chimpinee

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by chimpinee 14y ago
What about wintertime, Mr Franklin? Btw, "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise" now has a citation: http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/02/circadian-clock-obesity/
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by chimpinee 14y ago
Asking somebody not to be mean seems reasonable but he only gets mean after he has already "lost it". He then unfailingly perceives the other guy as the mean one and himself as the victim. If he had the self-awareness necessary to monitor
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by chimpinee 14y ago
And surely Frodo's failure implies also that the eagle plan could not have worked: it did not include Gollum
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by chimpinee 14y ago
Yes! I have enjoyed many novels. But people (including me) are learning English from communicating on the web. And children are learning English from playing videogames i.e. as a byproduct of something they actually enjoy (I witness it happ
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by chimpinee 14y ago
>She isn't saying that people should stay off adderall Indeed. >And saying that "all people who abuse drugs do so because of personality problems" is obviously quite ignorant Nah. The truth in this whole drugs business is far from o
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by chimpinee 14y ago
>She had a substance abuse problem This is true. However, a lot of people will take away the message 'stay off adderall' whereas (1) some people apparently benefit from it, (2) some people whom doctors wouldn't prescribe to may benefit
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by chimpinee 14y ago
An enormous and sophisticated 'tool chain'. Surely it could never be implemented in a one-day-to-be-invented universal fabricator? One is reminded of those 19th C ppl who thought recorded music was impossible since any player would have to
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by chimpinee 14y ago
That sounds to me like a great idea and an effective way of managing risk. I notice that online speed dating services are available also, which might work as a way of reducing risk further
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by chimpinee 14y ago
This suggests to me that a sensible business model would be for the man to pay to have his profile pitched to a given woman. This would reflect the IRL risk of asking for a date.
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by chimpinee 14y ago
Women do share risk but in a different way -- a woman risks emotional attachment and pregnancy with the guy moving on to another partner
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by chimpinee 14y ago
I don't think people appreciate how intractable a problem bullying is. For instance, bullying is qualitatively indistinguishable from teasing, which is regarded by most as part of normal, healthy socialisation. Hence low-level bullying goes
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by chimpinee 14y ago
I agree that people usually misinterpret their experiences where psychedelics and religion are concerned. However it's worth noting that in striving to create and discover interesting things one becomes vulnerable to all manner of possible
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by chimpinee 14y ago
Problem is not owning stuff per se but getting attached to it
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by chimpinee 14y ago
I'm no economist but I wonder if the Nordic model is sustainable without external innovation and cheap labour (going on in countries like the USA and China respectively -- who perhaps pay a price in terms of 'social ills').
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by chimpinee 14y ago
Indeed. Everyone who owned a particular model of computer had the same BASIC and could swap programs/listings. Also, it was immediately available from when the computer was switched on (which took seconds). Nowadays I think all sorts of pac
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by chimpinee 14y ago
Part of the problem is that we mostly don't know how good managers do what they do (and they don't either). Their knowledge is tacit. And we have to make a tacit judgement when hiring -- which means that memes about gender necessarily exert
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by chimpinee 14y ago
Combine driverless cars with electric motors. Add a few driver-free high speed tunnels which connect to the existing road network (I assume tunnelling will eventually be cheaper than building new roads). Then we'll have a growing, backwards
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by chimpinee 14y ago
There's a kind of emotional economy that nerds don't tune into. To those who aren't strong enough to resist participating in this collective exchange, it seems like the nerd is cheating. And he's perpetually anxious, so he must be in the wr
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by chimpinee 14y ago
Coffee withdrawal headaches and tiredness can be reduced by taking caffeine pills (approx 50mg per day for five days).
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by chimpinee 14y ago
Goals don't work because the process of achieving or creating anything valuable is unpredictable. It's a discovery. And its importance may not be immediately apparent. That's why you don't get a Nobel Prize until 10 or 20 years later.
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by chimpinee 14y ago
No no no. This is unkind. 'Finish everything.' Everything? No way. Abandon stuff which is unfruitful or superseded or published. Just don't abandon stuff lightly: have a good explanation why (which is not a personal excuse). Make progress w
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by chimpinee 14y ago
Oh I agree. In vino veritas. But 'permanently high' is different: it isn't really a high at all.
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by chimpinee 14y ago
This article appeals to our deepest and most widely-held educational values, which makes it all the more dangerous, being wrong in several ways. The author rightly belittles the concept of talent but it seems to have found its way in throug
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by chimpinee 14y ago
I agree that being permanently high (and thus being out of touch with the body and with emotions) is unhealthy -- however, perhaps some drugs are less unhealthy than others. [from the article] >That there were no major differences in ri
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by chimpinee 14y ago
>such brain simulations might one day be used to better understand and model neurological disorders and diseases Let's hope they obtain consent. And use a model of an animal brain first!
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by chimpinee 14y ago
Well, it's more important where education is going than what any one of us happens to think. Most people who went to school find it very hard to conceive of it as a purely bad thing because they themselves had to pay a large psychological p
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by chimpinee 14y ago
Some of the negative aspects of schooling: Destruction of creativity, obedience, deferring to authority, loss of time, loss of identity, bullying, inability to pursue subjects in depth, learning to self-censor, second-rate materials, not be
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by chimpinee 14y ago
e.g. subtitles on movies, following instructions on computer games, googling stuff, reading books with parent (and looking again later without parent). The general case is: pursuing something cool for its own sake is enhanced by learning la
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by chimpinee 14y ago
>Basic education, teaching everyone to read and count It's simply a fact that children, left to their own devices, teach themselves to read and to count. Why? Because whatever one is interested in, such knowledge is a gateway to learn
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by chimpinee 14y ago
I suspect some people can't type quietly because they don't know how. (The secret is to relax the fingers and hands by paying attention to the sensations coming from the fingertips.) I totally support the quiet coaches. However, they do com

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