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by thorum 13y ago
Hasn't it been shown that the body, especially the gastrointestinal system, has a huge effect on cognitive function? I wonder if a procedure like this is possible without dramatically changing the personality of the subject.
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by thorum 13y ago
Steven Pinker argues that since the separation between the cause (lead exposure in childhood) and effect (criminal behavior in adulthood) is so wide, there are almost certainly big confounding variables that we haven't considered. >
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by thorum 13y ago
I personally wouldn't do any medium-to-large JavaScript project in anything but Haxe at this point. > I wonder why it's not more popular? It's a relatively young language (8 years old, but it's only been mature for a fraction of that).
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by thorum 13y ago
New features: http://haxe.org/manual/haxe3/features
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by thorum 13y ago
"It's an IDE based on IntelliJ." I'm in.
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by thorum 13y ago
As an undergraduate student, this makes me wonder if I should just hold off on getting a B.S. entirely until I can do it through Udacity.
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by thorum 14y ago
I don't think w1ntermute was suggesting the news media were responsible for the incident.
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by thorum 14y ago
But like what you're getting at, we already have concepts like "branch" and "undo" and "version history" and "publish" for other uses of the save button and most of those already have their own, more intuitive icons. So why not do away with
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by thorum 14y ago
Alternatively, we could make autosave ubiquitous so the symbol is no longer needed.
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by thorum 14y ago
My favorite part is the onblur function.
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by thorum 14y ago
I wonder how often corporations quietly let judges know that if they rule a certain way, there will be a high-paying position reserved for them 1-2 years down the road...
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by thorum 14y ago
I see. Well, best of luck in your endeavors.
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by thorum 14y ago
You've got Stylish, right? Add a new rule for readability.com: * { font-family: "Eulexia"; } And you can add extra rules to change colors, etc., if you want.
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by thorum 14y ago
Have you considered using Readability? It wouldn't be difficult to get it to use your preferred font.
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by thorum 14y ago
Why does atheism being the default setting on a human mean there can't be a wrong reason to be an atheist? That doesn't follow at all.
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by thorum 14y ago
I went through the same transition, but only because e-readers were invented.
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by thorum 14y ago
I don't think one needs an advanced knowledge of theology (or science) to reject religion: most of it just isn't relevant to the fundamental question "what makes us think God even exists, anyway?" And more to the point, while I only have a
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by thorum 14y ago
I'm a bit sad that none of these quotes include, "Because there's no evidence." I wonder if this is because none of the people interviewed said it, or because it didn't make a good quote.
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by thorum 14y ago
Ah, I see. Thank you.
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by thorum 14y ago
That actually does sound likely, knowing the internet.
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by thorum 14y ago
Maybe you already had blogger whitelisted?
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by thorum 14y ago
I don't go to MIT, but a commenter on a previous article about this said that MIT's network had been having trouble for weeks. That is, before the Aaron Swartz tragedy. Is there some other reason why someone would be DDOS'ing MIT?
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by thorum 14y ago
Are you using NoScript or something like it? The page needs JS to render.
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by thorum 14y ago
The canonical reply to this article, by Steve Losh: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/why-i-two-space/ Among other things, he points out that computers have a much easier time parsing sentences which are clearly separated by two spaces, a
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by thorum 14y ago
Why does it matter who submits an interesting story?
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by thorum 14y ago
The White House hasn't had time to respond to this petition because they've been busy responding to more important ones - like "begin construction of a Death Star by 2016". https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-resp...
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by thorum 14y ago
Reading the news is an exercise in critical thinking, but is it a better one than reading books? If you want to practice distilling a narrative from various sources, why not read several different books about history or science or philosoph
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by thorum 14y ago
Simple enough issues to fix, of course, since this project is open source and only 431 lines of Python. https://github.com/RaymiiOrg/NoPriv/blob/master/nopriv.py