charles2013

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by charles2013 11y ago
@bucaran: i'm confused. why are you also commenting on this thread as Tzadeck?
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by charles2013 11y ago
@striking, the comments you mention appear to be from one side. @bucaran's alleged censoring of the discussion [0] makes it difficult to know what was actually discussed, but it's telling at the same time, especially in the contex
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by charles2013 11y ago
this hn comment links to a github comment (from the other side) that was deleted by the usurper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10273780
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by charles2013 11y ago
> Obviously all other avenues of resolution have been exhausted. could you elaborate? it's not clear to me what other avenues of resolution were attempted.
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by charles2013 11y ago
"refers" got their start in chicago, when george h. hammond patented a refrigerated rail car design in 1868 [0]. although the technology was initially used to transport meat via rails, hammond's company (and the rest of the m
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by charles2013 11y ago
> Is anyone using a pedal in addition of a keyboard on a daily basis? i've been using foot pedals with a kinesis advantage for a couple of months. note: i don't always use the pedals. > Do you really think this could be a
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by charles2013 11y ago
> “The real problem is that the car is too safe...” no. this statement is fallacious, and i believe it is dangerously misleading. it sounds like something out of the mouth of a corporate attorney, and not someone who cares about being a
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by charles2013 11y ago
some questions on IQ tests depict rotated images of figures, and ask things like: > can the two figures in each set be made identical by rotating them in space? [0] this isn't my domain, so without knowing any better i would kind of
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by charles2013 11y ago
> The browser should be ... for viewing and retrieving data, not executing that data. i'm genuinely interested in what a modern version of that would look like. recently i watched a 1992 interview [0] with brewster kahle in which he
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by charles2013 11y ago
the proliferation of driverless cars could make the debate about losing access to public roads (i.e. losing one's drivers license) much more interesting.
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by charles2013 11y ago
agreed. interesting read, yet far from complete, and certainly questionable. a couple that jumped out to me as questionable: the "discounting" section reminds me of the stanford marshmallow experiment (itself questionable iirc). i
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by charles2013 11y ago
datatau [0] might be worth checking out, if you're not familiar. since bioscience isn't on my radar i'm not sure if you'd find anything useful there, however, it feels like a more concentrated version of HN which special
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by charles2013 11y ago
> But you are making an assumption that just because someone enjoys living in a trailer house, they must also be ok with living in an apartment. That may not be the case, at lease that's not the case for me. good point. a home with
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by charles2013 11y ago
if i've written something that's factually wrong or misleading, offensive, or otherwise violates the comment guidelines, i would appreciate the opportunity to update my comment or delete it. and for that to happen i would need som
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by charles2013 11y ago
like OP, online ads (partially) put food on my table. but that's where the similarities stop: whereas OP mentions he's "never been tempted to run ad-blocking software before," i've blocked ads for years. and i don&#
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by charles2013 11y ago
agreed. perhaps the title could include an adjective which specifies the type of risk under consideration.
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by charles2013 11y ago
a few years ago i had to pare down my wardrobe for extended travel. sadly (at the time), my startup tees were the first to go. i replaced them with patagonia's silkweight tees (2/3 merino, 1/3 synthetic). as a lazy hacker i w
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by charles2013 11y ago
i get that this is a tongue-in-cheek comment, and appreciate your sense of humor, but it also saddens/frightens me to think this could become the prevailing sentiment in the years to come. i grew up believing the internet was a great e
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by charles2013 11y ago
whilst reading your above comment i wondered why you chose not to use environment variables instead. e.g.: $ export cdc_stuff='/Users/me/src/project_stuff' $ cd $cdc_stuff however, now it's clear.
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by charles2013 11y ago
secondarily, many non-US companies with data centers located in the US have been impacted from the global backlash.
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by charles2013 11y ago
no, not necessarily. consider guidance from new zealand's Health Information Governance Expert Advisory Group (HIGEAG) [0]: > Unless an exemption is granted by the National Health IT Board, all personal health information held in an
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by charles2013 11y ago
> TL;DR: It's about the "Internet of Things" ^ this is too ambiguous to be meaningful for anyone who isn't familiar with the cyber grand challenge (CGC). the CGC, as i understand it, is about developing systems which
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by charles2013 11y ago
> So far scientists haven't found anything special about the human brain that can't be mimicked by a machine. mimicking the brain's power-consumption-to-compute-power ratio is difficult, if not impossible, with today'
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by charles2013 11y ago
>>the comment in question (asking for the difference between "vanilla assault" and rape) was in shockingly bad taste. > Why? While we are discussing why asking the question is in bad taste, can we also address the questio
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by charles2013 11y ago
editing/updating your comment without noting the changes can make it difficult to follow the conversation.
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by charles2013 11y ago
>>i would flag this comment as egregious, but i don't have enough karma. >For censorship? Because as we all know society gets better when questions are stomped. the comment in question (asking for the difference between "
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by charles2013 11y ago
i would flag this comment as egregious, but i don't have enough karma. in the meantime, if you are really interested in an answer, you should search for one. here's a start: https://www.reddit.com/r/RapeCounse
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by charles2013 11y ago
as a layperson, i have a hunch that language first developed as a defense mechanism against predators, and continued (perhaps more rapidly) with the proliferation of hunting weapons and methods. an article/thesis from last year claims
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by charles2013 11y ago
i'm disappointed this made it to the top of the front page yesterday with such little criticism. it feels like something written by an intelligent yet naïve marketing undergrad, not something on which to base pricing strategy. > &qu
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by charles2013 11y ago
a colleague sent me a link to "tactic 14." after reviewing the citations i'm skeptical of the rest. it appears the author misunderstood some research he cited. the thesis for tactic 14 is: > Anchoring not only works for pr

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