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Antifragile.


Is it possible to tell the difference between a human being and a Markov chain word generator? In some cases, no.



In five years, people will be able to watch amazon content on large screens whenever they wish and manybe amazon will air new episodes on a large screen after you verify that you are a prime subscriber or something. I see poeple living in thessse theatres.

Brilliant.


>You can't develop myopia or hyperopia after your eyes/skull/orbital muscles are done growing. Do you have a source for that?

Would the inverse also be true?


I don't know about a source—a medical textbook? Those conditions are explicitly caused by the eye being squished out of the "proper" shape for focusing light by the way the skull and extraocular muscles end up developing.

I suppose you could develop myopia later in life as a result of inflammation of the extraocular muscles (orbital myositis), but this would be 1. temporary, and 2. not treated as its own disease, but rather as a symptom.


Would using a kindle at night have the same effect? It's light is kind of yellowish (I think)


Probably less so because it's reflected off the e-ink screen surface and probably diffused a bit that way.


Right. Also the illumination is at the bottom of the screen and hence indirect, whihc might reduce it further.


My first gen Paperwhite is most definitely blue, it's obvious at low brightness. Don't know about later models.


This doesn't look good........

>Organize Your Companies Knowledge

Company's

Can I be your grammar Czar?


Thanks for the heads up, haven't really completed this website (you may see broken links too). Our prior site was https://projectpiglet.com - which was our POC. Related to introspection, we realized we had a better target market and are shifting.

Thanks for the input.


Also a search such as 'asdf' or '-50a' seems to crash it, e.g. https://hnprofile.com/author_profiles?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=...


Thanks for taking the time to respond, that was my bad.

I wasn't ready for releasing it, and was breaking some stuff last night. Thanks for pointing it out :)


Seems like it is a copy/paste from the author's book.

https://books.google.com/books?id=aX5fDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT164&lpg=...


XFCE4 is all you need


My brainwaves are my own, no thanks, microsoft.


Next up, advertising based on your thoughts...


It would be nice to get some tangible benefits from the mind scanning satellites we're already paying for.



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