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Research on collective recall: Facebook, fake news and friends warp your memory(nature.com)
2 points by hackuser 10y ago|0 comments
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by hackuser 10y ago
I guess I'd like to see some evidence the other way. The comments above are just denials, as in negative allegations or opinions with no support. I think I made my case very strongly, with much more evidence than 99% of comments on HN.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Tesla's prospects today aren't noticeably different from how they were on November 8th, 2016 I think the evidence strongly says otherwise: Tesla closing stock price, a quantitative measure of the market's view of their p
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by hackuser 10y ago
I feel this oft-repeated argument is a canard, whose strength is mostly from its repetition. One sign of such things is hyperbole such as "even slightly", "anything other than'. Hyperbole, to me, is a substitute for a la
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Five issues that will determine the future of Internet Health(blog.mozilla.org)
3 points by hackuser 10y ago|0 comments
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by hackuser 10y ago
First, sorry it took so long to respond. The way HN works (if you don't know) is that messages from new accounts sometimes are automatically killed and therefore nobody can respond (or even let you know there's a problem). I actua
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by hackuser 10y ago
EDIT: Per Wikipedia, the idea for the game came from a Pokemon Company employee (owned 33% by Nintendo [0]), inspired by Ingress, and the game was developed at the Pokemon Company. Another link says "The Pokémon Company... and Nintendo
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by hackuser 10y ago
> They aren't afraid to take chances but not all of their chances are so great. Isn't that the nature of taking chances? If there weren't failures, it wouldn't be called 'taking risks'.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Do they at least get credit for backing and popularizing Pokemon Go? Where would it be without Nintendo? (Real questions; I'm not advocating for Nintendo.)
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by hackuser 10y ago
I agree that those things can be due to both a 'chemical requirement' and the type of need I was describing above. What distinguishes them is the chemical requirement; once that is gone, the need fits in the other category - that&
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by hackuser 10y ago
I only peripherally pay attention to games, but is my impression right that Nintendo is just a brilliantly innovative company, light years ahead of any other (major) gaming developer? Off the top of my head, I see the Wii, Pokemon Go, and n
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Anything liquid can be frozen. Anything metal can be magnetised. Anything flammable can be set alight. Graphical NetHack? (Disclaimer: I played NetHack only once, a long time ago, and know it mostly by reputation.)
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by hackuser 10y ago
> if you want to lose weight but keep eating fast food despite that---what is the healthy need manifesting through that, and how do you address it in some other, good way? That really depends on the individual; if you'd like to sit
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by hackuser 10y ago
> the theme all comes down to a battle against yourself Perhaps "control" and "battle" are the wrong model. Some broad, general suggestions based on what experts have said: Respect yourself: If you are doing something
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by hackuser 10y ago
> it doesn't look to me he was up to his own standards Would anyone pass your test?
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by hackuser 10y ago
What happened after the early 90s?
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by hackuser 10y ago
> The enemies of the open internet only have to win once, but to fend them off we have to win every single time I don't see why this is true. Why can't the competition go back and forth? And why must proponents of the open Inte
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by hackuser 10y ago
Follow the money (and power): Who benefits from a dramatic cutback of the 'administrative state"? I'm not sure I know the answer. Industries that are regulated may think they benefit (but a regulatory and legal framework also
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by hackuser 10y ago
> I guess the benefits of putting your financial data in the cloud are the same as for any online system: Access your data from any computer, automatic backups, and easily share your data with other people (especially your accountant or
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by hackuser 10y ago
On what basis can you state these things with such authority? (Apologies if there is something obvious that I'm overlooking.) Also, do you mean that these are the stated rules, or that these are the practices? I don't mean that in
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by hackuser 10y ago
I agree that it depends on much more than talent, but that hypothesis wouldn't explain discrimination against older workers: There's no reason older workers would be less capable in the non-talent aspects of what you describe, and
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by hackuser 10y ago
> The market can come up with a matching service to pair job seekers with companies, but just having the service exist doesn't mean that all companies and all job seekers will use it. Motivated individuals will find it, but not all
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by hackuser 10y ago
Much appreciated; thanks. I'd add one more item to the difficult-to-avoid vulnerabilities, file and file system metadata. Otherwise a simple directory listing, for a user or a background program, requires authentication. My guess is th
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by hackuser 10y ago
I wouldn't use it without end-to-end encryption, and I probably wouldn't trust your implementation of encryption (no offense, but probably you can't be a wizard at both financial software and encryption software) unless you u
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by hackuser 10y ago
Why can't someone who grew up on hacker culture then go to university and learn engineering and theory? I think both are necessary to a degree. The hacker stuff gives people an instinct and facility, but fills them with bad information
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by hackuser 10y ago
> As long as you had FileVault enabled (& good password management), that's basically all you needed. Does that protect your computer if it's asleep? My guess is most Macbooks are either asleep or on 99% of the time.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Choose a disk that supports Full Disk Encrpytion ... This way the encryption/decryption is done by the chip inside HDD and there is no OS security issue that can compromise the data or performance hit on the main cpu. The parent i
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by hackuser 10y ago
A few questions: 1) > The catch is if the thief steals your powered-on laptop, the system's still decrypted I think the key distinction is if a laptop's storage is encrypted if it's in some sort of sleep or lock mode. AFAI
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by hackuser 10y ago
The marketplace always seems to fail in situations like this one. There are always groups that are discriminated against, based on race, gender, age, etc. Therefore a business seeking talent should view those excluded groups as a goldmine o
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by hackuser 10y ago
From what I read, issues like that indeed affected morale.

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