yanjuk

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by yanjuk 10y ago
No, one would get bored eventually, unless the games incorporated hard problems.
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by yanjuk 10y ago
I taught my two kids long division in about ten 40-minute sessions spread over 5 days. I sat with each child as we learnt the procedure. To begin with I held the pencil and asked questions, then the child took over the writing and I monitor
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by yanjuk 10y ago
I would guess the nausea is a learned response due to people forcing the powder on themselves. Perhaps it needs to be introduced gradually with small amounts?
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by yanjuk 10y ago
I conjecture that unhappy people are continually inhibiting certain ideas. This consumes attentional bandwidth which otherwise would go into managing/healing the body.
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by yanjuk 10y ago
Indeed, but that doesn't invalidate my argument. (I included automation for context.) Note also that one cannot merely look after children, because they need to see a greater purpose in what you do.
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by yanjuk 10y ago
One cannot simply "grind away" at a tedious task or a task capable of being automated. Unlike a hard problem, it cannot occupy the mind persistently and meaningfully.
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by yanjuk 10y ago
Yes, my idea of a safety net is family plus basic income. However, crucially, there are thousands of important and hard problems out there available to anyone with a roof over his head, food and internet access. Anyone who doesn't fi
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by yanjuk 10y ago
I don't think 'doing solid research' is what comments are about or should be about: that's what the articles are for. Comments are more like what goes on with coffee after the research presentation. They're abou
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by yanjuk 10y ago
>This is what Stack Overflow does. Thanks. Didn't know that. >Sometimes it's just that the question is well written but obscure. Could be that people regard the question as dishonourable.
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by yanjuk 10y ago
Yeah I think it could only be implemented on a new forum, right at the start. No doubt it would bring a different set of problems for moderators. To those people (not you) "who see downvoting as a legitimate way of showing disagreement
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by yanjuk 10y ago
No, I mean downvoting costs both the downvoter and the downvotee one point each. People won't downvote comments they merely disagree with but they will still try to correct injustice and disruption. I'm no game theorist but that&#
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by yanjuk 10y ago
My assumption is that commenting has the effect of reducing ignorance, even where ignorant comments are plentiful i.e. silent ignorance is more deadly than mostly-ignorant noise. This is because the very act of writing a comment, be it lade
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by yanjuk 10y ago
>But most diets contain adequate choline Should be 'inadequate choline', I think. I remember there was a rat study done showing that unborn pups whose mothers received choline supplements at about two thirds full term had super
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by yanjuk 10y ago
Great comment, though I'm not sure 'naive political opinion' even exists. If a topic is political then it's controversial and sophisticated expert opinions count just as little as naive layman opinions.
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by yanjuk 10y ago
A way to reduce disruptive comments might be to make one downvote cost one karma point. Down-voting should be for disruption, not ignorance. Ignorant comments are fine. Get them out there so they can be aired and corrected. Laymen get to kn
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by yanjuk 10y ago
What's unsettling is more like the airing in public of things that would normally be kept private.
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by yanjuk 10y ago
'Helicopter parenting' is misleading: it's not the degree of parental involvement and oversight that's the problem, it's the degree of unwelcome interference. True, if I'm going to err I'd rather err on th
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by yanjuk 10y ago
>do what Socrates did: sitting with his students, asking questions and, through dialogue, teaching them what matters most Nonsensical comparison. Socrates' pupils came to him . They weren't herded into daycare and expected to