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Dell Latitude 7490 (i5-8350U, FHD) Laptop Review(notebookcheck.net)
1 points by sophistication 8y ago|0 comments
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by sophistication 8y ago
The most recent Dell Latitude 7490 looks nice too.
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by sophistication 8y ago
Just be prepared to fail. That's all I'm saying. I'm not saying it is futile.
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by sophistication 8y ago
Generally, the highest impact of any individual is mostly minior (of course the collective actions matter, but you are mostly bound to be a tiny gear in massive cultural processes that are nearly out of our control). To increase impact, you
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by sophistication 8y ago
Which laptop will you consider next? A 2015 MacBook Pro?
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by sophistication 8y ago
Am I understanding correctly that the Danube always seeps into the ground near Immendingen (since 300 years), but if the conditions are dry enough there is not enough water to flow past this sink hole, so all of it drains into the European
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by sophistication 8y ago
I gave it a 6/10 bullshit rating on my own scale. I agree that metaphors in proverbs are never as vague, so yeah, it's bullshit. It might pass as a poorly translated proverb in a Chinese fortune cookie.
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by sophistication 8y ago
That's why I described it as "awkward". It could even be poetic, an ellipsis of "irrational facts [that people believe in]", or an elliptical reversal of "facts [that people] irrational[ly believe in]".
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by sophistication 8y ago
The only sentence that confused me is this one: > 3. The future elucidates irrational facts for the seeking person. I'm not a native English speaker, so I might be wrong, but I'm reading this as "the future will more likel
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by sophistication 8y ago
There might be slightly positive causal correlations between health and creativity (probably not too strong though because there are lots of mentally deranged successful artists), and, more plausibly, between tolerance and creativity, but t
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by sophistication 8y ago
Modern Art is bullshit.
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by sophistication 8y ago
A killer drone would have a much easier time eliminating someone knowing their location compared to just knowing their name.
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by sophistication 8y ago
If the drone sets itself to fire it will be very hard to identify anything on it (DNA denaturates after 60 seconds at 200 °C). The problem about off–the-shelf components is exactly that they can rarely be traced back to a particular seller
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by sophistication 8y ago
I'd agree that this is a fundamental factor enabling social peace (besides a culture of sincerity and trust), but aren't there in principle always incentives for competitors to eliminate one another? What if this becomes too easy
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by sophistication 8y ago
Is there hope the technique can be accelerated to practical speeds at all?
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by sophistication 8y ago
https://www.google.com/search?btnG=Search&q=synaptic+overcon... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2001237/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2007.10.016 Th
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by sophistication 8y ago
> If it's an illness (BPD), suggesting there's enjoyment indicates belief that the intent of the sufferer is malicious. I don't believe this is the case. A disorder comes from negative experiences. Well, we are also hardwi
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by sophistication 8y ago
I stated this in an overly mutual exclusive way. I suspect the difference is that people with BPD actually enjoy obsessing about social domain in a systemizing way, while autists don't. Autists might still engage in such obsession th
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by sophistication 8y ago
It seems to me that BPD means obsessing about the social domain and ASD means obsessing about the non-social domain. Both obsessions are amplified by social exclusion due to being neurodivergent. Obsession leads to systemizing. Baron-Cohen&
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by sophistication 8y ago
The empathizing–systemizing theory seems to be on shaky ground: http://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/164069138209/in-lieu-o... http://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/164123186154/baron-co
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by sophistication 8y ago
If there would be no data point below/above 20/85, then it might be warranted to truncate it, but that's clearly not the case, in fact, by definition, there is 20% and 15% of the data respectively. The bars starting from the
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by sophistication 8y ago
Agreed. It's relatively useless information without normalizing the differences by the variances (Cohen's d) or at least providing confidence intervals.
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by sophistication 8y ago
The graphs start/end at the 20th/~85th percentiles rather than 0th/100th, which makes the differences seem larger than they are.
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by sophistication 8y ago
Not to mention that there is no conclusive evidence of the dual process theory yet, see for example this experimental study finding that logical "type 2" answers are actually typically faster and that intuitive "type 1"
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by sophistication 8y ago
This is how I'm understanding it: Rationality is essentially the practice to value truthful speech. But for rationality to last in any culture, you first of all require a gut level propensity to trust complete strangers that they are i
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by sophistication 8y ago
To the downvoters, there is actually some historic and sociological evidence supporting this notion: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3201031 > Recent research not only confirms the existence of s
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by sophistication 8y ago
Can it detect the state of the lid and automatically enter suspend & wake up based on it?
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by sophistication 8y ago
The shorelines were likely rendered by in-house fluid dynamics simulation, and, likewise, the surface structures of the stones, sand and barks likely use in-house shaders which are far more advanced than what's implemented in non-comme
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by sophistication 8y ago
Because Tesla was David vs Goliath. The laptop market and especially the phone market were much more open to newcomers.

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