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by tedks 11y ago
When was the last time NBC, CNN, Fox, or CBS leaked government secrets?
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Did your parents?
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There are opportunity costs to even joining a startup (the possibility for your job not to exist in a few months, the need to relocate to SF as opposed to a more affordable place or even taking a job near you) that dissuade people who aren&
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Certainly by numbers virtually all questions are user submitted. The first ones you see are the okcupid-written ones. You used to be able to see who wrote a question but after match.com bought okcupid that was quickly phased out in favor of
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Every time I see an article like this on hacker news it reminds me of how disconnected and out of touch the userbase on this site is. I know so many people my age who claim to use hacker news, but I almost never see comments that seem to be
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I find it hard to believe that Wikipedia is "in decline" when the article I wrote about the niche area of CS I worked in during undergrad has a life of its own now. People continue to add to it and now it has a fair deal of conten
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Could it perhaps be that there are things people need that can't be bought? Hacker news is pretty depressing.
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>Depression is something that makes you miserable even if all objective factors about your life are stable and comfortable. ...could it be that there is more to life than these "objective factors"?
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>Perhaps. But if that is the case, the people who are most intelligent by this definition are far from the ones recognized as intelligent by the AI-fearing community. Let me put it this way: Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman would not
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> She has, in any material respect, a perfect life. She has food, clothes, a supportive family, a great job, plenty of money, etc. There is nothing "wrong" with her life. Could it possibly be that there is more to life than the
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by tedks 11y ago
Psychopathy is defined as scoring a 30/40 or higher on the standard psychometric for it, the Hare psychopathy checklist. Psychopathy is characterized by a number of traits that are sometimes adaptable and sometimes maladaptive, dependi
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Well, fortune favours the bold. You can take that risk or you can be cattle for all the apps that want you to actually watch the ads they support themselves with. Make your choice.
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>It seems that intelligence is not a very good means for achieving power. Charm seems much more effective, and therefore dangerous. I'd be afraid of super-human charm much more than super-human intelligence. See these paragraphs in
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Unless you're black, or maybe also a muslim, or a sikh wearing a turban, or a native american. Unless the cop on that stretch has a quota to fill. Unless you're unlucky. Power is just as capricious, wherever you are in the world.
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I flagged this because the link should be changed to this reddit thread, linked in the article: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3x004o/what_secr...
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>There are savants who can do amazing feats of mental arithmetic, yet have severe mental disabilities in other areas. There are also geniuses who can do amazing feats of mental arithmetic and have no severe mental disabilities in any oth
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The way you remember is you take your recall context, extract all the recall cues, and associate out from those concepts until you hit the target memory. Obviously this is a gross oversimplification, but it's basically a graph breadth
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I think it's disingenuous because my point is the same. If you haven't found your own cards more valuable than cards other people made, you're making cards wrong, and could be remembering them MUCH easier.
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Ugh. s/learn/remember/ for your use case then. The cards you need to remember a concept will be totally different than the cards I need to remember a concept and so on. Creating the cards isn't "tedium", it&#x2
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That's from a year ago. An Australian rumored to be Satoshi was raided recently.
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>The hardest and most time consuming part of using standard SRS software is building your deck. This is because that's the initial learning phase. You can't just download a spaced repetition deck and run it though any program a
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by tedks 11y ago
Memrise is fun, and certainly much better designed than Anki, but at the end of the day it's just another startup that will either fail or get acquired and shut down. All your content will be destroyed, or maybe, if they're genero
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by tedks 11y ago
This was never my experience using Anki. I wrote a markup language that compiled to Anki cards in college because manually making cards was too tedious, and it was never "overwhelming." The exponential backoff means you rarely see
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I always liked the SCP take on Kowloon: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-184
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Well said. The implicit assumption in "There should always be something higher than your ideals and goals" is that the status quo should always be maintained. Any goal or idea that disrupts business-as-usual is obviously wrong bec
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What is Sovereign? It isn't googleable for me.
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>It seems to be quite the opposite. Every week I'm let know what it is I'm supposed to be outraged about. One of the things that's most jarring about the Internet age is that a minority group that previously would be black
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>It's for entertainment, and the viewer ship knows this. That's not true at all. Edit: I'll expand on this since it's getting downvoted. Most Americans have absolutely no idea what "satire" is -- so they c
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Considering you felt the need to get this anti-vegan dig in when you could have used literally any other example, it seems like you might think so as well.
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When I open a private browsing window in Firefox, Stormfront is the first result for that search.

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