Practicality

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by Practicality 8y ago
First thought I had as well. Aren't quarks matter too?
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by Practicality 9y ago
I still think the key is raising the collective intelligence. Not that smart people are always productive, but they are capable of being so. So long as the average human is just barely sapient, we aren't going to be collectively achiev
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by Practicality 9y ago
Nothing that went from female to male?
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by Practicality 9y ago
Evolution doesn't move fast enough for any technology to be relevant to the discussion of how this works.
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by Practicality 9y ago
Not a downvoter, but it doesn't quite work. Google isn't against open-source. It's somewhat related, but not exactly.
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by Practicality 9y ago
Evolution was so last eon. We've got CRISPR now. :D
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by Practicality 9y ago
You know that fish is a type of meat, right?
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by Practicality 9y ago
It's just a blog post about what he has observed as a common problem with teams falling behind. I think it's a little much to call it worthless. Excessive focus on unimportant details is a real problem. Everybody probably naturall
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by Practicality 9y ago
At first, I only saw one ad when I went there (just now). I forgot I had my adblocker on. Then, I tried to load the page again and saw "Haaretz.com is now inaccessible to visitors using ad blockers" Wow, someone is actively worki
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by Practicality 9y ago
Capitalism sometimes rewards those who provide value, but more often than not has no problem rewarding people for spouting self-righteousness. If you think that everyone who gets rewarded in a capitalist society do so because they provide
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by Practicality 9y ago
Right. As someone who has torn apart an engine before I was constantly thinking "where are those parts going?" "Are they just throwing them on the floor?"
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by Practicality 9y ago
Targeted ads. They look like interesting articles but then when you get there it's just a few facts and then more ads. You end up making somebody money from ad clicks but never find out the information. Ironically, the solution is to u
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by Practicality 9y ago
It's a real problem. Anecdotally, I've talked to several people struggling to stop clicking on ads so they can keep getting things done. I struggle with it sometimes as well.
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by Practicality 9y ago
Oh man. About 10 feet behind my chair is where another department likes to have their meetings. And for whatever reason, they also like to stand there and swap gossip about all the employees. I mean seriously. I DO NOT need to know any of t
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by Practicality 9y ago
"Why on earth is this a test for autism?" I agree. There is a clear gender difference in seeing color [1][2][3][4]. The use of colors here would invalidate the test for autism, at least in the context of gender difference, since i
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by Practicality 9y ago
I am pretty sure he was referring to Buzzfeed's clickbait titles. They are pretty famous for it so it's a fair comparison.
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by Practicality 9y ago
I have been having a lot of fun playing this game with lots of others here on Hacker news. Some suggestions: 1) Make the levels more obvious. It's not clear why players are stronger than others for some time. It would also be nice to s
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by Practicality 9y ago
I've been trying to figure out how people could see farther than me! HA, now I know
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by Practicality 9y ago
Like those privacy policies you get from your credit card companies: "Do we share your personal information with other companies? Yes. Is there anything you can do about it? No." I always laugh at these. At least they are telling
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by Practicality 9y ago
I still want one that folds my laundry.
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by Practicality 9y ago
So many of these problems go away if we just enforce higher quality (less annoying) ads.
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by Practicality 9y ago
There also would need to be a motivating factor. US doesn't have any reason to want to take over Canada.
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by Practicality 9y ago
Here I thought it was a post on the singularity. It might be ironic if all the AI starts running into all sorts of 2038 bugs and this ends up being a huge issue.
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by Practicality 10y ago
For what it's worth 314 Action is more about supporting 4 issues: http://www.314action.org/issues/ The headline is a little misleading, but this isn't actually a "support scientists, in general, running
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by Practicality 10y ago
For what it's worth, I was taught to sit in the intersection when making a left turn in driver's ed. Maybe it's an east west thing, but here is a video of a guy complaining about people who DON'T enter the intersection:
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by Practicality 10y ago
Michael McIntyre explains the leaving the house/car part perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GO2xz0L9gQ (Edit: The full presentation is pretty relevant to the topic too if you are interested: https:/&#x2F
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by Practicality 10y ago
"Hopefully you'll leave this talk a little dumber than you started it, and be more immune to the seductions of AI that seem to bedevil smarter people. " Nice. All in all, effectively reasoned. I've been making similar ar
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by Practicality 10y ago
Hmm, I am might make that actually. That sounds like a fun project.
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by Practicality 10y ago
There was still a driver, but all the bins and cans were ID tagged and had weight sensors installed. This was earlier technology (a lot of cities have similar things now), but it was basically a locking hydraulic lift that coupled with an i
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The things my eyes have seen – PTSD in First Responders(jamesgeering.com)
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