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by valvar 10y ago
>teens who can sample alcohol at home are less likely to binge drink That's patently false. Cf. http://www.jsad.com/doi/abs/10.15288/jsad.2015.76.212 So far I find the argument far from convincing.
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by valvar 10y ago
It's not clear to me how (and if) Occam's Razor should necessarily be applied in this context. We are not choosing between a very simple, and a vastly complex alternative. Rather we are choosing between an unintuitive and probably
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by valvar 10y ago
I find that pieces like this one skewer the debate. The debate should be about war and the use of force, not drones. What's the alternative to drones? It's either boots on the ground, or not waging war. I think a lot of people, in
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by valvar 10y ago
Of course it's frightening. But it's frightening in an exhilarating sort of way. I am sure that most of us would love to get our hands on that type of data, and the tools to work with it. And the benefits can't be denied - it
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by valvar 10y ago
This is a very culturally biased statement. Our current western culture is very 'progressive' (in the ideological sense), and we generally view such an approach as a sign of 'lagging behind'. If you ask a Singaporean, th
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by valvar 10y ago
I, for one, won't be mourning their disappearance from the face of this planet. It's long overdue in my opinion.
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by valvar 10y ago
Exactly, my favourite types of conversation are usually about some specific thing that is not necessarily "deep" at all, be it a programming language feature or the troubled life of some historical character, or the reasons behin
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by valvar 11y ago
Well, my violin teacher used to say that there were three important stages that a musician has to go through - playing badly and being unaware of what is going on, playing well and being unaware of what is going on, and finally, playing we
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by valvar 11y ago
I'm thinking more along the lines of practicing different scales, arpeggios and pieces each time, and practicing several different things instead of repeatedly practicing a single thing. Unfortunately, though, as an amateur violinist,
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by valvar 11y ago
How are any of the things you mentioned useful? I think I can quite confidently say that the things you mention will probably cause more rather than less suffering in the long term. And it's exactly this type of naive disregard for t
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by valvar 11y ago
That's what I mean. That article, for example, would have been a much more meaningful submission. Musk's vested interests make it harder to take his statements at face value (even if they are entirely correct).
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by valvar 11y ago
Not that I disagree (in fact I strongly agree), but is Musk really the person we should be taking this from? It's a bit like taking investment advice from your bank, meseems. Not necessarily a bad idea, but you might want to hear with
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by valvar 11y ago
Wouldn't amplitude just be the height of the wave, while "intensity" is dependent mostly on the frequency?
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by valvar 11y ago
Yarvin has had at least one other talk (that I know of) about Urbit, and he did not so much as mention anything non-technical. I don't see what grounds you have to assume such a thing about him without any prior evidence of such behavi
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by valvar 12y ago
Oh, it's controversial, somewhat edgy, political nonsense, but I might end up using this for some other project as well, and then I'll certainly share the URL :)
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by valvar 12y ago
Wow, this is great! I'm switching my WP blog to this immediately.
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by valvar 12y ago
No, let's just pretend that heritability doesn't exist, the world is much more comfortable that way.
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by valvar 12y ago
From the photos and Wikipedia description, I'm in love. I want to move there.
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by valvar 12y ago
I think, that if you look a bit closer, you'll be able to discern exactly why Stallman's 'BS' is deemed more acceptable than Watson's 'BS'.
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by valvar 12y ago
That name reminds me of: http://xkcd.com/327/ Anyway, the law is pretty arbitrarily applied, which I think is a problem. My parents wanted to give me the norse middle name 'hin frodi' ('the wise'),
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by valvar 12y ago
If it needs JavaScript to display properly, then it's probably not worth my time. Anyone concerned with privacy and/or security should use noscript.
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by valvar 12y ago
Not on my good old T60, I don't. That users have a lot of RAM is a terrible excuse for bad memory management, anyway.
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by valvar 12y ago
Misleading name, in my opinion. Looks almost like a collection of buzzfeed articles, served with delay via e-mail.
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by valvar 12y ago
For shared, I've never used a service that could measure itself with NearlyFreeSpeech. Of course, I don't host anything huge or very important, but I suspect that even if I did I would still go with NFS. Their pay-for-what-you-use
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by valvar 12y ago
While I may agree that it's being snobbish, I would emphatically disagree with your view of it as being a 'problem with your social skills'. In fact, I think it is the very opposite - snobbishness, overt or otherwise, is a fo
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by valvar 12y ago
What does that matter? All I personally want is a good and open phone, and right now I've got that, and it looks like we'll have even more alternatives in the future. Just giving a heads-up to other hackers...
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by valvar 12y ago
You say that as if iPhone is the only alternative, while in fact there (will soon be) lots of alternatives. Right now there's the Jolla, which I personally own (and it's fantastic), but soon we'll also see the Neo900 which wi
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by valvar 12y ago
That religious truth and religious dogma are not the same.
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by valvar 12y ago
Does HN think they will release a new version soon, or is it safe to order one now?
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by valvar 12y ago
or How to Completely Miss the Point.

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