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Which programming language has the highest meaning density?
Hello, Recently I was thinking about Mandarin and I noticed that it has about 3 to 4 times the meaning density. Meaning that if a child studies in Mandarin for 15 years of her life…
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What are we calling what used to be called FAANG these days?
I am posting this for several reasons. 1. I don't like the original acronym as it leaves out Microsoft. 2. Google renamed to Alphabet and Facebook renamed to Meta since then. 3. I …
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Ask HN: Is it possible to create a image processing based lie detector?
Hello, Seeing how most people who guess well if someone is lying do it from 'reading a face', it can be said that there must be auditory and visual cues in a person's expressions t…
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Comment #32383806
>For example, GDP includes money spent for renting an apartment, although no goods are produced in this case. Because it measures all the goods and services produced in a country o…
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Comment #32318610
>It could be convincingly argued Go on. Argue that please.
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Comment #32127232
In fact, the current CEO of Unity (One of the most popular game engine) said that anyone who's not baking monetization into their games right from the start is "f*king idiot".
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Comment #32084279
There is no point in arguing against American government's actions on a forum almost completely populated by Americans.
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Comment #32003290
>and using a competitor is suicide because your content will never get any traction You can post on multiple platforms, you know. Content creators aren't stupid. They post on which…
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Comment #32003260
I wish I could upvote it 10 times. No one is stopping these nostalgic folks. Those older techs aren't banned. They have just lost their war for network effect.
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Comment #31664461
The first thing Aeneas eats as soon as he lands on the beach is also pizza!
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What new kind of program requires too much processing power?
Hello, I would like you guys to post ideas for technologies which still require more processing power than is currently available.
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Comment #26167940
Maybe the show tries to say that winning leads to slacking off?
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Comment #21369726
dons tinfoil hat Maybe because the FR industry is the one that's delivering those death threats?
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Comment #20846837
By out there I don't mean in the physical world, I mean in the world of possibility.
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Comment #20791506
Maybe its like a going-under for them as a civilization?
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Comment #20791491
And might soon be able to design life! Present FTW!!!
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Comment #20791477
>but that might not temper a mindset as mathematically conducive as notions of "completion and balancing". Or maybe what would be considered a mathematically conducive mindset is d…
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Comment #20791400
Or maybe its far too soon for us to say if the West (or the Greeks who you guys almost worship as a culture) has produced more than 1 or 2 great mathematicians? Maybe the peoples o…
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Comment #20785380
Imagine seeds that grow into a house. This is dream stuff!
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Comment #20784027
>while being almost incapable of any physicality Only for the later (even if major) part of his life. One could argue that the physicality he was capable of in the earlier stage of…
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Comment #20775552
Kurzweilanism=Gavinism
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Comment #20775477
>>We have some vague models of it ("the brain is like a computer and the mind is like a program running on it") I agree with the thrust of your argument, but this itself is wrong. …
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Comment #10300905
Its because in real conversations, you talk to 1-2 other people and not a million. If a lot of people are discussing something (as they do in parliaments) people have a way of upvo…