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23 points by tarkin2 16y ago|19 comments
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by tarkin2 16y ago
Gut feelings are also subject to bias.
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by tarkin2 16y ago
Although not emboldened, this sentence in the abstract best explained the jam tasting problem: "Proactively used reasoning also favors decisions that are easy to justify but not necessarily better." That is, the students focused on the qu
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by tarkin2 16y ago
Yeah, I'm not arguing against those points, per se. The dilemmic fallacy is simply a way to show the dilemma is subject to perspective, and therefore not as steely as it may seem.
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by tarkin2 16y ago
I'm playing with his dilemma more than anything else, but you could also attack his assertion that the competent don't need his wealth. His children could be competent and unlucky, for instance, which could mean they need a lot of money: ch
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by tarkin2 16y ago
Bit of a logical play, the dilemmic fallacy to be precise, but, alternatively: If they're competent, leaving them a lot of money won't do them any harm. If they're not, they need his money. [edit] here's the classical example of this change
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by tarkin2 16y ago
I would say "don't think he wants to do it" is more precisely "don't think he thinks he can do it". Speaking with those in charities helping the long term unemployed, I've heard the "I won't be able to/can't do this" phrase much more than
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by tarkin2 16y ago
Decentralisation of social networks: A protocol built on top of email. All your info would be held by your email provider (gmail, say), and when your friends log onto their email (yahoo, say) your new updates are download for them to view.
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by tarkin2 16y ago
1. You borrow 100 shares from a broker. 2. You sell the 100 shares for, say, £1000 in total. 3. Prices for the share ideally go down. (You and others have been selling, after all) 4. You then buy 100 of the shares for, say, £900 in total 5.
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by tarkin2 16y ago
I find the terms self-employed and freelancing much more satisfying than unemployed.
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by tarkin2 16y ago
I recall the article written by the lady who put her son on the New York underground. The media berated her because they were sure other people would do something bad to him. I often think this lack of trust, paranoia and fear separates us-
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by tarkin2 16y ago
Story-telling is what struck me (and what I liked) about the New York Times and the New Yorker when I first started to read them, especially as I'm a Briton and not use to that style. Argument by analogue, and story-telling, reminds me of w
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by tarkin2 17y ago
Vimperator gives a nice full screen experience, and good keybindings too. http://vimperator.org/screenshots/vimperator_hints.png
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by tarkin2 17y ago
A fairly minor point of the video, but interesting for me, was when he spoke about paranoia and bound checking. I often cannot decide if I should check if strings are NULL, numbers are negative, files are open/closed, etc, etc. I'm often un
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by tarkin2 17y ago
This article is paywalled for me. Flagged. A summary would be nice.
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by tarkin2 17y ago
The social/communal aspect of this looks interesting, especially as one of the questions is "what can you bring to your fellow student". A good study group is worth its weight in gold. The selective admission process should also help: your
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by tarkin2 17y ago
It's an interesting game Google seems to be playing: playing off China's need to prove itself as commercially viable against China's desire to keep its citizens in the dark about its political actions. I am, of course, assuming Google is ac
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by tarkin2 17y ago
Also, whoever runs this site, if he plays his cards right, is surely going to be a millionaire by next Monday.
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by tarkin2 17y ago
This is going to give HR departments an extra method of determining who to employ, at least. And given the number of people exhibiting their penises, I'm foretelling another drop in employment.
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A similarity may also be seen regarding the occasional anti-Americanism in poplar media (that is, not in the political arena) in Europe, particularly in France and Britain (albeit drastically reduced now Obama is president). Both countries,
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by tarkin2 17y ago
I'm not sure if the media coverage was as negative, but it may be worthwhile comparing the China fascination with that of the Japan fascination of the late 80s. When it looked like Japan would overtake the US's superpower position it was un
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by tarkin2 17y ago
If anyone understood this, I'd be grateful for a summary...
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by tarkin2 17y ago
That has to be the most satisfying theory yet. The "it's just a theme park" theory robs MI of its wonderful story-telling.
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by tarkin2 17y ago
I've said it before, but I'd advise people change the email addresses they've attached to facebook. And definitely don't use the email address you give out to employers.
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by tarkin2 17y ago
CNNIC would only ever see the public key, and you can't decrypt encrypted data using the public key--you must use the private key to decrypt the data, something CNNIC would not see--so no. As mentioned, CNNIC's inclusion only allows a Man I
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by tarkin2 17y ago
On thinking about it a little more, I guess when you visit a site with SSL, and that site subsequently sends you its public key, which in turns allows you to send it encrypted data, Firefox will only accept public keys signed (authorised) b
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by tarkin2 17y ago
Could someone please explain how CINIC could enact a man in the middle act with this inclusion? I am vaguely aware of MITM attacks: that someone sends you their public key while pretending to be someone else. And this means the data you sen
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by tarkin2 17y ago
"I'm not trying to make anyone paranoid[...]" You're doing a good job at it, however! Your scenario reminds me of Issac Asimov's Foundation series, particularly where the Foundation had the ability to disable its enemies' technologi
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by tarkin2 17y ago
That link isn't even related to David Kelly.
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Starting from last week, I changed my facebook email address to a throw away email address. Not as an impressive piece of foresight, however: simply to stop companies finding my facebook details via my email address. Still, I'm especially

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