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by starchild_3001 9y ago
Also to add: Economic growth comes from producing more. "Mean has grown, but median has stagnated" means top earners are producing more (e.g. better software & hardware), while below-median earners aren't necessarily prod
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by starchild_3001 9y ago
Hey, this article isn't news! US median income has been stagnant since 70ies, while mean income has grown steadily. The gains obviously accrued to highest income earners. We should talk about it. But we shouldn't think of it like
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by starchild_3001 9y ago
Yeah, right. Those are called "welding glasses" :) Sorry, I could not stop it. Hope the technology is amazing, and people will overlook how it appears.
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by starchild_3001 9y ago
Lol :) Probably true. Showing the how not to do it, before Apple finally figures it out.
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by starchild_3001 9y ago
On iOs/mobile, Apple Maps has a much prettier, more usable UI. All the buildings are shown 3d in Bay Area during navigation . Google maps does not show 3d while navigating. From this point of view, Apple offers a superior user exper
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by starchild_3001 9y ago
Re: Opportunity cost & try to look ahead. Great advice!
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by starchild_3001 9y ago
I think the first paragraph should've said everybody's experience is different. Doing a PhD is like joining a company. It's a job. Depending on the team, manager, department, project, your personality etc. your experience wil
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by starchild_3001 9y ago
Republicans are anti-science, anti-immigration to the extent they want to curb university research and stop the flow of world's smartest immigrants to USA. That's the only rational explanation of what's going on. If that wasn
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by starchild_3001 9y ago
Here's my obvious explanation of consciousness: You have an ego/intelligent being inside of you. Call that a Turing machine that observes your sensory world, takes notes, makes deductions, takes action (consciously---excuse the wo
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by starchild_3001 9y ago
I took cold showers for a month. Really liked the effects! I ended up wearing shorts and tshirt year round (in northern california), whereas the old me would be wearing several layers of clothing > 6 months of the year. I was taking cold
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by starchild_3001 9y ago
What's the big deal with consciousness? Isn't it an obvious trait of any human like, animal like, robot like semi-intelligent being? I'd expect it to emerge automatically, once correct base instincts & abilities are progr
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by starchild_3001 9y ago
What if having born to rich parents is correlated with genetic disposition to higher intelligence and risk taking? Evolution endows offspring of successful parents with successful traits. From an evolutionary perspective, the findings are t
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by starchild_3001 9y ago
I once read a study that the half life of truth in medicine is 20 years. Namely in 20 years roughly half of the things we identified as truth are overturned. Examples? Fat clogs arteries. Cholesterol clogs arteries. LDL causes heart disease
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by starchild_3001 9y ago
I've read the article and most of the comments here. Still not sure what ethically questionable things we're talking about. Is serving content related to your personal interests questionable? Or is collection of personal data for
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by starchild_3001 9y ago
I really really wonder if the results of this survey are accurate. It doesn't gel well with Apple's YoY record profits over the last 15 years. Having used many windows computers and Macs. And used an Android phone and iPhones. I f
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by starchild_3001 9y ago
It feels like some people do programming for the sake of programming (like linguists). Others create poems and exquisite novels with it (authors). I’d argue you don’t need to be a linguist to be a nobel (or pulitzer) prize winning author. W
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by starchild_3001 9y ago
Pretty idiotic article. Blaming Facebook for Trump’s election is like blaming freedom or internet for the same.
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by starchild_3001 10y ago
The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRqSkR4ENAg
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by starchild_3001 10y ago
Musk & co changing the world one step at a time. I used to be a Tesla sceptic. Not anymore, having owned one and witnessed the relentless improvement in battery tech.