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by ryanklee 15y ago
Has it been at all shown that the placebo effect is at all correlated with any psychological frame or disposition whatsoever?
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by ryanklee 15y ago
> Without starting a religious war Famous last words ;-)
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by ryanklee 15y ago
This really sounds to me exactly what sub-reddits already accomplish... am I missing something? In fact, I do use sub-reddits as a kind of rss alternative and for my less frequented ones will sort by Top for last week/month/etc. It works pr
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by ryanklee 15y ago
I'm personally torn on RSS readers. Admittedly, I'm an almost entirely unproductive person lately, so I can't claim that it's because RSS is getting in the way of other things. My chief suspicion is that as the number of subscriptions goes
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by ryanklee 15y ago
Unless they've got Morgan Freeman or Tom Waits or Garrison Keillor doing the reading, I'm not sure how you can stand this. I'm not just being cheeky, either; is listening to voice fonts for extended periods and for complex material just som
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by ryanklee 15y ago
You'd be surprised, I think, just how much looking (and being?) stereotypically Western is considered a PR advantage in many Asian countries. There is a practice, for instance, of hiring Western males to attend business meetings not for any
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by ryanklee 15y ago
His point is that he looks stereotypically Western and therefore is considered more attractive than most Chinese natives or Asians generally by Asians and the Chinese themselves. He's making no claims about how attractive he actually is,
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by ryanklee 15y ago
This is not an argument about what or what doesn't constitute a good or healthy life; it is an argument about what is an acceptable barrier to cultural access and about the kind of moralizing that goes on around supposed breaches of propert
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by ryanklee 15y ago
"You decide your own culture." This is a very narrow view of culture. If culture is simply any given activity, then yes, you decide your own culture. But if culture is simply any given activity, then we are talking about two different thing
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by ryanklee 15y ago
I read an excellent argument against this idea not too long ago in an HN comment. I wish I could track it down because I am going to do an awful job paraphrasing it, but it basically amounts to this: To ask someone not to participate in med
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by ryanklee 15y ago
But he's not suffering from G-MAE here. G-MAE is about forgetting how factually wrong journalism is almost all of time vs. when it is wrong in relation to your specialty. Pointing out the errors when you can is part of the solution, not a c
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by ryanklee 15y ago
It is interesting how many comments on this page are focused on the short-cut rather than the underlying functionality. Ctrl-F itself has nothing to do with it and is purely incidental. The real rub here is that people don't understand that
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by ryanklee 15y ago
Except cats don't hibernate. Hint: it's an adjective, like feline, except descriptive of a different species of animal.
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by ryanklee 15y ago
If the implication is don't use AirBnB, then the implication is also: never leave your own home and never let anyone in, which is paranoid and absurd. You might object that what you say applies only to strangers and not to those you trust,
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by ryanklee 15y ago
No, they mean "in Space". Why attempt to subvert the obviously standard usage of the word? It's just silly.
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by ryanklee 15y ago
It's not a hot dog, actually more like a kind of cheese, and by "kind of" I mean just about the most disgusting artificial cheese you can imagine. Very popular over there and sold at every corner store near the register in the impulse-buy s
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by ryanklee 15y ago
I would bet that Google wouldn't let this happen unless Chrome superceded Firefox's market share by a very significant margin -- but then again, the asking bid price for the default search engine is probably directly proportional to Firefox
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by ryanklee 15y ago
Ah, yes, thanks. Still, I doubt 3.6 mil workers is an economically ineffectual number.
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by ryanklee 15y ago
My understanding is that the money that Google forks over to Mozilla is simply to keep Google as the browser's default search engine, not to sustain Firefox as a competing browser. If Google ceased that "funding", I'm sure some other search
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by ryanklee 15y ago
4.9% of US pop. working at or below minimum wage is hardly insignificant. http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2009.htm
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by ryanklee 15y ago
Yes, how many? Pretty fair question to answer before making the claim that it's "not entirely true" -- how true or not true depends on the number.
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by ryanklee 15y ago
These are all problems with the current implementation -- not problems with trains themselves. Trains are wonderful; amtrak is rotten.
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by ryanklee 15y ago
Add to this Socrates's own personal daimon, who, if I am recalling this correctly, would instruct him against taking certain actions but never instructed him to carry any specific actions out. I've always looked at it as one of the earliest
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by ryanklee 15y ago
Link was 404 http://www.nmm.ac.uk/gcse-astronomy/sun-and-moon/moon-moveme...
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by ryanklee 15y ago
Made made his death out of it, too.
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by ryanklee 15y ago
It was designed as a text for an intro to programming college course, so I'd say it is possible to complete it in four months if you devote an hour to it every night or so.
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by ryanklee 15y ago
There is a difference between psychopathy and selfish disregard: selfish disregard wants to be justified, wants to connect to reasons for its disregard -- it is not fully disjunct from societal norms. This association here is nonsense and r
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by ryanklee 15y ago
Do you mind expanding on this? I am having trouble seeing an internal divide within the humanities between those that want a continuation of the study of lit and phil and those that would like to see it cease. The reasoning that normally go
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by ryanklee 15y ago
For more information on this see C.P. Snow's over half-century-old lecture, "The Two Cultures." Within it he posits a great rift between the humanities and the sciences. The lecture is very much relevant to this discussion. As a side note,
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by ryanklee 15y ago
I would like to add this that when you are actually doing the non-lazy work of interpreting a novel, you do as well.

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