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by pradocchia 13y ago
To continue your thought experiment, another researcher designs a new, double-blind trial of gourds, and discovers that while gourds per se have no effect, the placebo effect is statistically significant. There is no explanation for WHY exp
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In science, the explanation is both the cart and the horse. I'm sorry, but no. Observation comes first, then hypotheses, then prediction, then verification. Explanations go from proposed to confirmed, but they are certainly not the g
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by pradocchia 13y ago
explain in neuroscientific terms Isn't that putting the cart before the horse? The article draws attention to a phenomenon that isn't predicted by current theory. Before a predictive theory has been developed, there is even some
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by pradocchia 13y ago
It's satire. From the article, last paragraph: The London and Edinburgh Vacuum Tunnel Company report is accompanied by a small notice: "The foregoing Jeu d'Esprit appeared in a recent number of the Edinburgh Star, and being
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by pradocchia 13y ago
There is in fact a proposed passenger plus vehicle capsule: The passenger plus vehicle version of the Hyperloop will depart as often as the passenger only version, but will accommodate 3 vehicles in addition to the passengers. [p12] The
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by pradocchia 13y ago
And what is wrong with 'it emerges from neural activity'? Nothing terribly wrong, but consider this: a) images on the television emerge from electrical activity in the television set; b) break the television and the the images c
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by pradocchia 13y ago
temphn, I wouldn't have weighed in if I didn't already know the history. Yes, you can see those ~65M deaths in world population statistics, that's how bad it was. China had gone through 200 years of instability, strife and su
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by pradocchia 13y ago
The passage you quote seems fairly neutral to me, and you appear to bring more baggage to the conversation than the author himself. There was in fact a qualitative change in popular Chinese outlook from Mao to Deng, never mind the damage Ma
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that's great! next step: get to venezuela.
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> People who are more interested in something are usually better at it? Yes, but no. It shows that women who care more about math are more sensitive to the reputation/stereotype effects, presumably because they do care.
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Hormones and antibiotics, perhaps. Chinese raised in America do not look the same as Chinese raised in China. They tend to be bigger, thicker, taller, and with a different skin tone. Go figure.
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by pradocchia 13y ago
Insofar as national policy is overdetermined, who the president happens to be for a given term is irrelevant. So the question becomes, is the surveillance state overdetermined? There's certainly a strong collation behind it--the money
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by pradocchia 13y ago
> If you have online contact with someone that's of interest, there's a chance all of your info will be of interest also. Yes, I believe two degrees of separation is the rule of thumb here. McCarty is one degree, so to complete
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by pradocchia 13y ago
This is an exercise in synthesis, not analysis--akin to reading tea leaves. By all means, keep two ledgers: a) claims with hard evidence, and b) suppositions on a tree of conjecture. Though again: having informed opinions on secret programs
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by pradocchia 13y ago
Dude. They have the content of email too. I'm going to make a wild guess here and assume it falls under the "required by law" category of the denials. Well, too bad for them, too bad for us. Welcome to the future, and there&#
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by pradocchia 13y ago
Keep your head down and stay out of trouble, yes.
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> get the US populous to accept this whole surveillance state, and to get congress to fully legitimize these surveillance operations... that does, frankly, seem the most likely outcome of all this, specific orchestrations aside. no one r
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by pradocchia 13y ago
> Why am I the one who needs to reserve judgement? Because you are responsible for your opinions. What other people say is orthogonal to your own exercise of judgment. /schoolmarm
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by pradocchia 13y ago
I'm disappointed, tptacek. You're a sharp guy. Why muddy the waters like this? The deck identified specific providers as on board or coming on board. Their denials looked similar. The deck characterized access as "direct&quot
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by pradocchia 13y ago
I don't know, but it appears the message brigade is out in force now. Our initial shock is gone, and we are eager for more narrative. Now is the opportunity to cast doubt, to reframe, to discredit.
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Ha, that's nothing. Just wait till Friedman weighs in.
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That is how it works, and how it has worked since WW2, at least in the English-speaking countries and NATO.
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by pradocchia 13y ago
No. Gold production has definitely become more energy intensive, and in this regard it is somewhat similar to bitcoin. HOWEVER, with bitcoin, marginal mining cost is a function of cumulative supply. As supply reaches 21M, marginal cost go
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by pradocchia 14y ago
The eagles rescued Frodo and Sam from Mordor after Sauron and the ring were destroyed. Thus, we may infer that up until then, the eagles could not have entered Mordor, and/or they could not have carried the ring-bearer there. Precisely wh
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by pradocchia 14y ago
While it's possible quantum effects could explain unpredictability in the physical universe, there is no scientific evidence this is relevant to the brain; the brain operates at a much higher, more macro level than quantum mechanics. The
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81 mpg? A diesel jetta only gets 42 highway.
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by pradocchia 14y ago
I know that motel. I have friends who live across the street. Those reviews are not snark. The place is an absolute hole, and the owner knows exactly what business he is in. Many locals in town would be pleased to see it shutdown.
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by pradocchia 14y ago
Conceptually this is not so different than a regular database and its log. The log is the immutable, write-only part, and the tables are the current representation. Datomic moves the current representation further up the stack.
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by pradocchia 14y ago
Ex-philologist and historical linguist here, and I don't find the heuristics all the improbable. Change in the field is largely generation--the old guard dies and the young turks rise to take their place. Peer review filters out the noise,
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by pradocchia 14y ago
Disagree w/ your specifics, strongly agree w/ the perception of a narrative being present. Agree that Romney was never in real danger of winning, disagree that he himself threw the contest. He wanted to win, it just wasn't in the cards.

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