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Bullet point #6 is worth emphasizing. >biggest misconception that non-mathematicians have about how mathematicians work is that there is some mysterious mental faculty Popular perception would have you believe that advanced math is like
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At the highest level, philosophy already is part of the STEM subject. At lower levels, it's up to the teacher, but in my experience the best teachers would make me think and juggle abstract ideas, which is pretty much philosophy in a n
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You cannot understand apples by analyzing the word "apple". Language is just the paper trail. There are plenty of examples: You can't understand a bank or money by just analyzing bank statements. You can't understand foo
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After reading the article I was ready to book a one way ticket to Barcelona! City looks amazing, the traffic diagrams are on point, and I just love the sound of the word "superblock" (so nintendo). But after reading all the HN com
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> if you keep demonizing a group, expect them to send an actual demon eventually Best line I read on HN today. This explains so much about everybody... Thank you.
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> empathy is an important skill This. I get what the author of the article is experiencing and respect his process and conclusions (I empathize), but the one thing that bugs me is: >> Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to m
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Right. But the difference here is you need to answer the question which is a task. Then based on what you actually want to do, there is an extra step in opening the dialog just to choose the other format etc.. maybe you just want to save in
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Default when you hit enter. You don't have to hit enter. Left then enter will get you your PSD.
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What would be better is having a dialog that says "You've used some additional features that can only be saved in .psd format: Save as PNG || Save as PSD || Save as something else" with the first being the default for when yo
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Following the law doesn't make it not bad. Tax havens are legal and so are corporate tax loopholes. That's why they're holes, not crimes. It was bad because 1) it was bad for small businesses that had to collect and had a har
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Actually this is not as bad as most people assume. Companies should mostly re-invest, so should have no income. They should only have growth. Taxing profit is taxing the reward (a delusion of money produced after all operations), which is w
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Yes, but without those developers there would be no facebook :) (pat yourself on the back)
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That's policy and governance. There is also this separate problem of how to count votes regardless of what is being voted on. All I was ever talking about was how votes should be counted, and how our voting system has been tampered wit
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With science, the profession and the product are distinctly different, and we are failing to hold the profession to the standards of the product. Science, the profession, is political, incentive driven, and circumstantial. Scientists need t
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You're citing what (you think) he said about policy, which is what was off-topic. I was only talking about voting, so I only responded in terms of voting. Not sure why I'm the one being accused of swapping issues here or why you f
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> how do you think the average person You're saying not all votes are equal, and that idiots shouldn't get to vote. This violates a basic tenet of democracy. The next step would be to not allow them to speak, because they will
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Workers often blame their superiors for lack of motivation or inspiration, but that wouldn't account for the good workers who show up to work inspired already. They find it before work, and if they can't find it, they move on. The
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If democracy is about every American having an equal say, and if our vote is that voice, then there should be nothing standing between an individual and their vote. There is nothing that can be placed in between you and your voice that will
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The only question we should be asking is this. Why do some votes count more than others? The fact that there are delegates, let alone super delegates, is damning. You should always question someone claiming they will "represent" y
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[footnote] John Oliver saying it even better: https://youtu.be/zNdkrtfZP8I
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Having good taste is the empirical skill for judging the aesthetics or experience of anything. If you have good taste, you know you can rely on your intuitions. If you don't, you need someone who has good taste. > You can't pro
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Everyone having an opinion and there being opinions doesn't mean there isn't anything else. Design-wise any work can be broken down into all of its possible abstractions and inferences, just as a user interface can be measured by
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Huge Sivers fan! With that said, I'd take this advice way further. > The boss’s opinion is no better than anyone else’s. All opinions are no better. Does not matter who. Throw out opinions altogether. In America we are obsessed with
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Ads! Both the adoption of android and iphone apps are ad driven, and the pros absolutely know this. So if you're starting out, you buy cheap ads. Think of all those ad supported free apps. They are the cheap ad ecosystem. If you'v
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Just to add, this is the creator's side. You can imagine a consumer side where everyone decides to put in X dollars like public radio, but watch their donation get equally distributed based on the content they consume. For both sides,
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Ah... You miss an important point. There doesn't need to be an incentive to create anything. Creation is the reward. Creative minds will create no matter what. The trick is to create a society where creators get fed, and that still rem
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This is just one scenario, but you can imagine a system where the person who profits over any IP would pay IP tax, which would then get distributed upstream to previous registered contributors. IP producers would need to be tracked, but thi
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What we need is the legal right to fork any IP. An open licensing model where no one needs permission. They just need to maybe pay an IP tax that trickles up to the previous contributors that helped produce what was forked. IP is completely
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Tesla isn't a car company. It's building Rome. All great "startups" are not some good idea executed well. They are companies with a long term vision that generate ideas to execute that will get them there. Anyone might s
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1. Money. Economical issue. 2. Poor design. Competence issue. 3. Replication. Incentive issue. 4. Peer review. Bad old analog system. 5. Paywalls. Capitalism. 6. Poor communication. Competence issue. 7. Stress. Personal issue. Nothing gets

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