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How to live forever: abolishing aging(economist.com)
17 points by zoltz 19y ago|5 comments
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by zoltz 19y ago
The current Economist issue contains a letter on this story by Stephen Corry, Director, Survival International, London. From the letter: "The Sentinelese are not the only tribe of hunter-gatherers who still resist contact with the outside
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by zoltz 19y ago
"The green apple does indeed offer the same infinitesimal evidence that all ravens are pink, but by going through the set of non-pink objects in the universe and eventually finding a raven, the proposition will be disproven." I had residu
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by zoltz 19y ago
I'd go with Dave Cole. From the Wikipedia article: "when one finds a black raven, it is a much more important discovery than finding a non-black object simply because there are fewer black ravens than everything else" Finding a black rave
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by zoltz 19y ago
The part of the Wikipedia article you quote has nothing to do with what you quote it for.
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Noble or savage? Hunter-gatherers(economist.com)
19 points by zoltz 19y ago|3 comments
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by zoltz 19y ago
There may be an underlying reason for the difference in tastes here: if you are generally inclined to reflect on the things you encounter you don't want to be presented irrelevant clutter because it wastes your reflection resources. The "
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by zoltz 19y ago
In addition to this, nobody ever seems to talk about British responsibility for the creation of some of today's major conflicts, such as: - Kashmir, where nuclear powers India and Pakistan have been close to war; - Israel/Palestine, which p
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by zoltz 19y ago
"understanding the advantages of something is far superior to accepting it solely based on the recommendation of an authority" This is not as obvious as it sounds because it costs time to get to your own understanding. It depends.
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Mao and the art of management(economist.com)
3 points by zoltz 19y ago|0 comments
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by zoltz 19y ago
I agree that this is the potentially "hottest" statement from the story. Yet only two examples are given: Google and Twitter. Taking away the clutter around the search box was a good idea, but wasn't Google's real innovation something like
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Pandaplomacy(economist.com)
2 points by zoltz 19y ago|0 comments
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Census sensitivity: counting people(economist.com)
1 points by zoltz 19y ago|0 comments
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by zoltz 19y ago
You're right, the article is not new. I was just looking for something free on the web, and in English. A new article on this has just appeared in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 30 December 2007, economy section. There it says als
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Coral reefs operate free-market economy: fish cleaning stations(newscientist.com)
2 points by zoltz 19y ago|2 comments
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by zoltz 19y ago
The Economist is never wrong. But who is "pmarca".
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by zoltz 19y ago
"Thanks to the exquisite pattern-recognition capabilities of the human brain, amateurs with just a little training can distinguish between different types of galaxy far more efficiently than computers can." It used to be considered notewort
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Spreading the load: volunteer computing(economist.com)
3 points by zoltz 19y ago|1 comments
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by zoltz 19y ago
> You can't really compare the two I'll still try. Both games have a philosophical and a computational side. The chess philosopher could ask questions such as "everyone knows that dominating the centre is an advantage, but WHY EXACTLY
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by zoltz 19y ago
Really that's what I thought when reading this essay. And I agree that some of your essays are exactly what philosophy should be. But most are advice about startups rather than philosophy (although you can still see they were written by a p