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by yarou 10y ago
I found this to be a bit counterintuitive: "We conclude that in sum, the present study shows that pharmacological modification of complex cognitive performance in a highly demanding task is possible most likely by modifying decision ma
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by yarou 10y ago
In excessive dosage, sure. Alcohol will also cause you to make incredibly poor judgements, in excessive amounts. The key is responsible use.
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by yarou 10y ago
Anecdotally, Modafinil improved the functioning of the right hemisphere of my brain. I noticed this type of enhancement with Phenibut as well, my "emotional intelligence" was increased by one or two orders of magnitude. On the oth
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by yarou 10y ago
I suspect the anti-science bit has more to do with approving Keystone/DAPL than some hard line policy. If Balaji Srinivasan is confirmed for the FDA, I'd expect gene therapies and stem cell treatments to become more commonplace. A
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by yarou 10y ago
It's relatively easy to flood his email. Imagine how much fun an Eastern European kid can have with this. All he needs is a database of cards to cycle through.
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by yarou 10y ago
You don't see how a supposedly "anti-establishment" candidate who happens to be a billionaire (and is surrounded in his cabinet by other billionaires) doesn't reek of a system of crony capitalism and oligarchy? If so, I
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by yarou 10y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, it's sort of common knowledge that LinkedIn used really shady dark patterns in order to increase user acquisition.
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by yarou 10y ago
> But I'd also love for Congress to pass laws outright banning coal use, gasoline cars, and dumping pollutants into waterways. The Constitution hasn't been respected in decades. There is an entrenched deep state in the US, cont
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by yarou 10y ago
I'm sure someone who's never exercised before could die of cardiac arrest as soon as they step on a treadmill. I think it's slightly disingenuous to suggest that one should never take risks because there are possible downside
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by yarou 10y ago
Nope, you totally missed the pure wisdom in the driver's quote. His point is that academics in ivory towers who make policy decisions are so far removed from his reality, that they are ill-equipped to make appropriate policy decision
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by yarou 10y ago
I've long suspected that nicotine has a net benefit effect on cognition. I'm curious to see if there will be a new line of nACHr drugs that can potentially enhance cognition.
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by yarou 10y ago
The premise of your post implies that Pai and those who subscribe to his policy stances are somehow malicious in nature. But what you're missing is that they could simply be idiots. Just like someone who believes in fantastical theorie
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by yarou 10y ago
Even if they retracted, isn't the damage already done? The problem with yellow journalism and sensationalism is that purportedly respectable institutions spin narratives that are dangerous. I'd be curious to see some empirical dat
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by yarou 10y ago
I'm not gonna lie, I've said some pretty fucked up things on here when I've been inebriated, but the amount of pure malice in your reply even made me look twice. I'm sure that same winning personality makes you a huge
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by yarou 10y ago
You'd need a third party that you both trust. If you both don't trust anyone, there are ways around that too...
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by yarou 10y ago
Well, if you want that expectation of privacy, maybe you shouldn't have become a federal contractor.
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by yarou 10y ago
> Why do you feel that there's no way to verify closed-source software? Isn't that the very definition of security through obscurity?
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by yarou 10y ago
>When US citizens even see Indian names there are less likely to hire (known as name bias). You're doubly fucked if you have an Indian name and you were born here. White hiring managers automatically assume you're incompetent,
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by yarou 10y ago
Actually, it's more rational to turn to crime than work a shitty minimum wage job in an economically disadvantaged area. That's why those areas have crime. The choices are simple. Work at McDonalds/Walmart Max weekly earnings
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by yarou 10y ago
That's really fucked up. It's not impossible to imagine a scenario where the daughter playfully started flirting with the cashier and that ended up fucking his life over.
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by yarou 10y ago
It ultimately boils down to a cat and mouse game. What you end up with are extremely intrusive anticheat tools that do all sorts of nasty Trojan-like things; for example, injecting DLLs into a player's host machine to determine if they
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by yarou 10y ago
Don't forget the massive amounts of money to be made by colluding with the "bad guys". Collect double the amount if you collude for geopolitical purposes.
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by yarou 10y ago
The entire Silk Road debacle showed that law enforcement itself has become massively corrupt. The long-term effect of the case is further distrust of the government and law enforcement.
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by yarou 10y ago
Does anyone know if this is another Megaupload situation? Are there records showing the site operators willfully colluded and incentivized street pimps and sex traffickers? Or is this another "save the children" chilling effect on
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by yarou 10y ago
You don't think that a public CEO's incentives should be aligned with their shareholders? That's the only way you can have real change, instead of the moral hazard situation we have now.
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by yarou 10y ago
The way I understand it, quantum speedup simply means that the set of candidate solutions for a problem contained in BQP are more accurate over time.
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by yarou 10y ago
We (as the tech community) have inherited that role. How one defines truth is probably outside of the scope of my reply, so I'll abstain from commenting on it. However, suffice it to say I would rather have a plurality of viewpoints, w
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by yarou 10y ago
I think you're missing the point. A quadtree is a compact way to store a partition of two-dimensional space, much like you'd store a binary heap in an array. The implementation of a recursive data structure or algorithm can usuall
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by yarou 10y ago
Thanks for the lucid response. I think the tone of your responses has been way more civil than some of the other comments upthread.
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by yarou 10y ago
Obviously the pizzagate stuff is stupid and unfounded. It does a great disservice to people that were victims of real sexual abuse. But can't you see the vast amount of corruption? The DNC rigged the primary for one candidate. We need

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