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This idea is the subject of the 2013 book "Who Owns the Future?" By Jaron Lanier.

That is not who we are.

No, that is not who you would like us to be/have been. Very evidently, that is who we are.

Privatize the gains, socialize the losses. Even in the news.

I hated when textbooks/papers did this. Half the time you can't tell if they meant to use the bold letter or if the printer was just being generous on that character. Made legibility quite a bit more difficult. BB letters are unambiguous.

Citation needed.

The closest thing to this at the moment, I think, is online Chess.

Not the OP, but here's my observation: When I have to stop at a light until it turns green, I have to navigate the intersection while the cars around me are entering it as well. Suddenly there's a car trying to pass me, a car in the oncoming lane turning left, etc. If I can skirt through the intersection while the light is red and there's no transverse traffic, I can get through without interacting with any other moving vehicles.

I've also been involved in car(-car, not car-bike) accidents before where some idiot at a light was looking at their phone while stopped, and did something stupid when they noticed others moving in their peripheral vision. Plausibly, such idiots could be the cause of a lot of accidents at intersections.

Is this comment supposed to be the hook for a short story or film where you slowly learn that you're actually the grandson of the impostor?

My father still has his an HP-41CX he was given for his HS graduation in the early 80s, which he had restored about a decade ago. He uses it mainly, but not exclusively, when he wants to show it off.

I don't mean any personal offense, but as an American I associate this behavior with "you can't afford not to travel" and "eating $regionalFood in $location has ruined the dish for me; I can't eat it anywhere else" types.

Chess. Any time I have a couple minutes I manage to squeeze in a blitz game.

I'm pretty sure these racial categories are American abstractions, whose names have only reflected their composition in recent decades. The Irish, for instance, were long not considered 'white'; they were just 'Irish'.

I just meant that I haven't made any efforts to keep google from snooping on me through that phone. So I get all the convenience of e.g. google screening my calls and waiting on hold for me, with all the associated privacy concerns, as opposed to the LineageOS device which I don't think has any google apps/services at all.

I do enjoy the 4a very much however, it's a great device.

It probably should be explained. Their classification makes sense, but I think some may be misled. The demographic of people getting older phones and running LineageOS would probably be comfortable with managing a few obnoxiously tiny screws to replace a battery, and just want to be able to replace them when they start crapping out, whereas the older phones I've had which advertised a replaceable battery (consistent with this list) made it easy enough for grandma.

Coincidentally, yesterday my father handed me his old Moto X 2014 with a shattered screen, asking me if I wanted to do anything with it before he trashed it. I wiped it and installed lineageOS, which is what I'm using to write this comment; its definitely a less fluid experience than my full-dystopia-mode pixel 4A, but its a refreshing experience nonetheless and I could imagine it's great for people who want to treat their phone as a tool and not a perpetual distraction device (I would guess that even with further tinkering I would be hard pressed to get all my apps integrated sufficiently seamlessly so as to enable such levels of distraction).

I watched a teardown video for the phone on YouTube and it appears the battery is replaceable, just not easily, whereas its given an "x" on this list (is this true of all phones?). Fortunately I don't seem to be suffering any battery-related problems at the moment, but I will be attempting to replace the screen, which does not seem to be easy on this dwvice.

Imagine instead a tmux that could allow multiple users to connect to it simultaneously, and drive different panes at the same time, or view the commands that another user is using in a given pane.

I think this is what tmate does? I haven't used it, but I saw it mentioned on HN a couple days ago.

https://tmate.io/

I think somewhere in between these two options is emacs.

Are you referring to the time the US air force built a cluster out of 2000 PS3s? Seems good.

Big if true.

Clicking around arXiv and google scholar, I get the sense the author is legitimate. But I wouldn't be surprised if some technical barrier was found by another expert. I don't think the author has published anything in complexity theory before, and the story of 'older academic attempts to enter new field with old tools, immediately solves most important problem in field' is a tad fishy to me, though not entirely without precedent. The idea sounds pretty cool though; I'd definitely prefer to be mistaken.

That's just 'democratization' of the word 'democratization', man.

Ramirez is doing the twitch stream, though you're right that he was able to balance out how the computer analysis affected his commentary. OTOH, I felt that as an event dragged on, he'd rely more and more on the machine to tell the story of the game. Conversely, it'd be nice if they made Maurice Ashley comment without the engine for a while, maybe he'd have more interesting things to say again.

A great example at how computers affect chess commentary is the currently ongoing tournament in St. Louis. On youtube, the game is broadcast by people using an engine to evaluate the position they're looking at, and on twitch, two grandmasters are providing commentary without an engine. The youtube stream can be easier to follow, but it takes some of the drama out when the story appears to be "look at this guy, missing the best move when he's #4 in the world, how could this happen?" for every game. On the other hand, the grandmasters' commentary might be closer to what the players are actually thinking (what would be deemed "human moves"), but sometimes even they aren't sure what exactly is going on.

https://www.youtube.com/user/STLChessClub https://www.twitch.tv/stlchessclub

I just read about 70% of The Power Broker before having to return it to the library - what a book. I was surprised at how easy it was to read something so long, with often pretty banal subject matter. Reading it reminded me of that piece of advice often given to college freshmen about finding the best professor on campus and taking their classes: even if you're totally uninterested in the subject at the start, you'll get drawn in by the professor's enthusiasm and ability.

That's true if you want to play 1...e5 against 1.e4, but you don't have to. Obviously, every opening has its various traps and cheeses, but if you hated the fried liver so much, why not try the sicilian or the french?

I went into this article thinking I would hate it, but as I read it over, each point that came up in my mind ("obviously there's a difference between passive and active learning," "spaced repetition would make a big difference," etc.) was addressed soon after (a sign of a well-organized article).

OTOH, I think the criticisms in the comments here, are strange (even ignoring comments whose criticisms are dismissed by actually reading the article). So much of the evolution of UI design is moving from 'the user can do all these things,' to 'it is easy for the user to do these things' and 'the user interfaces with the product in the way that we want.' When a reader picks up a book without a vested interest in understanding its contents, they will read it once, cover to cover, rather quickly, without taking many notes, and will then proceed to forget most of what they read (not only the details, but even the concepts). Perhaps it'd be a good idea for authors of popular non-fiction books (i.e., will be read by many such people) to 'trick' readers into learning by augmenting the text with proven learning techniques, which work when the book is picked up and read with the above technique.

Where do you get 0 though? They're currently worth $5,500. So 10% of $5,500 is actually $550.

What is surprising is the odd bedfellows of Soros on the left and others on the right clamoring for FB regulation. I probably agree they need some kind of regulation --but one more generalized to all user-facing internet companies (colloquially "user is the product" companies).

Your last point is worded as if Soros is the sole and direct cause of the clamor. I think the more likely cause is the large number of (elderly -- voting!) people for whom facebook is the internet. It serves politicians to play to this confusion, as it gives them a clear company/CEO to point the finger at to appear 'tough on the bad things happening on the internet.' Bill Gates used to be the 'computer person' to old people (the president said in 2015, "We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what’s happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way." in regards to the internet), and now it's Zuckerberg.

I'm currently at step 2, and was deciding between getting an aeropress or a v60. What do you prefer about the pourover setup?

"You mean I have to worry about the consequences of my actions? Why can't I just bury my head in the sand and make tons of money?"

Plenty (most? all?) large businesses do this. It isn't good for the world.

Or maybe, it makes sense to identify why something failed and label it as such.