samineru
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12 years ago
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on: How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique
It's mental violence. You're exploiting human nature to impact their free will. Perhaps part of "being an adult" is shouldering the responsibility of propping up your own illusory free will, I can't say.
samineru
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12 years ago
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on: How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique
Yes.
samineru
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12 years ago
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on: Shakespeare.txt.jpg: A JPEG compression experiment
"we can only consume a few dozens of bytes per second, and so any error is obvious."
That's not the point at all. The English language itself is already heavily compressed, by which I mean the space of all possible words is already densely packed. This is why we can both understand misspelled words with no particularly close neighbors, but are nonetheless sensitive to misspellings in general.
The act of writing something down in language compresses it, significantly changing properties of the space such as comparability of neighbors
samineru
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13 years ago
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on: Crush the Castle developer's response to IGN's "In Defense of Game Clones"
I think if you fully commit to that idea we sacrifice the creatives to the engineers. I'd prefer a strict but short term of copyright, giving the creatives the incentives to innovate in the short and engineers the freedom to optimize over the rest of time.
samineru
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14 years ago
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on: What Was Lacking to Vimium: the 'm' command
samineru
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14 years ago
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on: Flightfox (YC S12) Raises $800k to Crowdsource Flight Search
What are you talking about, the title accurately describes the accruing of VC money!
samineru
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14 years ago
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on: Apple Has Removed Airfoil Speakers Touch From The iOS App Store
I wish that we could rely on the companies that are increasingly controlling semi-public commons like social networks and software repositories to have some integrity and respect for the roles that they are playing in this regard.
samineru
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14 years ago
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on: Kickstarter hides failure
This article isn't directed at you then, it's directed at people considering starting Kickstarter projects of their own. I believe the author's thesis is that the current Kickstarter policy of hiding failed fundraising efforts is detrimental to the capacity of future Kickstarters to run successful fundraisers.
samineru
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14 years ago
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on: Kickstarter hides failure
I think that limitation of scope is very intentional on their part. Tracking the actual progress of these projects could be a very intensive and diverse undertaking. I don't think Kickstarter calls a project successful, I think they call a fundraising successful.
samineru
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14 years ago
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on: Kickstarter hides failure
I would agree if there were a way to find these failed cases if you looked hard enough. Other than acquiring the link before the end date of the project there doesn't seem to be a way. This may be a good way to check what happened to project X, but not to answer the question:
"How have other projects in field foobar done, which ones have failed or succeeded, and what does each group have in common?"
samineru
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14 years ago
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on: Google's Self-Driving Car Gets Mixed Reviews
> The data from each situation would be ingested and analyzed so the car could learn what to do in the future. Those lessons could, hopefully, be applied to a broad range of driving conundrums.
This is huge. Maybe a handful of cars are learning there way around slowly, but if they have legitimate automatic learning systems, imagine two or three thousand cars all learning together.
