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How does Chinese tech stack up against American tech?(economist.com)
70 points by YouAreGreat 9y ago|59 comments
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Optimally Engaged Experience(rsbakker.wordpress.com)
2 points by YouAreGreat 9y ago|0 comments
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
> Lots of people seem to be incapable of thinking in term of distributions, which makes it really hard to have any discussion. Most people seem very capable of thinking statistically, but they don't communicate in distributions.
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Scientists create first human-sheep hybrids(dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by YouAreGreat 9y ago|0 comments
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
> I’m sure it depends on your circle Agreed, social bubbles are a thing. That's why I think it's credible that the Guardian author comes across a lot of vocal vegan evangelism and might honestly come to think of it as the &qu
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
At the time I wrote this, there were 23 comments here. The majority was from self-declared vegetarians/vegans. That means that either that's the prevailing food paradigm among HN readers, or they're more vocal about it than n
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
> magical quality Taste, cravings, satiety etc. are based on evolved heuristics. Heavily processed food can fool those heuristics (and is engineered to do just that), while whole foods can't. The "magic" therefore is that
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
> Where does the author live that they think the “prevailing food paradigm” is vegan? It's easy to think so. Try this very comment thread. Try talking about meat eating at your next big-city cocktail party. Yes, vegetarian/vega
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Facebook Turned Its Two-Factor Security 'Feature' into the Worst Kind of Spam(gizmodo.com)
3 points by YouAreGreat 9y ago|0 comments
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
Google still manages to get far too many non-sociopathic employees, by feeding them a supernormal[1] morality surrogate ("googley values") industrially designed to draw moral attention away from Google. Many employees actually sta
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
The head-first strategy may allow for higher speed before the transition. From the journal article: > Head-first impact is the primary (approx. 80%) transition strategy and often occurs at higher wall-approach speeds
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
> first documented in 1900 We should have put in 15 minutes of undisturbed rest after reading this in 1900. We didn't, and promptly forgot how not to forget.
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Jordan Peterson's book is a bestseller – except where it matters most(thestar.com)
64 points by YouAreGreat 9y ago|26 comments
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
Western governments have been pushing for internet connection speeds far in excess of what's needed for text for exactly this reason . The competitive advantage from large capital resources is far greater with video than with text. As
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
Quality of HN commentary is down and the flagging epidemic is part of it. The problem is sinking and killing discussions that already got going. A minority of selfish users gets to demolish collaborative work that other users already inv
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
Is flagging on HN distinguishable from overpowered downvote?
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Lawsuit Exposes Internet Giant’s Internal Culture of Intolerance(quillette.com)
38 points by YouAreGreat 9y ago|17 comments
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
> Will AI make the Luddites (mostly) right? "Yes" will be our Last Answer. > What might the last fully biological human's statement be at their last supper? "The Luddites were (mostly) right" > Will we pass
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Cloudflare Is Liable for Pirate Sites and Has No Safe Harbor, Publisher Says(torrentfreak.com)
2 points by YouAreGreat 9y ago|0 comments
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On the Infestation of Small-Souled Bugmen(medium.com)
1 points by YouAreGreat 9y ago|0 comments
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
The evolutionary psychology of primitive war very likely includes these "reproductive opportunities". Going to war without benefit to the genes driving the impulse? We'd probably have stopped doing it a long time ago. We&#x
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
Not even in the same league. Soros is a smart psychopath with far too much money. Google and others are existential systemic threats to humankind.
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
Don't filter the vector, just the payload.
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
> humans have made the world far more stable than before You must be kidding. Humans have changed their environment almost beyond recognition. We may already have broken ourselves, look at birth rates in the most industrialized countries
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
Likely, the rich will set up charities that sponsor gene mods for the poor. (Only a cynic would call it beta testing.)
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
Talking about India could be The Economist's attempt to warn about the dangers of a continued merciless pummeling of the western middle class without having to come out and say, "gee, maybe Trump has a point..."
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
Quoting some Dawkins on what "a gene for X" means: When a geneticist speaks of a gene "for" red eyes in Drosophilia , [...] he is implicitly saying: there is variation in eye colour in the population; other things being
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
This needs a collective defense, i.e. state action: An advertising tax to take the profit out of most of it.
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
"Because science!!!" surely ranks among the least scientifically pleasing modes of argumentation. Nothing bad can come from a ban on stating "because science!!" as a reason for anything, because the natural substitute —
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by YouAreGreat 9y ago
Getting blacklisted will cost what, 50% of remaining lifetime earnings? That's a lot, given the country promised free speech on the tin.

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