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by goodside 17y ago
It's odd to me that nobody ever makes a connection between social media addiction and more traditional problems with repetitive checking. If the people who checked their Facebook feeds 500 times a day were checking anything more mundane lik
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by goodside 17y ago
To the extent that it's only a signaling mechanism, though, it doesn't make sense to subsidize it. Encouraging everyone to go to college with the state paying half their tuition doesn't confer any benefit on the public. It just appears to b
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by goodside 17y ago
"Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough." - Mark Zuckerberg
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by goodside 17y ago
Yes, the confusion of correlation and causation that you find in every article on post-college earnings certainly causes the benefit of college to be overstated, but that's not even the real problem. Even with an ideal randomized experiment
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by goodside 17y ago
Clinical depression is a serious, debilitating, and often fatal disease, but you know exactly what I mean when I say I'm depressed because my hard drive died. These shifts happen all the time; linguists call them euphemistic (or dysphemisti
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by goodside 17y ago
I'm running Shades with two monitors without any problems. Did you have fl.ux running at the same time? If so, that'll mess it up.
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The brightness values are nowhere near extreme enough, and they're not adjustable beyond a few presets. The intent, which it does okay, is making your computer match the color tone of whatever your indoor lighting is, which makes the displa
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by goodside 17y ago
A fun addition would be an anonymous karma system. Tips that the boss finds helpful will be upvoted, tips that seem petty or false can be downvoted, and future tips will appear with credibility ratings depending on the anonymous tipster's k
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by goodside 17y ago
I'm an atheist too, but Dove's point is a fair one. The fact that nature is filled with chaos and conflict doesn't conflict with the idea that it was created by a human-like mind, since humans have an aesthetic preference for stories and ar
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by goodside 17y ago
If you to submit an article that has an uninformative and sensationalized headline like "The World of Book Publishing Is About to Change", please edit it to something more reasonable. In this case, might I suggest "New machine at Harvard pr
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Amazon Kindle now available outside US, plus price drop(amazon.com)
45 points by goodside 17y ago|44 comments
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The fact that education has little or no effect on IQ happens to be true, but it's not guaranteed by definition or design. I.e., it's logically possible (and, in fact, popularly believed) that education makes your brain work better in gener
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by goodside 17y ago
This may not apply to the author of the linked blog post, but it's long been a pet peeve of mine how casually people dismiss intelligence testing after seeing one or two examples of poorly designed questions. The rarely considered reality i
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by goodside 17y ago
Also consider reminding such colleagues that there is a definite, well confirmed negative correlation between conscientiousness and intelligence: http://www.ist-world.org/ProjectDetails.aspx?ProjectId=74c83...
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by goodside 17y ago
"This also means that, while it's great for the mole rats that they don't get cancer, that doesn't mean they're somehow more immune to cancer than the average human. Even though mole rats are legendary for their longevity -- they can live i
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FriendFeed founder Paul Buchheit on EconTalk podcast(econtalk.org)
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The site linked to says nothing about boycott. In fact, it says that TechCrunch's advertisers are "good companies and they're good to their customers". It's just telling people who disapprove of TechCrunch's story to let the advertisers kno
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by goodside 17y ago
No. Flagging brings it to the attention of editors, who decide what to do with it. If they kill it it dies, and if they don't it lives. It has no impact on its rank on the front page if the editors don't kill it.
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by goodside 17y ago
No error. The story is from 1988.
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by goodside 17y ago
cma: This article was originally posted with the title used by Discover, "Is Quantum Mechanics Controlling Your Thoughts?", and Eliezer's "No" was in response to that. PG changed the submitted headline after my earlier comment below.
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by goodside 17y ago
Because every other small business loan on the planet (that isn't between family members) involves interest and the possibility of profit for the lender. It's not necessarily the case, which is why I said "slightly" misleading, but it sti
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by goodside 17y ago
It's only slightly misleading to say Kiva lets you lend to small businesses, but downright false for RWW to say it lets you invest in them. If you can't get any return on the loan, it's simply not an investment.
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'Electrons moving through a leaf or a green sulfur bacterial bloom are effectively performing a quantum “random walk”—a sort of primitive quantum computation—to seek out the optimum transmission route for the solar energy they carry. “We ha
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by goodside 17y ago
"The human mind is highly parallel. Anything that approaches it in intelligence will also be highly parallel." Birds fly by flapping their wings. Any man-made object that approaches the flying ability of a bird will also flap its wings.
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by goodside 17y ago
There's good reason to believe that the Great Filter is not only behind us, it's way behind us. A Great Filter in the future would have to apply to the vast space of possible intelligent lifeforms. This means that no matter what the psychol
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by goodside 18y ago
"If intelligence were deeply encoded in our genes, that would lead to the depressing conclusion that neither schooling nor antipoverty programs can accomplish much." More optimistically, it means that they're already working pretty well. In