Practicality

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by Practicality 10y ago
No, I get a different one nearly every time too. I figured it was part of learning: I adapt my personality as I learn. Of course, my theory is that personality tests just tell you what you think of yourself, and I change my opinion about th
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by Practicality 10y ago
I always considered the problem with personality tests is that it tells you what the person thinks about themselves , which is always going to be an inaccurate picture, since everyone has a lot of blind spots about themselves. As a citatio
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by Practicality 10y ago
I can see AI parent being a new career.
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by Practicality 10y ago
Ironically I don't think I ever experienced ASMR from those videos, but this one is doing it.
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by Practicality 10y ago
This sounds like standard psychopath behavior: https://www.gitbook.com/book/hintjens/psychopathcode/details https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
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by Practicality 10y ago
Furthering the cause of the existence of the human species, of course. What other goals are worth pursuing?
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by Practicality 10y ago
This is pretty much what our sex cells are. It's part of why newborns are so healthy, genetically. And they only use two cells.
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by Practicality 10y ago
Bias is a big problem, but why not call out the problem directly instead of confusing the issue with a tangential, philosophical discussion about whether or not objectivity exists?
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by Practicality 10y ago
This is pretty interesting. Society and science don't always get along so it's certainly valuable to study the subjective relationship. I think most of us who would disagree with you do so from the assumption that there exists an
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by Practicality 10y ago
Ok. So this is semantics and in this science there is a different meaning for the word "fact." What is the utility of redefining a fact as a human construct of accepted information, rather than as data points corresponding to comp
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by Practicality 10y ago
The equating of objective facts with "male-dominant views" is just bizarre. I mean, seriously, they are saying that in the feminist view is that there is no objective reality? I suppose they are saying that feminists... don't
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by Practicality 10y ago
While I am not a big fan of contemporary feminism, I am pretty sure taking issue with masculinity or "gendered" text is not the same thing as taking issue with objectivity. Edit: Found this quote in your source "Poststructura
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by Practicality 10y ago
Odds. As you get older your chance of getting cancer increases substantially.[1] Getting older doesn't increase your changes of getting in a car accident. 1: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention&#x
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by Practicality 10y ago
Making sure everyone has access to life-extension is how you make sure you aren't a target for assassination. If you try to keep it for yourself you can bet the population-at-large will be gunning for you (literally).
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by Practicality 10y ago
It entirely depends on whether or not the person lives selfishly for those 500 years. If they continue gaining and using experience they could be exceedingly productive. If they sit around doing nothing but eating and playing video games, t
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by Practicality 10y ago
Yeah, that works too. Not playing is better for global thermonuclear war.
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by Practicality 10y ago
Yeah, I am not having any trouble with it outside of SV. Employers see 17 years of experience and trip over themselves to hire me (and my peers, some of whom are older). The just-out-of-college kids can build you a website, sure, but they d
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by Practicality 10y ago
Where were they that his talk was so unimportant that they cut him off? :O
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by Practicality 10y ago
ENTP makes a better developer anyway. :D (In case anybody doesn't get the joke, ENTP is the "debater" type, so I am picking a fight about personality type, since that is what the ENTP is supposed to do, so self-referential hu
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D-Wave will ship a 2,000-qubit quantum computer next year(pcworld.com)
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by Practicality 10y ago
Agreed. It could be as simple as improving how negative results are reported. Mythbusters was all about disproving theories and the general public loves it. (Yes, most disproved hypotheses don't involve explosions, but you can still ma
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by Practicality 10y ago
You should check out the research cited on Vitamin D in the first link: "vitamin D supplementation decreases all-cause mortality in adults and older people" While it certainly is possible to "get vitamin D" by going ou
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by Practicality 10y ago
Sounds like we need three, à la Minority Report.
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by Practicality 10y ago
"If you know someone who has better data, I'm sure everyone would like to read it." He links to a site all over the place with mountains of data http://examine.com/ Also, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go
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by Practicality 10y ago
I am a little ambivalent about that. How about coffee, vitamin d, calcium and tyrosine? All of them have proven benefits, nothing fringe: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-o... That combined wi
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by Practicality 10y ago
Excellent analysis. It makes me optimistic that we as a society are going to be able to work this out. We might not of course, but it's possible.
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by Practicality 10y ago
It's possible. That would still fit the general premise that people can "rewire" their own brains through use. One of the leading theories of Synesthesia is that different areas of the brain are not separated: https:/&#
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by Practicality 10y ago
Except that the article says sighted people do not have an increase in that area when doing algebra. I tend to agree with the premise of the article, which is brain areas can be reapportioned for different tasks.
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by Practicality 10y ago
What does check involve? Does this mean you test your solution, or that you put in place some kind of "check" that ensures the solution keeps working?
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by Practicality 10y ago
I did a lot of programming before the internet was widely available. It was easier to keep working but much harder to get things done. When you have to use dusty manuals to research anything and everything you spend a lot of time looking

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