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London Police Amp Up Surveillance with Real-Time Facial Recognition(nytimes.com)
4 points by wellactually 7y ago|0 comments
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by wellactually 7y ago
Offering liquidity is not equivalent to offering free money. The offer comes at a cost.
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The Deadly Consequences of Rounding Errors(slate.com)
3 points by wellactually 7y ago|0 comments
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On ‘Island’ in Russian Arctic, Arrival of Fast Internet Shakes Political Calm(nytimes.com)
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I used to fear being a nobody, then I left social media(nytimes.com)
373 points by wellactually 7y ago|263 comments
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by wellactually 7y ago
It depends on the values of the host society. They may want to promote democratic access to their country.
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by wellactually 7y ago
It's not a perfect solution, granted, but it's less likely to result in implicit selection of only the wealthiest people.
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by wellactually 7y ago
Another way would be to charge a modest lottery entrance fee and limit the number of winners to a sensible quota.
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Fertility doctors who used their own sperm(nytimes.com)
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One trick I learned a while ago is that stepping back as far as possible and taking pictures of people taking pictures is far more interesting than yet another picture of the same thing. There are only so many interesting photos of the Mona
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by wellactually 7y ago
> I prefer people to be themselves rather than pretending to be something else. Very few people are "themselves" in practice. There's a difference between how one feels and what one conveys. Communication is about conveyan
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by wellactually 7y ago
Exactly. Social skills can be learned, but often that requires a lot more effort and pain than learning a new programming language or framework. Listening with full attention is the most underrated "best practice" in tech.
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by wellactually 8y ago
Use a Neutral Background Color on Your Website: Omit Superfluous Background Images
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by wellactually 8y ago
Indeed. It's alarming that such basic scientific literacy is eluding editors at the NY Times.
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by wellactually 8y ago
Except that it wasn't. Sexual selection has been well-established as a process within natural selection for decades.
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by wellactually 8y ago
There is nothing new in this article causing scientists to rethink Evolution. Sexual selection, on the basis of physical traits (weaponry or ornaments), has been known and observed since Darwin. Evolution doesn't produce the best adapt
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by wellactually 9y ago
> The problem? Florida doesn’t have the authority to adopt daylight saving time year-round. > The federal government controls the nation’s time zones, as well as the start and end dates of daylight saving time. States can choose to ex
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Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Digested Read(theguardian.com)
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National Identity Is Made Up(nytimes.com)
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by wellactually 9y ago
The transcript is below the video, on the same page.
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by wellactually 9y ago
It might already be too late: http://infinitecat.com/infinite/cat1.html
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by wellactually 10y ago
* Square zero .
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by wellactually 12y ago
Bathrooms are the limiting factor in most self-respecting venues. Yet as you state, there are never enough bathrooms, and I'd add they're never private enough. I do not want to hear or smell when other people are doing their busin
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A Record Year for Auto Recalls(nytimes.com)
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by wellactually 12y ago
"Everyone deserves a happy home... at work."
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by wellactually 12y ago
The xkcd is only necessarily true when it is the median average that is considered. However, most people are not necessarily of mean average intelligence.
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How To Present A Paper (1979)(research.microsoft.com)
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by wellactually 12y ago
And it's making the world a better place.
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by wellactually 13y ago
False. A group's ability to survive a cataclysmic event, natural catastrophe, epidemic, or genocide depends on its size and diversity. There is safety in numbers and diversity.
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by wellactually 13y ago
It's "37signals."

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