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by nojs 5y ago
> Roll: 2-2, Lands on: Income Tax Action: Pay $200 (now has $1300), Doubles therefore rolls again Wait, doesn’t doubles prevent the default action?
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by nojs 5y ago
Wow, this is a bit rich coming from the NYT. They are among the worst offenders.
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by nojs 5y ago
PG has some interesting thoughts about this: http://www.paulgraham.com/talk.html
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by nojs 5y ago
The Braille typing is amazing. She interacts so smoothly and quickly with the keyboard. I wonder why she doesn’t use voice input though?
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by nojs 5y ago
On the other hand, there is a parallel thread [1] showing the problems with blindly trusting private interests for regulation and law enforcement. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27295320
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by nojs 5y ago
This is a great example of why if you’re learning a language, once you pass the beginner stage you should be spending the majority of your time reading and listening, some time speaking and writing, and almost no time trying to learn gramma
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by nojs 5y ago
> Use the correct fingering, dynamics, articulation, etc. from the very beginning; you are never going to get around to “fixing” it later. As both a piano player and language learner I am often torn about this. On the one hand it’s bette
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by nojs 5y ago
I wish he would say this in the post!
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by nojs 5y ago
Could you explain what you mean in more detail?
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by nojs 6y ago
This is amazing. I can think of several relatives who would absolutely love something like this over struggling with a touchscreen.
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by nojs 6y ago
To be fair, it says “unofficial” as the first word of the description on the website.
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by nojs 6y ago
I think most people interpret the task of assigning a percentage to their belief of something like this as equivalent to estimating the percentage of the time they are likely to be wrong. So to say the two are not related is not true.
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by nojs 6y ago
“Tetris” clones often seem to get aggressively shut down on copyright grounds too, so this might be more robust.
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by nojs 6y ago
The calligraphy is beautiful!
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by nojs 6y ago
A while ago I noticed they set the default droplet to a more expensive one and moved the $5 option off the screen to the left so you have to scroll to see it, but it all lines up so it looks like there’s no more options. Minor change but a
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Ask HN: Good Sources of News in Australia?
5 points by nojs 6y ago|11 comments
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by nojs 6y ago
> Because if there were, they would be able to more easily raise the capital from private investors rather than the public market Coinbase isn’t raising capital though because it’s a direct listing.
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by nojs 6y ago
It’s great to see negative results like this, that go against current popular research trends, published. It makes me realise how rare it is to see “we studied this thing and contrary to our predictions saw nothing interesting”. Presumably
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by nojs 6y ago
In case anyone else is confused, this isn’t Yoshua Bengio.
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by nojs 6y ago
The article mentions turning cars upside down to “alter their silhouette”, so maybe the metal blocks detection.
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by nojs 6y ago
Where do you live? I’m pretty sure in Australia your registration is checked automatically whenever you drive past a police car, which are all equipped with cameras.
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by nojs 6y ago
The only difference is that we call the former “inflation” and the latter “my stocks are doing well”. It’s all inflation in the end.
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by nojs 6y ago
Unrelated, but I’m curious why people say “could care less” - don’t you mean “couldn’t”?
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Everything Bubble(en.wikipedia.org)
19 points by nojs 6y ago|2 comments
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by nojs 6y ago
If linking to Australian news content is not in the financial interests of the company, why would they continue to do it? It shouldn’t be surprising that they choose not to.
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by nojs 6y ago
I mean can I use it offline and be in complete control of all the data rather than storing it in the cloud?
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by nojs 6y ago
Good on Facebook for actually calling the Government’s bluff, with a straightforward explanation of the economics, instead of pretending to and posting strange and confusing things like Google. I tend to believe them that the impact will be
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by nojs 6y ago
Brisqi looks cool, is it possible to use self-hosted?
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by nojs 6y ago
Local hidden variables as an explanation has been experimentally refuted: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem
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by nojs 6y ago
I don’t know any Japanese but for Chinese, metrics like this are misleading, because the long tail of unknown characters are still enough to prevent you reading. If you know 80% of chinese characters by frequency you can’t read 80% of the n

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