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by rm999 14y ago
I listen to "binaural beats for a more creative mind" or "binaural beats for concentration and alertness" on spotify while working sometimes. I'm not convinced on the actual science behind binaural beats' affect on the brain, but it very mu
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by rm999 14y ago
I hate these articles that argue for drastic changes in schooling without the deep analysis those changes deserve. It takes a certain kind of arrogance to go from "I wasn't good at X" to "X is useless; let's get rid of it." I also struggled
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by rm999 14y ago
Here's an article on that topic and some excerpts I thought were interesting http://www.uic.edu/classes/osci/osci590/9_3%20The%20Legal%20... >The Stepan Company (a $400 million American Stock Exchange company) of Maywood, New Jersey i
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by rm999 14y ago
I've found Chrome (and all browsers in this day and age, for that matter) to be quite stable, and I haven't heard complaints from others. Before switching browsers (which can be pretty inconvenient) it may be worth debugging if this is an i
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by rm999 14y ago
Good point, but the question the article addresses is if they could have physically built one, not designed one.
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by rm999 14y ago
I have some experience with both, but can't give a great comparison. The tldr is I've always had a better impression of Hinton than Hawkins, and have studied/followed Hinton's approaches much more carefully. In late 2006/early 2007 I was wo
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by rm999 14y ago
They're referring to the 'billing system password'. I may be mistaken on this, but I think this predates a time when most people had online accounts, which can create confusion now that there are two things called a password. I remember str
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by rm999 14y ago
>You can, shared photo streams which came with iOS 6 I think. You can also create shared photo journals in iPhoto (on iOS) which I presume work through iCloud. Thanks for letting me know. I tried to do a mobileme style photo album about
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by rm999 14y ago
Everything about icloud - from the terrible design to the clunky interface - is as Steve Jobs liked to say, "shit". I have icloud and I'm not even sure what it's for; is it a backup service, an e-mail provider, or a way to find my phone? No
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by rm999 14y ago
They ask me to upload a photo of myself 100% of the time I visit the front page of google+. I actively avoid it now.
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by rm999 14y ago
I prefer the glassdoor approach: aggregate anonymized numbers so people get a good idea of the income and bonus distribution by company, job title, city, and experience. This really gives anyone a ton of useful information without drama.
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by rm999 14y ago
>You can be convicted of a felony for expressing an opinion about how to improve goverment? No, but I don't see why they can't use it as evidence in a different case. IANAL, but it seems relevant if they wanted/needed to demonstrate int
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by rm999 14y ago
I'm also on time warner NYC. The funny thing is my 30 mbps wideband is consistently ~30 mbps from almost everywhere. Torrents and downloads consistently max out my bandwidth (even during peak hours) and most sites load just as quickly as my
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by rm999 14y ago
I've heard this mentality from a lot of people recently. Part of it is my friends and I have gotten older and we no longer consider spending hours tinkering with OS settings a good use of our time. But the real shift is cloud computing - ou
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by rm999 14y ago
I certainly understand not hiring remote workers, but the transition will probably destroy value, especially if exceptions aren't allowed. A previous company of mine instituted a similar policy, and it was somewhat painful for my small team
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by rm999 14y ago
I used to work in the credit card space, and what I witnessed is that the industry is adamantly opposed to anything they perceive as inconveniencing customers, at least at point of sale where they are competing with cash. In fact, Visa and
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by rm999 14y ago
>they are shutting down GameSpot I haven't seen this anywhere, do you have a source? Maybe I'm just tired, but I didn't see anything about that in your links. That's kind of sad; I'm not a huge fan of the site, but I actually trust thei
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by rm999 14y ago
Ask me anything VS discuss the topic at hand leads to two very different discussions. In an AMA the point would be for us to ask you questions, whereas if I started asking you questions here most would probably be deemed off-topic.
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by rm999 14y ago
I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt; unpredictable is as nonsensical as nonlinear in the context of the debate.
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by rm999 14y ago
>But Nicolelis is in a camp that thinks that human consciousness (and if you believe in it, the soul) simply can’t be replicated in silicon. That’s because its most important features are the result of unpredictable, non-linear interact
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by rm999 14y ago
Two issues. The first is the most important to me: I simply can't trust the other party a priori. I've had so many poor experiences on craigslist, including scams, clearly stolen items for sale, misleading descriptions, no-shows. This is wh
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by rm999 14y ago
I've long considered CL one of the biggest tragedies of the internet age. The problem is it's just good enough to prevent competitors from gaining critical mass, but it's not good enough to consistently do an adequate job. There's a huge
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by rm999 14y ago
I just wanted to point out the irony that people are surprised when a company with 'international' in its name is becoming truly international. On a more serious note, these developments are obvious to anyone who has followed IBM in the pas
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by rm999 14y ago
I just read his 'infamous' post. He explains that he got accepted, then found out he would have to change his cofounders for personal reasons. This concerned ycombinator, which changed its mind and decided not to fund him because of all the
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by rm999 14y ago
My first thought: I see no reason not to switch over from dropbox, it should take me about 10 minutes to switch. I could even run both at the same time for redundancy. My second thought: from an investing perspective the danger in this spac
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by rm999 14y ago
I almost completely agree with you. I often tell people that statistics is the study of compressing information in useful ways. That said, scalar statistics can be very useful if the compression is 'correct'. For example, if you have an a p
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by rm999 14y ago
Standard deviation isn't the problem, skew is. Yes, skew will increase the standard deviation, but the heart of the issue here is how fat the right tail of the distribution is. Standard deviation is often a useful metric, but it's at least
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by rm999 14y ago
I wouldn't call that a safe assumption, but I can see how that would be part of it. From the article: >Why the high return rates? "It seems to be linked in a lot of cases to a steep learning curve of the [Windows 8] OS -- which is not n
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by rm999 14y ago
Also the RT saw 'very high' rates of return, the pro may have similar issues. I think the most useful measure will be the number sold (after returns) after a a few months. http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57566759-75/microsoft-surf...
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by rm999 14y ago
Steam's potential success on linux is part of his thought process. From the reddit thread: >I truly do feel that emulation of some sort is a proper technical direction for gaming on Linux. It is obviously pragmatic in the range of possi

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