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by memetichazard 16y ago
The thing that I find the most interesting is that a few people on the fanfiction groups I frequent absolutely loathe the story, and there's a sizable group that are ambivalent to it. What I haven't seen, however, is anyone here or on reddi
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by memetichazard 16y ago
Possible explanation: When people try to overthink certain tasks (or feel a lack of confidence in their ability to perform), they perform worse at them. Alcohol may have the effect of inhibiting this factor, more than enough to compensate f
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by memetichazard 16y ago
That's a tautology. And the set of law-breakers is neither a subset nor a superset of the set of immoral/unethical/bad/evil people.
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by memetichazard 16y ago
"It’s a paradoxical effect that occurs in complex systems," says Helbing. "Surprisingly, delay processes can improve the system altogether. It is a slower-is-faster effect. You can increase the throughput - speed up the whole system - if y
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by memetichazard 16y ago
Dieting - becoming vegetarian, vegan, etc. Job aspirations - granted, this is usually children and teenagers. Religious or Political ideologies. For instance, as a highschooler I was convinced that Socialism was the best system - so long as
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by memetichazard 16y ago
I've never noticed any particular aftertaste from Coke or Pepsi, but I have noticed that with Pepsi I get that 'sickly-sweet' taste after about half a can, which I don't get with Coke.
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by memetichazard 16y ago
My thoughts are that religion and God is about, or at least originates from a desire for, the afterlife. Hence, deathbed conversions, the focus on heaven, hell, and eternal damnation. Thus God -> Afterlife, and the converse is not reall
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by memetichazard 16y ago
My belief in God is at the same level as my belief in a multiverse of which we are just one universe amongst infinite. - It would be great if this were true (Yay afterlife/alternate worlds!) - No one can provide any convincing evidence for
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by memetichazard 16y ago
My preferred counterargument to this (Pascal's Wager) is that assuming there is a god, professing to believe in him just to avoid eternal damnation is more likely to damn you than being honest. Does believing for the sake of belief count as
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by memetichazard 16y ago
When I originally read it, the symmetry was blatantly obvious and I kept waiting for at least one of the humans to remark on it. That they desire to impose their ethics on the Babyeaters yet reject those of the others... But SF can also be
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by memetichazard 16y ago
(Sample, over-simple failure mode: we try to make sure that our superintelligent machines work for the benefit of the human race by teaching them what happy and unhappy people look like and telling them to make there be more happy people a
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by memetichazard 16y ago
I think the silliest part of that argument is the idea that natural selection needs a 'cause' or an explanation. It doesn't. Natural selection is a tautology. That which makes itself more likely to propagate is more likely to propagate.
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by memetichazard 16y ago
I'm sure there will always be people who distrust nanofood or otherwise are willing to pay a premium for organically grown food.
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40 useful and creative infographics [2009](sixrevisions.com)
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by memetichazard 16y ago
From what I recall, that was due to the DRM used, in an attempt to reduce the quality for pirates. In hindsight, a bad idea on the part of developers.
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by memetichazard 16y ago
or 3: The whole thing is made up.
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by memetichazard 16y ago
As a long time game industry veteran, allow me to tell you that this is simply not true. In fact, that is actually the internet's straw man counter argument, which is fueled by a couple poor PR incidents where a few people have made it see
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by memetichazard 16y ago
The author is Eliezer Yudkowsky [ http://yudkowsky.net/other/fiction ], who has also written other interesting fiction like the one about baby-eating aliens (Three Worlds Collide).
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by memetichazard 16y ago
As much as I like that story, it doesn't seem to be quite as well received outside the HN/Reddit communities. Most people don't really enjoy/understand the concepts that much (or disagree with their use), and categorize it as crack (typical
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by memetichazard 16y ago
Amusing, but is this really useful? Most of the people who read this are likely to already agree with the sentiment, and those few who did not yet are convinced by reading this are unlikely to have any pull where it matters. (Plus, there wa
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by memetichazard 16y ago
Why is: PRINCESS ON THE PEA (From the tale by Hans Christian Andersen)THE UGLY DUCKLING at #19? or: AND THE BEAN-STALK (Said to be an allegory of the Teutonic Al-fader, The tale written in French by Charles Perrault)JACK THE GIANT KILLER (F
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by memetichazard 16y ago
What will happen when it eventually runs out of words? Or will the links expire after a certain amount of time?
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by memetichazard 16y ago
One obvious difference between art and games is that you can win a game. It has rules, points, objectives, and an outcome. Santiago might cite a immersive game without points or rules, but I would say then it ceases to be a game and become
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by memetichazard 16y ago
I can see that some of the cities are popping in and out - in the top example, Highland park by the lake in the upper right, and Lasalle at the intersection of 39 and 80, but it's really hard to see them with the labels moving around. Might
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by memetichazard 17y ago
In search, Google was not first - yet most people use Google today. Gmail was not first - yet I'm sure it's got a decent slice of the market. Chrome was not first - yet it's been gaining steadily. In a few years nobody will care who was fir
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by memetichazard 17y ago
You seem to be missing the use of an absolute value function on your 'comparison' page.
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by memetichazard 17y ago
The U.S. society goes further, discouraging patients from getting tested or seeking surgical treatment. Rather, it continues to promote drug treatments used to alleviate symptoms, which include corticosteroids, chemotherapy agents and pain
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by memetichazard 17y ago
Wow, this is interesting, I thought. Then I looked at the rules. Argh, stupid Quebec. Which particular law is it that prohibits me from competing anyways?
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by memetichazard 17y ago
The 'gravity will be turned off prank', at http://steveblank.com/2009/05/13/gravity-will-be-turned-off/ is even funnier. At first I was wondering if this was meant to be an April Fool's joke - given the other prank, probably not.
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by memetichazard 17y ago
I know nothing of Botox. Please explain why this fearmongering is clueless. This article [ http://www.aahealth.org/physicianslink/bioterrorism_botulism... ] found via wikipedia claims that 270 ng of botox is enough to kill if inhaled. That

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