quantumofmalice

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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
It's a catchy title and so-so article, but I have to be autistic and point out that "X isn't about Y" is almost always false: rather it should be "X isn't (only|mostly) about Y". Clever false dilemmas are
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
As with post-modernism (which this is simply a late stage manifestation of) you shouldn't blame the superficial reaction, you should blame the initial problem, which was architectural modernism and an obsession with discarding all the
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
> Unfortunately, the more difficult it is to gather experimental evidence (as it is psychology), the more this desire takes over, I think. And doubly unfortunately, even the gathering of experimental evidence is subject to this proble
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
This makes far more sense than apples touch bar, especially if it was modal with a few different keys that brought up different screens.
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
That is simply emotional nonsense, on par with young earth creationism. The heritability and heredity of intelligence, for example, has been established beyond all reasonable doubt and no one in the intelligence research arena disputes it.
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
Eugenics has a bad name, but it is scientifically valid. We now know that genetics play a huge role in life outcomes (e.g. adult IQ appears to be 70-80% heritable) and, for better or for worse, the eugenicists were right, even if their met
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
It is worth meditating on the fact that such a terrible idea was and is able to dominate the visual design community for so long without any significant push back. It has caused real pain for end users, and people who objected were shouted
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
Your weekly reminder that flat ui (and its derivatives, like material UI) are big steps backwards in usability: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-design/ Granting the validity of many aesthetic criticisms of o
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
Javascript is the Chauncey Gardiner of programming languages. It was there.
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
Yes, that is a great book as well. I think "From Bauhause to Our House" is more important because we can survive a period of terrible art: most people will simply ignore it and when it is over you can throw most of it into the dum
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
Very sad to hear. His book "From Bauhaus to Our House" changed my life, finally giving me a plausible explanation as to how we managed to create such a horrific built environment post WW2.
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
Setting aside the logical impossibility of people f-king up but not f-king down, that is not true at all: men will f-ck down quite readily if it is convenient and there is low commitment. This is due to the obvious reason that males can ha
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
I am saying that the evidence suggests that 70-80% of adult[1] intelligence is based on genetic factors (that is distinct from heritability, which is lower, ~60% iirc) leaving the remaining 20-30% as unknown environmental factors. Wealth i
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
That is not true. Adult intelligence appears to be ~70-80% based on genetic factors. See The Neuroscience of Intelligence by Richard Haier for an overview of the current consensus in intelligence research.
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
The consensus amongst intelligence researchers is that adult intelligence is ~70-80% based on genetic factors. I refer you to The Neuroscience of Intelligence - Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology by Richard Haier and the
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
Meanwhile economists STILL bang on about ricardian free trade while, out the other side of their mouth, talking gleefully about the fading usefulness, way of life and, ultimately, existence of the people whose communities were destroyed by
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
there was a movie about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days_(film)
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
The elite code of conduct: Do what thou wilt, but for goodness sake don't say anything about it
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
Carry the five, add the expected ego crushing, broken relationships and ulcers... I get infinity. It costs infinity to build a startup.
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
Because, like monarchy, they are still the least worst option when considering both the OS and hardware combined, for most people. The issues with the latest macbooks are real and severe, but running windows or linux, even on nice hardware
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
I have seen more technical damage done by nice and competent people deferring to bullies in the workplace than by legitimate disagreements expressed passionately.
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
I expected an account of how luck is a necessary condition in unusual success. I had a faint hope that the author would be intelligent enough to recognize that it was not a sufficient condition. However, the article doesn't even rise
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
If you'd like a more technical explanation why the older systems were right, you can read Steve Keen's work. On the other hand, if you enjoy the surprise of financial crises every decade and major currency crises every five decade
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
Well, you aren't alone: most professional economists ignore banking and debt entirely. To paraphrase Paul Krugman: "It's just money we owe ourselves." Historically, however, debt has been social nitroglycerine, which is
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
As is so often the case, the first comment explains more than the entire article: "Economic division was built into USD: you either pay interest on Treasury bonds, or you live off it."
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
Yes. A light alarm is what let me do it, in particular the twighlight simulation, which allowed me to fall asleep consistently: https://www.usa.philips.com/c-p/HF3531_60/wake-up-light It also dramatically improve
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
I would distribute sovereignty more broadly, allow the smaller units of sovereignty to practice mercantilism to protect internal industries (i.e. productive capacity) and remove usury as the basis of the money supply to avoid wealth concent
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
Things like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_credit
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
The solution to expensive neighborhoods isn't destroying those neighborhoods with high density housing. Most humans don't want to live in hives. The problem to solve is distributing economic viability more widely across the count
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
The biggest, fastest and easiest change that improved my depression was getting a light alarm: https://www.usa.philips.com/c-p/HF3531_60/wake-up-light The usability of this model is terrible, but it changed my lif

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