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by ristretto 15y ago
i do remember seeing very sharp closely before my lasik, but i assumed it was because of reflections and diffusion through the glasses
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by ristretto 15y ago
I believe as long as iOS exists, google will be pushing Android to assert their dominance. I guess that's why they still don't really push chromeOS. (Do any chromeos laptops exist?)
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by ristretto 15y ago
Agree to that. However, given that webkit is the widely used mobile browser, the webkit project should implement something similar asap. This covers a real need and its actually kind of baffling why we still don't have those simple apis in
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by ristretto 15y ago
Short sightedness is a convergence problem. There's nothing wrong with your fovea, so you still have the sharp vision when using glasses or looking close.
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by ristretto 15y ago
That's definately plausible and i think that's what the author meant by "video stream". We only see clearly enough to read in the fovea, which is only 2 degrees of our field of view.
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by ristretto 15y ago
In the end, it's wrong to try to determine how many "megapixels" the eye can see, as its not a camera and everything before and after the optic nerve perform a number of enhancements / processing of the signal, so what matters in the end is
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by ristretto 15y ago
That is a much better treatment than others i have seen. Although i think the actual megapixels of the eye should be measured as the number of rod and cone cells which is ~80 - 150 million. However the retina is smartly organized to give gr
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by ristretto 15y ago
You should not have a second pass it's a huge time waster. I like taking the extra time to optimize everything from the start. Maybe I won't finish my project within an hour, bu extra time helps as more ideas come to mind while coding
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by ristretto 15y ago
Ask "him" to read chapter 4 of "how the brain changes itself". I think deprivation alone will not be a long term solution. It's important to know how this addiction progresses. There are many non-preaching forums about porn addiction. I do
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by ristretto 15y ago
What makes you think that "keeping their cash there" is beneficial to any society? I am obviously getting political here, but money for its own sake should not be a goal. Money should be invested or taxed.
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by ristretto 15y ago
Actually, wealthy people are even better off with the current system where they can hide their wealth in a number of competing low tax regimes in the outskirts of the world. It would actually be funny to see this thing coming true, and then
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by ristretto 15y ago
I 've never seen so many "reminds me of" comments on a post before.
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by ristretto 15y ago
It's in Hollywood's interests to reassure people that they are still smarter than computers.
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by ristretto 15y ago
Add to these the recent announcement of Foxconn to install 1000000 robots. Now software will even be eating up sweatshops. Unfortunately, the rest of the economy is slow to catch up with these changes, in both the developing and (in a small
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by ristretto 15y ago
Eagleman's book is indeed biased and shallow, but not inaccurate, and has a good summary of clinical cases on the subject.
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by ristretto 15y ago
Randomness is random, if it is somehow entangled with another system then it there are hidden variables that haven't been discovered yet. Quantum physics is "absolutely" random ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_variable_theory for
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by ristretto 15y ago
- I think the OP was referring to chaotic systems as effectively random, which they are not - It certainly forces us to redefine what is the meaning of free will, if we dont accept dualism. Since Libet's experiments there are many others th
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by ristretto 15y ago
- For an interesting take on (1) and (2) i would suggest reading this http://www.amazon.com/Incognito-Secret-Lives-David-Eagleman/... ; I think there's ample evidence there, too. - You need a tool to "discover" right and wrong, just like
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by ristretto 15y ago
1. Yes i should have mentioned that about the universe; the pdfs are deterministic. I dont agree about "effectively random"; chaos != randomness. But, crucially, at the level of biological molecules that mediate most brain processes, quantu
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by ristretto 15y ago
- We live and act in a deterministic universe with deterministic brains - Right and wrong are social constructions. In science, people use empiricism as a criterion - Free will requires the existence of a supernatural "self" or actor. Good
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by ristretto 15y ago
it's an illusion created by the visual system, which will persist unless you completely remove the corners. It's similar to why you perceive the edges on your ceiling to be brighter.
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by ristretto 15y ago
There are some exaggerations there. Corners, like edges in general attract attention and our visual system exaggerates them (but not in the retina as is suggested). Just like gradients, round edges do not attract attention. I don't think it
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by ristretto 15y ago
There's nothing wrong about making your product more fun by introducing gaming elements. Yahoo includes them in their design patterns http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/social/people/reputatio... Twitter has no "game" elements? Why do
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by ristretto 15y ago
Another Golden-Gate-bridge-bgimage startup (not disappointed)
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by ristretto 15y ago
Founders (your audience) may be extremely wary about their "social media" image, and reluctant to advertise other businesses in the same space. Plus the value of finding a good co-founder greatly exceeds $29. Not to mention that many are se
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Show HN: A bookmarklet to save TL'DRs of long web pages(tldrplz.com)
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by ristretto 15y ago
Please stop using that kitsch abomination known as eurovision for reference. Use UEFA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA
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by ristretto 15y ago
True, that's why the article ommited the UK. (and UK startups are rarely labeled 'european')
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by ristretto 15y ago
Due in part to cultural differences with the rest of the middle east, Israel is often classed as closer to europe. (As is Turkey as well)
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by ristretto 15y ago
common error. Everybody knows Ikea is the capital of Sweden where they make the best wines.

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