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961.
by panic 8y ago
The blog post links to this much longer Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/planckia... -- the link probably should be changed to that instead.
962.
by panic 8y ago
> You have to realize publishers are in the reputation business. Everyone realizes this. The problem is that you're abusing your position in this reputation system for profit. Do you think $40 is a fair price to read a paper fro
963.
by panic 8y ago
I'm not complaining, just trying to explain why people don't want to contribute as much. You get the feeling you're doing work for an organization rather than improving a product for everyone. Some people are into that, but
964.
by panic 8y ago
The most direct way to do this would be to legalize sites like Sci-Hub. It's hard to argue you're performing a valuable service when you have to use legal power to prevent others from doing that service for free.
965.
by panic 8y ago
Exactly—OpenStreetMap would get more contributions if they had more users. People want to help others, but it's not clear how contributing to OSM does this when so few people use their website.
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CPAP breathing machines send data to manufacturers and insurers(propublica.org)
8 points by panic 8y ago|0 comments
967.
New Frontiers in High-Level 6502 Programming(8bitworkshop.com)
2 points by panic 8y ago|0 comments
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The copy is the original(aeon.co)
1 points by panic 8y ago|0 comments
969.
From Satori to Silicon Valley (2000)(web.stanford.edu)
39 points by panic 8y ago|0 comments
970.
by panic 8y ago
When a database transaction fails, it rolls back to the state before the transaction. Exceptions ought to work like this too. Then you wouldn’t have to think about all the places an exception could be thrown. A try-catch block would either
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Mtime comparison considered harmful(apenwarr.ca)
120 points by panic 8y ago|59 comments
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by panic 8y ago
This is a symptom of detailed metrics. When you're responsible for the "send an email" feature, you want to show you're doing your job. Getting more people to send email is an easy way to show progress without having t
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by panic 8y ago
This bit about EURISKO exploiting its own heuristic scoring mechanism is cute: > One of the first heuristics that EURISKO synthesized (H59) quickly attained nearly the highest Worth possible (999). Quite excitedly, we examined it and co
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The Way Houyhnhnms Compute (2015)(ngnghm.github.io)
8 points by panic 8y ago|3 comments
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by panic 8y ago
Are New Yorkers going to see these tax revenues, or are they just going to see housing prices go up?
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by panic 8y ago
Where did I say street crime doesn't exist? My point is that most criminals are not going to be tracked down using streetlight cameras.
977.
by panic 8y ago
Most crime doesn't happen in the view of streetlights. Fraud, wage theft, domestic violence… how do cameras help with any of that?
978.
Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials(arxiv.org)
17 points by panic 8y ago|3 comments
979.
by panic 8y ago
To put this in perspective, Light Table raised $316,720 on Kickstarter. Google gets that much money every 75 seconds. You can't really compare Google's decisions to those of a single person working on an experimental project wit
980.
by panic 8y ago
There’s a huge difference between the feedback loop of playing an instrument and the one-way experience of listening to a band, though.
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The Mercury programming language(mercurylang.org)
112 points by panic 8y ago|73 comments
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How People Used to Download Games from the Radio (2014)(kotaku.co.uk)
124 points by panic 8y ago|40 comments
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by panic 8y ago
The problem isn't deduction. It's getting things into the deductive system in the first place. You have to model the world, and your model will probably be incorrect somehow ( https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~
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Academia is a cult(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by panic 8y ago|0 comments
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by panic 8y ago
Vienna also has a significant amount of public housing: http://cityobservatory.org/housing-policy-lessons-from-vienn...
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by panic 8y ago
Anything moving on a screen will call attention to itself. A bunch of road labels "flowing" around at once turns into a huge mess. The real problem here is with label conflicts. Say you have an important point of interest in the
987.
Modeling Message Queues in TLA+(hillelwayne.com)
195 points by panic 8y ago|46 comments
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Noria: dynamic, partially-stateful data-flow for high-performance web apps(blog.acolyer.org)
3 points by panic 8y ago|0 comments
989.
by panic 8y ago
To save you a click: it’s antagonism. “People who are antagonistic resonate more with populist messages.”
990.
by panic 8y ago
Not usually—always. How can you ever blame someone when software doesn't do what they expected it to? What should they have done differently? And people internalize this stuff! When poorly-written software does something unexpected,

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