mnemonicsloth

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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
They say they're an FDIC member. The FDIC says [1] Redneck bank is another name for All America Bank, which has been insured since December 22, 1969. There are at least two populations that would like this, IMO: a hipster crowd who are
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
I love Atlas Obscura, but this entry is kind of missing the point. Every place on earth is teeming with microbes. Five thousand feet under the floor of the Challenger deep, it's teeming with microbes. In sulfur hot springs where t
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
Use of nukes is punished with annihilation. That's the unwritten rule. Since it's unwritten, a lot of the fine print is unwritten too, like how soon and by what mechanism . Maybe, if you nuke your 150m radius it sets in moti
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
You can be skeptical of almost anything you want. One thing that surprised me was how tolerant scientists are of dissent. Your views can run from the unorthodox to the downright eccentric and, so long as you pay attention to data and argu
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
Wow. They've got us over a barrel if they don't even bother to lie to us any more. As for the ease of digestion, I know protein has the same caloric content as carbohydrate (both 4 cal/g). Fat is 9cal/g. Seems straigh
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
...except eating 4000 calories a day of fat and protein. Conservation of energy is the law.
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
A lot of people believe their side is smarter. Try to prove them wrong and they'll take it as a personal attack etc etc see the original article
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
> If it’s part of your ideological community’s worldview that unnatural things are unhealthful, factual information about a scientific consensus on the safety of vaccines or GMOs feels like a personal attack. There's nothing unnat
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
The unifying thread for anti-vaxxers is a fear of authority. You can find that anywhere. Left, right and center.
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
This program should have a special mode for programmers who need to learn the !@#$%^&*()-=[]{}\| keys.
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
> Even among "great minds", narrow domain-specific knowledge can matter. Yes, but it never matters at first. The first thing you do, always, is hack a prototype together. Computers are fast. Basic algorithms and data structu
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
Because of my father's job, my family moved 9 times before I was 12. It wasn't as big a deal as you're describing.
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
You're going to be okay. You do have a huge amount of stress in your life. Plenty of people would break down under half that. (Seriously, suppose it was one sexual assault and the breakup. That is enough to fuck a lot of people up.)
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
Within the humanities there will probably always be a lot of people who love Freud because he lets them say subversive things about society. But in the sciences he’s been debunked. Any Psych 101 book will tell you his methods are no longer
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
No problem. Basically the physicists thought I was winding them up and the engineers, notably including the prof, thought my priorities were all screwed up. I really did want to know the answer, but in retrospect they were both a little bit
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
Can you recommend any sources? What kind of setup do you use to do your development?
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
I remember that from a class on lasers I took when I was an undergrad. All the physicists thought it was really cool and significant and argued about who was the first to see it coming. The engineers were totally unfazed. Whatever it tak
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
> The list of faulty or outright fraudulent experiments done by psychologists grows ever longer. So what social-psychological experiments are bogus? The most famous problem experiment I can think of is Zimbardo's fake prison, and II
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
Did it set back psychiatric practice? Maybe not. But did the Rosenhan experiment set back the public perception of psychiatry? How could it not? If you remember that suicide hotlines are life-saving interventions, and that a lot of
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
If you mean Freudian psychoanalysis, you're right. Freud was a quack. The word "pseudoscience" was literally coined just to describe him. If you mean all psychotherapy is bullshit, you're wrong. There are bad therap
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
But he lied so well, for so long. He wouldn't have gotten as far as he did without knowing how to tell people what they want to hear. And this is what we want to hear. No heart of darkness, just... a mistake. Oops. He promises he
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
The maximum sentence the DOJ is asking for in Holmes's case is 20 years. She may well deserve it, (if she caused sick people to die or get sicker) but she'll probably get less. In the worst case (for her) she'd be 55 when s
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
I remember reading an argument about Bernie Madoff: he'll spend the rest of his life in jail, but nobody can take away the 20 years when he was king of the world. Holmes got half that. I wonder if they were worth it, or if she spent t
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
I'm trying to decide if I should go down this rabbit hole. The math looks easy enough, but I know nothing about music. Nothing . And I'd love to learn, of course, but I can see myself buying a keyboard and plinking out some of
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
> “A lot of the knock on Apple is that they haven’t been very innovative, but they changed the game more than anyone else with things like AirPods and ancillary things,” said Mr. Bryan, whose firm in Arden Hills, Minn., has $2.6 billion
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
It depends on how far out you want to get. It's possible life could exist on neutron stars, or in stellar photospheres, or in the atmospheres of gas giants. And life might not be obvious. Life as we know it is not an obvious predicti
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
You're right that fossil fuels are contingent. They exist because of a big evolutionary coincidence that might not be repeated on other worlds. It's possible, though, that aliens might not need fossil fuels to get to space. If t
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
Looks cool. Always wanted to learn something about graphics. Shame there are no examples.
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
As a biologist, it's pretty cool, although not quite as cool because it's the same life. Different life, evolved on different planets, would be cooler. It would use some of the same tools, like phosphates as signaling/energ
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by mnemonicsloth 7y ago
True. But we have prima facie evidence that advanced civilizations -- as advanced as we're about to be, in not very much longer -- are very rare.

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