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by t_mann 4y ago
There'll surely be custodial services if this takes off.
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by t_mann 4y ago
> you just hear a noise. But the noise, it doesn’t sound — you can tell when you hear it, it doesn’t sound like it’s external. You hear it as a sound, it has a clear property, like a noise or a sound, but it doesn’t sound like it’s comin
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by t_mann 4y ago
Of course not - being an academic means working in academia. In the English-speaking world at least, in other parts it may mean other things (eg people who have an academic degree, regardless of what they do now).
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by t_mann 4y ago
Hangouts, Talk, Meet, Duo, new Meet,... probably missing a few there as well - you can clearly tell what gets people promoted at Google.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Well, HN comments are indexed, and HN itself links to >90% third-party websites. Aggregators like HN would likely be part of an (itself unlikely) resurgence of individual websites. It's like an interactive version of the old Yahoo.
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by t_mann 4y ago
I would love if we went back to more personal websites, but I don't see what the catalyst would be. Google reader is a good point, it's been 10 years since it's gone and we still don't have any replacement in the sense t
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by t_mann 4y ago
Celsius was based on scientific ideas and works great for describing scientific processes. Fahrenheit was based on everyday weather experience and works great for describing that. They're of course equivalent, and it would be better if
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by t_mann 4y ago
37 is a great age to start a business, don't feel too old for anything. I also don't see why your startup experience should stand in the way of getting a job, if you'd prefer that now.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Somewhat tangential, but I'm surprised that a concise domain name like markups with an attractive TLD like org was still available. In the spirit of a non-profit, I'm wondering whether they couldn't have made do with a na
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by t_mann 4y ago
Thanks for those links! Back in school, I loved wondering about whether things like the inverse square law for gravity could be (have been) discovered from raw experimental data via ML - cool to see that it's actually been done already
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by t_mann 4y ago
Or the 2010's.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Just saying, the ones who might end up being surprised are those who think that the crazy days of 20/21 are definitely over. For all we know, it's just summer now. Not that I don't dread further lockdowns or even necessarily
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by t_mann 4y ago
> The single largest population employed in research and teaching capacity is graduate students Which is why I clarified "and not working towards a degree anymore". > Find a few people in PhD programs in the US and tell them
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by t_mann 4y ago
In English-speaking countries, being in 'academia' usually means being employed in a research and/or teaching capacity at a uni and not working towards a degree anymore. Some may say being faculty, post-docs are a bit in betw
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by t_mann 4y ago
> Its creator, who remains thankfully anonymous What's that supposed to mean? The post pretends to celebrate failure, yet subtly mocks this builder multiple times.
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by t_mann 4y ago
> What was needed was a project so ludicrously ambitious, yet so immeasurably beneficial to all the European powers, that it would at last force them to put aside their differences and cooperate Let's be honest, has that idea ever w
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by t_mann 4y ago
Your CV kinda gives it away though...
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by t_mann 4y ago
'Decentralized' ... 'central server' ??? Also, if the creator is reading here, can you give us a reason for why you decided to keep Blockchains' arguably most controversial aspect - PoW - after removing the blockcha
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by t_mann 4y ago
I'm a bit puzzled that you didn't mention accidents at all, just like the article. Every time I see one of those rushing by it looks like some gnarly injuries waiting to happen, and an emergency doctor confirmed that (although I d
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by t_mann 4y ago
Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32253053
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by t_mann 4y ago
> Why do we have to share so many fundamental beliefs, then? When it comes to beliefs like 'the government consists of a lot of different people with their own interests, but a lot of them still actually care about the greater good,
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by t_mann 4y ago
What's most bizarre is that Meta has two popular and quite distinct social media apps and it now seems to be changing both to mimic TikTok. I'm sure that some smart people have analyses showing that that's what maximises en
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by t_mann 4y ago
My impression is that architecture is becoming increasingly 'rectangular', with exteriors being basically a supremely boring assortment of different rectangular structures. Especially at the lower end, residential construction mai
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by t_mann 4y ago
I don't know what people on HN said, but it's the first example of nudges of you look here (and pretty much anywhere else): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory#Types_of_nudges
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by t_mann 4y ago
Default options in forms are the standard example of a nudge, a tax however is definitely not a nudge, the article actually explicitly says so.
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by t_mann 4y ago
No, Draghi's statement was signalling, not nudging. He was willing to throw billions at the problem (and eventually did), his communication was meant to reduce the need for such an intervention.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Imho Facebook has entered Nokia territory. Their core products are losing market share, their innovative products (Oculus) are lacking a killer app.
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by t_mann 4y ago
> it's hard to tell which has occurred here I guess there's only one way to really find out :D
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by t_mann 4y ago
Copying is a great source of innovation and industrial development. Take German engineering ('Made in Germany' was a label originally intended to make the German copycats more visible in England, from where the processes were copi
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by t_mann 4y ago
A study that literally affects the constitutional landscape of a nation based on coin flips - the ethics review board discussions must have been interesting.

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