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by mzl 16y ago
One really big selling point for Spotify is the quality of experience. For example, the median playback latency for starting a track is just 265 ms.
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by mzl 16y ago
Since Spotify hasn't launched in the US yet, I would guess that the negotiations are not really going forward. Daniel Ek said in an interview that they hoped to launch in the US soon, and that was more than a year ago.
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by mzl 16y ago
In some cases it is interesting, for example when being able to socially hack due to ones learned ability to deconstruct social situations (the learned deconstruction being a survival trait). At other times, it is not so fun. For example wh
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by mzl 16y ago
If I get a paper with request for comments in a personal mail from an author, I would definitely ask permission before forwarding. Not doing so is just rude.
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by mzl 16y ago
Wrong area for a Nobel prize, the prize areas are physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine, literature, and peace. There is also a prize in economics given at the same time.
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by mzl 16y ago
This is more or less what I wanted to allude to with the social process of proof. The number of things that are actually rigorously formally proven is surprisingly small IMHO.
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by mzl 16y ago
That is not really how I experience adventure games, but given the context of comparing a discussion with finding buttons to push, I thought it was apt :) As for merit vs. enjoyment, I believe that the best merit of discussions is the enjoy
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by mzl 16y ago
I would guess such things have been studied. It is probably very hard to change an entrenched model though, so even though people might spend more money on phones and services in model A than in model B, that result might only be valid if a
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by mzl 16y ago
One reason that legal punishment can still work in the absence of free will, is that absence of legal punishment might make more of the moist robots do societally damaging things. Essentially, it is not about a moral decision, it is about p
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by mzl 16y ago
Lots of merit, because pushing that button will give an enjoyment feedback of being right. Compare with adventure games that more or less consists of finding the right buttons to push in some order :)
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by mzl 16y ago
While subsidized phones exist in Sweden, the interest is not nearly so bad. In fact, after my 18 month plan is up, I will have paid the same amount for the phone in increased monthly payments as if I had bought it directly. The uptake for t
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by mzl 16y ago
Even if you have no free will, that doesn't mean that your mind can't be changed by arguments.
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by mzl 16y ago
Well, this will only happen if they actually get into parliament. Announcing the plans might get them more votes, making it self-fulfilling though. It is fun legal hacking in any case.
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by mzl 16y ago
Most would not believe him straight away, since it is highly unlikely that P=NP. If the proof holds up to scrutiny though, it is not an issue of belief any more (apart form the social process of proof of course).
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by mzl 16y ago
Scott Adams has a few fun ideas on how we should move forward with our new exobrains: http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/dilbert_pocket/
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by mzl 16y ago
I really like Elisabeth Pisani's talk on HIV prevention and rationality. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=442022
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by mzl 16y ago
I'm from Sweden and my first name is Mikael, not that uncommon a name. A while ago I saw that a nordic airline had "helpfully" reverse transcribed my first name on the ticket to Mikäl, which I've never seen as a first name. Wonderful :) For
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by mzl 16y ago
If the user has enabled social features, you can just enter "spotify:user:x" in the search-field. But now that you mention it, I realized that user x has to connect to Facebook to enable the social features. That is unfortunate. I was think
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by mzl 16y ago
While the social features do use Facebook, I wouldn't say that it relies on them. If you know someone with username X, you can search for spotify:user:X to find their user-page. The facebook-integration "just" automates finding your friends
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by mzl 16y ago
Doesn't really roll off the tongue. How about dudugo :) Seems to be taken though.
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by mzl 16y ago
I think the article was meant to compare software libraries for GPGPU programming, not the performance of different hardware platforms.
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by mzl 16y ago
I live in Sweden. Unless there is some simplifying EU framework, I guess that Sweden is not that high on the list (which is understandable).
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by mzl 16y ago
As several other commenters, this change actually makes scribd usable to me (flash is not stable enough to run the scribd viewer on my linux box). My remaining problem with scribd is that there are documents that I would like to buy (recipe
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by mzl 16y ago
Constraint programming is definitly the technology of choice for solving Sudoku puzzles. There is a nice article by Helmut Simonis ( http://www.4c.ucc.ie/~hsimonis/shikaku.pdf ) that shows how good various propagation strengths and model va
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by mzl 17y ago
Sounds like you have it covered. I use pwm (precursor to ion) since I configured it years ago and it has served me well since then. One benefit of using such an old wm is speed; it does so little that it is blazingly fast on a modern comput
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by mzl 17y ago
You could also check out Ion. The development has stopped and the webpages pulled, but there seems to be two forks (notion and anion3) that are in progress.
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by mzl 17y ago
The source for that figure is nothing more than a guess. It takes the approximate number of UK premium subscribers, multiplies by 12 months and £10. Then it arbitrarily doubles the amount to account for advertising income, and divides by th
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by mzl 17y ago
The Spotify music database is normally updated independently of the application. As for the actual content, about two weeks ago I could see around 7.2 million songs as a user in Sweden. Today I can see about 7.4 million songs. Is there anyt