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by ricardo81 1y ago
ah, yes. What about the sufficiently complex angle?
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Ask HN: Given a sufficiently complex argument, people deduce anything they like
4 points by ricardo81 1y ago|7 comments
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by ricardo81 1y ago
>isn't playing fair. the idea of having nth more dimensions of information, readable and ingestible within a short frame of time probably isn't either.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
You edited a bit but I appreciate your point and I'll defer to you as I don't know much about Indian Democracy or the behaviour of the current government. I suspect that the seed of self-determination has well and truly been plant
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by ricardo81 1y ago
It definitely took hold. It was an act of political union, albeit the democratic vote was heavily biased towards a larger English population, but the Scottish influence is imprinted in UK law, US law and any ex-colony. The works of Adam Smi
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by ricardo81 1y ago
A pretty good starting point considering the USA constitution was based much off Scotland's enlightenment 200 years prior.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
Interesting. As a Brit, I imagine (possibly ideally) by the time I'm an old man in 20-30 years that India will be a beacon of democracy and freedom in the East, given its historical Western ties and a large English speaking population.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
I don't see how, or at least that much. Language is merely a construct to describe things.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
So is it a coincidence that a majority of programmers tend to fall into the INTJ bracket?
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by ricardo81 2y ago
same inspiration but I wouldn't devolve it to 'pop science', it's simply less axiomatic than physicists and mathematicians would like. The fact there's 4 billion years of ecological change beyond the biological chan
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by ricardo81 2y ago
>I think the real takeaway isn't that there's a right way to be interested in a topic I think a different perspective can sometimes illuminate though, it's not just about the person - it's them having an epiphany that
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by ricardo81 2y ago
I don't mind the pigeon hole classification as it seems to describe me quite well vs the other definitions.
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by ricardo81 2y ago
Love biology. I appreciate purist mathematician/logicians prefer chemistry and physics and it seems to be an inside joke in the professions that biology isn't on the same level when it comes to axiomatic things. I'm a classic
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by ricardo81 2y ago
Agreed, established problems. But if we could vote (as registered users or groups) we can weight the algorithm to our own needs.
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Ask HN: On info discovery, AI/Turtles all the way down vs. human curation
1 points by ricardo81 2y ago|2 comments
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by ricardo81 2y ago
to be fair, that could be called a diary. I would guess the average person thinking about publishing in public thinks about other people seeing it.
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by ricardo81 2y ago
As many visitors as possible, not really. Just a channel where you may get interested visitors. The point isn't about pumping out content to please the algorithms, it is that the algorithms prefer that constant churn of it, and it&#x27
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by ricardo81 2y ago
Does the web really work that way though? Maybe it does for your historical reference example, like a CV. If we presumed that those pages with that content would get any traction at all. Generally the way it's working is people continu
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by ricardo81 2y ago
I get it, but I have reservations. A random example on Youtube "I will tidy up your garden for free". They do that based on the income they get from writing/videoing about it, mainly from big tech algos. If everyone did it, t
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by ricardo81 2y ago
I can think of at least one person this applies to for a seven figure company. Some people are not looking for the accoloades, the prestige - they get a problem and provide a solution and don't care much for personally communicating th
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by ricardo81 2y ago
Your comment sounds like a riddle. I've programmed for 25 years but appreciate there's a lot more going on than what I know.
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by ricardo81 2y ago
Reminds me of the humility every programmer should have, basically we're standing on the shoulders of giants and abstraction for the most part. 80+ years of computer science. Cool kids may talk about memory safety but ultimately someon
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by ricardo81 2y ago
RE: deleted comment "I know so many tech people who have given up on privacy because they know the cat is already out of the bag so to speak. That doesn't make sense to me. What does "the cat is out of the bag" actually
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by ricardo81 2y ago
There are plenty examples where criminals acquire the data from companies, e.g. social media. There was a time where you could upload a very old adobe hack (~100M email addresses), find out the person's name, DOB, who they know etc to
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by ricardo81 2y ago
Seems reasonable to want a greater understanding. I know so many tech people who have given up on privacy because they know the cat is already out of the bag so to speak. It would be illuminating to know how many companies know X/Y&#x2
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by ricardo81 2y ago
>a solved problem I believe it's not just an issue of detecting actual changes in content, but that there are pages that change very quickly and there can be many of them. e.g. social media posts/comments, reddit, news pages. &
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by ricardo81 2y ago
I think there's a few problems with that kind of setup. Quick thoughts: - Content creators have less discretion on who to allow/block crawling for when there's a middleman index (probably doesn't matter so much now given
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by ricardo81 2y ago
Purely a gut feel as I haven't verified, the amount of solar irradiance the surface receives would make any geothermal amount insignificant.
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by ricardo81 2y ago
It had me thinking this was referencing Total Recall
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by ricardo81 2y ago
This makes me wonder whether I could achieve such a thing if I removed all my preoccupations of other stuff. For me what I take out of it is the power to sit down, focus your mind on something then who knows the lengths of what is possible.

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