Fr0ntBack

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by Fr0ntBack 10y ago
Progress - Jonah Norberg About why the world is really getting better. https://oneworld-publications.com/progress-hb.html
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by Fr0ntBack 10y ago
My amateur psychologist take is that start up 'nerds' like the alcohol heavy culture because they were probably excluded from drinking with popular peers at school, and this is their chance to show they really are 'cool'
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by Fr0ntBack 10y ago
This may just be an effect of unhealthier diet in lower social classes, who are more likely to be less educated.
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by Fr0ntBack 10y ago
Unfortunately America seems to believe in the 'Myth of the Strong Leader', and it has led them to elect the worst president in recent memory.
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by Fr0ntBack 10y ago
From what I've read, start up workers seem to socialise exclusively with one another.
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by Fr0ntBack 10y ago
Hmmm... I think this article is politically motivated and misrepresents the evidence in a number of ways. IQ is a real, accurate measure of ability- it isn't a propaganda tool designed to legitimate inequality. IQ isn't a perfect
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by Fr0ntBack 10y ago
One possible solution to this problem is to use a crowdworking platform like Mechanical Turk to delete low quality comments. This is a lot cheaper than employing dedicated moderation teams, but there is a trade-off in that more low quality
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by Fr0ntBack 10y ago
I think if you're getting mostly garbage comments, it should give you pause for thought. Yes, the format of the internet doesn't encourage thoughtful, polite comments. But equally there might be a problem with what you're wri
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by Fr0ntBack 10y ago
For all of you reading whose political knowledge is a little rusty, here is a quiz for you: https://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/how-well-do-you-know-b... Unfortunately there is no reward for correct answers!
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by Fr0ntBack 10y ago
I tend to be skeptical of claims that bilingualism improves any mental skill. The studies often fail to control for confounding variables correctly. See this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016
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by Fr0ntBack 10y ago
Interesting finding. One of the problems with voting is that there is no incentive or a very small incentive to choose the candidate with the best policies, because the chance of your vote making a difference is so small. Therefore people v
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by Fr0ntBack 10y ago
I must admit I hadn't thought of Las Vegas as a champion of sustainability, but maybe I should revise my views.
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by Fr0ntBack 10y ago
Like most attempts to revolutionise the web I don't think that this project will succeed, but I hope to be proved wrong.
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by Fr0ntBack 10y ago
I think it will be an uphill struggle to try and persuade people that they should buy less stuff today rather than more.
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by Fr0ntBack 10y ago
Pain is probably the same in humans, animals, and even robots, that is to say a bad thing that should be minimised. So I would be very wary of programming AI to feel pain. See this tweet: https://twitter.com/webmasterdave&#x
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by Fr0ntBack 10y ago
If we implemented a carbon tax which makes oil producers pay for the environmental cost of oil, oil demand would probably peak even sooner.
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by Fr0ntBack 10y ago
I'd be interested to hear how this very website's basic income trial is going: www.qz.com/696377/y-combinator-is-running-a-basic-income-experiment-with-100-oakland-families/