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by stolio 12y ago
Unless you're testing Zen meditation in which case the placebo group and the real group may not (should not?) be distinguishable from one another. It's often taught as "just sitting" so by the time you get the control gr
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by stolio 12y ago
So Western karma and Buddhist karma can be a bit different, as the West has adopted the term it's become the Western version of the idea. And Buddhist karma is a bit different from Hindu karma. I haven't found a fully consistent
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by stolio 12y ago
> famous drug addicts With that much selection bias you'll probably find exactly what you're looking for.
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by stolio 12y ago
It's a buzzword, it gets thrown around a lot in spiritual circles. It's also an important part of Buddhism that sometimes gets confused as the only part. The Theravadan tradition of Vipassana is sometimes called "mindfulne
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by stolio 12y ago
> Q: Was Brendan Eich forced out by employee pressure? > A: No. Mozilla employees expressed a wide range of views on Brendan’s appointment as CEO: the majority of them positive and in support of his leadership, or expressing disappoin
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by stolio 12y ago
I remember months after Eich resigned I was looking at new phones and I asked the salesperson if FirefoxOS was compatible with their network. She said she didn't support Mozilla because of how they had acted towards the LGBT community
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by stolio 12y ago
So he was being publicly shamed and humiliated until he A) was fired B) resigned or C) renounced his personal beliefs? That's horrible. When gay people are treated this way I speak out and say it's wrong. When gay people treat
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by stolio 12y ago
If you think I haven't heard this argument multiple times you're very wrong. It's well known in certain circles that this is the _correct_ view of the situation and you're not the first to graciously assume I simply hav
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by stolio 12y ago
I spent about ten years being an "ally" to feminism, to the LGBT community, to minorities, etc. And then my views drifted ever so slightly from the tried and true party lines. One day I said I thought it was wrong that Brandon Ei
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by stolio 12y ago
In this context black is the absence of light, so it's disqualified right off the bat. With a clear night and a good telescope there are a lot of stars out there. So I would say even the average color of the night sky looking out from
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by stolio 12y ago
edit: oops. My apologies, sodium is responsible for the dark band at ~5,890 I misread a graphic. Still looking into the spike... If like me you just had to know what was responsible for the huge spike in the red (@ wavelength of about 6
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by stolio 12y ago
I lump land and housing together because that's how reality does it. Aside from trailer-houses they all stay on one piece of land for the duration. If an analysis depends on houses being able to fluidly change land positions I don&#x2
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by stolio 12y ago
Just a note: if you're going to bow out of a conversation you don't feel is productive there's no shame in that, we all do it from time to time for a variety of reasons. You don't have to save face by suggesting that yo
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by stolio 12y ago
You might really enjoy Leonard Susskind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR3Msi1YeXQ He's another New Yorker, from the South Bronx, helped start String Theory back in the 60's or 70's. He has lots of stuff o
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by stolio 12y ago
As much as yawaramin's comment about him poking fun at programmers is probably correct, Feynman wasn't a total stranger to computer science: > Feynman worked out the program for computing Hopfield's network on the Connecti
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by stolio 12y ago
Pushing infrastructure to the point of failure is most certainly a safety issue. It's a huge safety issue.
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by stolio 12y ago
You can easily checkmate with a king and a rook, it just has to be along an edge of the board. In rare circumstances you can checkmate with a king and a single bishop: http://www.chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles&#
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by stolio 12y ago
Fine. > 1) The current regulatory regime was implemented primarily for the benefit of incumbent and municipal public transit providers. Without buying into free-market libertarianism I don't see how to convince myself of this. Do c
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by stolio 12y ago
> If they were the problem, then you'd have little difficulty building up Mountain View to SF level densities, or SF up to Hoboken (a suburb of NY) level densities. You just said that if building codes were removed there would be &q
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by stolio 12y ago
There's definitely some legacy family land holdings, but I don't know how much that effects the market. I would like to know, but I suspect that as you touched on they're making money off rents, maybe lending. What I was get
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by stolio 12y ago
Supply and demand? Increase demand, supply is largely fixed* , prices go up. * a house in the boonies isn't really a substitute for a house in the city. Every house has demand from people who want to buy it as a home plus the demand
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by stolio 12y ago
It's a bit juvenile to blame building codes without also admitting why we have them: they save lives. Look at the death tolls of earthquakes that happen in countries with and without enforced building codes. On the other side of the c
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by stolio 12y ago
I really wouldn't expect there to be a mountain of evidence for predatory pricing, it's been illegal since the 50's and if done properly it's subtle. It's just one of many tools firms have to duck and move in the m
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by stolio 12y ago
I appreciate the link, but at this point I'm not going to buy a car if I don't trust and like the engineers who built it. My "improvements" generally aren't :) Even with needing special hardware and software I&#x27
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by stolio 12y ago
In some quick googling the Cato Institute are the only ones saying it's a myth. But I'd expect that from them. I'm sure the Austrians deny it, too. It's fairly basic game theory and strategy. If it's not empirica
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by stolio 12y ago
> It is expensive to drive for a living - so expensive, in fact, that it was not a living until monopoly pricing was forced by government regulation. This was done in exchange for stability in price, stability of service and other benefi
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by stolio 12y ago
Pulling out your old throttle system is hard . It's self-protecting, the difficulty keeps the uninitiated from doing anything too stupid. Copy/pasting code from the internet is easy, so it has to be made artificially difficult.
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by stolio 12y ago
There's a logic to unsustainable price wars - your competitors might not sustain them as well as you can. Price wars can be horrible for consumers, that's why some forms of them are illegal[0]. If Lyft and Uber talk to each other
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by stolio 12y ago
It's hard to introduce a bug into mechanical systems like brakes. Most home mechanics can tell immediately if they did something wrong. It's hard not to introduce bugs into programs. How many "tinkerers" can debug an
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by stolio 12y ago
We (The US) have laws that hold people accountable for trespassing and theft, but I'm guessing you still lock your doors. A fundamental principle of engineering is protecting people from themselves, this is absolutely nothing new. You

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