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In China, Xiaomi phone users have a "report spam" button, and if X number of people report that phone number as a spammer, calls from that number get blocked on all other Xiaomi phones. (I think X = 5, but I'm not sure.) I re
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The Bright Students Left Behind(wsj.com)
2 points by qiqing 11y ago|1 comments
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Or poor Chinese farmers, in this case.
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We humans are biologically quite different from a lot of the species we experiment on. To take a salient example, we've cured cancer (all sorts of cancers) in mice hundreds of times. It's unlikely you'll find a tumor in a mou
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Huh, I hadn't seen that until just now, but I looked up this paper ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11557177 ) and a more recent one that cited that one: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti
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Three senior officials lose their jobs at APA after US torture scandal (The Guardian) "As the American Psychological Association copes with the damage reaped by an independent investigation that found it complicit in US torture, the gr
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Original source: asked doctor for modafinil to enable working harder for more hours. Doctor said, No, you might think it's a good idea now, but if you're back here a couple months later with depression, you'll realize it&#x27
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Personally, I enjoy the flavor of Swiss water decaf more than others (and by reasoning of the "Dorito effect," that flavor may have something nontrivial to do with the nutrients left in it; it also happens to not use additional so
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A non-precise answer: a surprisingly large amount if you're careful about which parts to remove and if you do it really, really early in life. ;) In adults (or even adolescents) though, not as much luck. In the case of hemispherectomie
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Thank you for the correction. I mis-remembered a minor detail from a lecture that was 9 years ago, and have find/replaced cAMP -> adenosine in the above post. The gist of the post, though, remains the same. That is, caffeine competi
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I think it's useful to think of it not as a "bad thing" but as a very high-interest loan from your future self. In moments of weakness and pushing a deadline, I have sometimes rationalize the trade-off of future time/hea
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Hemispherectomy (removal of one half of the brain) is a treatment for Rasmussen's encephalitis when it's sufficiently severe (or the seizures are not responding to drugs). If done very early in life, the plasticity of brain makes
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+1. For some normal* people, taking modafinil increases the risk of major depression as well. * not diagnosed with narcolepsy or depression already
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(Former neuroscientist here.) This is true of caffeine, for example, which is an adenosine analog (e.g. it has a similar shape and fits into the same receptors). Adenosine is a signal to a cell that it's running low in energy. Caffeine
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Some people have difficulty falling asleep, and other people have trouble staying asleep (often waking up really early in the morning). The latter is much more common amongst older people, even though the amount of sleep they "need&quo
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Former neuroscientist here (though I did not work directly on Alzheimer's or sleep). Anesthesia and sleep are different states, though there are some similarities. Here's a figure that illustrates what 'typical' EEG look
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There is some evidence that dreaming is a side effect of defragging the memories of the day into long-term storage format.
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Like a nap. ;)
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> Advertising is our C8. This. Not to mention the malware that hitches rides on ad networks. Adblockers being the new condoms and all that.
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Windows 10 automatically spies on your kids and sends you their activity dossier(boingboing.net)
5 points by qiqing 11y ago|1 comments
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I meet and befriend all manners of people who are different from me (across nationality, age, sex, religion, etc.) at Burning Man.
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The coming collapse of surveillance marketing(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
14 points by qiqing 11y ago|3 comments
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Yeah, we could at least give Guam residents the right to vote. Them not having that right has a lot to do with racist legislators in a previous era feeling like votes by "alien races" (e.g., Asians) would be detrimental.
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This. Thank you for being a voice of reason. Historical context is so important here, especially the lessons China learned the hard way. Like just what the U.S., U.K., France, and other countries can do to you if you show weakness.
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That actually seems like a pretty good strategy, TBH. Not saying this in an inflammatory way, as this seems applicable to a lot of other areas. Execute massive land grab first to get strategic high ground, and then bitflip your previous mov
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China's approach has a lot to do with historical context and some really hard lessons. Like what happens if you don't take the necessary measures to make sure you're strong and strategically positioned so other people can&#x2
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But the U.S. builds some bases pretty close to China's coasts... To be fair, some of those island bases in Asia are used for the CIA torture program, so its purported purpose is probably not aggression towards China.
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Why is it moral for the U.S. and U.K. to build bases on random little islands in Asia, but not China and other Asian countries? Edit: Clarification, since so many of the smaller uninhabited islands have been claimed by the UK, US, and other
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There's data that shows that's not true. Check out the number of hours of paid work by mothers over time in the past 50 years, and the corresponding decrease in housework. [1] The world is not changed by "new-age articles and
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> "How can I be at the office and dropping Timmy off at soccer practice at the same time?" Palo Alto resident here. I was walking my dog the other day, and I saw a vehicle drop a kid off, with the tagline "Uber for Kids&qu

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