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by zeidrich 12y ago
I think for many Americans, work is life. You get up, you spend an hour in the commute to work, you spend your 9 hours at work, you spend some more because overtime is expected, you commute home, you watch some reality television and go to
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by zeidrich 12y ago
I think the purpose of the puzzle is one of resource management. It's not a hard puzzle, and I think that it's too easy to try to overthink it to sound smart, like you've done. The reasonable assumption is that the four peopl
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by zeidrich 12y ago
People on the Internet get famous without necessarily trying or asking for it. Famous people are turned into symbols, and are expected to act a certain way. People stop caring about the fact that they are people. Famous people are held to
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by zeidrich 12y ago
This is a fearful way to look at things, especially given the context. Mojang is being sold for 2.5 billion dollars. In reality, Minecraft is being sold for 2.5 billion dollars, because I'm sure Microsoft doesn't give a rat'
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by zeidrich 12y ago
Hi Amit, I came here to vote this article up. I didn't expect you to be posting here. I love your site. It has been an awesome resource and I have referenced it for other people multiple times. I really enjoyed your piece on procedu
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by zeidrich 12y ago
I do think that in certain circumstances you should be able to communicate instructions to them clearly. If their service is faulty, or if you wish to make a change to service they shouldn't be able to try to sell to you, at least unti
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by zeidrich 12y ago
Well, the easy answer is this supposed deal between google and twitch. Twitch as a service has special value because it aids in curation and discovery of video game streams. The fact that you can browse by game, browse by streamer, follow
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by zeidrich 12y ago
Punishment is not a good way to correct behavior. Your number 2 is particularly wrong. For punishment to work in affecting behavior, you can't punish for a very unlikely event, especially accidental. Punishment changes behavior by mak
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by zeidrich 12y ago
I think it's incredible what we can do with a medium like the Internet. It is a shame that so much intellectual capacity gets tied up in academic glory-seeking, and it's refreshing to see that the power of the connectivity of the
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by zeidrich 12y ago
I could design chat bot that passes itself off as a human using speech to text. Interrogator: "Hello, how old are you?" Bot: "I'm 2 and a half." I: What is your name? B: Keegan I: I live in the Capital o
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by zeidrich 12y ago
You probably notice that sometimes you do things on habit, as a reaction, without thinking about it. Mindfulness is being aware of what you're doing. Even if you are doing something habitual, noticing that you're doing it. If you&
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by zeidrich 12y ago
It's interesting how Verizon talks about the "panoply of middle-man networks" when that is really the Internet. Verizon is a walled city. Verizon entices people to live in it's city and pay its rent because it says you c
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by zeidrich 12y ago
This person seems like they would have been the right person for this job. Apart from the people complaining about the restrictions of H-1B's their guy was willing to accede to those restrictions. These regulations are designed to let
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by zeidrich 12y ago
Sure it would. Apple would have not been keen to develop a technology that relied on illegal copying to start with. Copying music CD's was a grey area, but it's a grey area that you can do in a semi-legal capacity. There was no r
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by zeidrich 12y ago
I'm glad, when I started to learn OpenGL I used web tutorials and most of them were written in immediate mode. It was nice to be able to quickly get some stuff going and then realize "Oh wow, my program is slow." Then I learn
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by zeidrich 12y ago
Even if it were the case that the violent and dangerous criminals were suffering from mental illness, wouldn't it make a lot more sense to strive to provide access to treatment for mental illness than just villify those who suffer from
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by zeidrich 13y ago
There's also the "if I make this prediction and I'm wrong, will it affect me?" bias too. The more involved you are, and especially the more accountable you are held for your decisions, the more you're likely to seco
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by zeidrich 13y ago
Past food and shelter, people need leisure as part of a healthy lifestyle. Spending excess money on drinks and video games is not simply a matter of being to undisciplined, it's a real need, just one that can be put off. Putting it of
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by zeidrich 13y ago
The problem with this kind of initiative is that it uses humans difficulty with recognizing the scale of large numbers. We see a savings of $400 million and think "we should do this!" But it's a drop in the bucket even if it
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by zeidrich 13y ago
Just simulate the entire universe. It requires a computer the size of the universe. There is one freely available, however, you will have to share it with a few other people. It's barely noticeable though because it's highly par
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by zeidrich 13y ago
Disorder is maybe a harsh word, but my issue is that it runs counter to how I want to act. I want to do x, but I don't do it. It's really hard to explain to someone who doesn't feel the same way. It's not just a procra
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by zeidrich 13y ago
If ADD/ADHD is a matter of willpower, then maybe that is true, but willpower is a neurological resource. Exercising willpower diminishes that resource, you can see that in studied conditions like decision fatigue. If some people have
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by zeidrich 13y ago
I like how you used a live TV spot, which I never would have seen to create a blog post which I did.
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by zeidrich 13y ago
You need to discover what is important to you. You say that none of your jobs make you feel your passion, your joy. But you haven't decided what that is. You're looking for happiness, maybe you aren't sure what happiness is
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by zeidrich 13y ago
I'm 31. When I was 9, I wanted to copy Ultima, my dad had a copy of Visual Basic so I learned how to use that and made an RPG engine. When I was 11 or 12 I started getting frustrated with the performance of VB/QBasic (this is be
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by zeidrich 13y ago
Bitcoins have no intrinsic value. They only have value in trade. If I started my own currency called a superdollar, and I had the only superdollar in existence, it would be worthless, despite the fact that it was very rare. If a foreign en
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by zeidrich 13y ago
This is a pretty old paper, but I hadn't seen the live demo. That's pretty cool. A problem with this algorithm is that it's pretty slow. It would be hard to use it for real time scaling. I think that it's pretty cool th
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by zeidrich 13y ago
The interesting thing about flappy bird is not the gameplay. The interesting this is how it was a sleeper hit. Sitting hitting in the app store in May until it completely exploded in February. The interesting thing is how people shared and
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by zeidrich 13y ago
I've seen him. He's rubbish.
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by zeidrich 13y ago
Slavery exists, but is not culturally accepted the same way as it used to be. De Facto slaves exist, but a legitimate slave trade doesn't any more. You couldn't buy a slave at an above-board auction, bring it home the the US, and

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