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by niknoble 5y ago
For the same reason it would be condescending to say that a person is too old to understand something.
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by niknoble 5y ago
> It made me realize that myself, along with many students, mask their points with language because they have nothing to say, or are afraid to say it clearly You're right about high schoolers using needlessly complicated writing, bu
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by niknoble 5y ago
Knowledge hungry children can still read this book if they want to. The change just means they won't be forced to as part of the curriculum.
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by niknoble 5y ago
Even if it was 10x US GDP and it was only US stocks, there wouldn't be an obvious reason why that's a problem. The GDP measures yearly output. Why is it concerning for the stock market to be priced at 10 years of output?
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by niknoble 5y ago
If that side effect has 12.6 in a million odds, what are the odds of an active HN user experiencing it?
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by niknoble 5y ago
Imagine if he had burned the bitcoin instead of sending it to his own wallet.
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by niknoble 5y ago
If the research showed that Adverse Childhood Events led to better outcomes in the people who experienced them, would we be reading news articles that say so?
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by niknoble 5y ago
Not disputing the claims of you or msla, but how is this sentence ageist - > Old people can see that, but it requires looking with fresh eyes, as opposed to only being willing to see what was there decades ago. while this one is not - &g
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by niknoble 5y ago
"If my chess team of 45-year-olds were 10 years younger, I would win more games." Is this also an ageist logical inconsistency? At some point claims like this are testable. On a separate note, of course 20-year-olds are better at
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by niknoble 5y ago
- Unity Software will hit $400 per share. - The first serious mass-market VR haptics glove will be announced. By the end of the decade, most newly purchased consumer VR headsets will use haptic gloves instead of controllers. - At some point
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by niknoble 5y ago
They really liked their hyperbole back then. Just started reading this and every quote is hilariously over the top. > On Frederick Burnham: "He has trained himself to endure the most appalling fatigues, hunger, thirst, and wounds; h
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by niknoble 5y ago
If you never sign up for their school and just do the things required for the refund, you'll easily land a job.
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by niknoble 5y ago
> The 2 dimensions of a complex number do not correspond to translations, but to scalings and rotations of the geometric plane. I disagree. When multiplying complex numbers, they are viewed as scalings with rotation like you say. But whe
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by niknoble 5y ago
Similar to what I said in GP, the metaverse is not a competitor to Zoom but to the physical world where you are using the laptop. In the physical world, you have to buy that laptop and maintain it. You need to keep it close to you in order
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by niknoble 5y ago
I would argue that the metaverse is not competing with Google Hangouts or Discord. In fact, you will still be able to use these things inside the metaverse and will still get value out of them. The metaverse is not competing against the 2D
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by niknoble 5y ago
This game has one major selling point that I haven't seen anyone mention yet: It is full of attractive girls in revealing outfits. In addition to making the game more enjoyable, this pours rocket fuel onto distribution since it leads p
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by niknoble 5y ago
> I couldn't bring myself to swallow his explanation for throttling scientific advancement. The trisolarans use a device that meddles with the results of particle experiments, to make the results super unexpected, so the scientists
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by niknoble 5y ago
Shouldn't the title read "World's greatest female free diver?" since her records are well below the mens' records? Maybe they mean that, even though she doesn't have the best results in an absolute sense, she
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by niknoble 5y ago
This article argues that a sequence shouldn't blow up to infinity. Does it make a case for why a sequence shouldn't get caught in a permanent loop before it can drop to 1?
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by niknoble 5y ago
But it could weaken your immune system, making you a better vector for all kinds of diseases.
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by niknoble 5y ago
If this were the whole story, it would mean that a man who had been in a coma his whole life up to 60 would have the same emotional control as a little kid. For example, he would cry at losing a board game. That's very hard to believe.
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by niknoble 6y ago
It would be interesting to do some kind of writing style analysis on posted articles and the comments about them. I wonder if you could show that the style rubs off on the comments. Like with this: > I was invited to an interview where I
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by niknoble 6y ago
Ever since I learned about autoencoders, I've been saying compression is at the heart of intelligence.
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by niknoble 6y ago
This type of reasoning only gives you intuition about half the conjecture. The conjecture says two things: 1. No sequence grows bigger and bigger forever; and 2. No sequence gets caught in a loop (except for the trivial 4 -> 2 -> 1 -&
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The Alien Multiple-Choice Test(niknoble.com)
2 points by niknoble 7y ago|0 comments