cryoshon

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by cryoshon 8y ago
the point is that it's a stigma because they have made it into one because it benefits them. to the employee, it's an artificial social barrier to getting their economic worth by hopping jobs.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
the placebo effect is both larger and smaller than people intuitively assume. it's larger in the sense that part of it is essentially impossible to control for; people in a clinical trial are predisposed to, at a minimum, think about t
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by cryoshon 8y ago
as a "sapiosexual" under this definition, i find it very hard to believe anyone of that orientation would turn to tinder to look for kindred spirits.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
interesting presentation! i think it's interesting how they dismiss cryonics out of hand as not viable nor yielding any useful insights -- says a lot about that field's lack of scientific basis.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
hey, just because you wouldn't want to spend time around them doesn't mean that society doesn't need them. i think your description is correct, but still. there's a lot to be said for the virtues of being eminently stabl
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by cryoshon 8y ago
this is a very interesting phenomena to me -- the truth being too ridiculous to believe even if it confirms our biases and supports our worldview. do you have any examples?
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by cryoshon 8y ago
>I don't care much for Facebook's methods and I think they are a net negative on the world >I still really look up to Mark Zuckerberg as a leader. these statements are incompatible. who do you think dictates the methods? who
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by cryoshon 8y ago
>I'm a bit perturbed that people on this board aren't more concerned about the many bad ways that this can be used for they don't expect to be the ones facing oppression.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
then why work on it when it's bound for abuse either way?
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by cryoshon 8y ago
how will you feel when they start arresting serial jaywalkers?
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by cryoshon 8y ago
>my default belief is that these technologies are over hyped and cannot provide the scale of performance or detail of prediction that could make them effective as oppressive surveillance tools, at least not for a long time. you've n
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by cryoshon 8y ago
very interesting, thank you for taking the time to respond to me.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
as someone with a background in the biotech industry and also as someone who has written a lot about theranos' systemic problems, i'm inclined to say the problems with corporate culture go way farther than this article suggests. t
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by cryoshon 8y ago
as an aside, how do you think governmental leadership relates to the informal nature of many of africa's economies? i ask because one of the issues that india's legislators have is to create policies which can intelligently regula
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by cryoshon 8y ago
yeah, i read a book on what you're talking about. it's real. the book is called phishing for phools: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10534.html especially on products we're not knowledgeable about, we
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by cryoshon 8y ago
i'd say culture is responsible for some of it, but there's probably a biological cause for the rest. the chemical environment people grow up in today is different from the one 10 years ago, or 30 years ago, etc. we may very be imp
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by cryoshon 8y ago
these numbers are skyrocketing; within 10 years (should the trend reach its logical conclusion, which i doubt that it will), there will be zero japanese interested in sex.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
yeah, but we'd need to make it first. like i said, i'd do it myself if i didn't have to maintain my moneymaking elsewhere.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
show up to a protest. bring your family and friends. encourage everyone to boycott american companies.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
pay me the cost of a data set plus 6k for a month's labor and i'll do it. still need an outlet for the story though
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by cryoshon 8y ago
okay, so, to cut to the chase here: how do we disrupt or destroy the companies doing this? it isn't acceptable that they are taking advantage of us in this way. we can't expect any political solution to the problem, which leaves u
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by cryoshon 8y ago
no? that isn't the way biology works whatsoever. here is an example. think of glyphosate as a key. the key is designed to unlock a certain type of lock with a certain arrangement of pins. when the key unlocks the lock, the target dies.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6345/1393 check out this study. Science is a reputable journal. sure, it's just one study. but there are thousands more. looks like there is ample evidence of
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by cryoshon 8y ago
yep, you hit the nail on the head here. often, the real evidence is extremely clear, but there is enough obfuscation created by those with an agenda to make things look inconclusive. yet another example is polygraph tests and similar more m
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by cryoshon 8y ago
the flu gaining deadlier characteristics via engineering is more realistic. unfortunately, i believe that is well within the scope of our present capability. the exact magnitude of how dangerous such engineering could make a virus based on
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by cryoshon 8y ago
>Companies need to make money off of those investments so the compounds that do succeeded might become insanely expensive. The entire process is pretty backwards and I know people who are biochemists in this field who get paid really shi
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by cryoshon 8y ago
to answer your question, the overhead is very small for a small change. you can add a bit of noncoding DNA to a virus' genome without ruining its ability to compete in the wild. but the survival margins are very thin. on a population s
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by cryoshon 8y ago
the crazy thing is that's not even the main part of the "viral reservoir." even when medicated -- for decades -- viral particles hang out safely in the body, often in the lymph nodes. as soon as the medication stops, they bou
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by cryoshon 8y ago
slower replication speed, more difficulty infecting the host, requirement of much greater volume of replication to accomplish the same rate of infection. think of it this way: every cool feature you add to a living thing has an overhead. yo
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by cryoshon 8y ago
imo, it's unwillingness to delegate that is the biggest sinker of startup ships. delegation is useful for more than mere business efficiency. it also helps founders -- who may be new to leadership themselves -- build their personal for

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