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Do you actually play on Kongregate? I check it on occasion and have noticed that it hasn't really changed over the last five years. 90% of the games I see at a glance aren't any different.

Apparently it was only Chrome-users who cared enough to do something about their problem.

How big is Flash gaming these days? I feel like it's mostly dead at this point.

I'd really like to be able to collapse sections from the bottom of a section, rather than scrolling upwards frantically trying to find the header so I can re-collapse it.

It's worth learning. It's one thing to not like it; it's quite another to be simply unable.

Learn to float. Then learn to use your limbs to move around without a ground to push against.

So, as a Seattle resident myself, I have a bit of an odder definition of "downtown" that the OA might be sharing. To me, downtown stretches from Belltown to Chinatown: the Space Needle marks one edge whereas Uwajimaya might mark another. On the eastern side, the WSCC might mark the boundary, making First Hill somewhat of a gray area.

That's a much, much larger area than the central/financial/business district and it might be what the author actually means: especially with how Belltown has changed.

> described in the book On Intelligence

Said book spends a good deal of time on criticizing neural networks, FYI.

There are a lot more than two ideologies in those terms.

It's not really talking down on something to say it shouldn't be placed on a pedestal.

Not sure whether or not I'm allowed to plug stuff that I have no connection to, but you may be interested in this Kickstarter I stumbled across recently:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/546469190/the-urban-dea...

I searched "dune star wars plot similarities" and got back plenty of hits, and the articles look pretty long-winded at a glance. You can probably find something convincing in those results.

As long as people who trust the system also trust untrustworthy others using the system, that perk is not going to be particularly relevant.

> Of course one might worry for those one leaves behind - but in most cases, this does the living a disservice, as to think one essential in the life of another is egoistic at best, and controlling and damaging at worst.

You are in a firefight. There are two sides to it, and you are on one of them. Your side comprises multiple people. You are shot in the head. The probability that the others on your side will also be shot has just increased.

Recognizing this is neither egoistic, controlling, or damaging.

It is not difficult to abstract this scenario to the entire world. What you do, and what is done to you, has consequences. These consequences do not evaporate upon your death, unless you are very purely solipsistic. You can choose to not care about these consequences, of course, but such apathy can fairly easily be framed as egoistic, controlling, or damaging.

A very misleading title, yeah. This is what I clicked through hoping to read about, not a brief and vague summarization of the author's encounter with Bhutanese Buddhism.

There's a great mental model called the Circle of Concern and the Circle of Influence. Happiness, according to this model, is about making the former circle only slightly smaller than the latter.

For some people, "focusing their thinking" means acknowledging their powerlessness and becoming unbothered by it, narrowing their scope to the things they can actually do something about. For them, politics was never useful, because they never believed they had any influence.

For others, such focus means pushing out their influence to encompass more things, so that their concerns are something they can do something about. For these people, politics is inevitable and necessary, because influence will naturally touch more and more lives and consequently, more and more politics.

This is all I know: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9387929

My read on the deletion is that they didn't want bad press going into the next attempted landing, which is going to be on land.

I'm too lazy to go turn on showdead for GP, but...

> I don't know pixie_ but non-native English speakers hear "could of" and "would of" when we use the contractions "could've" and "would've".

You actually hear "could ov" and "would ov", but since the latter aren't actually words, there's an automatic shunt to the nearest known word. Sometimes this occurs in the speaker; sometimes this occurs in the listener. It occurs in the speaker because of loopback: you say "could ov"; you hear "could of"; you say "could of".

It's American English. For Americans, the word we just stole means whatever the fuck we want.

What specific barriers were removed in France that should have been kept in place?

> Because that's what happening in several countries now

Please list these countries.

I didn't say that was what you were saying.

I said that was the message you were sending.

I might be reading you incorrectly, but what you appear to be saying is that the ability to "find and organize information" doesn't give you the "necessary reading abilities to handle topics beyond high school". Can you substantiate this claim at all? Are any of your students significantly capable of "skill-based learning" and yet require your particular instruction?

And can you experimentally control for this outside of your own particular students? In other words, can you say that there's no correlation between their ability and your teaching skill?

> It is great if it works, but I think colorblindness isn't a first category Medical issue to be solved now.

That's not how innovation works. It's not a tech tree in which you choose what advance you discover next. You reflect on what you already know, intuit hypotheses from this, and then test those hypotheses to figure out how false they are.

Research isn't about solutions. It's about understanding.

> Personally I think saying most web apps are a waste is like saying the space program is a waste.

While I think you have a point, I think this line is taking it a step too far.

If a successful space program completely failed to actually produce any side effect innovation, at the end of the day, we still go to space.

If a successful web app fails to produce side effects, you have a web app. Depending on the app, this might be a good thing, but it's hard to reliably say that a web app is comparable to going to space.

In my mind, the advantage of having so many smart people working on trivial applications is that the risk of failure is low. If they were developing these technologies in the medical world, the risk of failure is debilitation and death. Comparatively, a giant privacy intrusion or not being able to play League of Legends for a day is something I can, literally, live with.

In this case, the message you're sending is, "A human being is only as valuable as their ability to contribute."

Now guess how much you contribute to the NSA's ability to prevent terrorism. (Hint: if you're unwilling, they'll extract the value from you anyways.)

The reason, if anyone is wondering, is because of their base meanings:

  eleven -> one left
  twelve -> two left
  thirteen -> three and ten
  fourteen -> four and ten

According to the OED, the only non-Germanic language that uses "one left" is Lithuanian, which uses it from 11 to 19.

> but I'm running into adults who have trouble reading.

Yes, but unless you're in Finland, what this suggests is that you should move to Finland's model, not away from it. Finland has a 100% literacy rate.

> The ability to sit down and focus on a topic for hours is a skill that should not be forgotten.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with Finland's initiatives.

Yes.

> Not sure if OP is the author

The OP is eduardordm, which can be found right underneath the article link. If you look on his HN profile, his GitHub name is also eduardordm.

The repo author is gogotanaka.

So, no. He's not. And the repo author is consequently unlikely to ever see your comments.

Not only are these simple checks to make, but it's extremely bad practice to scatter commentary about a project everywhere across the internet; people who only know about this project through GitHub would not see your comments either.