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by mfoy_ 11y ago
It's "ranked by alumni earnings above expectation" It's not "ranked by alumni earning".
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
There was a neat video about addiction on Reddit recently, here's a link to the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3qp6sa/ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
So if you subscribe to Spotify and then stream an extremely disproportionate amount of one artist in particular you can actually cause more money to flow to that artist than you are paying to Spotify? Sounds like a broken model.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Ubisoft's largest development studio is in Montreal, Canada... but their headquarters is in Montreuil, France.[1] So it's fair to say Ubisoft's products are French (from France, not the language) products. --- [1] https:&#x2
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
But wouldn't that obscure artist also get a tiny fraction of the money paid by the larger group of people who only listen to popular artists, so it balances out?
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Cool name for it: "NiNi". I'm more familiar with NEET (Not Employed, Educating, or Training".
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Honestly, from the point of view of a minority this is already a dystopia.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Right. Hence the need for a dash of dystopia to make the plot work.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Of course there's a lot of potential for tremendous good to come out of this. Right from the article: "Insel: One of the great challenges in this field is how to help people who do not want help." If Google can somehow predic
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Right, hence the big step is for a government agency to receive a mandate to implement such a system. The even bigger step is probably to openly make enforcement decisions based on that info. I think there is a huge gap between "your p
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
I'm not saying we should have NO sugar in our bread. But it's to the point where if you google "Why is American bread so sweet?" you'll find countless examples of Europeans comparing American bread to cake. This is
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Two opportunities to plug PSYCHO-PASS in one day? We're on a roll, HN! But seriously, if Google co-opted people's smart phone data to do covert psychological evaluations on a constant basis we'd literally be one step removed
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
ADDED sugar. As in "let's dump a bunch of refined white sugar or high fructose corn syrup in this dough to make it sell better to our sugar-addicted customers."
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
So the mean height would have to be around 5'11 for them to just be "overweight" and not "obese". Which seems unlikely for a group of young teens.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
A lot of breads in North America have a lot of added sugars. You have to actually go out of your way to find breads that aren't sweetened significantly.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
If you don't mind anime, look into PSYCHO-PASS. It's literally what you described.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Soylent Green?
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
> ‘Terrorism’ itself is described as involving ‘violent acts or acts dangerous to human life, property, or infrastructure’ which ‘appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population’ or ‘to influence the policy of a gover
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
That article is pretty interesting, although I disagree with the conclusion. He's basically arguing that science is deterministic and therefore doesn't need public funding.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
It's amazing how our species builds upon our body of knowledge. I don't have the answer for how research should be prioritized or funded, but I think it's important to remember that every great accomplishment in human history
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Or that lip service is paid to conflicting points of view (even if one side is nonsensical) in order to create a sense of false equivalence and therefore controversy.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
I'll take those odds.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Okay, I see what you're saying now. Your original comment was a little confusing because it wasn't clear what you meant by "non medical". That would be a cool app but I doubt many people would able and willing to keep en
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Nothing in his original vision seems off to me, of course I can see why people would be wary to share that with his service, though. (As he listed in the reasons for killing the project) >do something "non medical" as a real al
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
A lot of the suggestions in this carry over to almost every human interaction.. in addition to his "Can I send you a press release?" gripe, I have a couple to add: "Can you do me a favour?" Why don't you ask me to d
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
>Toyota had more than 10,000 global variables. Oh my.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
So the Eel uses the Zeno effect to observe it's prey, and therefore immobilize them-- Quantum Fishing.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
>everyone is freakishly wealthy by historical standards and has a lot to lose You raise a really good point here, and I think this is one of the most important stabilizing factors in today's society.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
>But his experience does contain one lesson for other designers: Even when you’ve run out of other options, calling someone a “thief” in public may not be the wisest option. Good takeaway, I think. Resorting to public name calling is pre
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
That's the idea the article conveys, one of these should be next to every defibrillator (and defibs are seen in so many locations).

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