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by dunstad 17y ago
The author mentions 'key behavioral genes'. Does anyone know more about these?
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by dunstad 17y ago
Not everyone values their relationship with God as much as you appear to. It's called choice. Edit: I see I've missed the point. The important part of the order is where work is placed on it, not where religion is placed. My bad.
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by dunstad 17y ago
Submissions dealing with minimalist lifestyles keep recurring on HN. Why does living with little interest this community so much? I'd speculate that it's because most people here have some kind of work they love, and this makes them realize
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by dunstad 17y ago
Language is more than the denotation of the words comprising it.
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by dunstad 17y ago
Taxes are for money, not good will. You created a law taxing friendly favors.
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by dunstad 17y ago
He's just emphasizing the 'motion' part of the word emotion, since he's correlating emotion with motion. It's not a new word.
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by dunstad 17y ago
While I haven't read Maps In A Mirror, I did read Card's Characters and Viewpoint, and found it rather lackluster in its advice compared to Stephen King's memoir. Considering that I like Ender's Game more than most of King's work, I thought
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by dunstad 17y ago
Ender's Game is the best science fiction story (or story in general) I've ever read, and much of what makes it science fiction fades into the background as you read. The important thing when I read is the character, whom I can relate to, no
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by dunstad 17y ago
He could have made one up, or portmanteau-ed something. That's what language is supposed to do when it fails to describe a concept.
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by dunstad 17y ago
My favorite part is when Boahen says of binary computing, "It was so brute force." I hadn't thought of it like that before, but it makes sense, and highlights how the perspectives of different people can shed light on a problem.
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by dunstad 17y ago
I don't think he should've used the word sociopath. It already has a popularly accepted definition, and the concept that he's trying to represent doesn't fit well with it. If you want to read about real sociopaths, go somewhere else.
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by dunstad 17y ago
In terms of sensory deprivation tanks, Wikipedia says that it actually can relax you in the short term, and only causes anxiety after prolonged exposure (or lack thereof). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_deprivation
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by dunstad 17y ago
Not in the popularly accepted definitions.
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by dunstad 17y ago
I wouldn't be surprised. I started writing stories for fun when I broke up with a girl, and I'm still sticking with it. It's almost like these crushes supply a kind of necessary activation energy for some large projects.
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by dunstad 17y ago
Which is all well and good, except that the author doesn't. He explicitly states that he wouldn't try to raise a kid while in a dropout/simplist lifestyle.
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by dunstad 17y ago
He didn't advocate raising kids in a junkyard, he said he'd find a junkyard preferable to a clean prison with a TV. He never said either was a desirable scenario. "I'd love to have a couple kids, but I won't do it without a physical locatio
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by dunstad 17y ago
I agree with you here; those are all valid reasons to get a shot. My issue was with the use of the death rates as justification, which is much less reasonable.
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by dunstad 17y ago
The main message of this article is to get out into the real world and figure out what your problem is before you try to solve it. Natural growth tends to avoid wasting time and money.
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by dunstad 17y ago
I'd much prefer percentages to the flat number of deaths in the article; it's much less misleading. Assume your chance to contract swine flu is in the upper bound stated in the article, 35%. Multiply that by the pneumonia chance of one in a
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by dunstad 17y ago
Okay, thanks for the clarification.
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by dunstad 17y ago
At the beginning of section 6. Think Long Term, you say "shear stress", but I think the word you intended to use is "sheer".
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by dunstad 17y ago
>>We could, for instance, determine whether Superman could accelerate if He were surrounded by a nearly perfect vacuum. Hasn't Superman already been observed flying in outer space? One would think a better vacuum would be hard to co
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by dunstad 17y ago
Would you mind describing your course load or some of your assignments? Mainly what I'm looking for is a frame of reference to steer me toward or away from this as a major.
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by dunstad 17y ago
Good idea. I was thinking about Missouri S&T, SEMO, and UMSL, but any other unusually good (or bad) programs people know about would be nice to hear of as well.
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by dunstad 17y ago
Thanks for the advice, but could you be more specific? What sort of small areas, and why do you prefer electrical engineering?
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Ask HN: What does a major in CS entail?
4 points by dunstad 17y ago|12 comments