StopTheWorld

7 ms·

31.
by StopTheWorld 3y ago
I guess that means the brain does not have cortical minicolumns.
32.
by StopTheWorld 3y ago
> Still, it's obvious a lot of people are unhappy with the changes; but it's hard to judge how many people are quietly happy with them. I follow a number of accounts on Twitter. If someone tweets, previously it seemed the repl
33.
by StopTheWorld 3y ago
They did in the human brain.
34.
by StopTheWorld 4y ago
> You certainly miss out on a lot of poetry and historical citations if you skip out on the KJV, and there's very few actual problems with it. Looking at the KJV's book of Revelation, it contains all the errors that Erasmus&#x2
35.
by StopTheWorld 4y ago
> This is seen as proof of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, that words determine the concepts you can use: Pirahã can’t instantly compare collections of objects to see which is bigger (e.g. a pile of four batteries next to a pile of five) whi
36.
by StopTheWorld 4y ago
In January 2021 the market seemed overheated so I mostly cashed out, and sold a lot of my 401K stock, putting it into safer assets. From May to September as tech indexes got cheaper I began buying them up in my rollover IRA. Two and a half
37.
by StopTheWorld 4y ago
What is your first thought when you look at Hermann Rorschach's inkblots?
38.
by StopTheWorld 4y ago
> The scientific evidence is to the contrary however The scientific evidence? Scientists have no idea why a nematode with 302 neurons moves to the left or the right, how can a scientist determine that I don't remember what I rememb
39.
by StopTheWorld 4y ago
Another thing is how can we date when a memory is? I have a collection of memories from when I was 22 months old, but I can date those in retrospect. I also have various memories of being fairly young, but have no idea if they were before
40.
by StopTheWorld 5y ago
Pixies Nirvana
41.
by StopTheWorld 5y ago
I am not a hospice worker, but I have heard more than one old person say #2 and #4 - that they were busy working and did not get to see their kids growing up as much as they wanted, and they wish they had not lost touch with old, good frien
42.
by StopTheWorld 5y ago
> Why do some “gym rats” build their muscles well past the point of being a way to attract potential mates? > Why are some people willing to free solo climb icy mountains despite the danger? > Why are some people willing to have fe
43.
by StopTheWorld 5y ago
In some localities and for some time periods, you are more likely to be a victim of homicide as a taxi driver than as a police officer or security guard (in other localities and time periods, policing is usually more deadly). In terms of n
44.
by StopTheWorld 5y ago
> Go windsurfing for a year in Ibiza after college, and you're adding 5 years to your working life There's only one decade that you're going to be in your 20s dating other 20 year olds and going around with friends who are
45.
by StopTheWorld 5y ago
> If I recall correctly, the 8 hour day, 40 hour week, and five day work-week are all 19th century trends If it is, hunter gatherers often worked even less, as Marshall Sahlins noted in "The Original Affluent Society" and other
46.
by StopTheWorld 5y ago
A poor vegan diet can affect your health just as a poor non-vegan diet can affect your health. Three years ago the CDC said over 42% of Americans are overweight - most of them are not vegans, and this is often due to a poor diet. The artic
47.
by StopTheWorld 5y ago
In Engels's Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State, he traces shifts in culture and family to shifts in the forces of production, and makes a pretty convincing argument. Some have followed on this work. The modern vers
48.
by StopTheWorld 6y ago
> Where are the hackers hanging out these days? The Admiral's Club at SFO
49.
by StopTheWorld 8y ago
Apparently Jobs was not ruthless enough - in 1985 he found himself exiled from his own company, by his hand-picked CEO.
50.
by StopTheWorld 8y ago
This reminds me of comments made by Apple's first head of engineering, who was also one of its self-described founders, Rod Holt. He was a communist activist who helped Woz build the first Apple II, and then went on to run engineering