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by shantanubala 13y ago
This is not just a matter of resembling psychosis. Haloperidol and olanzapine, two common prescriptions for schizophrenia, have been demonstrated to reduce the effects of LSD. There is a connection between the psychoactive properties of L
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by shantanubala 13y ago
> LSD does not cause people to be schizophrenic; schizophrenia shows itself during the most likely years for people to be experimenting with drugs. This is very misleading at best. LSD use causes direct symptoms of psychosis, including s
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by shantanubala 13y ago
Keep in mind that McDonald's is an established brand. They don't have to explain what "McDonald's" is anymore -- they're past that point. Now, they have to convince you to eat there by associating themselves wi
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by shantanubala 13y ago
> This is a very exciting problem once you think about it... That's a good summary of why Google has been so successful. They have a way of making engineers and regular people really excited about their projects. It's a feedb
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by shantanubala 13y ago
Although the article is interesting, I think one of the comments is much more "to the point": What gets me about this ad is that no one understands why the women basically described themselves as trolls and the women they were talking to a
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by shantanubala 13y ago
Yup, I was agreeing with you -- I probably should've made it clearer. I just wanted to point out that people sometimes confuse "sexism" and "imbalance" -- a poor gender ratio doesn't imply sexism, and a good ratio doesn't get rid of sexism.
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by shantanubala 13y ago
I think there are two problems: sexism and an imbalance of males and females in technology. They're not the same, though they're linked in some ways. Sexism is hard to address effectively, and attempting to confront it can sometimes make th
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by shantanubala 14y ago
Unfortunately, it seems that it's an "overall" model -- see under "Study Design" in the "Methods" section of the paper. There are "individual harms" that take account the harm done to the user himself or herself. But, "the extent of individ
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A Simple HTTP API for Creating Ebooks(ebookglue.com)
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by shantanubala 14y ago
Maybe this is a bit of a misunderstanding? I wasn't refuting the "10 years" -- that's a fact. I was simply pointing out that you can't really know what's going to happen based on 10 sentences of extremely vague details in an article. I was
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by shantanubala 14y ago
> Welcome to the New World Order where they can throw you into prison at will with supposed evidence which truth content can be hard to verify even by experts. The article was really brief and vague. Are you sure this is the case? From
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by shantanubala 14y ago
I think you took his comment a bit too far: the point is that the government is an institution that is meant to mitigate risks that cannot efficiently be dealt with otherwise. The risk of going to the moon before anyone else is such a risk
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by shantanubala 14y ago
> It's not the same as a layperson describing gravity in terms of some basic understanding of Newtonian physics and a physicist describing it in terms of general relativity. It was just dumb. You're mixing up what I said: a sociologist
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by shantanubala 14y ago
> Redefining established words to fit your narrative (as someone said on here) is a crime against understanding and is not acceptable. This is hardly a redefinition as much as a clarification of intent and context. Saying that it's
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by shantanubala 14y ago
> The redefinition of racism is merely a fabrication meant to suit someone elses particular agenda, or to get you to submit to their particular argument or point-of-view. A dictionary only outlines common usage (it does not provide cont
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by shantanubala 14y ago
Perhaps I should have been more clear: the definition is fuzzy, but Adria's original tweet is not inherently wrong -- it just lacks context and adequate explanation. I'm definitely not an expert in this, but I'm speaking from reading book
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by shantanubala 14y ago
> http://imgur.com/5tbXR2c This is an excellent example of why you should never use Twitter to have a nuanced discussion. It depends on your definition of racism, and most scholarly definitions are "power and prejudice." In other
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by shantanubala 14y ago
Practically speaking, how do you ensure that the new government doesn't become corrupt in a year or two? Or more importantly, how do you restore the people's faith in their government so that they participate? Also, how would a trade embarg
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by shantanubala 14y ago
> Assassinating foreign heads of state But who will replace them? Didn't we try something like this during the Cold War multiple times and end up introducing even more totalitarian "democratic" governments?
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by shantanubala 14y ago
> I could solve 90% Equatorial Guinea's problems for <$10mm and a promise of immunity from prosecution or extradition by major world powers (i.e. places I'd actually be, afterward). Scaling that up for other countries is possible, t
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by shantanubala 14y ago
Is there a reason why you think that? It will probably still be sexually transmitted (so it can be avoided more easily than the flu), and it already has a much worse impact on poorer communities. Also, you are assuming that the treatment wi
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by shantanubala 14y ago
I'm not saying the US was always right - I'm saying that having the US win was a better outcome than the other alternatives. Would you agree with that? And I'm not justifying use of the atomic bomb in every scenario, or even saying that it
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by shantanubala 14y ago
> The bomb wasn't dropped on the torturers, the rapists, which in many cases were not held responsible for the crimes they committed. This is the tricky part. I don't remember exact figures, but wasn't Truman's dilemma a choice between
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by shantanubala 14y ago
World War II never fails to horrify me. The holocaust is only one part of it - the Japanese were brutal in unimaginable ways as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre They killed, raped, tortured, and experimented on living
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by shantanubala 14y ago
Then you're on the right track :-) Forget I even said anything.
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by shantanubala 14y ago
I think Assange's interview at TED was a much more concrete discussion of Wikileaks and its role in politics -- there were real examples in the interview: http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_assange_why_the_world_needs_... I feel like Maher
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by shantanubala 14y ago
I think one of the biggest issues with JS is its lack of an intuitively obvious inheritance scheme. Until you get a full grasp of prototypes, you're not going to really know what the all the objects are . Couple this with a lack of namespa
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by shantanubala 14y ago
Yes and no -- learning calculus (which is offered in many high schools) or advanced physics (he's in a private high school, so I'm assuming their classes and lab activities are well-funded) is still different. The real question in all this:
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by shantanubala 14y ago
I didn't say you can't -- I was simply adding to this: > That said, for most people the purpose of school is to prepare them to be able to support themselves and their families, and it sounds like he's basically able to do that now. The
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by shantanubala 14y ago
I think Neil Tyson does a beautiful job of explaining why basic education is important: There are people who say “I'll never need this math -- these trig identities from 10th grade or 11th grade.” Or maybe you never learned them. Here's th

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