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The Web at 25 in the U.S.(pewinternet.org)
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Those of you fascinated by electrical manipulation of consciousness may find this interesting: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2014/02/23/di... > Guillaume Herbet and colleagues describ
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There Is a Paranormal Activity Lab at the University of Virginia(theatlantic.com)
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Yglesias is simply pointing out a dynamic which he feels may be under-appreciated: the impact of cannabis sales on the purchase and consumption of other intoxicants. He isn't saying it will go one way or another, but merely drawing att
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> Want to be a rock star? Spend years learning to play an instrument, playing in dive bars and making demo tapes. Get a break then play the same 4 hit songs for 20 years. Wait, what? Is this supposed to be inspirational? Suffering for &q
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Well I can think of at least one counterexample: myself. I suffer from a moderate case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. I have paced back and forth, obsessively checking that the sink in my bathroom is truly off, feeling my anxiety continu
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The parent comment was merely questioning the validity of your weird assertion that "People are labelled mentally ill IFF they do things that have a stigma attached". Perhaps you meant "people who do not self-identify as ment
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Socialize Social Media!(nplusonemag.com)
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I've been pondering the ethics of AdWords for a while... I can maybe understand how tech people perceive ads as this "black box thing" that they can just tune out of their vision, and therefore assume that ads aren't a
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Not sure what you're trying to say. Are you saying that for NGOs/governments to be effective, everyone needs to focus on getting personally rich to maximize how much money they can give via donations / taxes?
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> If your goal is to help people on a large scale and in a concrete, measurable way, getting rich should be one of your first priorities in life. Or... you could also get a job at a non-profit / NGO / etc. Or you could work on
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The drug revolution that no one can stop(medium.com)
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Indeed... it's almost like an fMRI of the national "mind", measuring activation in both spatial and topical dimensions. Might be interesting to see retweet patterns, to illuminate how sentiment is forwarded through the networ
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by md224 13y ago
A recent tweet from Kyle Cameron's twitter feed: "If The Wolf Of Wall Street doesn't inspire you to become successful, nothing will." [1] Makes me a little sad. [1] https://twitter.com/GirlsGoneKyle/
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On a related note, I found this online game to be somewhat enlightening in terms of pointing out various costs and difficulties faced by those at the bottom end of the socioeconomic scale: http://playspent.org/playspent.html
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Well, of course, that's the trick: to acknowledge a lack of objective meaning while seeking out your own subjective meaning, something that transcends the banal logic of the everyday. That's the tough part (or at least, it can be
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That reminds me of my favorite challenge to Physicalism as an ontology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hempel's_dilemma
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Even now, people who use Facebook regularly have their exposure to information mediated through News Feed algorithms that seem fairly opaque. Of course, you can take manual actions to "shape" your feed, but mostly it's comput
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So, if this all snark, does that mean there's no "strong correlation between the undergraduate enrollment of an institution and its Google Trends index"? Because that would be a pretty interesting correlation. I'm also c
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Looks like this thread was killed by the flamewar detector and then resurrected? Or was it flagged? It troubles me when conversations on HN are just "disappeared" like that. For those who didn't notice: this article disappear
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Previous thread on a related article was (ostensibly) killed by the flamewar detector: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7104904 I thought this was a little frustrating and posted about it here: https://news.y
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Ask HN: Is anyone else here frustrated by HN's flamewar detector?
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As someone partial to the concept of memetics and Universal Darwinism, I happen to like when biological/Darwinian principles are applied to higher-level concepts. That being said, there may be ways to differ with the article's ana
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Spent(playspent.org)
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I think this discussion highlights something very important about any Darwinian system, be it inter-species rivalry or free market competition: evolution has no higher ideals. Whatever is best at domination will dominate; whatever is best a
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This Wikipedia article has an overview of the film's approach to technology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technologies_in_Minority_Report
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Pattern language(en.wikipedia.org)
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> After spending hours scrolling through Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or Flipboard our mind feels tired. We feel intellectually bloated, and yet completely unsatisfied. Why? Because there is more out there. What if I’m missing out on som
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What you've said is correct, but it's also a bit myopic. The whole point of Google's search algorithms is to "curate" results using algorithms and metrics based on the behavior of users on the Web. In a sense, the c
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And for an even more detailed examination of the underlying philosophical issues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_knowledge_(logic) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/common-knowledge/

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