henriquemaia

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by henriquemaia 6y ago
> Somehow, his brain was still processing and identifying a face—a fairly high-level skill—even though his conscious mind was oblivious. I'm maybe wrong about this, but isn't the ability to recognize faces a fairly low-level sk
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
Brilliant. Roman numerals are, after all, just letters. The "why haven't they used them?" becomes pretty jarring once you think about it.
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
I agree that this has tones of adjusting your moves to match those of your adversary. I just think that the losing side, when adopting similar moves, is not playing dirty per se . It's just leveling the field. You can only play foul i
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
I usually do this exercise with my students when they tell me they understood what I just explained: I ask them to explain it back to all the class. Could you do that for us here? Explain to us what problem Weinstein detected, to what it re
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
That's true. Several people will probably lose their jobs. But that is the kind of thinking that condemns whistleblowing for the wrong reasons. To put it differently, people rather prefer to keep on pretending if that keeps their jobs
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
I agree with the subtle point behind the fraud crisis: misaligned incentives. However, that doesn't excuse the individuals doing it. "Because jobs" is a terrible ethical excuse. Nevertheless, you have an interesting point the
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
I can recommend an interesting podcast series covering that topic. Peter Adamson's History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps [^1]. Some of the series is already in book form, which goes into more depth than the podcast. [^1] https:&#x2
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
Let's be more generous with the opposing position. If, as been argued, we're religious by nature (which the worldwide spread of different, often contradictory, beliefs amply demonstrates), religion is not a mental cancer, and beli
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
Yes, historically, Christianity's theological contribution was the idea of a god that cares equally for everyone. But western humanism goes beyond that (building upon) in that human life is valuable in itself, regardless of the social,
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
Delusional? On the contrary. If you're right (and I believe you are) that the whole world is fucked up, filled with all sort of crazy and misguided people, why not treat churches like any other worldly institution, taxing them?
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
I'm not OP. And yes, at first sight that seems to be the main argument. But... If we're fair to what it is being said, the point seems to be this: churches are like corporations: their goal is to grow in size and revenue. That is
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A 'Midnight Commander' type website(kernel-pancake.nl)
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
The model is not without its fair share of criticisms. Check out this section on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Cr...
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
Thanks for the link. Actually, I think the downvotes were somewhat deserved. I wasn't careful enough to set the proper tone of my critique. In any case, I just wanted to point out here on HN we value those who back up their claims with
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
Generalizations like those need solid data to back them up. As it stands, it's just pushing a pseudo-psychological narrative.
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And then it would be filed under a "chamber" category on your profile. Just as a friendly reminder of where you were heading...
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
While I agree that writing has its limitations and that a lot of non-written info is lost, I don't think the written part is the problem. For if that were the case, YouTube would be a thriving beacon of clarity, when it clearly isn&#x2
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
I'm on Firefox on a mobile device. That addon has a redirection link [1] specifically for Firefox' mobile version. As I didn't know about this addon, thanks for sharing it. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
Submit it directly to Library Genesis. There's an upload option there [0] where you can submit scientific papers [1]. Edit: I added some additional info. [0] https://library.bz/main/upload/ [1] https:/&
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
Since I'm in sync with everyone else in this, ie, it's easier for me to shut my mouth completely than to eat in moderation, I'm guessing there's some biological drive behind this. Maybe that happens because we, as animal
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Leaving academia for the private sector: Seven years later(medium.com)
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
> I am sure FB can build a financial model around a freemium offering if they wanted to. They probably could. As they could also charge you a premium and then profit two times on top of you — with your fee and then by selling your data t
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
A tool someone pointed me out on a group dedicated to the Zettelkasten organization method. We had been talking about ways of visualizing connections within the Zettelkasten and someone showed us this tool.
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Wikipedia Map: A web app for visualizing the connection of Wikipedia pages(luke.deentaylor.com)
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by henriquemaia 6y ago
I've found this because I'm looking for a zoomable notebook to possibly use as part of my zettelkasten. The ideia of thinking by layers which you zoom seems very promising.
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BigPicture, another Zooming user interface (ZUI)(bigpictu.re)
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A zoomable user interface (ZUI) – Eagle Mode(eaglemode.sourceforge.net)
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by henriquemaia 7y ago
I'm an academic. As such, I got used to work with Zotero [1], first as a simple reference manager, but over time as a more robust platform to keep track "of things like bookmarks, snippets of code or text", and even associate
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by henriquemaia 7y ago
Well... thanks. But not because I'm lazy, for I had no idea about this bug there. I just thought OP had an off topic moment based on random connection. But now, after reading your link and giving it a bit of thought, what s/he wro
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by henriquemaia 7y ago
Lucretius, some 2000 years ago, based on a completely different kind of atomism, believed something very similar. Free will was due to random events on the atomic level, what he called clinamen (the swerve).

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