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by jbotz 6y ago
That's where my third bullet comes in... you need a high degree of metacognitive awareness (mindfulness) to be able recognize your own biases. Together they do make a difference. If you're well versed in cognitive biases, then
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> I really dislike this narrative that facts don't change our minds and we are all irrational. I don't think that is the real "narrative" here, although reading this article may make it seem like that. The "na
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Popular Mechanics has been popularizing science and technology and promoting inventions for over 100 years. For them to publish an article that comes down so firmly against the current intellectual property laws is significant. It's
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No it isn't. Despite the "war on drugs" those illegal drugs are easily available in the US and even during the Prohibition of the 1930s alcohol consumption only dropped by 30-40%. Similarly ending the prohibition on canabis
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Sorry, but no. Alcohol is still killing more people than all the illegal drugs combined, still causing more traffic accidents and violence, and overall costs to society, than all the illegal drugs combined. If you want evidence, google so
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Neither TFA nor any of the comments so far mention what seems to me the single most damning irony of drug-prohibition... that one of the most dangerous and harmful drugs of all remains legal through all the drug-war theater: alcohol. Scient
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by jbotz 6y ago
jq is to cloud and "Infrastructure as Code" software what grep and awk are to unix software. It's the glue that lets you combine the pieces into a system. It's an odd language though, and not that easy to master. Tuto
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The question being asked is not "sensationalist". It is a perfectly legitimate question of epistemology: can we know? If there ever was such a trans-ancient civilization, would evidence still be identifiable? Or is deep time as
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Perhaps more accurate: some nations are drifting away from democracy. In particular the US can't really be considered a full democracy anymore, and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) which publishes a "democracy index" ev
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I like this analogy from the article: "Where industrial companies dumped toxic chemicals in fresh water, Internet platforms pollute society with toxic content." Indeed, but it's not quite so simple to identify toxic content,
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I totally disagree. Sure, sometimes I just want the technical facts... in those cases, my first stop is Wikipedia. Wikipedia has articles about TAE the company[1] and as well as the Tri-alpha fusion process[2]. But when it comes to fusion
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by jbotz 6y ago
The mistake is in the original citation... the moon's mass in 7x10^22 kg, and the number they gave for salt in the ocean (which I haven't verified) was 5x10^19 kg, so that would mean that the moon is about 1000 times heavier than
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by jbotz 6y ago
No, the dark matter is still dark, and was never missing, because we know it's there from its gravitational effects. We just can't see it (hence "dark") and don't know what it is, really. But whatever it is, i
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by jbotz 6y ago
Also freely available under CC-BY-4.0 license. See: https://yago-knowledge.org/downloads/yago-4
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Yago 4: A Reason-able Knowledge Base [pdf](suchanek.name)
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No. Aside from the fact that the weight of the electrons, although not zero, is negligible, they also don't get "lost" in the process... they just get moved around, in the case of battery power literally from one end of the
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by jbotz 6y ago
Give us some examples. OK, I'll start... Vacuums: Miele. I don't think Miele vacuums are quite as reliable as they used to be, but they are still (with some success) being marketed that way. What other brands for appliances (&q
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This is about missing baryonic matter, not "dark matter". What's not clear from this article is why we knew (or thought) that there was baryonic matter missing in the first place. Wikipedia has more info under "Missi
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It occurs to me that the although they were aimed at different uses cases the language that's actually closest to Nim today is Julia. Python-like syntax, compiled to native code, significant meta-programming capabilities, some native
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>> This notion that time is just a fourth dimension is highly misleading. In special relativity, the time directions are structurally different from the space directions. In "A World without Time" Palle Yourgrau makes it cle
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If Workflowy does exactly and everything you want, then sure, use that. If there are times though when you wish it did something a little different or a little more or integrated better with some other tools you use then, well, with emacs
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I just tried to delete my account and in addition to the thing about government ID it said: >> We're processing your request and should be done within 30 days. 30 days to delete an account? I guess they have a lot of account del
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Indeed. I think IIT is a good theory... of something, just not exactly consciousness. Maybe a precondition to consciousness or something like that. But the thing that we think of as our consciousness is to me best explained by the "
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How is this not linguistic hackery?
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It does exist, but only for snippets, sections of code, or at best whole individual functions, especially in languages that are concise and expressive (which are most languages that are not Java ;-). But even really good code still needs
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Actually, the point of this article is that it is something new... for the last few decades the medical establishment and of course the sun-screen industry have been absurdly dogmatic and absolutists, telling people to avoid all sun, an
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That's a very interesting paper! It has long been my belief that sunshine is good for you, and so long as you avoid an outright suburn, basically the more the better. Even with respect to cancer alone, from what I've seen in the
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> Crucially, Vitamin D gained via sunlight is significantly more effective Do you have any citations for that?
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Try handing your rust implementation over to a Java programmer. Or even your C implementation, which might be worse because they might think they can hack it, but are likely to introduce nasty and hard to find bugs. With Haskell, once t
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> [traumatic events] only return to bother us if there is some behavior that was contrary to the individuals values. Or perhaps, a bit more generally, if the event causes a significant degree of cognitive dissonance. This would include

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