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New comment by appearsonline in "Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to Know"

appearsonline — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 21:17:04 +0000

Depending on how representative your family is of the overall population, that could mean that the doomsday scenario for most people is already here.

New comment by appearsonline in "Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to Know"

appearsonline — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 19:05:16 +0000

If I may ask, what was your internal doomsday countdown before reading the article?

New comment by appearsonline in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

appearsonline — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 20:10:32 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by appearsonline in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

appearsonline — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:20:35 +0000

Come on dekhn, we want to know

New comment by appearsonline in "Unskilled and Unaware of It (1999) [pdf]"

appearsonline — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:45:51 +0000

>Does this mean I'm incompetent?

>It's possible; I can't ignore the possibility.

Yes you can ignore it, just focus on things that actually matter. While other question their competence, you can actually get stuff done.

New comment by appearsonline in "A History of the Silmarils in the Fifth Age"

appearsonline — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 13:55:59 +0000

>I would guess that Maglor survived, found his Silmaril, lost his Silmaril again, and that Pulp Fiction is an account of him getting it back.

And now I want to rewatch and reread everything again!

New comment by appearsonline in "When should behaviour outside a community have consequences inside it?"

appearsonline — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:45:07 +0000

I find it funny how you go from

>This whole question really stems from a sad and pervasive tendency for 'intelligent' people to overestimate their general expertise

>Within a community, individuals should only be judged based on their contributions and value within that community.

and then justify that with

>Everyone is not expected to be right, or agreeable, about everything, with everyone else. Aiming for this is pointless.

I'm not sure you agree with yourself.

New comment by appearsonline in "Better living through subliminal messages"

appearsonline — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:26:45 +0000

I'm sure this is too raw, to actually works.

Airbnb: Building a Visual Language, Behind the scenes of our new design system

appearsonline — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 18:43:29 +0000

Article URL: http://airbnb.design/building-a-visual-language

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15359724

Points: 2

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New comment by appearsonline in "Study: A universal basic income would grow the economy"

appearsonline — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:50:50 +0000

One wonders which humans you surround yourself with to consider that "basic human behavior".

New comment by appearsonline in "Study: A universal basic income would grow the economy"

appearsonline — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:37:08 +0000

But it is detach from location. People can move if land becomes to expensive, unlike now, where land is tied to jobs.

New comment by appearsonline in "“Learning How to Learn,” the most popular course on Coursera"

appearsonline — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:46:51 +0000

I would appreciate the notes. :)

New comment by appearsonline in "The Attention Economy and the Net (1997)"

appearsonline — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 21:03:59 +0000

The British (by coming later) learned from the mistakes of the Spanish (who came first).

New comment by appearsonline in "Malware Encoded in DNA Can Hack Gene-Sequencing Software"

appearsonline — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:53:51 +0000

Change Agent by Daniel Suarez is somewhat close:

In 2045 Interpol's Genetic Crime Division grapples with a new type of crime: illicit genetic editing -- and it isn't long before the fight gets personal.