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   by wickawic 10y ago

   I just ripped the "smart" buttons off my remote and never gave the TV my Wi-Fi password. Wish I could have found a TV that was the same quality without the "smartness" but as another commenter stated, it is basically imp
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   by wickawic 10y ago

   I could be wrong but I felt this happened on the Spotify thread that is currently on the front page. All the inital reaction was negative, about how the piece was a 'submarine,' etc. Now the top 5 comments are about Spotify's
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   by wickawic 10y ago

   Another comic, another perspective: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-08-10
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   by wickawic 10y ago

   How does that affect the quality of the game?
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   by wickawic 10y ago

   Well low is relative. I think GPs point was that Uber can never have a real monopoly because eventually they have to operate profitably. Once the base price of a ride settles competitors can still come eat their lunch. Heck I took a taxi in
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   by wickawic 10y ago

   Depth + breath is another way of saying experience. Program long enough and you'll learn all sorts of little nasty things about garbage collection and permissions and tcp packet headers and faulty JSON parsers. All of it crystalizes in
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   by wickawic 10y ago

   It is worth noting that you can also find fulfillment in intangible things that are not religiously oriented. Teaching/taking courses, artistic endeavors, and volunteering come to mind.
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   by wickawic 10y ago

   That's exactly what I was getting at. Special treatment and exclusivity breeds feelings of superiority and inferiority where none need exist. Starting this at a young age tells kids that they haven't been "chosen," and k
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   by wickawic 10y ago

   Mathologer has a video that I found easier to understand, YMMV https://youtu.be/-dhHrg-KbJ0
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    by wickawic 10y ago

    I always thought that the "accelerated" programs in public schools perpetuate this issue. There were some very sharp kids there for sure, but it might as well have been called the "conscientious track" since it was full
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    by wickawic 10y ago

    Of which they will quickly become :)
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    by wickawic 10y ago

    It also means you don't have to do math to figure out how many flights of stairs you will be climbing!
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    by wickawic 10y ago

    That AWS was built on Amazon's existing internal infrastructure is mostly apocryphal. However they do offer order fulfillment as a service (you can have Amazon ship and handle returns for products sold on your own webstore). What you d
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    by wickawic 10y ago

    As it turns out I do the exact same thing with both Reddit and Youtube. I don't click on links/videos, they both just get saved for later. This process takes maybe 10 minutes tops. When I have critical mass (every few days) I&#x27
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    by wickawic 10y ago

    The dirty secret is that those fees are really part of the ticket price. It is still the market at work, albeit a dark and slimy kind of market that makes you feel bad about the future of commerce. If in your example you truly couldn't
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    by wickawic 10y ago

    I have definitely purchased something on prime now in part because the bags fit so perfectly into my recycling bin...
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    by wickawic 10y ago

    it is! https://www.arewee10syet.com/ (you have to search the extension you want)
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    by wickawic 10y ago

    Brings a whole new meaning to homoiconicity
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    by wickawic 10y ago

    But the children in the mines contractually agreed to their positions! Who is the government to interfere with this business partnership?
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    by wickawic 10y ago

    Same with Seattle, which I have heard compared to Groundhog Day
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    by wickawic 10y ago

    I've heard that babies make the same 'ma' and 'pa' sounds regardless of context, and that it is vain parents who assume that the baby is addressing them :)
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    by wickawic 10y ago

    I would have thought THoT was a failed network protocol
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    by wickawic 10y ago

    Well then in that case there have still been 2 new headquarters buildings :)
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    by wickawic 10y ago

    Makes me think of a new sub-field: "Prescriptive Anthropology"
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    by wickawic 10y ago

    I can't find the video, but apparently at some canneries there used to be a person who would very rapidly hit the tops of cans with a metal rod and listen to the noise that it made. "Bad" cans sounded different and would be r
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    by wickawic 11y ago

    Instead of downvoting this comment, let me provide a counter example. Imagine the knapsack problem, where you can lift 10kg and you have a 10kg gold bar and 5kg cinderblocks. In this case solving 2 5kg knapsack problems will give you two ci
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    by wickawic 11y ago

    Serious question: what would it look like on a smartphone email client?
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    by wickawic 11y ago

    There is one: filter your search by "prime items"
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    by wickawic 11y ago

    It does sound like it on the surface, but doublethink was about the ability to think something was both true and false. What Fitzgerald was more likely getting at was the ability to assess and appreciate different choices and/or ideolo
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    by wickawic 11y ago

    'Modern' art is art made from ~1870 to ~1970 (an oversimplification). 'Contemporary' art just means art made in the present time.