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Two Types of Envy(overcomingbias.com)
2 points by monort 8y ago|0 comments
512.
by monort 8y ago
They will probably easily find another legacy VB app to maintain, it's like COBOL that never dies.
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by monort 9y ago
Delivery from restaurants.
514.
by monort 9y ago
Bottled water is cheap, they buy it in 5 gallon bottles. I've seen that in many countries.
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by monort 9y ago
Food delivery (not the fast food one) is changing the need for cooking, I haven't cooked in ages. In principle, the price of food preparation should be smaller when done on a large scale, but for some reason it's not the case, exc
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by monort 9y ago
Kibbutzism was less authoritarian, than you can expect from communism. I think it was because people always had a choice to leave.
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by monort 9y ago
Voluntary communism was tried too, read about kibbutzim. As you can expect it had practically the same problems as USSR (weirdly including authoritarianism) and they mostly had to return back to private property rights for members.
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Bouba/kiki effect(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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Predicting Google closures (2013)(gwern.net)
1 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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by monort 9y ago
Interesting, I didn't know about agenesis of the corpus callosum. Why are all split-brain experiments use patients with surgically removed callosum and not this people with a rare, but still frequent defect?
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Split Brain, Undivided Consciousness? (2017)(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
5 points by monort 9y ago|2 comments
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European Commission Killing Off Thousands of EU Domains Due to Brexit(circleid.com)
3 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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by monort 9y ago
Physical control of polling station is not required. Voters are getting the filled ballot outside the polling station from organizers, tossing it into the box and bringing the empty ballot back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by monort 9y ago
Nobody saying there is a god or soul, but explanation can be in unknown parts of physics and surprisingly we have that unknown parts. We have unexplained phenomenon - consciousness, everyone (well, at least me) experience it. We don't
525.
by monort 9y ago
It is not hidden, we don't have a complete physical theory - quantum mechanics and general relativity are not compatible. As an additional fun fact - we don't know how general anesthesia works.
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by monort 9y ago
There are at least several possibilities 1) People, who don't want to be affected by global warming. Right now nobody is affected enough to pay and it is too costly (estimates are $500/metric ton, while emission per capita is arou
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by monort 9y ago
Global warming will be solved, when we have a source of cheap electricity, it will be possible to just pull CO2 from the air.
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Ellsberg paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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Do Artificial Reinforcement-Learning Agents Matter Morally?(arxiv.org)
3 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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Commotio cordis(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
531.
by monort 9y ago
I made a small Chrome extension for that, it shows links to all discussions about the URL on HN and Reddit. Viewing comments on one page would be cool, but it is probably a copyright infringement.
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Ethnographic and Archaeological Evidence on Violent Deaths(ourworldindata.org)
1 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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Could Gambling Save Science? Encouraging an Honest Consensus(mason.gmu.edu)
1 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine (2013) [pdf](scottaaronson.com)
1 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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How to Wash Dishes: A Study of Dish Washing Practices Across Cultures(owlcation.com)
2 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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Physiocracy(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by monort 9y ago|1 comments
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You could soon be manufacturing your own drugs–thanks to 3D printing(sciencemag.org)
4 points by monort 9y ago|1 comments
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Those Kids and Their Darn Gadgets(artbrock.com)
1 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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How long did it take to get horse drawn carriages off the roads in lieu of cars?(quora.com)
2 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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Change in human social behavior in response to a flu vaccine(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
11 points by monort 9y ago|3 comments

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