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by ex3xu 7y ago
It's refreshing for me to see an article from a modern conservative outfit that actually seems to understand the adversarial relationship between the finance sector and the principles of economic conservatism. I particularly liked the
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by ex3xu 7y ago
With great power comes great responsibility, I guess. I agree it would have been nice for Linux to come with a few more sanity checks by default, like maybe a warning flag for rm -rf /* and dd commands...
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> The thing that annoys me most on Windows is Windows itself. After using Linuxes for almost two decades now, the notion of the OS taking tens of minutes to self update when all I wanted was to quickly reboot it is unbearable. This is de
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by ex3xu 7y ago
Here's some previous popular HN threads about debunking or beating lie detector tests: (2009) antipolygraph.org (first HN submission) - NSA polygraph experiences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428489 (2013) WaPo
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by ex3xu 7y ago
They mention the 5 ASD out of 8 PA sample size, and they explicitly cite the .005 rate of ASD, but I think their PA incidence number is different than the one available on Wikipedia, and I couldn't find it in the paper so that may be w
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by ex3xu 7y ago
You're right that it's a low sample size, and the authors themselves do warn that diagnostic rates of ASD in children may be inflated: > With the increasing reported frequency of ASD in the pedi-atric population one cannot rul
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by ex3xu 7y ago
While propionic acid is used artificially as a preservative, it is a naturally occuring byproduct of fermentation of certain kinds of carbohydrates. The article notes the link between certain kinds of bacteria in ASD children that overprodu
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The elevated levels of PPA are linked to a dysbiotic gut bacteria imbalance, with ASD children exhibiting more bacteria that produce PPA. I'd imagine if you're not eating PPA in excess of your body's ability to metabolize it
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Thanks for sharing, I'll have to look into that book sometime. Also a real throwback to see Jonah Lehrer's name on a piece of scientific journalism. Looks like in 2018 there's a few [0] interesting [1] papers [2] on the link
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I can't speak about benzoic acid, but the article notes that propionic acid is the most common compound produced by bacteria unique to the gut microbiomes of ASD children: >Previous studies have demonstrated increased levels of PPA,
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The preservative in question is propionic acid (PPA): > In the current study, Saleh Naser, PhD and her team at UCF found that when neural stem cells were exposed to high levels of PPA, the neurons incurred multiple changes resulting in c
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by ex3xu 7y ago
They are at the end, in appendix format. The final checklist is a checklist for checklists: http://www.projectcheck.org/uploads/1/0/9/0/1090835/checklis...
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I share your frustration, and I have nothing but admiration for Mitch Kapor -- he would go on to be one of the founders of the EFF after all. For me, what causes me the most pain in hindsight is how easily we could have ended up in a world
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I'll suggest the book Dreaming in Code to anyone who wants to learn more about the history of Mitch Kapor and Lotus, particularly what went wrong with their attempt at "revolutionary" calendar software Chandler. http:/&
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Like others here I don't have too much problem with indexing. What I would like to see is a human layer of infrastructure on top of algorithmic search, one the leverages the fact that there are billions of people who could be helping o
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Sure, if you axiomatically accept the Efficient Market Hypothesis as a feature of modern markets that isn't going to blow up the global economy, which I would if it hadn't already come close to doing that already. Facilitating pri
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by ex3xu 7y ago
You're right, the issue really has nothing to do with fees and I stand corrected.
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My issue with this approach is that the more this gets encouraged for naive investors, the easier it becomes to shift risk away from the players who actually ought to be holding the bag. Sure, the brokerage fees themselves might not be outr
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>1. the retirement funds you should be putting your money in won't require brokerage fees. Ah, okay so there's another choice of waiting for retirement funds and pensions to get looted by bank and insurance bailouts in the next
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> Some people get mad about the financial industry for taking advantage of customers. I find it hard to get mad about a deal between willing counterparties, but if you think that Wall Street is soaking the US middle class, you should be
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I'm a bit surprised this article has zero reference to any interdisciplinary work on trust metrics, and stuff like trust propagation algorithms. I'm even more surprised, with the blockchain having becoming such a buzzword these da
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by ex3xu 7y ago
Outside of standard recommended resources like the ones offered here [0], I found that doing the problems on 4clojure.com and then comparing with the answers of top users was helpful for experiencing some of those kind of lightbulb moments
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by ex3xu 7y ago
The linked Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ) wikipage only provides a hard-to-read Youtube video or software download as sources. Here's a link to the 16-question quiz from aphantasia.com (JS required): https:/&#x2
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by ex3xu 7y ago
I think what frustrates me most about the current state of SEO is that it is a race to the bottom for both businesses and consumers. Below a certain threshhold of notability, traffic essentially becomes correlated with SEO spend. Even the b
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> I asked him whether he thought China's stellar economic record over the past three decades in some way justifies the crackdown. "I don't think so. It's like you cut off you know somebody's limb, and he's s
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This was a mostly entertaining read, if a bit all over the place. I do have one point to offer -- I noticed this article quotes liberally from Bostrom, Nick, but misses another thinker who has relevant ideas about avoiding what this author
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by ex3xu 8y ago
I might be wrong, but I think I've seen the term "theory of mind" used in the scientific context. For example, Kurzweil's "Pattern Recognition Theory of Mind" and Heylighen's "Anticipation Control The
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The weird part is that he specifically mentions behaviorism: > Except for a brief period when psychologists embraced a wrongheaded behaviorism, the theory of mind everyone shares drove the 20th century research programs of child psycholo
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> Any talk otherwise is delusional hanging on to a mythical era of corporate responsibility that has never actually existed. While I think this is correct in the most general sense -- examples throughout history of the old consolidative
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> You know, a very simple answer would have to do with the idea of constant movement but within a rigidly defined set of constraints and also with the idea of two and twoness and things moving back and forth between two sides in such a w

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