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by hegemonicon 17y ago
Yep. Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen - really, the idea is the EASY part.
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by hegemonicon 17y ago
Happiness is different from pleasure. Pleasure is closely related to the reward system in our brains, something specifically designed NOT to provide long-term emotional changes (otherwise we would stop seeking rewards).
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by hegemonicon 17y ago
This is basic strategy really - being a dick to people will almost never bring you closer to a goal you've set, which means there's no point in doing it. The success rate of "calling people stupid until they agree with me" is quite low...
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by hegemonicon 17y ago
The study escapes me at the moment (it might be from a Dan Gilbert TED talk), but people who've just spent time on a difficult puzzle/task are also shown to have less willpower. It's not so much that we have a finite amount of willpower tha
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by hegemonicon 17y ago
>Twitter is a medium (as in new form of media) That's crap. All this talk about twitter as a medium, twitter as revolutionizing communication, twitter as a service conveniently ignores the fact that twitter is a BUSINESS. It's purpose i
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by hegemonicon 17y ago
I great interpretation of Malcolm Gladwell's 10000 hours that I came across somewhere is "Don't be concerned with practicing 10000 hours at something - be concerned with finding something you enjoy so much that you don't notice when the 100
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by hegemonicon 17y ago
Given that our brains are hard-wired to find patterns, I'll bet this also makes us more likely to "find" them where none exist. See: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/11/its_one_of_the_more.p...
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by hegemonicon 17y ago
Knowing what to work on is certainly more important than trying to brute force all problems with man hours, but unless you've spent hours and hours of hard work learning your field, you won't KNOW what to work on. The only reason the Cateri
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by hegemonicon 17y ago
Worth pointing out that fly ash is already widely used in the concrete industry for the same reasons - it's more environmentally friendly. Using it actually gives a building extra LEED points. Fly ash can replace up to 50% of the cement nee
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by hegemonicon 17y ago
According to the blog post the pages made were all "samples", presumably to demonstrate the service. Fairly shifty, but now that they're taken down and the only way to get one is by request, there doesn't seem to be much to complain about.
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by hegemonicon 17y ago
This seems like alot to pay for a company that's raised funding twice before and still isn't anything resembling profitable.
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by hegemonicon 17y ago
China doesn't own them all - it can just produce them the cheapest (like it does everything else). From the 2nd page of the article: '"So there really is no shortage in rare elements, and in fact, there are enough deposits out there to easi
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by hegemonicon 17y ago
More on our overconfidence bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overconfidence_effect and it's twin brother, certanity bias: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/10/the_certainty_bias_1.... The human brain just isn't built to handle probab
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by hegemonicon 17y ago
His work seems closely related to the concept of 'locus of control', a pretty well-studied area of psychology. People with an internal locus of control tend to be healther/more successful than those with an external locus of control. Wiki p
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by hegemonicon 17y ago
Expecting perfection is unreasonable - everything has a failure rate. The question is what's an acceptable percentage of false positives.
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by hegemonicon 17y ago
When Cortez burned his ships when he came to America, it was to give his men a choice between following him and certain death - failure wasn't an option. Fear can be a powerful motivator. Of course, if things go wrong, you end up murdered b
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by hegemonicon 17y ago
Though the source escapes me, the best advice I've come across for avoiding this (and for living your life in general) was to the effect of "construct your life to fit you so perfectly that it's utterly incomparable with anyone elses."
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by hegemonicon 17y ago
They seem to be going about the same task in two different ways. Alpha is built essentially by having an army of experts massage the data, and input it to a specially designed database. My guess is google will just apply what it knows about