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by rd108 13y ago
I didn't realize that NSA funding was harder to nil out! I guess because the Pentagon gets their budget and then can do what they want with it? I'm sure strings could be attached to the Pentagon's budget though. Upvoting your
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by rd108 13y ago
Web tools finally able to tip the balance of government more towards direct democracy rather than representative. Signed. eventually, these networked tools will threaten to snowball into actual political change, and their makers will shut t
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by rd108 13y ago
This is foolish. Non-violent protest is how the Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr. forced better law, Gandhi did the same and freed India from the British empire. And today we're much more networked and able to communi
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by rd108 13y ago
The Civil Rights movement used peace tactics, non-violence and Ghandian ethics. The Vietnam war protests were largely peaceful, except when e.g. government soldiers attacked college students at Kent State. @csomar is correct that changing p
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by rd108 13y ago
Here's the TED talk ("censored" from TED) A TED Talk on Income Inequality by Nick Hanauer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIhOXCgSunc
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by rd108 14y ago
I've been a bitcoin supporter. But there is a twinge in me that remembers government, properly set up, can often protect the weak from the strong. Extremely wealthy corporations and individuals moving around anonymous money would make it im
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TEDx: Neurotechnology for learning meditation(youtube.com)
1 points by rd108 14y ago|0 comments
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by rd108 14y ago
Yup. found the file I wanted by looking through the source for *.mp3 and finding the static file asset.
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by rd108 14y ago
does anyone know the fastest way to rip a sound file from this flash player for private use?
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by rd108 14y ago
I love "Buddhist Nike+"! We are staying away from language that might turn people off but it's a pretty compact way to describe this whole set of devices. :)
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by rd108 14y ago
this is a great idea. I personally have found using a mala to be really rewarding. We've played with various timing methodologies but maybe there's a physical hardware device that combines a biosensor and mala we haven't considered yet. Th
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by rd108 14y ago
This is really interesting. We're making products for helping people be more mindful, including some with biosensor integration (brainwaves via EEG, heartrate via optical sensors.) We're programmers ourselves and would love people's insight
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by rd108 14y ago
Congratulations, guys. Excellent work and I love Ipython :)
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by rd108 14y ago
To be fair, that's generally only a criticism of fMRI experiments. Far from all the neuroscience research being done.
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by rd108 14y ago
Unfortunately the bluetooth protocol got a lot easier to integrate into our app in iOS 5, but we may release on other platforms in the future! Thanks for the +1 for iOS4.
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by rd108 14y ago
Rick Hanson's stuff is great. Here's a lecture he did at Google several years ago: http://www.youtube.com/user/BuddhasBrain
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by rd108 14y ago
For now, it'll run on the mobile phone only. We're working to make it available on all devices, though. That won't happen for at least a year.
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by rd108 14y ago
Thanks Itaxpica. I come from an academic cognitive neuro background too and shared a lot of your concerns. We've shown empirically that you can use an active (non-gel) EEG system to do limited things. We are interested in mindfulness and me
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by rd108 14y ago
Of course, and thank you for reaching out! My previous (pre-startup) job was to do neuroimaging of mindfulness on longterm practitioners in the lab of Sara Lazar. You can check out some of their publications to get going--> http://www.
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by rd108 14y ago
You can actually use these electrical signatures to make meditation a trackable, quantifiable "exercise activity". Just like you log running miles with, say, RunKeeper. Really cool to see more people getting excited about it the science! Di
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by rd108 14y ago
can anyone confirm the Start fund's $150K convertible debt note is still on the table for every YC startup?
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by rd108 14y ago
Lehrer himself (@4:50) on the Colbert Report explained why "creatively borrowing" others work is fundamental to innovative thinking. I would preface this with "ironically", but he actually believes his argument. http://www.colbertnation.co
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by rd108 14y ago
I'm sorry, none of what I read seemed very egregious to me. In many cases, I couldn't even decipher whether something had been really plagiarized or not. You DO use lots of material from other people when writing a story-- some of these phr
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by rd108 14y ago
They haven't failed. The project is alive and running-- I mean, I USE Diaspora. Check out the github page-- this isn't a period in Diaspora's story, it's a comma leading to better things and even more community control.
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by rd108 14y ago
What? I USE diaspora. it's awesome.. I actually prefer it to Facebook because there's less noise (my interests are not the same as the 400 friends I made while living in college dorms.)
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by rd108 14y ago
It's essentially the same idea, except that you elicit a particular brainwave signal only when recognizing something you've already seen. I believe India experimented with using it in murder trials a few years ago-- if the accused elicits a
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by rd108 14y ago
Did not realize Feynman used meditation, isolation tanks, etc.! "First I started out by investigating various ideas of mysticism, and mystic experiences. I went into isolation tanks and got many hours of hallucinations, so I know something
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by rd108 14y ago
wonder if you can use a gyroscope to add some of this effect....
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by rd108 14y ago
Is there a real controversy over whether the Harappan script is writing vs. "a kind of ornamentation"? Your comment smacks of condescension but I'm sure you can just provide citations. Your (wikipedia) article contains some arguments based
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Studios lose landmark anti-piracy suit in Australia(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by rd108 14y ago|0 comments

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