ajna91

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by ajna91 5y ago
The real world is often far more low-key than Hollywood would have you think.
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by ajna91 5y ago
good advice
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by ajna91 5y ago
I guess I'm more interested in him growing as a person. I do understand where you are coming from.
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by ajna91 5y ago
You question the sincerity of his apology, then tell him to hire a PR firm.
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by ajna91 5y ago
Here's the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27231978
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by ajna91 6y ago
Whatsapp is worried the Indian market. They've gone as far as taking out full page ads in Indian newspapers to try to convince people "nothing to see here!"
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by ajna91 6y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by ajna91 6y ago
"every" being the operative word. The "feel" for good code that comes with experience is not reducible in practice to a set of black-and-white rules.
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Write Short Paragraphs(plainlanguage.gov)
2 points by ajna91 6y ago|0 comments
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by ajna91 6y ago
This is circular reasoning. It was possible to game them because the contracts were not priced correctly. We know the contracts were not priced correctly because it was possible to game them.
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by ajna91 6y ago
Why not compare it to the post office, or NASA?
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by ajna91 6y ago
Couldn't the truth be somewhere in the middle? Clearly both are different ways of looking at the same phenomenon. Emphasizing different parts of the whole truth.
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by ajna91 6y ago
The seed analogy may be onto something. Some viruses don't directly cause the host to create new viruses. Instead they direct the creation of virus creating factories, which create the virus. Then you get virophages which are even tini
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by ajna91 6y ago
The is-ought problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
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by ajna91 7y ago
The 3 schools against skepticism all argue against each other's points, so in a sense they strengthen the skeptical position. Appears there is no clear consensus on exactly why skepticism is false.
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by ajna91 7y ago
People have a tendency to justify the status quo, does that automatically make the status quo suspect as well?
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by ajna91 7y ago
He's at least a baby
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by ajna91 7y ago
This is the Thomistic view, not the official Catholic view, no? Also, what about this verse? "For the word of God is living and operative and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit and of
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by ajna91 7y ago
In that very narrow sense that computers are more intelligent than humans (like Chess-playing), abacuses were also more intelligent than humans thousands of years ago (mental math).
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by ajna91 7y ago
I think many insects are far smarter than we have assumed. Bumblebees can learn to pull a string to receive a reward [1]. But maybe that's just blind conditioning? Well if another bumblebee watches it happen from behind a glass wall, i
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by ajna91 7y ago
The real problem is everyone else who pattern-matches confidence with competence and upvotes.
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by ajna91 7y ago
To put a face on the problem, this video of an orangutan fighting to remain in its home while the forest is logged out from under it is powerful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihPfB30YT_c
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'Punch in the gut' as scientists find micro plastic in Arctic ice(reuters.com)
2 points by ajna91 7y ago|0 comments
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by ajna91 7y ago
A thread by an epidemiologist on the new results: https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1223305946723704832
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Scientists publish claim to have discovered HIV genes in coronavirus RNA(twitter.com)
17 points by ajna91 7y ago|7 comments
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by ajna91 7y ago
This comment and the replies to it really give a glimpse into the psyche of the more pedantry-prone members of HN. For me, if someone says X, and a literal interpretation of X would be impossible/ridiculous, I naturally assume the more
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by ajna91 7y ago
From wikipedia, it seems that her translation became the standard in France which helped drive the scientific revolution in mainland Europe. Furthermore: "Her commentary includes a profound contribution to Newtonian mechanics—the postu
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by ajna91 7y ago
"We" and "empathy" are doing a lot of work in that definition.
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The last king of Ireland has passed away aged 74 (2018)(irishcentral.com)
1 points by ajna91 7y ago|0 comments
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by ajna91 7y ago
I think the idea is that comments on this site are meant to be more thoughtful than witty quips, generally speaking.

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