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by FD3SA 13y ago
A kindred spirit. I wonder, how many on HN share this sentiment? Man's greatest problem is man itself, particularly our primate instincts to which most are obliviously enthralled. Understanding ourselves from a scientific perspective i
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I am a huge fan of extroverted scientists such as Galileo and Feynman. But assuming all great thinkers are extroverted is doing scientific progress a disservice [1][2]. YC bases its model on picking winners who are excellent self-promoters.
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Your definition of family has become so vague as to be meaningless. In genetics, adoptive parents are not considered family. I recommend you look into the evolutionary foundations of human mating systems, and their consequences (e.g. kin se
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As is becoming abundantly clear, the world is run by politicians with little to no understanding or respect for science. These people, like most, believe in the "genius" theory, where an Einstein just magically appears and make a
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You are speaking of time variance. At some point in time, by definition, the nuclear family was present. It takes a male and a female to produce an embryo. At this point, the nuclear family is created. What happens afterwards is of course a
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A nitpick that has caused much confusion in the comments below: The nuclear family is the most basic form of family, and is certainly not opposed to an extended family. An extended family is a superset of a nuclear family. All families by d
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Precisely. Simulation and piloting games will be the prime target for VR, which are coincidentally my favorite genres. I can't wait to try flight sims (e.g. DCS Warthog) and piloting games (e.g. Star Citizen). It will be a whole new ex
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It's astounding that we have come so far that this needs to be defended. Throughout history, civilizations which held the nuclear family as their most important asset have absolutely dominated the world. This is due to simple evolution
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Sadly, sim software has been getting less and less user friendly as it becomes more of a niche product. Flight sims used to be a major gaming category in the early years of computers, but now with the gaming market having become so ruthless
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Precisely. Now the real question is, why isn't everyone outraged over this practice? Why is none of this taught in junior high school? Why are we told that personal debt is a fact of life, and makes the world go around? The answer lies
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This post fails to explain the value of Whatsapp to facebook at a very basic level. If everything about privacy in this post is correct, what exactly is facebook getting out of this deal? They paid 19B for Whatsapp, and are not going to col
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I heartily believe there's a market for both. Compare a Macbook Pro with a custom built Linux desktop. The MBP is very user friendly, plug n play, and has very little customization capacity. The custom Linux desktop is an absolute tink
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I believe this is the post you are referring to [1]. In it, Aaron describes his reaction to reading Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky. I second your sentiment completely, and knowledge is indeed the path to freedom. The journey itself how
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> Imagine a society in which the state doesn't feel the urge to "structure society" at all... Sounds great! So, who is going to build the roads, schools, hospitals, water sanitation, power plants, transportation, and ensur
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There are many local maximums between pure socialism and pure capitalism. Capitalism, in its purest form, is winner take all no holds barred competition. Ruthless, dirty and vicious. Pure socialism is stagnation, with no rewards for additi
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Also, profit sharing a la investment banks and hedge funds.
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A fellow kindred spirit. That is also the point that jumped out at me and made me wonder what in the hell society has devolved into. The disciples of Rand spend their money on the strangest things.
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I think you need to read a bit of michaelochurch, and learn to stop desiring to be a cog in the machine. A "job" is a contract wherein you show up and are told what to do, in order to make the owners rich in exchange for a subsist
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May the force be with those who chose another path of understanding than science. Their lives must be ecstatically thrilling as nothing is certain, constant or knowable. I truly admire the masochism of these brave souls, as they battle seen
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Technology, in the form of capital, will win over labor as the primary factor of production in the near future [1]. There is no shortage of STEM labor [2], only a shortage of extremely skilled knowledge workers willing to work at bargain ba
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Representative democracy never worked. The reason is that politicians are not held accountable to their constituents once in office. They run on a statistically validated marketing platform designed to win a strategic number of votes in eac
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I wonder what this means for those of us who are casual weightlifters. Our protein intake is much higher than 0.7g per kg, and in fact most come in around double that value. The benefits of being at one's peak strength are innumerable,
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The noise factor can be remedied with clever tweaking of the Cas9 protein, as mentioned in the article. This research is currently underway. The key is, optimizing the Cas9 protein is much easier than optimizing an infinite number of design
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Absolutely correct. The beauty of capitalism is that it is a blind mouse running through a maze. We won't know what the impacts of a decline in research funding will be, but there's only one way to find out! Will it be another Dar
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Of course there will be extremely talented yet naive students lining up for graduate schools. They are mostly unaware of the soul crushing reality of working in perpetual poverty in hopes of landing a tenured research position that doesn&#x
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I don't think crowdfunding will work for science. Science is the turtle in the race. Long, slow and steady is how every single breakthrough has occurred, because it requires setting foundations that take decades. Crowdfunding is the mo
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Science funding has devolved back to Feudal times, where an aspiring scientist must gain the favour of wealthy barons to support his research. Because of course by capitalist reasoning, science as a pursuit has no immediate returns on inve
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Though the author has good intentions, I fear he has very little understanding of the reality for today's young graduates. Let's look at a smart young grad's options: 1) Academia - Potentially interesting work. However, grad
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I don't think Tesla has anything to gain from Apple. The last thing Elon wants is useless execs butting heads with him on critical design decisions. Tesla is a product company, and any interference with the product will kill them insta
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The Star Trek Economy(medium.com)
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