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by nirnira 13y ago
I tried using iPads with keyboard covers. Having to constantly switch between tapping the screen and typing was a dealbreaker for me. There's zero integration for keyboards beyond the ability to type in textboxes and a few system short
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by nirnira 13y ago
Neuroplasticity primarily relates to the evolved ability of young children to rapidly, effortlessly acquire basic, evolutionarily critical behaviours - language systems and other core social behaviour necessary for tight social integratio
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by nirnira 13y ago
I've never found these "brain plasticity" arguments very compelling. I had no motivation or context for learning when I was young (0-20) and while I might have done well in school tests and read a lot of books, I don't t
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by nirnira 13y ago
I'm interested to see, as better systems for teaching coding develop, popularity and awareness of its accessibility builds, it begins to go mainstream, and the marketplace becomes more competitive and wages decline, is, will the oldgua
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by nirnira 13y ago
Programming is to writing what building a machine from basic electronic components to electrically stimulate vocal cords is to speech.
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by nirnira 13y ago
I think that's the joke.
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by nirnira 13y ago
1) Life-expectancy in Roman times was very low. 50 is a more appropriate age for your rhetoric. 2) "Serfs" are medieval. And besides, this is an argument about free citizens, so the very concept is irrelevant. 3) The colleges were
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by nirnira 13y ago
You imply that, left to their own devices, free to serve their own self-interest, private citizens would not decide to help "people dying on the streets." So in essence you imply that the state must act as a coercive mechanism to
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by nirnira 13y ago
I don't think you understand at all what I advocate.
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by nirnira 13y ago
But that's exactly what we should do. Or, more accurately, we should leave it to private citizens to decide, of their own free will, to render assistance (and prevent anybody from using the state's threat of violence to force an e
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by nirnira 13y ago
Sorry, what? Risk and uncertainty are universal. Everyone has to deal with their existence. There have been plenty of insurance systems developed throughout time whereby people can hedge their risks. Previously however insurance was informa
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by nirnira 13y ago
Disagree. I think the existing social welfare system in your country is hugely destructive, and you need to weaken and dismantle it as much as possible. Social welfare weakens incentives for individuals to plan and live for the future. Peop
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by nirnira 13y ago
I don't like iOS.
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by nirnira 13y ago
Out of the box, maybe not, but if you customise it, it can be orders of magnitude more advanced.
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by nirnira 13y ago
I don't know, you might want to try it out before you dismiss it completely. Rooting/installing ROMs is completely optional. It's just there if you want it, and it can be a lot of fun. You did buy a pocket computer after all
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by nirnira 13y ago
I could reply that a computer system which fails both to satisfy me with its out-of-the-box experience, and to offer any way for me to tweak that experience to my tastes, is even less advanced.
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by nirnira 13y ago
That's just the tip of the iceberg. Android offers: 1) Generally much easier rooting/access to bootloader/custom ROM installation than iOS. 2) Install custom keyboards, home launchers, icon sets 3) Change default web browsers
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by nirnira 13y ago
I think the idea here is that the system is self-reinforcing. An initially undifferentiated mix of children self-segregates as the children begin to perceive difference, and privileged/norm-conformant children persecute unprivileged&#x
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Targeted political advertising coming to Xbox One(theverge.com)
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by nirnira 13y ago
Shame they still haven't cracked responsive.
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by nirnira 13y ago
Insanity. I still have no idea why this behaviour (extreme harrassment by reporters) is legal (well actually I do, detente between law enforcement and media agencies). Whatever, these people should be arrested and put on trial.
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by nirnira 13y ago
Great points, thanks for the detailed response. I guess my counter-argument would be that network effects will be powerful for cryptocurrencies - so as for example Bitcoin grows more popular, the incentives for using it grow, the disincenti
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by nirnira 13y ago
It doesn't, but currency debasement is a perennial crutch of profligate governments. Inflation is an opaque tax - the connection between the funds the government can create with it and the impact on your wallet is obscure and difficult
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by nirnira 13y ago
Yes, I'm well aware that some coins have baked-in inflation. However, that's an architectural decision made in the design of any given coin, not "innate to the cryptocurrency environment" per se. Anyway, if coins are in
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by nirnira 13y ago
Sorry as you can see I axed that part of my comment because it was a bit tenuous. Bitcoin would help because it is a fixed-supply currency. If the world switches to it, no government anywhere will be able to practise inflation anymore. Infl
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by nirnira 13y ago
Sorry, what? Nobody is getting "thrown out" of "their" houses. People who were renting other people's for a period of time found themselves outbid by other people who wanted to live in the same area and were willi
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by nirnira 13y ago
Great article. Really good use of infographics. Also great responsive designs - the inforgraphics change to be mobile-friendly on a smaller screen!
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by nirnira 13y ago
Sorry, no, it does have merit. In both cases, a failure of popular economic intelligence lead or is leading to self-defeating national attitudes and policies, driven in both cases by misattributed resentment.
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by nirnira 13y ago
Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, spent a reported $US10 million on his wedding Wow, how unbelievably arrogant. Spending his money however the fuck he wants? Paying people to render him services of their own free will? What
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by nirnira 13y ago
No, it just means no one takes US moral outrage seriously anymore. Sorry.

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