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by mquander 16y ago
Why Writing For The Atlantic Is Easier Than You Think I expected there to be some sort of rigorous process--a waiting period? a physical? some paperwork?--before I'd be allowed to publish an essay to hundreds of thousands of readers. B
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Sure, perhaps with a huge handicap or on a 9x9 board. There exists no computer that could ever beat any professional go player in an even 19x19 game, even if you gave the professional as many beers as he could drink.
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"if you want your next console to be secure, get in touch with me." I suggest that in exchange for being paid, he will not help crack the PS4. (I don't actually think that was the spirit of his remark, of course, but it probably is litera
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I literally found a definition a lot like yours in my literal dictionary. I am sort of baffled at your comment because that sentence seems to be an accurate description of the situation I described in my analogy. Let me A) I and my collea
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by mquander 16y ago
I'll have to take your word for it. That literally reads as the dictionary definition of a protection racket to me.
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If you agree with Sony lawyers that companies like Sony, along with the current copyright law, are doing a good job of encouraging productivity, then you absolutely ought to feel a moral obligation to help ensure their profits and perpetuat
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Seriously? We can argue the ethics all day, but from Sony's point of view, this series of events is isomorphic to an expert lockpicker breaking into their office building and then sending a letter saying "if you want your next building to
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avar: "... Emacs " moe: " ...a terminal window " Redundancy alert!
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by mquander 16y ago
Look, I'm on board with filtering out bad candidates by looking at their public output (or lack thereof) but this comment is absurd. You think that because I don't Twitter and I don't have a blog, I won't be able to get along with people wh
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by mquander 16y ago
Sure, that's more or less what I was thinking; UPS or FedEx, but local. Obviously, that would save a lot of time and energy. It's non-trivial, though, since the stores would suddenly need EDI systems that could communicate orders and ship
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It's a little strange, because another trend directly competing with automatic cars is telecommunications. If it were possible and culturally acceptable for all white-collar workers to telecommute full-time, all of a sudden there would be
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by mquander 16y ago
Mike makes it clear why he thinks everyone wouldn't add the flag: If Google comes across a large website that has a tonne of "original source" content which lots of other sites are claiming "original source" for, then they can automaticall
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by mquander 16y ago
I can't fathom why you linked to some blogspam instead of linking the primary source. (Interesting thread, though.) http://www.quora.com/Why-havent-major-companies-like-Google-...
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by mquander 16y ago
About the tablebases, I disagree; having a more extensive tablebase means that you can short-circuit calculations earlier in the game (because you immediately know the evaluation if your calculation results in a tablebase position.) So it
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by mquander 16y ago
I don't believe the power budget dwarfs a human's, at least not in a measurable way. Resources online suggest that the human brain probably uses about 20 watts. Small laptops don't use much more than that, I don't think, and a small lapto
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by mquander 16y ago
What is your name? i won't be suckered into this, i'll be the one asking the questions What's your damn name. are you ordinarily that abrasive toward total strangers Yes I am. I'm only doing Turing tests with polit
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by mquander 16y ago
Why? Because I don't want to talk about arts, communication, general science, or politics with a bunch of pseudonymous, arbitrarily-selected laymen online. Putting that here covers up technical news and discussions that I am interested in
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by mquander 16y ago
Related (but for doing the visuals, and not the audio) -- Fluxus: http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/ I suggest trying this stuff out, because it's a ton of fun.
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by mquander 16y ago
What are we supposed to take away from this article? The journalist didn't get this dude Chet to state one single actual substantiated thing about anything at all. Man, I'm sick of watching professional journalists write articles about co
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Tim Daly describes development workflow, remarks on literate programming(groups.google.com)
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If this were on the New York Times editorial page, I'd agree with you, but I can't believe you're surprised that Glenn Greenwald is angry at another media outlet. He is angry about the same thing every week.
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Well, I agree with all your points -- people definitely improve at things quickly by being under pressure to deliver, and by exposing themselves to critical feedback. So perhaps the set of good people and the set of people who ship converg
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by mquander 16y ago
I think it probably happens because they are average people with a lot of interests. If you're a person splitting your time between ten distinct pursuits, you probably won't be much good at them compared to a person of similar ability spli
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by mquander 16y ago
It seems like you just defined the words to suit you. Personally, I would use "dabbler" to mean "a generalist who is no good."
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by mquander 16y ago
It's also reasonable to assume "hackers" reading "Hacker News" know how to use Google and Wikipedia to learn about things that they are interested in but don't understand, instead of asking others to dumb down all conversations to suit them
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The point is that knowing the function doesn't easily yield an X.
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Everyone reads and learns at different speeds, but for me, M carefully considered books per year is better than N mostly forgotten ones, for all positive M and N.
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This is not normal. If you give a damn, you will retain good books; it's not magic. Think carefully about the ideas you read, write notes (if you like), and fit them into your mind.
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This is hilarious. The article spends N pages of intermittent insults and biography and then deigns to write exactly one sentence describing what might actually be wrong with his views: "They promise side effects, backfirings, and unint
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by mquander 16y ago
Long-term inactivity will probably be taken care of via ladder "seasons" -- when a new season starts, you lose your rank, and your rating will likely be in some provisional state.

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