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by ppod 5y ago
Is there any kind of projector display might would work for this?
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Apple and Google accused of ‘political censorship’ over Alexei Navalny app(theguardian.com)
8 points by ppod 5y ago|0 comments
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by ppod 5y ago
That's not a particularly impressive publication record.
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by ppod 5y ago
>It measured for what Emotra called “electrodermal hyporeactivity” by running a weak current over the skin as the sweat glands open and close. The association with suicide had been advertised by an experimental psychiatrist named Lars-Hå
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by ppod 5y ago
Whether they should be means or ends is a better question than whether they are "conscious" or not, which isn't really a well-formed debate.
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by ppod 5y ago
I'd have more time for the substance of the article if the author wasn't being a complete dick about it.
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by ppod 5y ago
You can choose exactly who you follow, you get the twitter feed you deserve.
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by ppod 5y ago
Not for cushion, but I've heard the other two.
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by ppod 5y ago
There are some specific advantages that R has over other languages in this context. One is that you can use (almost)* a single source document to produce docx, pdf, and interactive html output. * I can't quite get htmlwidgets and docx
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by ppod 5y ago
Seriously Diane?
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by ppod 5y ago
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q="app...
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by ppod 5y ago
How much would it cost to make a convincing reproduction of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_(Koons) Or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Square_(painting) The value of these art
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by ppod 5y ago
Completely agree, it's something that people repeat so much with no evidence.
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by ppod 5y ago
What do you mean about R? Its packaging and distribution system is great!
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by ppod 5y ago
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too" -Abe Simpson
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by ppod 5y ago
Don't get me wrong, I like the internet. It is almost free to record and publish material now, which probably far outweighs the value that is captured by the fat cats.
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by ppod 5y ago
The middle man is a load balancer for risk. The middleman makes a bunch of artists moderately rich, and they lose money on most of them and make money on some of them. They take on the risk of letting an unproven artist spend a few years do
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by ppod 6y ago
That person is not a professional pilot. They have 160 hours. Their description of the handling does not match what many other real pilots say about MSFS2020, and, as others have said, they are wrong about how the model is implemented. Thei
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by ppod 6y ago
This author has published a couple of articles like this at the New Yorker They all have this in common: the author works through some interesting and in some ways unusual cases where data or statistics have been improperly or naively appli
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by ppod 6y ago
This is a tangential point, but I've recently noticed that I discover a lot of art through wikipedia. Many pages that deal with abstract concepts are illustrated with wonderful and varied selections of art, e.g. https://en.w
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by ppod 6y ago
>a difficulty in making many technical profession seem appealing to young people, especially young women I wonder what is the effect of having the media tell people constantly for a decade that tech companies are evil organisations tryin
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by ppod 6y ago
Point of information: that's a point of information.
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by ppod 6y ago
The unity and dedication "amongst people" was due to inter-national political competition and fear. The overall purpose of these inventions was to threaten mass murder.
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by ppod 6y ago
This article is correct about underspecification, but completely dodges the argument on language and understanding, drawing the hackneyed, shallow distinction between "pattern matching" and "understanding". How do you de
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by ppod 6y ago
The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than whether a submarine can swim - Edsger Dijkstra. But it keeps academic philosophers employed I guess.
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by ppod 6y ago
Maybe not the best choice of word, but I think that people who call themselves "liberals" actually have very conservative goals, in the sense of being against change. They might come around to a type of 'yimby' when it c
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by ppod 6y ago
There was always a bit of cynicism and criticism on Hacker News, but lately it is at a completely different level. Almost every comment on every submission is negative, if not of the work itself then of some tenuous political implication, a
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by ppod 6y ago
There's a note on one of them, 3am 25th March 1953: https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/290/874/me... http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/ma
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by ppod 6y ago
Very well written article.
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by ppod 6y ago
The article does not really answer the question in the title. Yes, it shows why they still had the ability to execute Sells. But the question most people have is: If you are forced to halt Buys, isn't it fairest to also halt Sells? Now

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