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by unabst 10y ago
No. The UI designer does not choose functionality on their own. They need intimate knowledge of how the car and driver work together, and then must simplify to the bare necessities. The better they are at the job, the better they know about
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by unabst 10y ago
Seriously, we could have robots taking care of us. Free food delivery and a basic income for just being a citizen. Unfortunately this undermines much of what drives innovation and hence the economy as we know it... so though the math seems
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by unabst 10y ago
Incandescents work more similarly to the sun and are basically a natural full spectrum light source. Florescents and LEDs are not, so they need to be tweaked/hacked/refined to produce an ideal spectrum. Florescents are known to us
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by unabst 10y ago
The issue has a lot to do with the finances of scale. Mom and pops aren't going anywhere, and neither are you, but Apple will go to Ireland, and wealthy individuals will bank in tax havens. And hence, the wealth gap widens. Most -- the
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by unabst 10y ago
Correct. It's also the problem with taxes. Corporations move to where taxes are cheaper. But this doesn't mean there are no solutions. Also, what cannot be ignored is the true drop in production costs because savings do get passed
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by unabst 10y ago
Robots are owned, and this is key. They are productive assets, much like houses produce rent. If they become a problem, all we need to really do is tax them. This means robots will be working for the people, because that's what taxes a
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by unabst 10y ago
> Michael Schumacher and your 15yr old new driver need very different UI's The UI isn't different because the users are different. The cars are. An F1 car is crammed for a reason. This is a deeper problem than adjusting for use
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by unabst 10y ago
You underestimate how introverted and isolationist Japanese default culture still can be. Those devs aren't contributing because they feel competent or fluent. They're contributing despite not being. They have the capacity to take
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by unabst 10y ago
You are correct that almost everybody is familiar with English, but that's not speaking it, let alone being fluent. To a degree, English already is part of the Japanese culture and language. But it's a different English. Some of i
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by unabst 10y ago
He also just described English education in Japan. Students just complete problems, and even those that do well never learn to speak English just through these classes.
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by unabst 10y ago
In Japan, English is already mandatory, yet, English fluency sucks. Japan recognizes the problem, but doesn't know what to do about it. Basically, English education has yet to succeed. [1][2] This is the thing about Japan. They can mak
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by unabst 10y ago
If anyone has evidence of a scientific counterargument, please share. The bean sprout AI myth needs busting.
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by unabst 10y ago
Engineering requires understanding. If we're randomly mixing potions then we may get a result without any understanding, but there's a name for that, and it's called magic. Strong AI will most certainly appear magical, but an
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by unabst 10y ago
It's a clusterfuck. And as with the parent's correction, it's less about usability really. It just looks clusterfucked. Some say the Japanese have a higher tolerance for complexity, but they are also known to have a lower tol
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by unabst 10y ago
Regardless of whether it's usable, "reminds" is right. Rakuten is a huge modern forward-looking company, yet this is the best they can do. It's basically a classifieds of clickbait.
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by unabst 10y ago
> Their websites look like shit to use, No no no... It's just that good web design is simply hard to find. No one is proud of these "asian websites". And it takes a while for updated good design practices to make it across
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by unabst 10y ago
> we don't mean any of that sci-fi and AI stuff No one does. Even with AlphaGo the hype was insane, but was mostly caused by people confusing weak AI with strong AI with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Any material that intentionally plays o
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by unabst 10y ago
AI for consumers is not a logic problem, it's a data problem. Whether strong or weak, consumer AI needs to be personal. It needs access to personal data. Certainly better logic will create the foundations of whatever system is develope
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by unabst 10y ago
We should also be asking, who owns the robots? If companies like Foxconn go robo-conn and move to 70% automation [0], that's not only a million people being fired, it's a business owning an automated labor force that doesn't
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by unabst 10y ago
There is knowledge as in what someone knows, then there is knowledge as in what is known to be true. The internet has an abundance of both. And there is a clear intellectual divide between those that can and cannot distinguish these two. Fo
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by unabst 10y ago
If something you require to be happy is for sale, money will buy it. But money won't tell you what to buy, nor will buying it guarantee you'll be as happy as you were supposed to. Also, poor people are not unhappy people. We all k
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by unabst 10y ago
Yes, made at MIT for kids, not students. Building Scratch was the assignment, and it was probably a lot of fun. I in no way wish to discredit the efforts of those who use and maintain Scratch. The only meaningful point I might add would be
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by unabst 10y ago
"draw himself a character and the program the character to respond to key presses." Except, don't you see that that's him controlling the machine and making it do things magically at his whim with the right combination o
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by unabst 10y ago
I was trying to be careful not to do that, and you'll see that I didn't. So long as we're not in conflict it's okay, and certainly Scratch is more than cats and barns. But my point remains that cats and barns could be in
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by unabst 10y ago
It's not a counterexample. What you provided is an example of an entrepreneur managing business. Many large corps have tried this, and for the most part have gotten more out of these efforts in the form of brand benefits and PR (as an
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by unabst 10y ago
Having animals and colorful bricks is okay, so long as we're not in conflict with what is actually fun about what is being taught here... Programming is fun because we can control the machine, and make it do things... magically, at our
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by unabst 10y ago
Businesses are built from the ground up to succeed in the business they are already in. Any entrepreneur who's built one, or anyone who oversees operations of a company knows that each component has a specific purpose, and the process
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by unabst 10y ago
Ah, university notes. By the time we get to university, we're usually in good hands and you're smart enough to make it regardless of what you think about your education. The issue is more about public education policy and the mill
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by unabst 10y ago
Creativity but also productivity. The problem with a lot of school work is that it produces nothing. Class notes, homework assignments, and marked exams all are trash because no one wants to look at those things again and the content has no
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by unabst 10y ago
Traits such as grit, hard work, determination, and luck are not the secret. They are the obvious ingredients. But grit, hard work, and determination are also redundant for someone who possesses immense passion. Passion will make you gritty,

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