'll say it can't be realistically implemented, but I would suggest the nuclear option: a Manhattan Project level of R&D into decentralization. Problem is, thos
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by mcbits 10y ago
If anyone's worried that this "huge dataset" might be too much to handle on a home computer, it looks like it's around 5 MB if I clicked the right links.
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I've also heard "50 cups a day" estimated for Voltaire. If true, it probably means something more like 50 shots of espresso, but I'm still skeptical in both cases.
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Warning: Always add rel="noopener noreferrer" if you use target="_blank". Otherwise the target site could redirect the main site to a phishing page or worse.
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I'll have to defer to someone who actually makes that claim.
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It's the voluntary nature of the payment and whether the cost is tangible to you that determine what is free, not the currency used. Substitute "your FBI file" for your ad network profile and "compute time on your Amazon
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Venus has very little water, so a starting point would be to launch large solar-powered balloons that just float around and collect water by cracking the sulfuric acid in the clouds. Living systems also require a lot of trace minerals that
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I don't think you can mold your argument so that it doesn't apply equally to searching everyone's closets for skeletons once a week without suspicion because that's the only way to root out the Jeffrey Dahmers of the w
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by mcbits 10y ago
This design looks really old-school and amateurish, like it should be a blinking marquee on Mozilla's first Geocities page. I personally like old-school techie nostalgia, but I can't shake the feeling that this sort of branding wi
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by mcbits 10y ago
Hmm, I guess I will file it away with words like "literal" that people use in contradiciton with the original meaning.
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What do people mean when they say someone is solipsistic? I know what solipsism is, but it never fits the context. Is it just a way of saying narcissistic without getting sidetracked by medical definitions? ('cuz using terms from philo
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Study suggests computational role for inhibitory neurons(news.mit.edu)
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It appears to be a digital version of the bulletin board in the break room where Donna posts the schedules, memos, etc.
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Being able to lift 300 lbs. is also very often a useful life skill, but it's a skill that shouldn't usually affect one's salary unless it actually leads to better job performance.
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And then resize it again when you switch to a different tab. Or I guess you could pop every tab out to its own window like it's 2003.
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"We are also going to open-source the code behind App.net on our GitHub page." Huge kudos for that.
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I haven't looked at Pandora in a few years, but IIRC they were a lot like Groupon in that they had a huge sales force catering to local businesses - the type that would traditionally advertise on local radio stations.
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The answer was "call the police," or it actually called the police as an answer? I assume you meant the first, but I'm not quite 100% on that.
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I'm skeptical that adding more history to mathematics education would increase motivation. If mathematics has a contender as the most boring and dreaded subject, it's history. For motivation, tie in pop cultural references and sho
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Why is 80% the magic number? 5% would reach more than 100 million people. That's enough to keep a team busy and a product growing while the competition sits on its butt waiting for the next 75%.

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