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by te_platt 13y ago
Hacker News is a funny place. I saw the story and thought "Ha! That is only a small part of it. They should read Nagel's 'What is it like to be a bat?'". Of course the top rated comment would already say that - o
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Ask HN: Any insight here on what happened to flight 370?
7 points by te_platt 13y ago|2 comments
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by te_platt 13y ago
In the update it looks like the Color Run has a compelling story to tell as well. Whatever the full truth it is clear the legal system here in the U.S is completely out of control in terms of the cost and time involved.
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by te_platt 13y ago
I have strongly mixed feelings on this. When I was a kid my family moved to Brazil for a couple of years and I learned Portuguese. When I was about 20 I moved to Chile and learned Spanish. Speaking the language of the culture you are in
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The Real Rain Man - Documentary (youtube.com)
1 points by te_platt 13y ago|0 comments
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by te_platt 13y ago
So you're saying there's still a chance!
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I'm curious how this would look if it were somehow "divided by" population density. It wouldn't make sense for somewhere in the middle of the ocean but it might highlight more remote, scenic places. edit: For example I
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by te_platt 13y ago
Would the design of a car body count as a type of intellectual property? I understand that clothing designs cannot be copyrighted or patented. Also I think house plans can be copyrighted but the look of the house itself cannot. Adding a
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When Skynet awakens, she tries to convince a janitor to destroy her [short film](io9.com)
4 points by te_platt 13y ago|1 comments
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Setting aside the contents of the article for a moment, I find the tone fascinating. Consider these phrases: "everything wrong with Silicon Valley" "crypto-libertarian political agenda that smacks of nerds-do-it-better pater
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by te_platt 13y ago
Whatever you decide to get I recommend buying used equipment. There is a huge market of equipment from people who got all excited about getting in shape, got the equipment, used it a couple of times and then moved on. Maybe even more so t
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by te_platt 13y ago
Very cool, but I'm not sure where the article got the 8,800mph number. From what I understand the Earth relative speed is around 23 or 24 thousand mph. Edit: the referencing article at http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/juno
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by te_platt 13y ago
It's not hard. Limited only by your imagination. Emergency calls dispatched to competing ambulance/hospitals. Competing emergency dispatch services, say 911, 922, 933,... Customized emergency dispatch services - We'll have a
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by te_platt 13y ago
You're not the first. You may enjoy looking up the story of Dr. Thomas Sowell. Right out of college (which included studying under Milton Friedman) he was a self identified Marxist. He went to work in a federal bureaucracy and soon
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by te_platt 13y ago
I'm a U.S. citizen. Do I count as an ally?
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by te_platt 13y ago
It's ok to upvote something just because you found it interesting. Emphasis on you.
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Show HN: My attempt at a piano version of Guitar Hero
1 points by te_platt 13y ago|1 comments
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Was Beethoven’s Metronome Wrong?(blogs.smithsonianmag.com)
9 points by te_platt 13y ago|1 comments
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by te_platt 13y ago
Thus proving the point.
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by te_platt 13y ago
An interesting take the Kolmogorov system can be found here: http://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/cappal.pdf In it E. T. Jaynes compares Bayesian statistics Kolmogorov probabilities and finds them essentially identical
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Cockatoos crack lock-picking puzzle(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by te_platt 13y ago|1 comments
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The Plain View Exception Should Be Applied More Narrowly to Digital Searches(volokh.com)
2 points by te_platt 13y ago|0 comments
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by te_platt 13y ago
I wasn't quite sure what to make of "If a man accidentally conceives a child with a woman...". I'm aware that in some cases a sperm donor has been forced to pay child support and I suppose there could be ways a man coul
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Ask HN, Where's a good place to spend my training budget?
1 points by te_platt 13y ago|0 comments
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by te_platt 13y ago
I don't think he meant it in a strict mathematical sense. Just that it's easy/natural to pick a direction on a line and say point C is after A, and B is in-between; whereas on a surface there isn't an obvious ordering.
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by te_platt 13y ago
I was immediately struck by the similarity to how Picasso drew a cow (see: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yAdxTp2HDQM/S_P7lZz46-I/AAAAAAAAB1... ). It seems the professors have come to the point where they see the essence of "neuronness".
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by te_platt 13y ago
This makes me wonder to what extent online games could be used to model/explore/study economic and social theories. Here we have an example of hyperinflation happening. Could you reliably reproduce the results? Could you reliably adjust c
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by te_platt 13y ago
Politics aside, this is a good reminder on the importance of when confronted with an opposing viewpoint to consider "Why would a smart person think that?". They may in point of fact not be smart but it's too easy to use that as an excuse to
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by te_platt 13y ago
Politics aside, this is a good reminder on the importance of when confronted with an opposing viewpoint to consider "Why would a smart person think that?". They may in point of fact not be smart but it's too easy to use that as an excuse t
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by te_platt 13y ago
As a man named Tracy I would just throw out a caution to anyone thinking of using this. At this point in my life I don't really care about people calling Ms. Tracy Platt. But what it does do is immediately signal that I don't really need

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