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by natdempk 12y ago
You could try to implement a blind test by doing tDCS with currents below those known to be effective as a control. From what I've heard under 0.5 mA should have negligible effects, though its worth looking into more studies for that.
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by natdempk 12y ago
A wired article [0] mentions a study that found trade-offs in studying using tDCS, albeit minor ones. It sounds like tDCS increased learning rate, but also increased recall time for the knowledge learned compared to non-tDCS learning. I can
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by natdempk 12y ago
Sorry to be a pessimist here, but is there any evidence that you've increased your intelligence in anything that can't be trained? Dual-N-Back benefits from training, IQ tests benefit from training, and fluid intelligence is reall
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by natdempk 12y ago
The problem with this is that unless you can figure out a scheme to stop numbers being faked, this isn't possible with current telephone equipment.
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by natdempk 12y ago
Here's a link to an overview of the service and architecture: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/8/13/in-memoriam-lavabi... And a critique of the design from Moxie Marlinspike: http://w
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by natdempk 12y ago
This sounds like a good thing to do. Many non-profits just want simpler projects like a website redesign done by someone capable, so those projects might be perfect for a developer and an intern to get done fairly quickly, while still being
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by natdempk 12y ago
Not quite, this blog post from Netflix highlights a couple key differences in their case: http://blog.netflix.com/2014/04/the-case-against-isp-tolls.h... > Transit networks like Level3, XO, Cogent and Tata perf
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by natdempk 12y ago
Basically the answer to this is yes. If Comcast spends all of this money to upgrade their network and the cost to the end user goes up for the better service, then there are really no problems here. That's basically how a market should
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by natdempk 12y ago
This seems like a valuable approach. If we could come up with examples of services like nonprofits that would be unable to pay and have their services negatively affected I think that could make people care about this issue. Maybe if we foc
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by natdempk 12y ago
I would like to see more companies go the way of shaming the ISPs. If people saw a message while a Netflix or Youtube video was buffering that said Comcast slows down this service artificially to make more money, I bet they would care more
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by natdempk 12y ago
I'm guessing this is just giving them a legal justification to do whatever they want with your data and making that the new standard agreement at the same time, by providing a false benefit to the consumer. They also get to make extra
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by natdempk 12y ago
I think its better to look at this another way: that they are making $30/month from the privacy concerned and that the higher price would not hold as their only price if they got rid of the "privacy plan". $150/month see
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by natdempk 12y ago
Whats the theory behind this? Many people (myself included) just scribble on the receipt because its inconvenient. Merchants never have a problem with this, meaning it could easily be someone who stole my card signing that receipt. Why does
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by natdempk 12y ago
You can reorder notes in the web interface by dragging them, but oddly enough you can only do this in the grid view and not the list view.
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by natdempk 12y ago
The answer seems like it will be no since they're enabling it for Apps for Education customers. For customers outside of that, I'm not sure, but even so Apps for Education is going to be the majority using this.
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by natdempk 12y ago
One thing that this has going for it against Blackboard is that many universities already use Google Apps to manage their student email/accounts, so it should be a relatively smooth transition to enable access for students and teachers
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Putin's Internet Plan Requires 'Sharing' With Security Services (npr.org)
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by natdempk 12y ago
What is the price point of the product? How difficult is it to connect with another to trade it? How frequently are these trades made by individuals? It might be possible to charge a finder's fee if you built some sort of matching serv
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by natdempk 12y ago
+1 for Zenbooks. I have a UX32VD, with 12 GB RAM and an i7 and it runs all of the distros I've tried with minimal problems and setup. I've run different versions of Ubuntu and Arch on it with no real issues, and the battery life i
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by natdempk 13y ago
Is there a scientific explanation that anyone could offer or a theory that you have about this? This sounds interesting and I am curious as to why it happens.
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by natdempk 13y ago
Here's the blog post that always gets linked when this comes up: http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-random...
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by natdempk 13y ago
I think think the thing about Twitter is you essentially have to pretend you have a network to actually gain a network. You have to do the internet equivalent of putting yourself out there, because if someone gets to your profile and sees y
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by natdempk 13y ago
One thing I've found is that when you miss days, having some sort of planned reset time is definitely helpful. I use the same chain technique to journal every day through 750words. They track streaks both overall in days and visually o
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by natdempk 13y ago
Memory safety in C is hard, but this bug, a memcpy with a user-supplied, unchecked length? I mean this is stuff that I learned about in my first serious class that involved C, and it wasn't even security related. C is a language where
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by natdempk 13y ago
I guess, but it still seems like no one offers this and its not trivial. Do you know of any research/systems/practical offerings in this area? This has been something that I would be interested in learning a lot more about honestl
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by natdempk 13y ago
I have been wanting this for a while as well. Performance is not a huge issue in this scenario for me, as security is the really the reason anyone would use this. I would want to prevent data from leaking completely if possible. My ideal sc
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by natdempk 13y ago
That frustrated me so much. Like I thought if I dragged through the point from one side to the other I could do a negative dilation and maybe the color would change to indicate that or something, but it just didn't work.
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by natdempk 13y ago
Agreed, though they did the dilation interface idea basically for the third puzzle, and it didn't feel significantly better. I would like to see maybe the math for the current transformation, as it would make it feel more like a puzzle
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by natdempk 13y ago
Usually a small study like this is done as a test of safety and potential benefit as a precursor to a larger more comprehensive study. I think its exciting and dramatic that there were enough initial positive results to move on to a better
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by natdempk 13y ago
I think the key takeaway here was that the anti-depressive effects lasted for days to months afterwards, well past the peak effects/activity of the drug.

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