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601.
by shard 6y ago
I was disappointed by Frankfurt's "On Bullshit". I felt he spent 9/10th of the book on academically defining different aspects of bullshit, and only getting into the details of the effects and ways to deal with bullshit
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by shard 6y ago
There might be legal reasons (taxes, employment laws) that are too much of a hurdle for them to allow remote work from another country. I've heard estimates of 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars to set up the necessary structure, not
603.
by shard 6y ago
How does the radioactivity from coal compare with the radioactivity from bananas?
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by shard 6y ago
I popped into Home Depot last Thursday and there were stacks of furnace filters and box fans available. Lowes and Ace Hardware websites show availability as well. Head down and take a look, YMMV in your area.
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by shard 6y ago
I put the filter behind the fan, the reason being that the filter will be sucked onto the fan, thus providing a better seal between the fan and filter than it would be if the filter was in the front and being actively pushed away from the f
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by shard 6y ago
I am not denying the value of a Wacom tablet, I'm simply considering the teachers' salaries, and comparing the cost of a $100 Wacom tablet with a free CD and pencil plus a $1 notebook.
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by shard 6y ago
Yes, emphasizing their privacy focus as their differentiation is definitely part of Apple's brand identity and marketing strategy. However, Apple is in a different vertical and has a different business model than FB and Google, and may
608.
by shard 6y ago
Sounds like a way to incentivise new employees to move to the highest COL locations ASAP, to take advantage of the salary bump for things such as 401k contributions, any matching 401k company contributions, and Social Security earnings calc
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by shard 6y ago
If this is because of high PM2.5 concentration (due to wildfires or otherwise), I suggest building a DIY air filter, such as the one in the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH5APw_SLUU When the Air Quality Index
610.
by shard 6y ago
syshum's post is definitely cynical, but I can see it being true in the sense that companies are not likely to make moves which lower their share price, even if they think it is ultimately good for the consumer, if they know consumers
611.
by shard 6y ago
I don't seem a Wacom providing $100 of extra value compared with a working solution that is free .
612.
by shard 6y ago
A company doesn't have to sell things to the local population to do business there. There are many companies in China which wish to access the user base that FB has. Here is an article from NYT talking about the $5B that FB made from C
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by shard 6y ago
I disagree with the quoted statement, and my disagreement leads to your conclusion as a consequence, but not as a problem. Leaving aside whether the different positions are better/worse, easier/harder, etc, the higher you go, the
614.
by shard 6y ago
Of course journalists use Photoshop. Before digital cameras, journalists also pushed or pulled the film processing, dodged and burned parts of the image, exposed different parts of the photo paper by different amounts, used different proces
615.
by shard 6y ago
Converting the full spectrum lights in nature into color filtered photons captured on a sensor with an artificial color profile, it's own resolution and pixel arrangement, its own lens specifics that is the camera, then converted to an
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by shard 6y ago
Childcare, although helpful for those parents who cannot WFH, would seem to present a choice to those who can: either put your children into a riskier environment, or accept that you will be less productive than your colleagues who are will
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by shard 6y ago
Right, the transistor is not fully simulating a neuron, just a first order approximation of the electrical impulse response. It's close enough for government work, as they say.
618.
by shard 6y ago
If you think of transistors as analog computational devices, 100 is not that small. There are animals with ~200-300 neurons, so it's at least within the range of possibility to have a fairly autonomous robot with only 100.
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by shard 6y ago
Makes me think of the book Accelerando, where sentient viral corporations and Economics 2.0 posthuman intelligences running amok in virtual space, trading uploaded human constructs as currency.
620.
by shard 6y ago
The irregular shape of Dymaxion always bothered me. I much prefer the Cahill–Keyes projection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahill%E2%80%93Keyes_projectio...
621.
by shard 6y ago
Aren't there distortions the further north/south you go? At the limit, a 90 degree angle with the corner at the pole would map to a half box shape. I'm having problem visualizing what happens right before the limit though.
622.
by shard 6y ago
Don't forget that Apple is a multinational megacorp, and is user centric only when it suits them. Consider Tim Cook speaking at the conference used by the Chinese government to promote internet regulation, saying that the vision of the
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by shard 6y ago
If only you can download the image, it would be perfect for my use. Does anyone have a suggestion for such a device? All I want is an inexpensive device that can digitize what I write to replace my pile of notebooks. Doesn't need to er
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by shard 6y ago
Piracy extends beyond movies and music. It also affects games, which arguably is one driving force behind IAP, loot boxes, and pay-to-win, and I for one do not feel it is a good trend. To extend it further, IP also includes source code, whi
625.
by shard 6y ago
For tests in the real world, there are always false positives and false negatives. No test is 100% perfect. The question is always how high those rates are, and thus how well you can rely on the results.
626.
by shard 6y ago
The mix of font styles in the PSYCHE title strip on top really bothers me. Are there any typography experts in the house that can explain what concepts could be behind that choice?
627.
by shard 6y ago
Same in the US. On my paycheck there are Social Security tax, Medicare tax, State disability insurance tax, State unemployment insurance tax. If it is a mandatory deduction taken out of your paycheck to fund a government project (not the
628.
by shard 6y ago
I suspect that if incentives were more aligned, the program could have succeeded. People in general don't want to pay more, but you can guide people to certain behaviors if they benefit from the behaviors. In South Korea, people have t
629.
by shard 6y ago
Well don't leave us hanging, what's the other one?
630.
by shard 6y ago
If you divide by the average score at the school, it assumes professors grade on an absolute scale that matches across universities, that a 4.0 is the same anywhere. Since this is not the case, then there already is built-in bias to the 4.0

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