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by mindgam3 7y ago
> And the worst part is, the new regulations [for online speech] haven’t ended harassment, extremism or disinformation. Hardly a day goes by without some post full of outright Naziism, flat-eartherism and climate trutherism going viral.
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“I Shouldn’t Have to Publish This in the NYT” Doctorow’s Op-Ed from the Future(boingboing.net)
10 points by mindgam3 7y ago|2 comments
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Drug list includes some commonly prescribed for anxiety or so-called mood disorders including Xanax and Zyprexa. A more complete list: https://www.theseniorlist.com/medication/anticholinergic-dru...
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Agreed and thanks for calling it out. It is so much harder to “learn” without obvious win states.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Fair question. I can't claim a definite answer as to when this general/commonsensical ability develops, but I think to some degree we are born with it/preprogrammed as you point out. Certainly by toddler phase most humans hav
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by mindgam3 7y ago
> After all, what is common sense but "believe it when I see it" type thinking which is most certainly pattern intuition? I guess I would argue that common sense encompasses something outside of pure pattern intuition, which is
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Although I will admit to have used/benefited from the myth that chess skill is related in some way to general human intelligence, it’s a myth. Key differences between chess and real world: perfect information game, finite problem space
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by mindgam3 7y ago
> The technologists know it’s bullshit. Fed up with the fog that marketers have created, they’ve simply ditched A.I. and moved on to a new term called “artificial general intelligence.” Not to detract from an otherwise excellent BS taked
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by mindgam3 7y ago
I mean, I’m not arguing that there is no plausible explanation for Magic Leap’s inability to ship a product with only $1B in funding. The plausible explanation is that they are running a tech startup like a drug development company, to use
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by mindgam3 7y ago
The optics of this aren't great for Magic Leap. AR pun not intended. Really all this does is present Nreal as a legitimate threat to a company that raised approx 100x more money* before shipping a product. (* Magic Leap funding $2B+, n
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by mindgam3 7y ago
> Customer safety is always Apple's top priority, and we have voluntarily decided to replace affected batteries, free of charge. Cool! > Service may take 1-2 weeks. Wait, what?
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15-Inch MacBook Pro Battery Recall Program(support.apple.com)
170 points by mindgam3 7y ago|151 comments
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by mindgam3 7y ago
I need to dig up my original source, but my understanding from when this news first broke has been that the implementation was somewhat less innocent than a simple keyword ban and involved some kind of suggestions or workarounds for banned
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Thank you for stating this so clearly. Something always seemed off to me about the argument that punishing Backpage was going to backfire because all it would do drive exploitation and child abuse more underground. This claim would have mer
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San Francisco DA Turns to AI to Tame Racial Bias(courthousenews.com)
2 points by mindgam3 7y ago|0 comments
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Last line: "But win or lose, the age of "friendly" computing has begun." Feels bittersweet to recall the age of "friendly" computing in these dark days of "antisocial" computing.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Previous discussion, which was flagged for some reason, perhaps anti-Buzzfeed bias: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20168340
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Interesting demo, thanks! Haven’t tried on computer yet. On ios firefox it’s flashy but glitchy when animating through slides. JS based would be killer with no glitchiness.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Prezi seems to be the closest modern presentation tool building on these ideas. I think the concept of engaging spatial intelligence is brilliant but I find the creation UX not as intuitive as I’d like. https://prezi.com/ A
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20086045
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Relevant to recent discussion on other threads about the difference between founders believing their own bullshit vs the Steve Jobs reality distortion field: "VCs are trying to determine whether this founder will be able to create a co
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How Early Stage VCS Decide Where to Invest(wired.com)
4 points by mindgam3 7y ago|1 comments
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Much @Stake: The Band of Hackers That Defined an Era(wired.com)
3 points by mindgam3 7y ago|0 comments
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by mindgam3 7y ago
I agree it's not a perfect solution, and mine is starting to get old as well, but so far it's things that are replaceable (i.e. battery). And I still vastly prefer it to a 2018 MBP I had for a while and then sold at a heavy discou
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by mindgam3 7y ago
This is Apple sensing weakness and dropping a bomb right on facebook’s doorstep. And they sidestep the anticompetitive angle by arguing that instant anonymous sign on is simply a better UX, which it is. Someone at Apple deserves a raise.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
True, but Facebook’s overwhelming majority of users is completely irrelevant now that their brand is irreparably tarnished. People will still use Facebook for a long time, but nobody other than a few diehards and people who work there want
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Not sure if that's possible. iMessage is a mobile first product, so presumably you need an iPhone to start using it. Then a Mac computer. It's definitely a closed system that works great if you buy into Apple's family of prod
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by mindgam3 7y ago
I highly recommend buying a 2015 Macbook Pro, if you can find someone willing to part with theirs. Apple laptop hardware started going off the rails after they shipped that one with touch bar + keyboard shenanigans.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
True. Apple definitely playing the long game here, effectively. When iMessage came out I totally didn't see it ever becoming a viable identity play. But with all these privacy concerns, now it feels like the one to beat.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
This is a huge move. Apple striking at the core of Facebook's play to own your identity, which they had with Facebook Connect but have completely fudged out with countless breaches of user privacy and trust. I used to be the biggest fa

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