outofcuriosity

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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
There've been other studies to this effect, though, and not just for adolescents. Papers often attribute the effects to a combination of lifestyle comparison, echo chambers, and emotional contagion. Check this one out: http:/&#x2
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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
Manufacturing environments are probably among the best use cases for "the Internet of Things" but also magnify the security concerns tenfold. Stuxnet was a similar attack on networked manufacturing infrastructure, and it proved th
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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
"...there have been multiple other apps that required me to use my Facebook credentials to log in. Facebook, it seems, is now core to the mobile Web experience." Most social networks provide very little that a blog and an email ad
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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
Lockheed will probably lap ITER within the next few years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_beta_fusion_reactor Let's not forget that the end-game for fusion is "virtually limitless, safe, clean, carbon-neu
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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
We could boycott networks & technologies that infringe upon our ability to exist as private individuals and to self-determine: Don't use the wifi toothbrush or the Fitbit, don't use Facebook or Twitter, stay connected with fri
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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
"Open Link in Incognito Window." (Though I agree that paywalled content is a nuisance, albeit with some granularity regarding the necessity of paywalls to continued access to quality reporting.)
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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
People barred from flow often experience intense anxiety; I'd imagine that the "addicted" programmer not experiencing code flow would just replace that need with something like a high-complexity videogame. The author's s
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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
"Our men at the Wernicke and Broca Station Posts suggest that the good Ambassador Moustache is not as trustworthy as he seems..."
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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
My money's on 69. Rudy Rucker had some interesting conversations with Gödel about a deterministic universe in which (because time is illusory) backward time travel exists: http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2012/0
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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
If the universe was "made of mathematics," then there would necessarily exist a Grand Unified Theory. But, Hawking asserts that Gödel's Theorems imply that not only does a Grand Unified Theory not exist, but that the formulat
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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
A life is certainly not a story, since we are never the sole authors of our circumstances. If you accept the "narrative model," a whirlwind of events and situations authored by others surrounds the tiny moments of our life which w
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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
Perhaps when we select books to read them, we only do so in order to describe ourselves as a "Calvino reader" or a "Russophile" as much as the author rejects Bukowski so as to be thought of as "a person who despises
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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
Yes, I am a strict logical positivist. Without reproducibility and meta-analyses (or rigorous empirical observation as in climatology, paleontology, etc.), no theory exists, because no meaningful and logically-consistent observations have b
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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
I wonder if the physiological substrates for important memories would be preserved in a Ship of Theseus scenario. My hunch is no.
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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
I apologize for the disillusionment that will follow: 1) Negligible senescence occurs mostly in organisms radically-different from humans and we have no idea how to edit those pathways into humans or if those pathways actually hold any valu
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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
Perhaps the authors mean to suggest that the consumption of other perspectives allows one to better empathize with others, and in so doing, become better-equipped to reduce their suffering.
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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
Seems like a just-so story until the methodology of their quantitative analysis is publicly-available.
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by outofcuriosity 11y ago
When a scientist measures the behaviour of particles in a carefully-defined system, they can replicate that behaviour such that they can say, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the particles always behave that way under those conditions. Suc