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by zoltz 19y ago
" Even as high as DH5 we still sometimes see deliberate dishonesty, as when someone picks out minor points of an argument and refutes those. Sometimes the spirit in which this is done makes it more of a sophisticated form of ad hominem than
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by zoltz 19y ago
You seem to imply in the essay that disagreeing comments are more valuable than agreeing ones, though: " And when you agree there's less to say. You could expand on something the author said, but he has probably already explored the most in
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by zoltz 19y ago
It was just that I recently had this thought that language could be divided into a "smalltalk" component, where the content is replaceable but not the conversation partner, and an "info" component, where the partner is replaceable but not t
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by zoltz 19y ago
Very interesting distinction between phatic and referential language. Thanks from me, too, for these terms. You say phatic language is about maintaining the connection. If I understand this correctly then there's a role for it also with peo
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by zoltz 19y ago
Let's assume humans are indeed "designed" to work in small groups of only 10 people, then at the bottom level of the company tree groups should only consist of 10 people each. So far so good. But why has a company of 1000 a three-level tree
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by zoltz 19y ago
"If we had wheels, or moved along the ground on our bellies like snakes," Lakoff argues, "math might be very different." What a nonsense.
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by zoltz 19y ago
To make the workings of Hacker News dependent on Reddit or any other site looks conceptually wrong --- can't it stand on its own? The same holds for explicitly favouring topics like programming, math, science or whatever. From ycombinator
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by zoltz 19y ago
Interesting point, aside from capitalism/wealth/zero-sum etc: The game created a classic case of cognitive disequilibrium: Either the system is skewed and unfair, or the winners played unfairly. To resolve this by deciding that the system
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by zoltz 19y ago
"Since joining Mr. Fujita's school, I have had five successful relationships," says Hachioji Robocop, a 27-year-old civil servant who has been taking the course since 2004. "I lost my virginity six months into the course, and now I can now
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by zoltz 19y ago
I don't think it's such a big deal, and maybe I'm the only one, but I don't like it if people have every reason to believe I wrote something that I didn't write. For example, the title of my most recent submission now contains the term "rep
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by zoltz 19y ago
There is a thread for feature requests, see link at bottom of main page. (But I thought my suggestion here wouldn't really be a "feature".)
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News.YC, could it be made clearer that submission titles have been subject to change by editors?
1 points by zoltz 19y ago|6 comments
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by zoltz 19y ago
Arc
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by zoltz 19y ago
I think the six-principles approach is great, and it really shows why the initial reaction will always be contemptuous and therefore doesn't mean anything. Of course, not everyone can easily copy the approach, you need to be an original thi
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A wider choice of mates reduces people's reproductive output.(economist.com)
10 points by zoltz 19y ago|4 comments
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The spider's stratagem: how we came to the "second nuclear age"(economist.com)
3 points by zoltz 19y ago|0 comments
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by zoltz 19y ago
I messed this up, what I meant is "... from the viewpoint of each of them it would be also reasonable to assume that ..."
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by zoltz 19y ago
I agree with you that the original wording should have rigorously ensured common knowledge among the islanders of their logicality and devoutness , since common knowledge (of a different fact) is what the puzzle is about. But that's a su
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by zoltz 19y ago
Day 2) Everyone's still here. If I were not blue eyed, these two guys would've noticed yesterday that they individually had blue eyes ... no they wouldn't have, because for each of them would be also reasonable to assume that there was only
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by zoltz 19y ago
That's exactly the interesting point here: the foreigner states something self-evident (there is someone who has blue eyes), and yet it will kill all blue-eyed people, who would otherwise have been fine. Without the foreigner, the inductive
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Game show "The Moment of Truth" is by now on US TV, but Colombian original has set the bar high(abcnews.go.com)
1 points by zoltz 19y ago|0 comments
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Buttonwood on trouble potential and unfairness of current bank regulation(economist.com)
5 points by zoltz 19y ago|0 comments
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by zoltz 19y ago
I found this very interesting, especially the beginning about software patents, where he compares the situation with cold war (big companies) and terrorists (patent trolls), and later what he concedes about innovation and open source.
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by zoltz 19y ago
Not an optical illusion. Twelve guys really become thirteen. But they have to pay a price for that: they're somewhat shorter, their heads are slightly smashed in, etc. Basically the same as what happened when hunter-gatherers switched to ag
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Virgin birth: what private spaceflight may lead to(economist.com)
6 points by zoltz 19y ago|2 comments
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by zoltz 19y ago
Difficult to say what exactly it is, easier to say what it is not : "do these users (who submit and filter content) expect others to return the favor?" That would be the classical economic explanation and it would be wrong (for the typical
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Hitting the spot: expensive things are genuinely more enjoyable, and why that might be(economist.com)
3 points by zoltz 19y ago|0 comments
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Disharmony in the spheres: the militarization of space(economist.com)
1 points by zoltz 19y ago|0 comments
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by zoltz 19y ago
I'm not sure he had to be a cognitive neuroscientist to employ these methods. But he did well. Another trick, which you could use if for some reason you don't know the answer to one of the early, supposedly easy, questions: Guess an answer,
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The rise of the hypervisor: virtualization(economist.com)
1 points by zoltz 19y ago|1 comments

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