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Thanks for elaborating!

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I thought they were using tennis analogy, where player hitting the ball out or on the net without being forced to by the opponent counts as an unforced error.

For some reason many of these people that lose trust in traditional media immediately start trusting "independent media" on YouTube that happens to agrees with their views or ways …

Not op but yes they meant that.

>A large problem with metrics is that they have a tendency of becoming a goal of their own. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

Comment on youtube: >How does Jordi type commands so quickly? I did wonder while watching the video if I would have thought the same thing if I wasn't coming from this thread. It w…

>Maybe I'm missing something. The features you explained are exactly what I was looking for in a mobile browser. In fact, i wish they launch Focus for Desktops operating systems to…

Do you have good resources in mind on Walmart's harmful practices? Yes, I can search internet but looking for long sophisticated essays or even good books on the topic that you may…

>A great preparation they should learn some math or ideally be having fun with their friends, running around outside or perhaps art or something creative. Not sure why there is a d…

>You want to compromise on the stuff that other people find important and hold fast on the stuff that you find important. Isn't the definition of "important" what people disagree o…

>I won't say which camp I think Prof. Hájek falls into with this Aeon piece The way you put it in this comment, it may feel to some that you are suggesting the author is trying to …

I am very curious. Can you briefly explain what do you mean by "that took 2 calls"?

All of this is totally true for cricket and even worse(8 fucking hours filled with commercials like american football). My whole country(India) has somehow convinced itself that it…

>Is this related to his book "Society of Mind"? http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... I think lot of things like modular architecture are still partially …

> But I was definitely hoping for a more quantitative analysis of the benefits. You may enjoy this then: http://www.gwern.net/Nicotine

>On the other hand, in Omaha, Nebraska, I found some comparable apartments at $500/mo. This is true for Wisconsin also. I think OP is hitting the right point that many states easil…

>citing studies showing that only 60% of books bought electronically are ever begun, and completion rates that can fall as low as 20% for some titles. Well, how about the completio…

Thanks. Not surprising but it seems like New Delhi is severely fucked http://aqicn.org/city/delhi/anand-vihar/

I think too much has been made out of this thought experiment. Practically, I don't think driverless cars would have any strategy other than "full stop". There are too many variabl…

>An Oculus Rift use case? Funny that you said that. That's exactly what I was imagining few minutes ago. People walking in virtual bookstores, meeting and discussing books with the…

" The art of browsing and the serendipity of finding unconnected books are hard to emulate in the virtual world. " I am not so sure about this. I always felt internet made this exp…

This interview with Assange that democracynow did sheds some light on this 'trade' agreement: http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/27/julian_assange_on_the_... The whole interview is…