emotionalcode

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by emotionalcode 12y ago
> And then you have open source software which is heavily used in a lot of commercial products that might get attacked. With this kind of thing there's a big incentive not to report bugs to the project but to sell them to a company
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
Why do you think peer accountability will work? This is a genuine question of mine; please do not infer ulterior intention.
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
There's stuff you expect (or have read, heard, thought about, observed) science to be about, and there's stuff you don't expect science to be about. The stuff you don't expect science to be about is the stuff that concer
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I don't know, maybe a survey should be conducted across the scientific body, and some data should be collected.
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I don't really know, honestly. When groups are arguing between opposing world views, all of which can appear equally likely depending on data selection, I find that absolutely frightening that our current scientific process of peer rev
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I don't have firsthand experience publishing in a peer reviewed journal, but from all my experience in academia, some of which involved very close observances, it doesn't seem to be a perfect solution.
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I replied here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595085 My point is that it requires intelligence to moderate and create balance between intelligence(s).
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I replied here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595085
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
No, I mean, that there is some probability that someone intelligent within the system is manipulating the infrastructure of the peer review system for an advantage. I don't understand why I was downvoted for asking a question. I just m
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
What if you can't trust the other scientists to review the work of their peers fairly?
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
Thank you, you have made me very fruitkerfluffle with your well-phrased response.
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I was talking about people who have 'stress induced depression because they have huge goals and occasionally need to be strong enough to be their own motivation because it seems like begging for other people to tell them what they want
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
We also tend to make comparisons between ourselves and things that are not ourselves as if they are discrete entities.
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
The problem is that people who create startups tend to be highly analytical, logical, rational, intelligent in many facets with the perspective that their startup is their whole world and the whole world falls apart if their startup falls a
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
That implies that (gossipy/social) information is processed in a single way, that doesn't have dependencies on other functionality of the brain (that which we measure for IQ, or the link between successful startup founders and suc
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I didn't dismiss it. My point is that theorizing over whether money leads to happiness doesn't take into account the absence of money acting as an obstacle to happiness. The heuristic is psychologically leading in that it does not
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I am questioning whether the definition of the heuristics influence the outcome. Self fulfilling prophecies and such. Specifics are necessary because it can determine whether something is a fundamental property of a thing, how it influences
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
You are judging this from the criteria of an average person living and spending their money. Plastic surgery might help someone with a physical deformity, and renting out a hotel might be a necessity for a scientific conference. You can&#x2
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
Experience: being a woman people have call beautiful; experiencing wondering whether I am persistently being evaluated on a superficial characteristic. We all can draw abstract lines in the sand and overgeneralize to have opinions and make
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
Getting ripped to shreds by a lion can be a genuine experience, but that doesn't mean I desire it. If you enjoy something you can buy with money, there is likewise no need to taint the experience bleak simply because it was money that
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I can't tell if I'm happier now. When I was a grad student I was always stressed over money, and my health was very bad (this is atypical, I should have been on more responsible about my health rather than dismissing it to promisi
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
What is brilliance, to you, then?
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
Woman here. My college had a 4:1 male:female ratio. I got used to it, I suppose, but, I'm only honestly beginning to understand the difficulties I encountered. If an idea cropped up in my head that made me feel as though I had it rough
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
People are not engaged. They are fixated on numbers, models, and abstractions, with the assumption that the numbers, models, and abstractions have actual meaning tied to them. They don't, aside from creating more students that create m
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I don't think I'm right or wrong. I still have problems asking people for help. Your point about this is poignant: > Then you make the toolchain so long and complex that you need 5 years before you even gain the first feeling o
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
> I know when I was a kid, I was smart enough for BASIC and Pascal but C++ just looked weird and complex and hard. HTML, CSS and Javascript were awesome and I jumped into that instead. When I was a kid, C++ was easy and I didn't st
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I was late diagnosed with ADHD. I used to be on Adderall for years. I'm now on a non-stimulant medication, as well as an anti-anxiety anti-depressant. Adderall helped me in college. It helped me get every homework done, even if the hom
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
That assumes your mind is disconnected from everything you define as not your mind, to begin with.
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
My first thought is that the drug is showing you what was in your mind to begin with.
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by emotionalcode 12y ago
I agree absolutely. Categories like these imply discretely definable differences across something uniform. That which initially begins as a uniform definition (human beings, mammals, things that have consciousness, individuals, individual l

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