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by Scienz 12y ago
If you do it scientifically, meaning by experimentation, you've really only shown that in all observed cases water boils when you add enough heat. It's an inductive process, which unlike deduction is never logically valid - exclud
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by Scienz 12y ago
Point taken - I may have ADHD or I may not, as I implied I don't really know, and the bad reaction to adderall obviously isn't universal. Though I'll also say the dosage wasn't unknown, and the professionals gave me exte
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by Scienz 12y ago
Personal anecdote, since there are some comments here by people claiming an early ADHD diagnosis might have changed their life: I was "diagnosed" with ADHD about five years ago, at around age 25, and it was a horrible experience.
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by Scienz 12y ago
Interesting, and I'm glad to hear any counterarguments (no idea who downvoted you). I'll have to read the book and/or studies before I could give a good reply, but judging from the Amazon reviews, it looks like even he mitiga
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by Scienz 12y ago
My problem with Caplan's arguments on education, which I've admittedly only read a few of, is that he seems to derive them largely from an elitist, Ayn Rand-ian sort of worldview where most people are simply beyond hope and invest
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by Scienz 12y ago
This is why I'm just throwing the idea out there (though, as you say, it's probably not even a very original one). It would take some thought to figure out a way to make it work as well as the current hashing system. Perhaps &quot
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by Scienz 12y ago
I had two ideas, not exactly sure how to get them to work though: 1) Replace the pointless hashing with some actually useful calculation or form of work. Trouble is, I'm not sure what kind of asymmetrically difficult function could be
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by Scienz 12y ago
Great - the HN title is no longer the above one, but now "We Aren't the World (2013)"... a non-descriptive one giving no idea of what the article is about, and furthermore assuming that "we" are all Americans, or at
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by Scienz 12y ago
Yeah, I was already wondering how they were going to reconcile that particular speech with whatever nuances of the prize rules would be required to keep people from giving a speech like that one. It gets weirder when you consider that a) an
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by Scienz 13y ago
I am actively working on starting stuff I consider important, but the main things holding me back are: 1. Compile-time/linking errors with every C++ serialization library I've tried so far (boost, autoserial and cereal, so far). H
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by Scienz 13y ago
Especially if you're using your monitors for gaming and such, in addition to work. I was a bit disappointed at first, having just upgraded to 3x 27" 1920x1080 monitors, thinking I could have had 2x 39" 4Ks for about the same
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by Scienz 13y ago
This is just a guess, but I would suspect it's the fans. I remember seeing actual riots at my former school over a football (the American variety) game - the cars flipped, fires started, campus-police-in-full-riot-gear-firing-tear-gas
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by Scienz 13y ago
This is highly anecdotal, but when I was younger (from ~5-15 years ago), I noticed I was far more likely to have people start fights* with me when I was in a good mood and enjoying myself. Yet this never seemed to happen when I walked aroun
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by Scienz 13y ago
The part of "Surely You're Joking" where he cracks the safe at Los Alamos makes me wonder more if he would have gone the way of Aaron Swartz, in today's world.
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by Scienz 13y ago
The mentality of the world as a competition between different groups of people, where either men win and women lose, or men lose and women win, doesn't seem particularly helpful either. A race implies winners and losers, so I think thi
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by Scienz 13y ago
It seems doubtful that the answer to social inequalities is to make special privileges for each group to match the special privileges already enjoyed by others, as opposed to working more towards an ideal of equal treatment for everyone. I
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by Scienz 13y ago
Those are good suggestions, but I'd mention that it's much easier for me now to analyze my situation in retrospect, understand what happened and the mistakes I made, and turn it into a cohesive narrative. At the time I didn't
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by Scienz 13y ago
I am indeed a huge proponent of the alternative routes method. My criticisms of higher education could go on for a long time, and I'm not even going to try and list them all here. My experience has also been that professors who also do
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by Scienz 13y ago
they cannot afford to throw people out. Not always true. I flunked out of my last school due largely to depression issues and extreme isolation which led to heavy drinking and low grades. My advisor, who I'd only talked to once befor
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by Scienz 13y ago
I wanted to read it, and considered paying since it claimed to be a mere $1, then realized my main interest in reading it was simply that it confirmed my prejudices about the (non-)educational system. Kind of silly to pay for an op-ed just
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by Scienz 13y ago
I had already recently come up with a list of things to stop doing: - eating meat and dairy (mostly... I just don't want to contribute to the animal cruelty/factory farming epidemic. I'll still eat fresh caught fish and free-
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by Scienz 13y ago
Don't worry, I'm sure the next person you meet will bring you crashing back to reality. @OP.. it may not help much in your position, but that Man in the Arena quote seems relevant here. Imo you still deserve more respect (all othe
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by Scienz 13y ago
2nd best: reddit for pseudopseudo-intellectuals I disagree of course, but it did make me lol.
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by Scienz 13y ago
It's hard to take a "scientific study" seriously when the researchers claim the results to be some worthless platitude like "happiness is love." That is hardly an objective conclusion from the findings.
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by Scienz 13y ago
These are kind of false comparisons. It's comparing man-years spent watching Gangnam Style against years spent building the Taj Mahal. There's a huge difference. Divide the number of years given by the population of planet Ear
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by Scienz 13y ago
Relativistic physics often measures the passage of time in units of distance, though I doubt Han spent ~39 years making that Kessel run.
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by Scienz 13y ago
Haven't had time to read the paper yet, but the blogger seems to miss the obvious. We could probably assume civilizations capable of interstellar trade would have advanced enough genetic engineering and biological 3D printing such that
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by Scienz 13y ago
Downloaded and it didn't show up as an launchable app, so I tried adding it as a widget, which gives the "TwLauncher (process com.sec.android.app.twlauncher) has stopped..." error. Tried the obvious fixes for that but none wo
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by Scienz 13y ago
This article was written in 1984, 29 years ago. Some of the information used in it is a bit out of date. 1) It refers to the triune brain model that has been debunked already. See this Scientific American blog entry: http://blogs
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by Scienz 13y ago
Well, yes. It obviously wouldn't be a foreign language to the speechwriters, of which I assume there were many people involved in writing, editing and reviewing. Unless someone expects an English language document addressed to US citiz

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