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by divia 18y ago
...when programming in less powerful languages, because they start to seem inadequate. I constantly find myself wanting to use idioms from these languages, or noticing how much less code I'd be able to write if I was using one of these lan
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Blindsight: the brain’s primitive, subconscious visual system(nytimes.com)
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by divia 18y ago
Beware of Goodreads spamming your entire contact list. http://outofshell.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/goodreads-or-how-...
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by divia 18y ago
Why couldn't taxing unhealthy foods be preventative? It's not as though only obese people are price sensitive. Nicholas Kristof at least thinks taxing can be very effective: Let’s break for a quiz: What was the biggest health care breakt
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by divia 18y ago
On the other hand, here's a thought about why checking his Google Reader RSS feeds constantly might be rotting his brain: intermittent rewards. Here are some links: http://therawness.com/the-compliance-recipe-part-3-intermitt... >Int
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by divia 18y ago
Yeah, as much as I agree that it's important to be aware of the negative effects of having so much information readily accessible, I also think it's important not to forget the positive ones. Sure, it's bad when I find myself checking myse
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by divia 18y ago
Ah, yes. This: >"Yes, dear. Richard, do you enjoy writing?" >"No one enjoys writing." >[...] >"But you don't enjoy it and we don't need the money. Truly we don't!" >"Thank you, my love. But I did not explain to you the
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by divia 18y ago
>I believe there's a quote somewhere in Stranger in a Strange Land, where Jubal Harshaw comments that an author doesn't write because he can, or likes to, or because it's the best way to pay the bills–many can't, few do, and it usually
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Facebook Value Drops from $15billion to $2billion(techveno.com)
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by divia 18y ago
http://www.paperpenalia.com/handwriting.html The main point: >People for whom writing comes more easily may rest their hands fairly heavily on the paper, but their forearms and shoulders move as they write. Their writing has a cadence
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by divia 18y ago
Maybe, but I find some of the arguments that the opposite result is true ( http://neuroeconomics.typepad.com/neuroeconomics/2007/02/alt... ) convincing.
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by divia 18y ago
What makes you think that ambition, curiosity, and love of a particular domain are innate qualities?
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by divia 18y ago
Evidently, "to the pure, all things are pure."
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Soaping away your outer dirt may lead to inner evil(economist.com)
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by divia 18y ago
I'd be interested to see some data on how children learning math in Hindi do, because the numbers are even less regular, enough so that even though there's a pattern, you still have to learn all the numbers from 1-100 individually. There a
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by divia 18y ago
I guess I would agree with you that no subject is off limits, and I can obviously only speak for myself, but there is a reason that I have a knee-jerk negative and perhaps overly zealous reaction to suicide jokes that I don't have to those
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by divia 18y ago
If you're on a Mac and you're using Safari you might like Urly ( http://www.zenonez.com/urly/news.html ). It lets you make a pretty basic stack of browser links. If you don't like that (and you're a Quicksilver user), it might be worth wr
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by divia 18y ago
He explains the name choice by saying "A commenter named Andrew Barry suggested that I should not call it Ejacs, and the name stuck."
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The stock-market generation game and how to win it(timharford.com)
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by divia 18y ago
pg said almost the same exact thing about arc's design philosophy: "Good design is timeless, and if you want something timeless you can't pander to the limitations of some hypothetical 'average' user. It's too vague a target. It's also a mo
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by divia 18y ago
I don't like that video either, but Bush clearly discussed having a humble foreign policy, not being the world's policeman, and not nation building. To me, that seems fairly inconsistent with what happened.
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Are You a Computer? The Turing Test Can Tell!(modernhumorist.com)
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by divia 18y ago
I love the idea, but it didn't recognize that many of the faces in my photos.
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Videogames are becoming the new hotbed of scientific thinking for kids today.(wired.com)
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by divia 18y ago
There's a school of libertarianism that doesn't derive its conclusions from property rights. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialist_libertarianism
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If You Have a Problem, Ask Everyone(nytimes.com)
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Massachusetts is the most tech savvy state, again(tech.yahoo.com)
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by divia 18y ago
Having grown up in Manhattan myself, pg's description of kids who "seemed to have lost their virginity at an average of about 14 and by college had tried more drugs than I'd even heard of" doesn't ring particularly true for me. I knew some
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by divia 18y ago
Seth Roberts has a theory that foods that taste exactly the same every time (particularly those with a high glycemic index) increase appetite and that unfamiliar or flavorless foods decrease appetite. I recommend his paper on the subject:
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Growing Leather, Fur, and Meat in Labs Not Far Off(economist.com)
4 points by divia 19y ago|0 comments

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