JoshMnem

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by JoshMnem 9y ago
"Intelligence" is poorly defined in most conversations. The nature of the word and concepts around it lead to problems, even for people who can score high on IQ tests. It will take me a long time to write out my thoughts completel
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Are you sure about what data those companies have? Example: it seems like you can't sign in to Starbucks wifi any more (via Google) without giving a real email address that is verified through Experian's API. There is surely more
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I'm not saying that the tests are useless, just that they should be renamed, and culture should look at them a little differently.
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When it comes to permissions and electronic privacy, consumers don't understand how things work, so they aren't really giving consent. And many aspects of the modern Internet are designed to trick them.
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Have you seen projects like Git Cola or tig? I aliased `gl` (formerly `git log`) to `tig`. https://git-cola.github.io/ https://github.com/jonas/tig
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It seems like a goal of IQ is to assign a single, unchanging score to someone's cognitive ability, but it is a severely flawed concept. The test should not be called "intelligence quotient" but something like "cognitive
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I do 2-5 day water fasts, and it has very clear health benefits. There urgently needs to be more research into it, especially for autoimmune diseases (like the ones you mentioned), but I don't think it will cure those diseases by itsel
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A "more holistic approach" doesn't necessarily mean "naturopathic medicine" or not seeking proper medical care.
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It looks like a smoked food company hired a researcher to investigate the health effects of smoked food. Surprise -- smoked food is tastier and less harmful than you thought! Unfortunately, the actual research can't be examined during
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You're reading too much into what I'm saying. I didn't promise mountains with "diets". I said that "Researchers should be paying more attention to those areas." I'm definitely not saying that the answ
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I'm a skeptic, but knee-jerk skepticism is sometimes as bad as woo. I'm guessing that the downvoters have no experience with these kinds of conditions or what it's like to deal with the medical system around autoimmune cond
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Do you know where to find more information on that? (If you would be willing to answer a few questions about it, my email address is on my profile.)
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I don't know about "curing" but it can be surprisingly effective for systemic inflammation. I think it's one of the most promising areas for autoimmune research. https://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-tr
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I don't know why people are downvoting you. Things like microbiome, calorie restriction, diet, and water fasting are very promising "non-traditional" areas for dealing with systemic inflammation, and they definitely can work.
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I went with ThinkPad T460 with Ubuntu 16.04 and it has been great. I had looked at Macbooks, but the ThinkPad was about $1,000 cheaper, has much more RAM (24 Gb), more battery life (11+ hours using Linux), has a matte screen (lower glare),
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> "Humans uniquely appreciate aesthetics, experiencing pleasurable responses to complex stimuli that confer no clear intrinsic value for survival." It seems to me like music has a clear value for survival. Music is a type of cu
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> I readily believe that any diet soda sweetened purely with aspartame is harmless. The chemical structure of aspartame is such that stomach acids should break it down into aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol, the first two being
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It wouldn't be difficult to build a downloadable tool that kept your data on your own machine. RSS/Atom feeds + machine learning based on your own votes. You could integrate things like your email inbox and chats if you wanted to
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> regardless of your stance on the site you cant deny it does a lot of good for a lot of people I think it's reasonable to deny that Facebook does net good in the world. Facebook doesn't do any better than open-technology alter
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A fake address meaning one that you don't own, or a fake address meaning one that doesn't exist at all? You might have entered someone else's real email account that exists in Experian's databases, which could be another
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There are other privacy problems with wireless hotspots too. A new example: you can't log in to Starbucks' wifi (via Google) without verifying a real email address through Experian's API. (Open the browser console and watch t
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Apple isn't open. Their stuff has tended to not work on Linux.
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Real names policies don't result in friendlier communities. In places where I've seen people use both pseudonyms and real names, they are sometimes much worse behaved where they are using real names. Facebook groups are full of pe
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Also this: https://www.wired.com/2015/11/facebook-banning-tsu-rival-soc...
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I think it's a bad idea to self-experiment with electricity and the brain. See "Popular electric brain stimulation method used to boost brainpower is detrimental to IQ scores" https://www.sciencedaily.com/rele
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middle-click or ctrl-click: open link in new tab shift-click: open link in new window Overriding the default browser behavior has no benefits.
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This is a problem with a lot of sites that use too much JavaScript. The new user profiles are unusable.
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I think Firefox for Android will remember the "request desktop site" preference, but it has been a while since I've used that feature.
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> Fast page loads means a better UX on the web. Not necessarily. AMP has terrible usability. For people who block 3rd party JS from loading, AMP pages take 8 seconds to load. AMP will hurt publishers in the long run: - giant back button
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There are employees there who probably buy the idea that it's motivated by speed, but the project wasn't created primarily for speed, just like Chrome wasn't primarily motivated by the need to make a better browser. (Both are

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