babyrainbow

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by babyrainbow 9y ago
First of all what do you see as "successful"?
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
Yes. Non one has built an electric car. A rocket engine. and a payment gateway. Paypal was not even built by Elon Musk...By the way. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confinity
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
A person can be interesting. I agree. But I don't agree that any mundane actions that this interesting person do is also automatically interesting.
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
Elon Musk is the Christopher Nolan of Tech.
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
Ok..What is interesting about this?
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
Eh? Two options for what? I was talking about how languages are different...
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
>The syntactic-sugar form isn't there with the @.. But those things are differences, right? Certain languages makes certain things easy and idiomatic. The differences in languages are all about that...
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
>For any line of python, there's a line or two of PHP to accomplish the same thing (same with javascript). Python decorators? What is the counterpart of that in Php?
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
I am not sure. Do you read news for entertainment, or do you read it for truth?
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
Try to explain programs as a to do list for computers. This might be hard since her fist exposure to computers is HTML/CSS. kind of sad actually. How did that happen? Just curious... Maybe show her that she can put dots of any colors o
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
> such that societies should maximize liberty of the individual? This is required only because the controlling mechanism (the ruler/government) can be selfish and clueless in regards to what rules the subjects should follow for the
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
Sorry. Couldn't make sense of most of your comment. Can you explain how these exotic particles is relevant at all?
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
> The need to communicate with the people you love is not "manufactured"... Again, the need is not manufactured. But the need for constantly in touch, is manufactured. No one before social network wanted that. There was normal
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
No. Social interaction between human beings has been going on well before these social networks. The manufactured requirement is the need to reach to every person we ever know and share every little detail of your life with them, possibly m
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
> social networking online... Isn't this a manufactured problem/requirement? EDIT: I mean, did people have this problem before social networks?
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
> Tesla puts them all to shame. Too bad they can't get their seat belts to work.. http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCAKBN19R08Y-OCA... https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors&#
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Tesla Model S Small Overlap Crash Test (Acceptable)(reddit.com)
2 points by babyrainbow 9y ago|0 comments
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
No. It is not. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14709791 >from the article: "In the test, the seat belt in Tesla's Model S was not effective and could lead to the driver's head striking the steering wh
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ASK HN: Why was this article flagged?
2 points by babyrainbow 9y ago|3 comments
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
That is hilarious! I mean, seriously. I mean, if that is how their seat belt work, I am pretty sure their "autopilot" would be out of this world/s (or take you out of this world..)
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
>I would have been rolling a tire down the road with a stick.. Not sure what you mean by "Pong", but are you saying that this is not a heck of a lot more fun?
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
Imagine the whole domain of physics to be P and our current knowledge to be a subset of it, P'. Is there any reason for the operations of brain to be limited to those involving P' only?
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
>by creating uninformed consumers making irrational choices; and driving them to consumerism... I am not sure. Isn't this a well known and intended effect of the Ads and PR stunts?
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
> A brain is part of our world, governed by physics... Sure. But not necessary governed by current physics..
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
Yes. But cars produce unwanted mess in atmosphere that in almost impossible to clean..
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
Very interested to see some sources for these things you mention in first para. Do you have them handy?
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
I like it already, too bad it is not there for Firefox yet. And fantastic naming by the way..
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
>You expressed an ideal view of what teaching should be... ideal? Try minimal. What according to you is the minimum requirement for teaching? Orating a textbook in front of a class and map questions to answers and make students learn the
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
If a teacher does not know how to refute a claim or answer a question, they should research it, understand it and explain to the student who is asking the question. I mean, not everyone has to be taught about everything... Of course there a
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by babyrainbow 9y ago
Discussion around something similar... https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/6dj815/tesla_m...

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