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by setgree 7y ago
Perhaps silly to ask, but: why does the FDA regulate this? It’s not a food, it’s not a drug, if it’s purely a saliva swab it is non-invasive — so where does the FDA come in? In a university context, there is often a blanket IRB exemption fo
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by setgree 7y ago
I first read about this here: https://medium.com/@flowidealism/evolutionary-mismatch-as-a-... which makes the case that human adolescents, like elephants, benefit from having older males around. Maybe of interest.
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by setgree 7y ago
Walking Dead starts out Rick-against-everyone but veers towards a story about scrappy, regular folk coming together to more or less form a democracy, against a backdrop of total chaos. I read this as retelling a certain story of America, wi
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by setgree 7y ago
This is an interesting take on what zombie fiction is about: > The zombie myth has roots in Haitian slave plantations: they're fairly transparently about the slaves' fear of being forced to toil endlessly even after their deat
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by setgree 7y ago
previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22652241
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by setgree 7y ago
> Salles himself was at sea in a sub when his father died, but the news was kept from him until he had finished his 60-day mission. Goodness -- I already thought 'submariner' might be the world's worst job and this clinche
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What do humans owe animals?(cato-unbound.org)
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by setgree 7y ago
I was looking for a bit more insight into why these diverging preferences have developed and didn't see it. My 2c on that: The chairman of the board at a company I know well has been in business for like 40-50 years and he reckons that
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by setgree 7y ago
A friend once commented about Skull and Bones [0]: "I don't know what's worse, the fact that it exists, or that I'm not a part of it." (Neither of us went to Yale :)) I wish there were a single word to capture this
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by setgree 7y ago
> It may be tied to certain other psychological theories, like the terror management theory, Feltham says. Terror Management suggests that human nature is actually wired towards self-deception: In order to avoid facing terrifying concept
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by setgree 7y ago
Dude, just resign
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by setgree 7y ago
I hope you're right
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by setgree 7y ago
Yeah when I read that, I thought, this man would have benefited from a behavioral intervention and instead what he got was an Ex Machina
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by setgree 7y ago
If you wanted to design a system to reward addictive spending, it would look like this -- random intermittent reinforcement of problematic behaviors.
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by setgree 8y ago
Related: A psychiatrist who didn’t believe in mental illness (2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19242553
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by setgree 8y ago
"There are other things that are important to me that I didn’t want to give up, like * I have total control over my company * I can’t be fired" I know what this author is getting at, but as an employee, I like that my boss could
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by setgree 8y ago
have done so, and I like http://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/tag/global-warming , recommended by Megan McArdle. In particular I'm interested agricultural and dense growth projections in the North (and South?). T
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by setgree 8y ago
> “When the greening of the Earth was first observed, we thought it was due to a warmer, wetter climate and fertilization from the added carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, leading to more leaf growth in northern forests, for instance. Now
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Russell Simmons, R. Kelly, and Why Black Women Can’t Say MeToo (2017)(nytimes.com)
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by setgree 8y ago
From "Bart the Mother", Simpsons season 10: "SKINNER Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend. LISA But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards? SKINNER No problem. We simply u
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by setgree 8y ago
Not totally on-topic, but I love photos of kids this age (4-6?) listening to adults reading books. I strive for that kind of uninterrupted engagement and wonder.
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by setgree 8y ago
1) There's Binder, which is the infrastructure for building computational environments around repos, and BinderHub, which hosts the executable code online. Binder's model, as I understand it, is to develop the infrastructure and t
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by setgree 8y ago
> a comment that gets a lot of upvotes on Hackers News every time it’s made. I wonder how many of us, if asked, would say that we spend too much time on our phones? Probably higher than the population at large. A bigger screen is nicer t
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by setgree 8y ago
> The cost of actually delivering the video was so tiny it didn't matter. By one accounting standard, yes. By another, if you include the costs of producing Netflix's (actually really great) original content, no.
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by setgree 8y ago
This is kind of a nitpick, but I wish articles like this specified somehow that Costco buys _dead_ chickens, and dismembered to boot. I know everybody reading it knows that, but I don't like euphemisms/language games that divorce
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by setgree 8y ago
It's a fair point, 6 weeks 7 years ago is nothing. This is the data I collected, but my priors are that state-run economic development tends to be inefficient and that the stats we're reading from the CCP are false. These are pret
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by setgree 8y ago
When I saw the section of my comment you quoted, I thought you were going a different direction, which is pointing out that my original comment reads like a satire of HN commentary: "I dabbled in something as an amateur for like a mont
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by setgree 8y ago
I can't find the link right now, but I think the right idea here is that the value of infrastructure is in its use. The more that the people building stuff are insulated from the needs of users, the less you should expect it to be usef
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by setgree 8y ago
In 2012, I traveled for about 6 weeks in China. I saw a lot of large cities -- not the megalopolises of Beijing and Shanghai but Guangzhou, Xi'an, Kunming -- with unreal amounts of what looked like high-end real estate going up. if you
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by setgree 8y ago
> "but it wastes a lot of the interviewer's time (and potentially money)." I think there's something to this ('corporations are people too my friend!' one might say :) ). But I feel differently when speaking

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