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by kirse 17y ago
-- Haven't you ever come out of a situation and, at the end, when it was all said and done, realized that you had talked/fooled yourself into it? No. Before I ever enter a situation I already know whether or not I need to convince myself
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by kirse 17y ago
"I'm thinking X. Am I thinking this because Y or Z? What's the meaning of thought anyway?" In the thought example about the "Milk" in the article I found myself asking "Who does that?" and now I'm wondering if that helps further explain t
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by kirse 17y ago
Already, we're to the point where if you built a universe off of the standard model and added some hacks to cover the cases where we know it doesn't work, you could probably build a correct-enough simulation to support life. You really th
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by kirse 17y ago
I experienced a strong case of PTSD... Sounds like this guy was full out abusing you rather than just "bullying" you? I got occasionally pushed around in school and dished it out myself, but it was hardly bad enough to cause shell shock
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by kirse 17y ago
Today we try hard to find a theory of everything in physics, something that fully explains and links together all known physical phenomena. But I believe that this isn't possible. This really touches on the philosophy of science, and I do
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by kirse 17y ago
I de-Googled my browser at work for the sake of trying out Bing and so far I've only needed to use Google once. Overall I'm very happy with everything except a few search annoyances. Bing Image search vs. Google Images is no comparison, th
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by kirse 17y ago
I'm just curious, how much do you exercise during the week and (if so) how strenuous is it?
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by kirse 17y ago
This pristine image of science is based on the theory that the scientific community is guided by norms including disinterestedness and organized skepticism, which are incompatible with misconduct [8], [9]. Increasing evidence, however, sug
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by kirse 17y ago
At this point, I think you are rationalizing your intuitional dislike of the article. Maybe you're not understanding me, and maybe this is partially because you're new to the community... But when I visit HN, I don't want to be presented
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by kirse 17y ago
-- In the absence of one, it is ridiculous to suggest that no one should think about it. I'm not saying that no one should think about it, I'm saying we should have a better filter that immediately separates garbage science from good scie
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by kirse 17y ago
I can't help but chuckle every time someone takes a human feature or habit and then attempts to force it into the massive speculative jigsaw puzzle that is biological Evolution. Not to mention the fact that we're conveniently trying to sol
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by kirse 17y ago
Republican/Democrat != Conservative/Liberal. Regardless, can you name a few examples of what you're talking about?
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by kirse 17y ago
For liberals, morality derives mostly from fairness and prevention of harm. For conservatives, morality also involves upholding authority and loyalty Interesting how liberal morality is vague and needs defined (i.e. how do we define what
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by kirse 17y ago
Just wait until we get socialized health-care... the wait times are going to be absolutely phenomenal.
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by kirse 17y ago
How many Tesla cars does America drive (in total?) That and does anyone know what Tesla's current net profit figures are? I know it's a private company but I'm wondering if anyone has general figures.
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by kirse 17y ago
Using your talents wisely and to maximum effect is something everyone should be doing, whether you consider yourself an entrepreneur or not.
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by kirse 17y ago
Link to full original content that was used for this blog-rip: http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/ArticleDetail.aspx?Article...
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by kirse 17y ago
How convenient of him to remove "In God We Trust" from the currency without even so much as a mention.
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by kirse 17y ago
When I watched the LOST season finale last Wednesday I was trying to find out the answer to the question "What lies in the shadow of the statue" right after the show ended. (During the show, the answer was spoken in a different language) G
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by kirse 17y ago
start searching real time discussions from the web's savviest investors. I'm sure the web's savviest investors are just sitting around on Twitter pointing out their upcoming positions and next big moves in the market. Other than that, I
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by kirse 17y ago
Megacorps with good names and good positions are looking to hire low cost, high output college grads to bootstrap the next generation workforce. I'm really not sure why you're getting downvoted, but this is absolutely correct. A few of t
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by kirse 17y ago
Imagine if Woz had to get a license to do what he did? I'm not really an expert on biohacking but it seems like you know a bit more... Let's say some nutjob bio-hacker synthesizes a nasty little immuno-resistant organism... is it pretty e
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by kirse 17y ago
Just because a large group of people hold a certain unverifiable opinion does not mean it has any more authority or validity than another unverifiable opinion. Even if it did, you've lost that argument already on the basic fact that there
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by kirse 17y ago
How the heck does "who he is" have to do _anything_ with the scientific evidence and argument he presented? This is worthless "cargo-cult" science and it's exactly what should be avoided in the scientific community. The article does it to
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by kirse 17y ago
How are you "forced" to do anything? If you've made the choice to work a corporate day job, you've also made the choice to be "forced" to be in the office for 8-9 hours a day. This sounds like making a decision and then not accepting resp
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by kirse 17y ago
With such an inflexible regime As much as everyone trash talks big corporations, I work for one now and have this beautiful thing called flex hours. Unless there's a meeting in the morning (rarely) I'm usually up at 915 and into work bef
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by kirse 17y ago
-- Wired: By contrast, e-book readers are good at basically one thing: Storing and displaying monochrome text and simple graphics. E-ink is the best technology just for that purpose and if I'm going to buy a Book Reader I want it to be
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A Video Tour of McDonald's Mechanized Meat Factories(cep.mcdonalds.com)
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by kirse 18y ago
I agree. Now we just need pg to write his next article entitled "Google is dead". Google is in that comfy monopolistic position where they can sit around on their advertising cash cow, tell others how they want the web to work, and no long
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by kirse 18y ago
This article is really poorly written from this standpoint, because they claim to argue that peak performance is rooted in unconscious mental processes, but then it goes on to say this: While the fMRI results of the Birmingham experiment w

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