brownbat

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by brownbat 4y ago
We studied him too, he kicks off most of the major anthologies. Seems he's almost universally considered an overlooked founder of analytic philosophy. (There's the famous story about how Wittgenstein showed up on his doorstep to m
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by brownbat 4y ago
Counterfeit DVD box sets are pretty rampant. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zwa9uKIYhM I remember getting obviously burned DVDs run through terrible label makers back in the day. Now they're copying all
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by brownbat 5y ago
A hint at what wpm I just typed at would be nice. So if I only hit 50 wpm a 50 off to the side or below the dotted line. This is fascinating when picking a liminal wpm. Single hand words are so much harder. I can cruise along until I hit wo
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by brownbat 5y ago
> copyright holders do in fact declare ... and pay taxes on [IP] Or they sell the IP to a shell company in a tax haven and lease it at an artificial price, so the balance sheet shows no profit or even a loss. It's one of the largest
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by brownbat 5y ago
Maybe ransomware. A bit speculative, but my hunch is -- IOT and some other advancements still create opportunities for new DDoS attacks, but attackers herd. And the "X as a service" support infrastructure is mostly supporting rans
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by brownbat 5y ago
Ah. https://redditfavorites.com/ Came up in a random DDG search for something.
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by brownbat 5y ago
Breezewood is mostly fine, you're on a giant empty stretch of road for hours otherwise. If you want a truly dystopian moment, drive I-64 at the border of Kentucky and West Virginia in the middle of the night. Towering smokestacks all a
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Ask HN: Was there a Show HN about a Reddit product reputation aggregator?
3 points by brownbat 5y ago|0 comments
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by brownbat 5y ago
This is weird to read as if it's a sudden new discovery, I had the impression wolbachia was well established as part of the toolkit. Thorough history of mosquito control techniques and where we stand today, including some comparisons o
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by brownbat 6y ago
This is a really important puzzle. In other terms, basically the efficient markets hypothesis vs, well, a week of GameStop prices. At certain extremes, a stock price is clearly objective. If the company is bankrupt and wiping all stock, tha
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by brownbat 6y ago
I'm optimistic for this area of tech and research in general, but agree we need to stop benchmarking against average human crash rates. Although anyone can be hit at any time, the distribution of human crashes is not purely random. Peo
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by brownbat 6y ago
Too longwinded I guess. Absent any counterargument, I stand by the premise that app stores and extension marketplaces are teeming with junk, that curation has failed as a model. It wasn't always like this. It doesn't have to be li
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by brownbat 6y ago
More and more I feel like we need another new manifesto. We need to pull people together who have a passion for making the world's computers just work and build a brand around simple extensions and apps that are TRULY FREE. As in, they
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by brownbat 6y ago
Reminds me of the quests to recreate the secret recipe for Coca-cola. The secret ingredient isn't orange peel, it's $4 billion a year in marketing.
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by brownbat 6y ago
That tracks with what's written in The Hacker's Diet, and I think it's largely right. If you look at how much running you need to do to burn off a daily burger it's intimidating. The only caveat I've learned is that
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by brownbat 6y ago
This and constant nagging that I'm running out of space (I'm definitely not), and (tightening?) limits on number of machines, had me migrate to Synology Drive this last week. Now I have basically unlimited space and devices. I&#x2
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by brownbat 6y ago
I was expecting the same thing, it got me searching to see how much clearance rates have responded to new technologies already. It's not the relationship I expected, clearance rates are steadily dropping despite these advancements. The
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by brownbat 6y ago
Yeah, it includes mechanical specifications of physical media so, say, alien archaeologists can get data off a VHS. People are reading the title thinking it's about filesystems. It's about cataloging all human information storage
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Cordless Project Closes Down(github.com)
106 points by brownbat 6y ago|54 comments
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by brownbat 6y ago
And, by implication, they're a massively higher contributor to local pollution. I was surprised to learn that most road pollution is no longer generated by tailpipes, but by the grinding of brake, tire, and road into dust through frict
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by brownbat 6y ago
I like the Coasean analysis. Now someone needs to build the Uber for unifying affected populations to demand rents for suffered negative externalities.
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by brownbat 6y ago
Patenting plants is one reasonable extension, and the one we've gone with. But it wouldn't have been totally crazy if justices had decided that when you sell something that by its very nature self replicates, you cannot get too up
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by brownbat 6y ago
I had a college radio show when Pandora was starting, and had shockingly responsive conversations with Tim W. about up and coming artists he should include. It was a brief window. Now their catalogue is so full I doubt anyone could add too
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by brownbat 6y ago
I tried to get a company name or mailing address out of them once, but they're pretty cagey. They were definitely using a soundboard, they'd repeat phrases that were approximate answers to my questions. I eventually got a Google v
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by brownbat 6y ago
> Our responsibility is to empower all of those watchdogs, and to listen to them... Naturally they had to block critics like nyttypos on Twitter. Watchdogs for copyediting is obviously going too far.
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by brownbat 6y ago
Another design philosophy is that there should be one and only one exit point to a function whenever possible. Maybe that's fallen out of favor, or not important to most folks. But even if it's just a "nice-to-have," it&
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Waymo Now Offers Driverless Taxi Rides to the Public in Phoenix(thedrive.com)
1 points by brownbat 6y ago|0 comments
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by brownbat 6y ago
There's something called the input hypothesis that's trending upwards in language learning. More input is basically a substitute for studying grammar, or even superior, because the brain is phenomenal at pattern matching. Bad gram
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by brownbat 6y ago
Orwell and HG Wells were both really taken by Basic English at first, with Wells arguing it could help build a singular world government. Orwell later became cynical about it, focusing on its lack of any words for things like "revoluti
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by brownbat 6y ago
> So I checked the source of that quote, and there is no argumentation. None. Yeah, these quotes all seem like ad lapidem, just unsupported vague claims. I'm not even sure I agree people can be "closer" or "farther&qu

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