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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I'm definitely concerned about where this might head. Even the idea of early diagnosis is problematic as it carries with it all the baggage of mental health diagnostics---disorders defined by committee, lack of objectivity and reliabil
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Do you have a link for this?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
A few weeks ago at around midnight I could hear a helicopter hovering over a nearby neighborhood for a long time (10-15 minutes) apparently not moving very much. (The sound didn't change direction much.) It was loud and obnoxious, but
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Emoji could be seen as introducing a common set of ideographs into the world's writing systems. They supplement existing languages, but seem unlikely to develop into their own language due to the conflicts in word order (SVO etc.) in t
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
So how does this work? Wouldn't ntpd sometimes start before networking, for example? Why is this not a bigger issue?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Whatever happened to the idea that the best way to combat speech is with speech? Yet the "bastion of free speech" Reddit feels it must shut down various communities, probably just sending them elsewhere. Society could benefit from
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Named after the horse in Animal Farm?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
A little early to freak out, don't you think, EFF? Sure, there was some nasty crap in the leaked text, but what's going to actually be debated and potentially passed as law is the text that was agreed in the wee hours of the morni
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
De facto free trade zones such as the United States themselves (and the internal economies of most nations) are a good example of what it looks like once the transformation is complete. Doesn't prove that moving from tariffs to no tari
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Good point---for philosophy, the slow updates aren't a huge issue. But the article seemed to be holding up the SEP as a model for other endeavors, and this seems to limit its usefulness in many other areas. The centralized, academic na
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Good call, I misinterpreted that.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
The author seems convinced that the SEP is the best and everything else sucks. But the SEP has obvious flaws: articles updated at most once every four years, authors consist only of academics, everything is subject to a central editorial co
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Correct. They're bred for shipping and storage, not for taste.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Aren't there also legitimate use cases for these things? E.g. a password manager loading itself into a confidential memory region to prevent infiltration?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Because systems that do not provide such transparency will eventually be made illegal?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Feels clunky doing require/export at the package level. Why not allow exporting of individual classes, for example?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I always thought "less" preceded mass nouns and "fewer" preceded count nouns. "less acres" feels slightly sloppy to me. But we all understood what was meant, so maybe it doesn't matter.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
It strikes me that a land-value tax is the opposite of what is needed. To me, cities' great failing is that they so completely destroy the natural environment that they become inhumane and unlivable. This is largely because undeveloped
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Perhaps there was a time when they were a necessary check against industrial abuses in an economy with few choices and little opportunity for education, but nowadays unions seem like little but a market distortion extorting (with government
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
The long lists of murders by people previously treated for mental illness are scary, but are basically long lists of anecdotes. The attempt to deliver some statistics isn't very helpful: Is there any way to estimate the frequency of t
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Couldn't that internal surface be gradually phased out? Make an API that gives you full access to it, then piece-by-piece replace the full access with safer replacements?
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Maybe this downturn isn't actually a huge deal? Wait until the quarterly service sector numbers next come out and see if they follow suit.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
One approach other than cancelling accounts is to use Cyanogenmod's privacy manager to deny particular permissions to the app.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I don't think it's wacky. Modern electric lighting really is a different beast. There are differences of both degree and light spectrum between fires/moons and full illumination of your environment by way of electric light.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I think they were comparing based on the performance of a simple application: "For a semi-complex application like TodoMVC, it is more than 20 times faster than React with less code, and a much smaller library." I think the compar
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that p-values are useful when used once to evaluate preselected hypotheses with preselected thresholds. This is a common defense of p-values. Here's what doesn't add up for me: thi
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Gigaom is coming back(gigaom.com)
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
What I don't understand is why Adobe hasn't made HTML5 a supported compilation target for the existing Flash tools. Yes, tons of work. But a great way to stay relevant in the web app development space.
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It's also incredibly ironic since the email itself is banking on Satoshi's charisma (or at least influence) to steer the discussion his/her way. I noticed the u in "honour"---I thought previously that Satoshi wrote
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
How relevant is funding level to an organization's ability to secure its data? Some very large and well-funded companies have been hacked, and it seems to me that many of the properties of our technology that allow security breaches ar

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