Clotho

7 ms·

1.
How Darwin Seduced the Christian Asa Gray (wired.com)
2 points by Clotho 13y ago|0 comments
2.
by Clotho 13y ago
No reason. Just a curious reader.
3.
by Clotho 13y ago
Not an answer
4.
by Clotho 13y ago
Most of the information is voluntarily given and money is worthless in the hands of a very few. In the foreseable future someone will draw users with some kind of financial compensation and things will swing back the other way. I really dis
5.
by Clotho 13y ago
Interesting. Is he no longer part of boing boing?
6.
A Trudge to the Roots of Autism(nytimes.com)
1 points by Clotho 13y ago|0 comments
7.
by Clotho 13y ago
"Trusting your doctor when you are sick is not an instance of fallacious reasoning." Nor is it an argument. It's an action based on a personal risk assessment. If you said "The cancer studies are trash because my doctor says they are." Then
8.
How to Place Rose Petals on Your Lover’s Skin (& Write About Science)(wired.com)
1 points by Clotho 13y ago|0 comments
9.
by Clotho 14y ago
Ya. Am I cute and edgy if I write an article titled "Why I'd Rather Work for a White than a Black?"
10.
by Clotho 14y ago
>There has to be some value, else why would they pay you more. No, and increase in demand raises the price.
11.
by Clotho 14y ago
1. Too expensive for the seller. Lots of games are played with the rating system - discerning who is honest and who isn't gets to be about reading between the lines in the comments rather than using the star system. The 'local only'functi
12.
by Clotho 14y ago
Except when 1 + 1 = 10
13.
by Clotho 14y ago
Who's "truth?"
14.
THE BASIC LAWS OF HUMAN STUPIDITY (cantrip.org)
3 points by Clotho 14y ago|0 comments
15.
by Clotho 14y ago
Roll back the bankruptcy laws to pre-2005 to reduce the cost of risk.
16.
by Clotho 14y ago
It was like finding a paint by number in an art museum.
17.
by Clotho 14y ago
Exactly. Not so much like Avatar as, say, Willard.
18.
by Clotho 14y ago
>Gamification has to embrace the power of stories Arguably making lists for the pleasure of crossing items off is a form of gamefication that pre-dates the dialogue. Like tic-tac-toe it is both popular and lacks narrative.
19.
by Clotho 14y ago
Meaning that it can't be done to it has no value. I can think of lots of ways to capture it's essence quantitatively. Life expectancy, social mobility, marriages. savings rate....
20.
by Clotho 14y ago
But some 13% of Alzheimer's diagnosis are actually a prion attack.
21.
by Clotho 14y ago
Why should anyone welcome a system - be it austerity or extend and pretend where they or their children pay to line the pockets of the 1%? I understand that the BBC is the voice of the state, but OP, how could you consider anything other th
22.
by Clotho 15y ago
I guess it was raided but not arrested. Apparently Apple was not pleased and had their private police - the US Secret Service break in to his appartment http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/09/0250237/Apple-Store...
23.
by Clotho 15y ago
The trick of course would be to have a roving robot army that pillaged like Attila.
24.
by Clotho 15y ago
This guy was arrested today.
25.
by Clotho 15y ago
I think what you've done by adding slaves to the mix is reduce the value of human labor relative to other assets, making the holders of resources like land, water, oil, etc stronger. For instance you still need food and how much food can be