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by lutusp 12y ago
> Four quick survey questions that'd help me out a lot. Let me tell you a public relations secret -- never ask for personal information from people when you provide no information about yourself. It sounds too one-sided and creates
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by lutusp 12y ago
The paper (...) is not an example of good science. Very true, good point. It's quite common to see a study that makes some observations, even rigorously controlled ones (this isn't an example), then offers a conclusion that isn&#x
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by lutusp 12y ago
A quote: "But it does help us predict and explain some moral choices." Predict, yes. Explain, no. Many such studies can predict that something is going to happen, that a correlation exists, but far fewer even attempt to offer a te
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by lutusp 12y ago
I don't know anything specific about the site, but that might reflect an aesthetic bias overcoming the realization that Java is ubiquitous. It all depends on the degree to which a site's operators care about teaching what's b
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by lutusp 12y ago
Article title: "Out in the Open: The Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job" It's a good thing the site's originator didn't make this claim. Even a first-rate site with an enviable effect on students
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by lutusp 12y ago
>> "From a scientific standpoint, we cannot say whether these movements were causes or effects." > The causation is usually quite clear Not in a scientific sense, not at all. Your post objects to positions I didn't t
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by lutusp 12y ago
> but "they can't be bothered to launch into the same long conversation in response to basically the same comment" is another. Several have tried to do just that, saying, for example, that I am wrong and that voting consti
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by lutusp 12y ago
Quote: "I've written on many occasions about what I call universal criminality, the crowning achievement of the modern police state, under which there are so many vague, overbroad and counterintuitive laws that every single person
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by lutusp 12y ago
> Seeing "how much memory is being used" is a major use case for you using a browser? Yes, certainly. My development machine has 8 GB of RAM. On a number of occasions I've recovered from a marginal memory problem/comm
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by lutusp 12y ago
> Is it true, that a freediver can stay under water for 4 minutes? Yes. It's true. This doesn't mean anyone can do it. > Are there techniques, or is it just training? Yes to both. One technique is to over-oxygenate yourself
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by lutusp 12y ago
Nice article. A quote: "Because people don't understand that science is built on experimentation, they don't understand that studies in fields like psychology almost never prove anything, since only replicated experiment prov
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by lutusp 12y ago
> What amazing is that scientists discovered that brain allocates one single neuron fires for each recognized face. This is nonsense, citation needed. > For example, You have a one special neuron in your brain that fires when you see
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by lutusp 12y ago
> I can't think of anything that I will like to make in C/C++ since it is so low-level. This is pretty funny. When I started in this business decades ago, everyone programmed in assembly language -- we had no choice. When C cam
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by lutusp 12y ago
The word "study" in the title implies that there's some science involved. There's no science involved -- it's an opinion piece dressed up as a "study". The authors may be right, but there's no objecti
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by lutusp 12y ago
Some HN readers wonder why people don't simply demolish my psychology posts using evidence, instead of anonymously downvoting them (the preferred approach). The answer is simple: they can't -- the evidence is overwhelming that psy
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by lutusp 12y ago
> I don't think it's right to doubt that these movements at least accelerated improvements. But I didn't do that. I only said we cannot know scientifically whether they're causes or effects. That's an important d
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by lutusp 12y ago
> As other comments have mentioned, if you criticize an organization by choosing bad actors who are members of that organization to criticize the whole organization, few organizations come out looking good. Yes, that's certainly tru
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by lutusp 12y ago
>> "It is herds and movements that are disempowering." > The Civil Rights movement. > The labor movement. > The environmental movement. > The suffragette movement. > The abolitionist movement. > The free sp
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by lutusp 12y ago
> This seems to be an incredibly disempowering perspective. That depends on one's narcissism index. A sufficiently narcissistic person will see it as a challenge to be proactively engaged. Someone less narcissistic will see it as a
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by lutusp 12y ago
> Most people claim both that we will run out of natural resources and that population will grow indefinitely, which is impossible. Yes, or in any case, self-contradicting. > Cool paper Thanks!
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by lutusp 12y ago
> Also, on the face of it, it would seem slightly odd for a completely clockwork universe to contain beings that worry about if they have free will. Maybe, but to argue thew other side, we have a god-free universe filed with people who w
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by lutusp 12y ago
Not new (2005), but certainly still newsworthy. Too many scientists, too few first-rate problems to attack, and too many small studies of marginal topics whose statistical basis is more questionable than the attention they get from a breakt
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by lutusp 12y ago
The title of this submission: "First phase of restorating the 'Bucky' dome is complete" The title of the linked article: "First phase in restoring Bucky Dome complete" "Restorating"? This is why we ha
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by lutusp 12y ago
Interesting you should mention that -- I have been working on that topic: http://arachnoid.com/peak_people
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by lutusp 12y ago
I have recently created a mathematical treatment of this topic, one that takes non-renewable resources into account: http://arachnoid.com/peak_people
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by lutusp 12y ago
> By the way, the director of the NIMH isn't the "highest-ranking psychiatrist". That title doesn't exist. Of course it does. In psychiatry, authority matters. In science, it doesn't. How else could Insel unilate
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by lutusp 12y ago
> It's worth noting your entire argument is an appeal to authority or a personal attack. You mean, like when I pointed out that Asperger's was created and destroyed by votes rather then scientific evidence? Or was it when I poi
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by lutusp 12y ago
> Attaching a name to that stable cluster of phenomena is no different from attaching a name to the stable cluster of phenomena we call "smallpox". False! The difference, as you would know if you had any understanding of scienc
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by lutusp 12y ago
> I really wish the Scientology-esque anti-psychology crowd would stop using the struggles of queer people as an excuse to be anti-scientific. You mean, like Thomas Insel, sitting director of the NIMH, who recently described psychiatry a
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by lutusp 12y ago
> I wouldn't describe it as an illness, but Asperger Syndrome is absolutely a thing and I'm not sure why you think it's abandoned. Excuse me? It has been abandoned -- it was voted out of DSM-5 (the current version), by the

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