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by colah 16y ago
Honestly, I'm beginning to wonder if it is actually an experiment in the extent to which the scientific community will accept or at least consider ludicrous claims because they come from an authority figure. EDIT: And I'm not saying that th
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by colah 16y ago
I've actually switched from reading HN to mostly reading Reddit. The level of discourse increases quite a bit in subreddits, and you can usually find good discussions on even obscure interests. On the other hand, its pretty rare for the lev
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by colah 16y ago
I think it really depends on the subreddit. Once you start getting into speciality subreddits, the level of the discourse increases.
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by colah 16y ago
Speaking in your head is called subvocalization ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization ) and many forms of speed reading get the learner to eliminate it. Subvocalization has several draw backs. One is that it is very bad at multitas
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by colah 16y ago
Also, by forcing people to invest time like this, they build customer loyalty. The customers don't want to admit that they were wrong. On the other hand, this could backfire if someone gets fed up. It only builds loyalty if the customers to
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by colah 16y ago
But its not just the size of the market... Windows machines are more likely to come into contact with another windows machine than macs are to come in contact with other macs. Thus a mac virus will spread much more slowly... This is why hom
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by colah 16y ago
I'm not sure the three wishes chosen are the best possible. Obviously, ``Five more wishes, please.'' Would be nice, but the Jinn obviously would have refused. Something that would have broken entropy would have been nice, though. A battery
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by colah 16y ago
_We_ might ourselves be a resources. A novel life form.
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by colah 17y ago
And the result is that a lot of experts go and make their own wikis, because they can't merge their content into Wikipedia. Which kind of defeats the whole centralisation advantage of Wikipedia.
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by colah 17y ago
Interesting. You're the second recommendation I've been given for Munkres. This list of recommended books in topology: http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/Other/topologybooks.pdf suggests some other books over it, however. Personally, I'
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by colah 17y ago
Er... What!?! > Why doesn't the square on the hypotenuse just slide off? This is nonsensical to me. Could you please elaborate? You seem to be asking why an idea isn't effected by gravity...
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by colah 17y ago
I read it as a sort of parody. The point of the article wasn't to sell the video but to demonstrate how to sell the video. It's a lesson on advertising in the form of an add. Very clever. Some things were a little over done, but I'd assume
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by colah 17y ago
You know, I'd like to not block adds. I really don't want to. But some sites make me. I didn't block them until a few months a go. But there were some adds that were just so obnoxious. The worst were these ones that played really loud sound
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What is it like to be a bat?(instruct.westvalley.edu)
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XML3D - Raytraced Venice in Wikipedia [youtube](youtube.com)
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by colah 17y ago
> 400 years of brutal slavery and genocide inflicted on an entire race of God's chosen people? You make it sound like the `God's chosen people' part is relevant to the moral discussion. If the Egyptians had been the slaves and Israelite
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by colah 17y ago
Thanks! It's hard to ask for evidence in advance (and probably mildly contrary to the scientific spirit :) ), but at the very least it will have to explain lots of seemingly contrary evidence (or show flaws in _all_ those studies). update:
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by colah 17y ago
Well, we're actually in a discussion of the magnitude of its effect at this point... (Which could lead to the discussion of whether there could be multiple causes for climate change rather than _just_ rising CO2...) Like any chaotic system,
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by colah 17y ago
Let me preface my answer with asking you a question. You see, you seem to have very similar beliefs to those I did a few years ago. My beliefs started changing once I asked myself the question: suppose Satan was all powerful and God/Christ
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by colah 17y ago
I can't say I've read all (or even most!) of the articles posted on HN about this topic, the ones that I have haven't been climate `denialism' but rather scepticism and more specifically scepticism towards individual claims... There were so
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by colah 17y ago
She won't make a full recovery, but we can still help her. And I think we have a moral obligation to try. It wouldn't surprise me if she _is_ suicidal right now.
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by colah 17y ago
>Wow, I strongly disagree. Our approaches diverge on virtually every case, as far as I can tell. That was a poor wording on my part. Make that where they diverge most strongly. >My approach would be to apply the exact damage to the
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by colah 17y ago
> Even basic logic would tell you "God Exists" does not lead to "Therefore, God does not exist." in the same argument. Incorrect. A common form argument is: suppose a leads to not a, therefore a can't be true or suppose a leads to contr
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by colah 17y ago
Because edge cases and extreme cases often reveal the difference between approaches/strategies/philosophies/ideologies/etc. Our approaches lead us to different conclusions in this case, except for the fact that you look at reality and say t
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by colah 17y ago
> <cut for brevity> >That's the moral case; note what I said in the parent comment about the practicality of capital punishment. All I can say is that I'm ideologically opposed to this. Most people who know me in person desc
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by colah 17y ago
>All else being equal, capital punishment is a great deterrent: 100% effective at preventing that person from committing that crime again. Deterrence isn't preventing a person from repeating a crime, but ever doing it. The idea is that
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by colah 17y ago
> If you believe in free will, God couldn't be causing any of the suffering to happen. People have been given the complete choice to do whatever they please, and this world is a product of that. This world's suffering is our own. Free w
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by colah 17y ago
> justice requires her death. All do respect, but WTF? There's no question that what she did was horrible, but how is it `just' to kill someone in response? Perhaps revenge and barbaric `justice' in the tradition of lex talionis (eye fo
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by colah 17y ago
> What possible sane school policies could exist at the "Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School" that the student could have violated? Don't do anything with what we're teaching you outside of school? > I suppose there might be a rule
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by colah 17y ago
>The Pentagon’s far-out research arm Darpa is soliciting >proposals for initiatives that would attract teens to >careers in science, technology, engineering and math >(STEM), with an emphasis on computing. _Teaching_ thes

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