ridaj

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by ridaj 4y ago
Then more bots come in undetected and you have to rebase again when you find them. It's a continuous process. You need very understanding investors to pull this off. At the same time there's only so long you can sweep inauthentic
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by ridaj 4y ago
As a tentatively more minimalistic explanation, the musical ear perceives specific geometric relationships between frequencies as strong stimuli, and a major chord consists of simultaneously striking frequencies x, x times the cube root of
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by ridaj 4y ago
Why should we believe that the author's perceived value signaling by some class of society (which is debatable already in a somewhat puritanical society) is the primary responsible for other adults' behavior? This seems so infanti
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by ridaj 4y ago
A nudging system like this better have a much higher signal to noise ratio otherwise it really amps up the clippy-like annoyance. Keep in mind this isn't something you have to go turn on in a menu for "help me write inclusively&qu
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by ridaj 4y ago
What about when the landlord is a company? Or an actual man in fact? We're going from unnecessarily gendered to unnecessarily neutered word.
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by ridaj 4y ago
Human bladder range can already be extended 10x by the use of Gatorade bottle technology.
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by ridaj 4y ago
And revenue will shrink accordingly. If that's his plan, he's right that it can only happen in a private company. Otherwise the resulting revenue deceleration will send Twitter into a stock price self-fulfilling tailspin as stockh
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by ridaj 4y ago
The cost of actually administering fairness in elections (maintaining voter rosters, verifying identities, preventing double-voting and providing public auditability while ensuring voter anonymity, prosecuting fraudsters...) is quite high c
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by ridaj 4y ago
That would also get rid of users. It's pretty clear that chronological ordering is non-optimal for engagement in a feed system.
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by ridaj 4y ago
You can put Gboard on your iPad
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by ridaj 4y ago
Well, open source volunteering is a form of anti-capitalistic political activism to begin with. This is just adding a geopolitical angle to it, but all FOSS is political already. When you depend on an open source project, you depend on the
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by ridaj 4y ago
The more I hear about Stephen Wolfram's schemes to name things after Stephen Wolfram, the more admirative I grow of Nicolas Bourbaki and wished he were publishing amazing math software these days.
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by ridaj 4y ago
Yes this is a more plausible example of needed regulation to align capitalistic incentives on societally beneficial outcomes (vs cat UTI research)
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by ridaj 4y ago
> Putting aside cats, there are plenty of diseases that impact humans which don’t get researched enough due to very rare, e.g. <1 in 100 million people. Sure, and is that a problem? Should we as a society not apportion medical researc
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by ridaj 4y ago
> areas that need it The premise of capitalism is that enterprising individuals and institutions will respond to the monetary incentive created by these needs. Could it be that what is unprofitable to treat is maybe not that big of an ac
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by ridaj 4y ago
Some fertility specialists will say on first consult, the odds that you could get pregnant naturally just went down as you walked through the door to my office. All because the kind of people who visit a fertility specialist have lower fert
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by ridaj 4y ago
> adverse selection problems I gotta admit feeling some schadenfreude that people trying to revive indentured servitude end up being out-grifted by their own customers
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by ridaj 4y ago
What do you recommend for calendar management?
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Ask HN: Best keyboard-based productivity software?
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by ridaj 5y ago
Re opendoor etc > A less competitive market is less dynamic and worse for sellers, but it is better for the iBuyers that remain. If they can avoid taking on the bad deals that Zillow was previously shielding them from. I've seen h
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by ridaj 5y ago
Sure but I'm still happy for the guy. I don't expect he or anyone to want to make nice things for the Internet.
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by ridaj 5y ago
> Did you write this comment before doing any research into how NYT handles their games? I'm somewhat aware of how it works. > NYT has a bunch of daily mini games that are free and have been for a while. Only the full crossword a
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by ridaj 5y ago
Yes i used similar data. Zooming in on Flappy bird, it also had a peak of search interest after the announcement of its removal on Feb 8, 2014 (supporting that more people likely learned about flappy bird after its removal was announced,
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by ridaj 5y ago
That meme cycle was ~20x smaller than wordle in magnitude. Most people only heard about flappy bird after it was announced that it would be retired.
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by ridaj 5y ago
I do think there's a ton of nice things on the Internet. The FOSS community as a whole and Wikipedia are astounding in their civilization-transforming, anti-capitalistic effect on society. 20 years ago people paid Microsoft for the onl
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by ridaj 5y ago
Yes except wordle has been 10x / 20x more popular than flappy bird ever was
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by ridaj 5y ago
Oh I don't mean to shit on the creator. We all got bills to pay. Mad props to him for getting a great payout and moving on. But does the result count as a "nice thing on the Internet"? I can be the judge of that and IMO no at
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by ridaj 5y ago
The illusion of innocence? The perspective that it might still be possible, on a shoestring budget within reach of a modest person, to create a massive, worldwide collective experience, that is engaging and fun without having any commercial
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by ridaj 5y ago
No, because it got bought by NYT. It was absolutely glorious as an indie phenomenon but to see it fold into a giant media conglomerate so quickly is yawn The most epic move would have been to pull the plug on wordle right at its peak, whi
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by ridaj 5y ago
There's a difference between regression testing and exploratory testing. For regression testing, stuff that gets repeated every release is hard to catch by human eye, especially as releases get more and more frequent. Automating rote r

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