RV86

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by RV86 5y ago
I wanted to add -- the two most compelling pieces of information I've seen that make the lab accident theory more plausible to me are: 1) The verified existence of the bat-originating corona virus that killed 3 miners with Pneumonia so
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by RV86 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I will check this out asap! To return the favor, I recommend checking out the Lapham's Quarterly issue on "Epidemic" that collected historical writings across many instances of widespread plague
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by RV86 5y ago
IMO, determining the origin of the virus is of much more consequence than who was right and who was wrong back in 2020. If the virus crossed over naturally, it's reasonable to conjecture that this sort of thing is going to happen more
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Can neuroscience give my brain the plasticity of a child's?(aeon.co)
57 points by RV86 12y ago|45 comments
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by RV86 12y ago
Thanks for posting. As an avid player, it's fascinating to read how much foresight these thinkers had in 1950. Today, programs stronger than any human can be downloaded from the app store for free and take up a relatively small amount
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by RV86 12y ago
I've often found myself clearing clutter as the most productive way to procrastinate, telling myself that I'll do better work once I'm organized. Unfortunately, that's not usually the true outcome, so in some ways I&#x27
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The Clutter Cure's Illusory Joy(nytimes.com)
16 points by RV86 12y ago|8 comments
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Jon Stewart's America(nytimes.com)
2 points by RV86 12y ago|0 comments
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Do activist investors target Women CEOs?(dealbook.nytimes.com)
3 points by RV86 12y ago|0 comments
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Three misunderstandings about design research(medium.com)
1 points by RV86 12y ago|0 comments
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Are pro gamers just one face of Internet addiction in China?(aeon.co)
1 points by RV86 12y ago|0 comments
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by RV86 12y ago
Hey John, I found I couldn't put ELSISAGS down -- I think it's because I so desperately want to get as complete a picture of DFW as possible and the book more than anything helped me understand what DFW was really up against w&#x2
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by RV86 12y ago
Pleasantly surprised to see this on HN. I've read all of DFW's work and he's such an interesting writer/human being. The biography "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story" is a must-read for anyone who's intere
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Is reality a computer simulation? Does it matter?(aeon.co)
39 points by RV86 12y ago|64 comments
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by RV86 12y ago
I think the reason this sort of research doesn't jive on HN is because most HN readers/commentators know how difficult it is to isolate a variable and distinguish between correlation and causation. It's a healthy skepticism I
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Quantum gravity(aeon.co)
12 points by RV86 12y ago|1 comments
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Quantum weirdness is everywhere in the living world(aeon.co)
2 points by RV86 12y ago|0 comments
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by RV86 12y ago
Down in LA.
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by RV86 12y ago
Per the read, I didn't find that Kindness had been isolated as a variable. From an anthropological standpoint, one could argue that someone kind or charitable would be attractive -- not necessarily because we prize virtue -- but becaus
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by RV86 12y ago
Highly relevant in tech, too, in terms of interpreting user feedback: "A culture that believes its citizens are not reliably competent thinkers will treat those citizens differently to one that respects their reflective autonomy. Which
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How mathematics can make epidemics history(aeon.co)
10 points by RV86 12y ago|1 comments
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by RV86 12y ago
A highlight from the text: -- When the internet arrived, it seemed to promise a liberation from the boredom of industrial society, a psychedelic jet-spray of information into every otherwise tedious corner of our lives. In fact, at its bes
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What good is information?(aeon.co)
17 points by RV86 12y ago|3 comments
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Humans are wired for negativity(aeon.co)
112 points by RV86 12y ago|33 comments
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by RV86 12y ago
I have not, but I will!
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by RV86 12y ago
Agreed -- my own personal experience with this sort of phenomenon is via chess. I am a much stronger player over the board than I am online and I think the visual representation/spatial relationship is a large part of it. I just engage
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by RV86 12y ago
I read this article on Aeon the other day -- for an ostensibly scientific approach, the author spends a lot of energy anthropomorphizing the biological processes. Plenty of what's said is rigorous and fascinating, but I think that styl
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by RV86 12y ago
Agreed -- it shows a materialist/consumerism bias. There are many environmental and psychic benefits to requiring/desiring fewer possessions. If we want to sustain a growing population, we're going to have to confront the bia
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by RV86 12y ago
Keynes put forward a similar thesis decades ago and we were supposed to be there by now. Check this out: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/revisiting-keynes Perhaps there is something more basic in our natural dispositions
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by RV86 12y ago
She describes feeling undeserving of heaping praise, panic attacks, sacrificing relationships and friendships in the name of enterprise, hitting bottom, wondering if she should have quit sooner, and finally, relief and hope for the future.

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