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by naravara 6y ago
I'm not as down on Noah Smith as many, but this is honestly a pretty bad review. He basically admits to having trouble understanding it owing to it being disorganized (a point he repeats frequently). But then he complains about people
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by naravara 6y ago
I think that's a natural selection bias. Most people are either fine with reddit and therefore don't care about finding alternatives, or they aren't interested in what Reddit has to offer, in which case they ignore it. Even i
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by naravara 6y ago
> Ok, but do we agree that Epic getting what they want would result in a more open platform than what we currently have? I think Epic getting what they want will slowly hollow out the available market for smaller indie developers who can
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by naravara 6y ago
> With the app, you can not only send notifications, but you also have the app icon which reminds people of the apps existence. This is exactly why I don't want to install the app. All of these things seem designed to steal my atten
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by naravara 6y ago
> because most of the tax money is redistributed by the government, not invested, while the wealthy generally invest their wealth. Infrastructure, education, healthcare, and other public services count as investments.
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by naravara 6y ago
Spotify's automated recommendations seemed okay for me at first, but since I spend most of my time using spotify while working, I think the algorithm decided I'm really into instrumental or ambient music that isn't too compli
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by naravara 6y ago
This seems ill-advised for Epic, in particular. The fight they're picking will logically end in a regulatory hammer coming down and that hammer is going to hit Epic a lot harder than Apple just because Epic is even more reliant on extr
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by naravara 6y ago
Good point. I still think 5 years is a realistic time-horizon for how long before they start phasing Intel stuff out, but that could just be like that Bill Gates quote about how people tend to way overestimate how much progress will be made
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by naravara 6y ago
I'm not really sure about that. It would probably be useful for artists and draftsmen, but I keep my iMac pretty far from my face while I would want to keep a drawing table pretty close. The Studio was really cool as a design concept,
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by naravara 6y ago
Only the 27" model has the access panel, the 21" model doesn't. I'm not actually sure if the RAM in the smaller one is soldered on or if it even has additional slots. But even if it does replacing it isn't something
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by naravara 6y ago
>It just feels wrong to buy anything new from Apple with "Intel Inside" - when they're clearly going to dump it soon, I'd be very surprised if Apple Silicon is going to be competitive against the Xeons in their highes
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by naravara 6y ago
> don't enter into an exclusive contract, and pick instead a contract that allows them to market in other places as well. It's not like you get to tick off a feature list in your contracts to get all the stuff you want. Audible
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by naravara 6y ago
> I agree that these exclusivity deals are bad news for most of us but to be completely frank this is largely on the authors. They are the ones agreeing, ultimately, to these deals to line their own pockets at the expense of readers and
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by naravara 6y ago
> Either Apple used to do a better job, or else developers did. A bit of both I would think. When the Mac was a more niche platform the developer community tended to be more bought into philosophy and design sensibilities around it. And
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by naravara 6y ago
For a lot of online games I think matchmaking based on pushing you towards a 50/50 win rate is kind missing the point of games. It gives you fair odds of winning, but it doesn’t necessarily give you even odds of having a fun or competi
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by naravara 6y ago
This makes me sad. Based on what you're describing it's sounding like my dream of having eReaders that are anywhere near sharp enough to do visually rich, full color, documents justice (e.g. nature photography, comic books and gra
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by naravara 6y ago
> I know several people who have moved out of cities over the last several years actually for various reasons, mostly the accumulating cost and declining benefits, especially with the consequences of political and government policies sta
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by naravara 6y ago
It's probably more accurate to ascribe it to his movement than Ramakrishna himself, but everyone would have been influenced by it. The "infrastructure" of philosophical discourse and spreading of ideas had largely atrophied a
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by naravara 6y ago
Even people like Ramakrishna and Vivekananda had a lot of Theosophist influences. And much of the English translated works from people like Radhakrishnan were notable for speaking to Western audiences too. Then there is the whole VHP take o
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by naravara 6y ago
> Well, that's always a given when you look at a culture from outside. It takes time to uncover the details and the diversity. In this particular case, everyone is looking from "outside." Contemporary Hindus' own unde
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by naravara 6y ago
> The fact that some would object that she is a Sci-fi writer seems... rather reductive to me at the least. Sure Jemisin does not write "hard" SF, and the Broken Earth has some strong fantasy tropes. But so did Frank Herbert an
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by naravara 6y ago
Literally the only thing I've had to use it for in the past 3 years is the webcam stream for the kennel I board my dog at. And I'm pretty sure they threw their website together in Dreamweaver and have barely touched it since befor
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by naravara 6y ago
> Macs are less than 5% of the Steam audience Isn’t this one a bit of a chicken/egg situation?
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by naravara 6y ago
Funnily enough, this is also true for humans: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/nyregion/the-science-behi...
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by naravara 6y ago
>They sometimes come up with measures like this, while routinely ignoring the development of horrible communities that they're aware of (since some users take any possible opportunity to mention them to the admins and are met with s
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by naravara 6y ago
My point is, they consider it true because of the country's political cohesion. If the country wasn't politically cohesive, the ethnic identity wouldn't be either. The unified identity is explained by the political homogeneit
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by naravara 6y ago
> China is largely ethnically homogenous This is a fiction that was created by Chinese nationalists [1] [2] [3] over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. "Dialects" between provinces can be very different and mutually uni
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by naravara 6y ago
> The conclusion should been to abandon scientific pretext when it is not possible. It’s not “not possible.” It’s only applicable under constrained context. Again I point back to certain styles of education leaving people underequipped t
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by naravara 6y ago
> What's the best study to change my mind? Freakonomics is a pop-Econ book that’s all about behavioral economics and really mainstreamed much of the field when it came out. There’s lots of methodological issues with individual studi
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by naravara 6y ago
Behavioral Econ is where all the energy is right now. Advances in computing, data collection, and statistical methods have enabled levels of quantitative analysis around natural experiments that nobody thought possible even a few years ago.

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