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by peterlk 8y ago
Yes, but there is a bright side too. Mr. Rogers developed a personal relationship with many of his viewers in the way that you are talking about, and I think he did a great service to the world
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by peterlk 8y ago
Since this is on HN, I'll add a request to anyone that is able and willing. I want to understand the Cooley-Tukey FFT [0]. This algorithm holds a special place in my heart because I just don't _get_ it. I've used it and imple
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by peterlk 8y ago
I don't like feeling like a conspiracy theorist, but those signals look really clean [0]. Not necessarily the military, but... it's so intentional-looking. > “They're too nice; they're too perfect to be nature,” she j
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by peterlk 8y ago
I think I understand what you're saying, but I think you're oversimplifying, and that would do a disservice to people who may be new to the job market. Just because someone is a big name doesn't mean they're the right fi
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by peterlk 8y ago
Well said. I'd also like to add that the opportunity costs of losing bright minds to suicide, burnout, backstabbing, etc. at a higher rate detracts from the argument that this might produce a more productive society. So from a central
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by peterlk 8y ago
Also, if you use facebook, stop. I haven't used facebook in years, and I feel pretty fine. I still have friends; we hang out; we show each other pictures. And, best of all, our communication isn't being injected with ads meant to
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by peterlk 8y ago
To me, there is a better word for those things, and I don't understand why we do not use it. That word is: propaganda. Is there a good argument that fake news etc. Is not propaganda? To me calling it propaganda paints a clearer picture
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by peterlk 8y ago
The claim is that we can't do this study on humans: > Mice yanked out of their community and held in solitary isolation show signs of brain damage. Don't we do this to prisoners? Seems like we could study this within the bounda
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by peterlk 8y ago
I'm a bit late in checking up on this, but just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to answer some questions
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by peterlk 8y ago
This article was pretty low on details, so I went out and collected some links: This looks more or less like another stab at the Cray connection machine[0], but with modern hardware and a better framework about how neural nets can and shoul
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by peterlk 8y ago
This is a difficult issue. On the one hand, it is arrogant to sit in comfortable chairs imported to areas that live in excess and tell others to live with less so that we may appreciate their wilderness from afar; or ephemerally while we ar
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by peterlk 8y ago
Very similar experience. I learned to type fast because typing faster meant "winning" more arguments on Runescape. Also AIM helped me as well
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by peterlk 8y ago
Here is the standard answer to your question: https://qntm.org/abolish The tldr; is that humans still operate more or less on the cycle of the sun
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by peterlk 8y ago
> Carbon Engineering's fuel costs about 25 per cent more than gasoline made from oil Seriously?! If this is actually true, sign me up. I will absolutely pay a 25% fuel tax to make the world a better place and also not have to give o
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by peterlk 8y ago
This headline and article may be right in spirit, but are obviously wrong in letter. And we do ourselves a disservice calling this oversimplification news. If you run/bike/whatever too hard for too long, you die. Plain and simple.
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by peterlk 8y ago
Can someone provide a compelling argument for why we should not keep charging ahead given this risk? It seems to me that drug-resistant HIV would maintain the status quo, but I don't really know anything about the landscape of drugs&#x
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by peterlk 8y ago
I agree that these are not universal truths. But I also think that remote workers tend to be self selecting. Those who are successful remote workers do have "the motivation to own the things they're working on" and that fact
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by peterlk 8y ago
I wrote a full comment and then deleted it because our blog talks a lot about this. At the risk of being downvoted for pushing my employer's blog, I'll leave you with a blog post: https://blog.aha.io/remote-workers
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by peterlk 8y ago
I am fascinated by how little syntax is required to actually communicate with each other. You can remove gender from language entirely and still understand what people mean. We can even get rid of time-based tenses and instead say something
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by peterlk 8y ago
To be clear, there is a very real threat of China embedding chips that do "bad things" inside chips that are sold to the US (source: I once worked on a government contract and saw such chips - they were, to my knowledge, unrelated
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Ask HN: Advice for giving private programming lessons?
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by peterlk 8y ago
I'm honestly curious. This seems like a way to create lots of legal corner cases. Can I drive a car on any beach in Oregon? Is it (technically) illegal to bike/walk on the beaches? My guess is that legislation has smoothed out the
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by peterlk 8y ago
I haven't had a chance to rant about this in a while, so, I'll warn you that a rant is ahead. I get the sense that the pendulum is going to start swinging back again soon. The media companies have almost won control again, and the
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by peterlk 8y ago
If the Earth's magnetic field flips somewhat randomly every 1/2 million years, and there is randomness in that timing, how can it be a reliable measurement mechanism at 50 million years? 500 million years? 2 billion years?
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by peterlk 8y ago
A geologist I know very well has remarked to me before that before a certain point, the geological records aren't good enough to know. The problem is that continents get pushed under each other, and their contents are recycled through
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by peterlk 8y ago
I imagine this will get buried in the comments, but this brings up a separate truth that I have only recently begun to discover. People just want company. I have a tendency to assume that I don't have a meaningful relationship with som
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by peterlk 8y ago
> a federal court in 2013 said they have to stop collecting fees until they come up with a use for them This is fascinating! I didn't realize that killing Yucca Mountain triggered lower taxes for the companies producing the waste. T
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by peterlk 8y ago
To be honest, I don't see this censorship as such a big deal, it's an annoying speed bump, but not much more. Media has censored things forever, and as long as the internet remains open, it's not like censoring search results
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by peterlk 8y ago
How are you guys better than/different from Echonest? Can I give you new songs and get back a tagged blob of attributes?
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by peterlk 8y ago
Why does no one ever talk about these with respect to Mars? It seems like a research-worthy pursuit to see if we can engineer plants (bacteria?) like this to modify the climate of Mars, or to make artificial superstructures self-sustaining.

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