charlesism

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by charlesism 6y ago
It's the same article, published on multiple sites. Is there a reason (eg: only one site has the rights) to prefer Huffpo? My inclination would be the other way.
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by charlesism 6y ago
This would be easier if the internet were optimized around enlightenment values (for lack of a better phrase) instead of the values of a tabloid newspaper.
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by charlesism 6y ago
The Rio had slow transfer speed (USB), hardly any storage (less than one CD), big ugly form factor... and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t rechargeable. My buddy at the time bought one. It did not impress. The tech for the first iPod (Firewire and
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by charlesism 6y ago
I can’t remember any portable MP3 playing device before iPod that wasn’t a joke. Are you thinking of a particular product that was comparable? I’m curious.
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by charlesism 6y ago
I'm going with : 1) He is materially wrong about the most consequential thing he's "had to" have a view on in 15 years. We should probably degrade our estimate of his ability to think through complex problems.
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by charlesism 6y ago
We seem to agree about the level of risk. It's no more my place to tell you how comfortable you should feel with that risk, than it would be for me to tell you what genre of music should be your favorite. That's just personal pref
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by charlesism 6y ago
Well then. Carry on :)
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by charlesism 6y ago
> it won't be a good business decision You don't think it might be better to assume all this data will leak or be hacked? You most likely have decades of life ahead of you, and once a file is free on the net, it'
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by charlesism 6y ago
Good one :(
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by charlesism 7y ago
Underrated comment. The Blade Runner esthetic started with Moebius. Hard to imagine what the movie would look like had he never existed.
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by charlesism 7y ago
If you post "go ahead and downvote me", whether justified or not, readers feel manipulated, and do.
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Command enables Startup Chime on new Macs: sudo nvram StartupMute=%00(appleinsider.com)
2 points by charlesism 7y ago|1 comments
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by charlesism 7y ago
Google has done away with most of its original competitive advantages. Its biggest advantages now are its name recognition and its size. If Google had started off with paid search results and what-you-search-for-is-not-what-you-get we'
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by charlesism 7y ago
I’m guessing once “customer education” fails Boeing, they’ll make a few minor alterations and sell the thing under a different name. Hello “Boeing SFTY9000” or something.
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by charlesism 7y ago
Why isn’t the Schrödinger's cat thing sufficient? I don’t know much about quantum physics, but if we find situations where matter has odds of behaving a certain way, that seems like evidence. How do we explain events not always havin
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by charlesism 7y ago
> what you're describing sounds more like a multi-dimensional (above the ones we're aware of) universe rather than a multiverse. We’re aware of the possibility that we might do something, or could have done somethin
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by charlesism 7y ago
Shouldn’t the default position be that a multiverse exist? A multiverse is what logic suggests (starting with “a point in motion is a line” and moving up to higher dimensions)
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by charlesism 7y ago
Everything past Snow Leopard . Lion was a disaster, and there is literally no feature I use that I prefer in any Mac OS created since then. What's more, the OS has become uglier and buggier. Edit: actually, I like the addition of Find
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by charlesism 7y ago
Many of Feynman's capers and eccentricities are covered in the book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" It's a collection of his essays. I've actually noticed the title pop up a few times before in the comment
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by charlesism 7y ago
It hasn’t gone far enough; not by a looooong shot. Billions of compromising documents, photos and personal details are now sitting around on the servers of a half dozen for-profit companies. Only Equifax has given us a taste of what is in s
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by charlesism 7y ago
I think of the Internet today as being in the “gathering” stage. All our data is just being slurped up, hanging around on the servers of a few dozen companies. It’s alarming, to be sure, but just you wait! A few years from now - when comput
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by charlesism 7y ago
> And yet: When people want > to migrate, no one has Finland > on top of their wish list. > It’s America. Always America. > Why is this? Because Finland is cold.
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by charlesism 7y ago
I honestly think there’s a higher chance of Comcast killing 100 million people over the next century than “broadband for everyone”
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by charlesism 7y ago
Yes, the reason is that it takes around two years before a user realizes how ineffective the site is. That’s about the maximum amount of time a user can fool themselves into thinking “I’ll start to see some progress any day now!” If Duoling
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by charlesism 7y ago
It’s bad because it takes a very long time for a language learner to assess their own progress. Duolingo relies on its userbase making an uninformed choice. If Duolingo warned a user “it will take a you 30 years of daily ‘Casual Level’ use
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by charlesism 7y ago
> Anyone who tells you otherwise is either misinformed or lying. Duolingo's "Goal" settings: > Basic 1XP | Casual 10XP | Regular 20XP | Serious 30XP | Insane 50XP per day 50XP requires no more than 25
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by charlesism 7y ago
They have the most money because they got the most users. They got the most users because their courses demand the least effort. I have used several of the alternatives, and all of them are more effective at teaching languages . Granted, D
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by charlesism 7y ago
That’s not very nuanced. A big Finnish government is different than, say, a big Russian government. To me it seems like saying: I fundamentally disagree with dining out because it requires restaurant, and restaurant is always bad.
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by charlesism 7y ago
> Why the second constraint? one might > ask. Besides the obvious potential for > profitability, our mission was The search engine the world needs is one with independence and non-profitability . If the creators a
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by charlesism 7y ago
Ah, okay. I thought you were referring to well-defined borders, and strict border controls. Both these were generally lax before the 20th Century. I don’t see how this poses much of a safeguard, in any event. If millions of Chinese wind up

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