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by textor 8y ago
You're going too far generalizing from your experience. They can imagine just fine, as their cognition is unimpaired. But humans are learning and planning largely on emotional basis. Their amygdala is less functional, so their imaginat
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by textor 8y ago
The hell do you even know about typical psychopaths?
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by textor 8y ago
I have a similar hypothesis (which I don't believe, but still). Suppose there are no psychopaths. As is well known, people's choices of leaders are heavily influenced by biological biases such as height, social dominance and other
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by textor 8y ago
This is of course only my conjecture, seeing as they are undetected unless caught red-handed on some officially recognized crime. However, consider this: violent psychopaths don't differ from this gal in lack of empathy, fearlessness o
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by textor 8y ago
You could combine these ideas, though, and have only a few cars that pull weights up/down the hill, with a crane to load it off. I'm not sure but it could probably allow for a far greater total storage and kWh/$.
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by textor 8y ago
Another factor is initial variance. Russian foxes experiment uses some hundreds of animals, perhaps. Suppose we operate on the scale of millions of specimens, a significant portion of the entire species. There could be a many-sigma differen
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by textor 8y ago
> Presumably illegal substances are illegal in part based on risk The key word here is "presumably".
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by textor 8y ago
Equivocation of ad placement and hacking is a disingenious tactic, especially here.
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by textor 8y ago
While this is fascinating, I wonder if we could produce the scaffolding itself de novo , and if not, then why? It's not a living thing, just a porous biocompatible structure. At worst, we could grow a lot of skin and process it into s
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by textor 8y ago
> If a technology that was much better at doing taxes came along, that would be a more comparable situation. There's no need for it, technology already is good enough. https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-t
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by textor 8y ago
> I think if Luddites really did understand technology, they would have realized that they can't stop it by destroying things, and they can't stop it by attempting to ban it either. Well that's totally unreasonable. Of cou
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by textor 8y ago
Relevant: https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/01/18/why-the-... > There is a widespread belief in contemporary computer dominated societies, that regular people are not allowed any say in the dis
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by textor 8y ago
While I appreciate your even-handed and careful defense of the point I was making, it's probably necessary to note that I didn't consider the merits of adoption at all. I have no idea what sort of policy to support on this issue.
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by textor 8y ago
> those are very different concepts They are overlapping. Moreover, "parents on the margin of incarceration" are an extremely significant group of parents for whom the discussion of "supporting families as is" vs. &qu
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by textor 8y ago
There's no reason to assume that they work to begin with; pretty much nothing ever does in education. But you can examine the failure of Head Start and the general trends in education costs vs. results to see that the room for improvem
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by textor 8y ago
For what it's worth, children from at-risk families achieve better education when the father ends up incarcerated. So we can absolutely make a case for "ripping families apart" and against supporting "families as they ar
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by textor 8y ago
Anecdotal experiences are near worthless when discussing policies, though. Feel insulted all you like; statistically speaking, these resources are wasted. Chances are you'd be equally well off without them.
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by textor 8y ago
Behaviorists have failed to explain a monkey using a stick to get bananas for the first time. I have little patience for antiquated baloney such as "Emotions are are momentary improvisations to bodily reactions". Do paralyzed peop
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by textor 8y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. Flux team did contribute to the popularization of this trick, and they were of much help to me for years. But really, inasmuch as this is useful at all, this must be an inbuilt OS feature, so their project
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by textor 8y ago
That's not it at all and nobody cares about "destructive potential" of screen-emitted photons, though. The actual reasoning behind shift to lower wavelengths is that our circadian rhythms are entrained by ambient light, with
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by textor 8y ago
That's preposterous and obviously false. We're seeing fast evolution on the scale of thousands or even hundreds of years. See Baujau, for example.
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by textor 8y ago
Ideology of independent working woman seems far more pronounced to me. We all are expected to work, which necessarily makes having children – especially early in life, when they have the highest chance to be healthy – a big bother for women
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by textor 8y ago
In fact only the coastal regions will suffer from sea levels rise per se. But no height will be sufficient to guarantee your safety, sadly, because this is not about literal Great Flood. This is about climate change and hundreds of millions
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by textor 8y ago
You don't need a degree here. It's not amusing in a bad way, it's not ridiculous. I mean to say that it's highly surprising and counterintuitive, like a punchline in a joke. Most theories about REM are focused on brain f
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by textor 8y ago
Just so you know, there's half a dozen of equally plausible hypotheses about REM function, and dozens more of more fantastical. Most amusing one yet is about synthesis of molecular chaperones that guard against aggregation of chains pr
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by textor 8y ago
Certainly it isn't hardwired in any relevant manner, and people are in fact just fine not reproducing, see vasectomy. Don't just repeat platitudes. People are killing themselves over not being able to have sex, or rather not being
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by textor 8y ago
E-readers also suck for figures and formulas which are indispensable for any comprehensive education. The most readable textbooks can only be rendered on a big high-res display, on iPad at least. Cheap 10" tablets are definitely easier
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by textor 8y ago
> Are there any other cells in the body that are not, over time, replaced? Sure. For instance, female ova. The stock is limited. > Might it be possible that some brains have the ability to generate new neurons, while others do not? Th
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by textor 8y ago
I cannot imagine anyone here on HN arguing in good faith in favor of crackdown on encrypted messenger "because terrorists". This is retarded and illiterate, and the same goes for gun analogies. I get that many Americans are concer
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by textor 8y ago
But it's not at all evident that narcissists suffer from their condition, as long as they can afford to live the way they prefer. In fact all Dark Triad traits make more sense when viewed as alternative social and reproductive strategi

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