cryoshon

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by cryoshon 8y ago
>There are deep sociological and psychological issues that have been uncovered over the last couple years, that have always existed beneath the surface in society. At a time of hyperconnection, if it wasn't Facebook surfacing them,
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by cryoshon 8y ago
the cynical side of me assumes that they'd only show this information off if they had a new system for disguise which was far beyond what they showed here. i mean, look at the image of the lady in the mask meeting HW bush -- that image
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by cryoshon 8y ago
i keep seeing this canard whenever military spending arises. tell me: who would invade? germany has no ambition to conquer france. poland has a buffer to protect it from the russians. estonia is in NATO. seriously, what threat is going to s
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by cryoshon 8y ago
i agree that this is a problem in the biosciences as well. the dead ringer for these groups is a PI who has a reputation for taking on extremely ambitious projects with all sorts of funding sources. typically, the PI is vindictive and contr
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by cryoshon 8y ago
can't get it to use any data sets that i have in the normal .vcf formats, etc
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by cryoshon 8y ago
>‘the last line of defense will always be citizens who are willing to question what they see and hear’ no. that is the first line of defense. realistically, it is the only line. silly corporate attempts to prune information are the last
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by cryoshon 8y ago
perhaps this is an incendiary comment, but i really do wonder what all of the HN facebook employees are telling themselves to deal with the cognitive dissonance caused by this latest scandal wherein facebook paid for smear campaigns to dist
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by cryoshon 8y ago
a more interesting thought experiment is what would happen if you described the same phenomenon, framed in a way which superficial and reactive people would agree with rather than disagree with: "there are more male dunces in society .
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by cryoshon 8y ago
you can't experiment with new ideas if there are severe social consequences for experimentation. because experimentation often fails. and public failures lead to getting discredited and kicked out of the discourse. people who experimen
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by cryoshon 8y ago
interesting article with a lot of good tidbits. i found it particularly interesting that the authors mention how a substantial subset of people merely reiterate their position when prompted to explain their rationale for certain beliefs. th
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by cryoshon 8y ago
getting a course of rabies vaccines cured me of my dislike of needles, YMMV
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by cryoshon 8y ago
there's a lot more to a person's perspective than their political ideology. i imagine at google it'd be advantageous to have people who approached problems with a plethora of cognitive approaches, however. it's difficult
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by cryoshon 8y ago
i would say that at google there's a chance they're including diversity of ideas and experience. at most companies, we all know that the skin-deep diversity is the only thing the HR department cares about because it's all the
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by cryoshon 8y ago
statements like >Going forward, we will provide more transparency on how we handle concerns. We’ll give better support and care to the people who raise them and >We’re overhauling our reporting channels by bringing them together on on
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by cryoshon 8y ago
i guess the lessons i learned from writing marketing content for an "AI" "bot" company (read: shitty chatbot which nobody would willingly use, yet VCs threw money at) would be different. pardon the cynicism here. 1. peop
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by cryoshon 8y ago
you should write a more extensive article on this, you explain it extremely clearly and the public's respect for your profession will mean that people will listen.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
read the report. http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_SPM_... the data does not say we will be cooked to death. the data says our planet's ecospheres will continue to be increasin
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by cryoshon 8y ago
no, it isn't. but even if there WAS a russian botnet pushing the story, SA deserves to fall.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
>People have limited time. We need to figure out what form of excercise gives the most benefit for unit of time spent. optimizing for the wrong variable. there's always time which could be spent exercising. people are often too stre
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by cryoshon 8y ago
why is it necessary, exactly? and who isn't putting in their fair share, in your estimation? and what threats might be so great as to justify high expenditure anyway?
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by cryoshon 8y ago
which nato members are you speaking of? and, do they face any credible threat?
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by cryoshon 8y ago
a very apt comparison, i think. we understand the risks of gross poisoning, as the ancients may have eventually, but our understanding of the peripheral risks of chronic exposure are more or less childish. but what we do know is that they&#
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by cryoshon 8y ago
> I'm wondering if the fourth amendment restricts the US government from arranging for a dragnet-style data feed from some willing corporate partner. it doesn't. NSA has had room 631 at AT&T for over a decade now. and, of c
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by cryoshon 8y ago
no more of an over-simplification than kissinger's concept of realism, to be blunt. countries routinely do things that are contrary to the interest of maximizing their net power, and claiming "but it's anarchy out there!&quot
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by cryoshon 8y ago
yeah, that's the kissinger line of thought. "realism". except it doesn't hold up to reality, at least not in the modern or even the premodern era. iceland has no military, and no real political or economic significance i
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by cryoshon 8y ago
unlikely imo. rubisco has been studied intensely for decades without making much headway. furthermore, the evolutionary pressure for an improved rubisco is so immense that if it were possible we'd probably see it in nature.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
looks like the main contradictions are in terms of the scope of the google project (300 employees, full time), the amount the project has been developed already (a very substantial amount), and the awareness of political issues as demonstra
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by cryoshon 8y ago
what do you have in mind?
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by cryoshon 8y ago
the chart shows that in inflation-adjusted terms we've lost ground relative to the year 2000. and of course, prices have skyrocketed for essential goods like healthcare. and new essential goods are necessary now, too. think internet an
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by cryoshon 8y ago
not to mention that butt-clenching is just the simplest way of nonvisibly messing with your vital signs. a guy walking in off the street can butt clench. once you get into some of the intermediate level buddhist body awareness studies, you

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