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by panglott 11y ago
This reminds me of the story of the Game of the Century, with Go Seigen's shinfuseki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_go_games#.22The_Game_o... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinfuseki
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by panglott 11y ago
Yea, my concerns are threefold: overdiagnosis, the diagnosis of young children, and the impact of treatment on developing children. I don't doubt that ADHD is a real disorder, but if the true rate of occurrence is 2-5% while the US dia
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by panglott 11y ago
Isn't it normal to have difficulty focusing on things that are really boring? ADHD diagnosis rates are several times higher in the US than in other developed countries, and orders of scale higher than in low-diagnosis countries (such a
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by panglott 11y ago
Termites are an excellent food source.
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by panglott 11y ago
Direct personal interaction is how small children acquire language. This is the only way that children can acquire language, and a language-rich environment is crucially important for children. This is something that simply cannot be automa
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by panglott 11y ago
Yea, automating social coordination is fine, and technology and automation clearly enables use to increase our level of communication. Which is great. That's different from automating the content of our relationships. It is dehumanizin
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by panglott 11y ago
Why is child care something that should be automated? Doesn't it make sense to spend a lot of high-value human attention on small children? Humans are not a product. They are an end in themselves. It's like trying to automate your
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by panglott 11y ago
Sorry, but all of those sound like things that are going to help people who were already going to be successful to be even more successful. College debt, for example, is a problem for those who were successful enough to get into college int
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by panglott 11y ago
I would say the main problem with Americans is that they really do not like to speak any language other than English ;)
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White/black cultural differences in the US is a different issue from immigrant assimilation. Because black people are already "real Americans", and yet overall are culturally distinct from white Americans in some ways.
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by panglott 11y ago
It would be implausible for vaping to not be less harmful than smoking. And harm reduction is good! But that's a far cry from "vaping is 'safe'".
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by panglott 11y ago
That is not at all what that article says. From your link: “Passive smoking has many downstream health effects—asthma, upper respiratory infections, other pulmonary diseases, cardiovascular disease—but only borderline increased risk of lung
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by panglott 11y ago
Can speak from experience with small children freshly potty trained that, indeed, you do need to wipe your butt or you will get infections there.
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by panglott 11y ago
In one ear and out the other, huh?
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by panglott 11y ago
Am not surprised. As smoking has become more costly (with anti-secondhand-smoke regulations) and socially unacceptable, many smokers have found means to quit, and surely many used vaping for this. But it seems to me that a large proportion
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by panglott 11y ago
Why are vapers so convinced that vaping is "safe"? The supposed "safety" of e-cigs mostly looks like industry marketing to people desperate to preserve their habit.
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by panglott 11y ago
Yea, as soon as I see a big image header I reflexively start scrolling through the article looking for some actual information. I blame Google/Android for all those inscrutable hamburger menus, which are like rooting around in the tras
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by panglott 11y ago
I remember debating folks about climate change a while back, from the perspective of managing unknown risks. So much of what could happen or what is projected about the influence of Antarctic glaciers on global sea level rise depends on thi
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by panglott 11y ago
"His employer had discovered that he was using Yahoo Messenger for personal contacts, as well as professional ones. Because it believed it was accessing a work account, the judges said, the firm had not erred. The man, named Bogdan Bar
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by panglott 11y ago
The main problem with this is how you conceptualize "hunter-gather" exercise. Hunter-gatherers comprise ancient societies spread across the planet in a huge range of ecosystems, from the Arctic shore to African deserts. Most of th
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by panglott 11y ago
IIRC, one of the main differences between human and chimp behavior towards infants is that human parents are willing to allow other humans, even strangers, to handle their infants. Chimps never allow this, because other chimps even within t
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by panglott 11y ago
The thing to keep in mind is that there were hundreds of Native American societies, and they varied considerably in their social practices. Slavery was fairly common on the Plains. The Pawnee still practiced human sacrifice in historic time
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by panglott 11y ago
The way this kind of voter fraud typically works is that there is a permanent local political organization that organizes the vote-buying and hands out the cash. This is of course illegal, and retail vote-buying has to be laundered through
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by panglott 11y ago
Votes have a small but real value, and this can easily be seen from the fact that corrupt politicians will pay actual money for them. Politicians will pay $10-20 per vote in actual money. That's not huge, but it's not nothing, and
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by panglott 11y ago
The problem with kiloseconds/megaseconds/&c. is that the time units are simply not human scale. Your base units are 1 second, 16 minutes, 11 days, and 31 years. If you want to talk about a period of a few days, you're tal
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by panglott 11y ago
Base-60 math is even superior.
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by panglott 11y ago
Most of the multiples of eleven are really, really easy, and probably just has simple pedagogical value. Multiples of 12 come up a lot because dozens are used a lot in real-world counting of length and time. Perhaps less in a metric country
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by panglott 11y ago
It's both hard and boring. Yes, yes, audiobooks, I know. Audiobooks/podcasts are great at lower intensities.
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by panglott 11y ago
Although I disagree with the professor on this, I do understand his point. A lot of what people learn in college is simply how to fit in among social elites and follow their norms. Lots of people place a high amount of importance on "p
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by panglott 11y ago
My average for the last four years (since I started tracking) is 43.5. I think reading 100/year would require reading books instead of watching TV nearly every night. Here's confessions of someone who read 164: http://w

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