But then how do they get businesses to pay them for uselessly annoying both company's potential customers? "If all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail." All profits are advertising profits in Google land.
Wonder what would happen if someone tried to measure effectiveness of that money being spent? Of course to truly measure you'd need to factor in all the hate that forcing advertisements adds too, not just any additional sales.
I'll fully admit to being pissed at Waze for popping up ads when my car stops at a light or for traffic. Speed traps and red light cameras be damned. We the users give them the information that benefits their products by reporting events. And we get nada from that.
If the content you post says this can't be a genuine apology, then why is that in your title?
"The main thing I want to note is how NPM's statement is not an apology by [Isaac's] own standards. His blog post about apologies is very clear about the three things an apology must contain, and it seems to me that all three items were missing from that statement. It said nothing substantive. It went so far as to blame NPM's users for forcing them into the move."
So basically you say the numbers you're quoting are meaningless... So why quote them? Or build them in the first place?
To compare a more vulnerable language from another I'd look for vulnerabilities per lines of live code. Not perfect, but it feels closer to useful.
And perhaps number and severity of vulnerabilities per project for the same types of purpose. Web framework for web framework, etc. To highlight purpose differences and good preventative design practices.
Even better would be hours to find and fix too. But probably hard to measure, and assign time like that for open source projects.
What you're saying is that profit as a necessary goal is the issue, I agree. I'm not against the goal. Just that the most direct solution of removing personal property seems to have failed before, and that so many cultures seem to be against the possibility. Even to the point where discussions just get shut down.
I hope the "Universal Income" ideas get us somewhere useful. But personally I don't think we can get to a utopia for all until we have...
Society has as its goal, exposing all impediments to and helping with every person's well being, equally.
* Free access to solutions (changes to solutions need access by any who could help) * Free access to data (measurements about the world only need to be gathered once) * Fair access to property/capital
With the issues being definition of "every person's well being, equally" and "Fair access" above. I'd lean toward a minimum level of health that is far above the current expectation of "enough food/water so you don't die". And that who your parents are (inherited wealth/property), or where you were born shouldn't impact your chance at happiness.
Also the worry of motivation toward solutions (aka profit as payment)...but I don't see that as a true issue. If there is a need, people will work toward a goal. And if you care about others, you'll want to help for their goals even if you don't have that problem.
Then life becomes a capital allocation problem. And I can't see our world as better for our current methods. I think the old Communism systems were broken because humans were still in control, and they have non-pure motivations/needs. With the better solution being truly dispassionate, but still logical comparisons with enough information to inform those...by generalized strong AI, or provably dispassionate and effective humans (lack of emotional bias and with intelligence/wisdom).
With a today oriented solution being SPECT and/or FMRI brain scans (find low biological activity in emotional areas to stressful situations...like monks meditating) to otherwise worldly and informed people (aka "smart people"), give them as much information ahead of time as possible, and public measurement of both decisions and results. Choices made by the person, and all effects after their choices...both to others and the world, people and things, in general. Then select for future people based on results.
Differences between our current system being...
* Decision making by genetically and trained low emotion people, so rational solutions (not a popularity/money contest) * Changes based on data, both pre and post decision (we seem to ignore the post, since new people are put in charge so often...and pre decision gathering is put on the same people benefiting from the decisions in the first place, with no penalty placed after the fact except being booted)
War/fighting should be stopped or prevented as they cause harm to others. The issue being, those that cause war getting enough power/control to break any other system. I'd fight that with a centralized enforcement agency initially, then enough visibility into possible tools and desires with a de-escalation of the enforcement agency after control was gained. The worry being, will those centralized people use their power to force the world in some other way? Hopefully people that don't want to be in charge (dislike application of force), but are still capable/effective, would be a good start. Again by measuring emotional activity as a start, then also by results. With all people being allowed to give input, and objective reputation measures scaling those inputs, rather than the current "buddy system" that's impossible to fight for anyone that's normal even.
Basically we need to include the goal in any automated decision making process, probably including result measurements after the fact (hopefully in a check/fix loop). And to do that we need to define the result we want.
The issue is when optimizing for one area makes another break in "interesting" ways. Like the old Chinese curse of "May you live in interesting times." Those only exist because of relationships we don't expect or measure through optimization.
I mean why would you measure the people you can't help? That list is long and boring right? Until it's not...like when you lack diversity (hiring only white, male, cis, etc).
In fact, I wonder if tools used for finding diversity issues could help pinpoint issues like this? Or are we stuck waiting for people to scream about something still? I have no idea...not my field.
But basically, "cost reduction" as a required goal makes this an unlikely result for anything created by private companies, in my opinion. See cases of "cheaper to pay off the hurt people than fix the problem" even after you realize there is a problem. And that's assuming we can even realize the issue.
Didn't Oculus claim gaze tracking was the next big step here after the last headset was released over a year ago? (having trouble finding any article now)
And my reaction is "Lame"...I've seen a competing device with these resolution specs (1440p) and built in gaze tracking. Out for over a couple years now already. I'd been waiting on higher FPS and maybe from a bigger company.
I think the issue is putting power in few hands. I don't think changing the decision maker to an electronic system is the final solution. People feeding those machines will manipulate the incoming information just like they do for living people today.
You can frame (almost) any problem in a way to guide a decision toward what you want.
I think there is more logic here than the original post claims. One worry years back about hybrid cars is that you're simply shifting the environmental damage to the car creation stage instead of, or in addition to, during the vehicle's operation. I haven't looked deeply at numbers lately as I haven't planned to buy one, but I can only imagine all electric would magnify that effect. Lithium ion batteries have a set life span, that is honestly extended greatly through wonderful charge management in Prius vehicles. Last I heard it was about 1000 charges and 3-5 years was the expected lifespan of consumer li-ion batteries. I think Prius recommend battery replacements after 8-10 years.
Hybrid anything is attempting to get the benefit of both with fewer of the limitations of either. Hybrids can use electrical systems to regain braking energy, and to start immediately even when stopping a gas engine at a stop light (delays to start might make the car feel less responsive if used on a gas only car). And it can use the superior energy holding capacity of gasoline still. We've yet to get anything like gas level energy density in reusable electric batteries.
Wonder if we'll ever find a way to get long term support? I'm hoping Google's project "treble", I think it was called, will help. Think it was a tweak to the kernel that allowed plug and play kernel updates, versus the current custom compiled in drivers.
Maybe we need to make sure those "right to repair" legislations people are working on includes software, not just hardware. From the few details I'd read I thought one did (Massachusett?) but I really should investigate them better.
This (no requirement to always automatically trigger any system but for safety). If users want it then go build it and sell it or give it away.
The only time the government should block that is if they're like China ("dissention is evil"). Otherwise we should be able to call them out and build a system to fight it.
Otherwise it's just a monetary issue. Said company won't let you so go reimplement or figure out a public health reason to have the government regulate them into submission. If they won't then shame the government for said collusion.
Except the crap user experience of existing cert methods. Have you used them? I've only tried to add root certs using It directions and that didn't even work the first time. And they expire so you get to juggle them manually.
I assume FIDO2 is a mechanism for automatic certificate agreement and distribution. So yeah... That'd be a big boon over the existing system in my experience as an attempted consumer of said system.
Why would you send a fingerprint? Wouldn't you use that to send a secure token? After unlocking the local method of building said token.
Think you guys need to go put on the tinfoil hats again. Smart people are on it for you. Or go help fix the broken specifications none of us have read.
Oh and go read that "New LG hand blood vessel security on G8" release from just a bit ago. It has a sensor that includes depth so scotch tape won't work (no 3D ridges). Yes people will find ways to break in eventually, and they'll add better ways of detecting. And combine multiple methods.
Thanks. Nope, I actually have a pretty strong stomach normally (take tons of pills daily, empty stomach or not) so hadn't thought about taking it with food before.
I think simultaneous glutamine powder (just before bed) wasn't helping either (I've read muscles and our intestines can repair better with enough glutamine). Apparently we turn glutamine into glutamate, which is a stimulant in our brains...kept me awake a couple times much later than planned. Guessing it made me a little nauseous too.
Other way around. Roofies are an overdose of GABA triggering medicines to knock people out or make them happy/funny/compliant. Yes, too much of anything that normally makes you sleep seems like a bad idea. And again, I suggested being careful and researching anything you plan to ingest. Most sites I'd looked at said to start low/slow and see how you feel.
In the past GHB was one example of a "roofie". I actually wish I could find it legally/safely, as in safer/moderate doses it's more like "alcohol without calories". Apparently body builders would use it to relax instead of drinking and messing up their figures. Never tried it myself though to compare against actual alcohol with.
Many (all?) browsers aren't optimized for RAM usage. They'll eat as much as you make available. And aren't great about cutting things back if you like to have tons of tabs open. Think I heard Firefox was even shifting to the one process for each tab like Chrome has been doing (pretty sure that'll eat more RAM up than a pair of rendering processes for whatever you're looking at currently like it used to do).
But in general I agree...4GB isn't tons for a power-user oriented device (who I'd picture this being marketed to). Could be much worse too...
I can hardly use 4 cores fully on my desktop without specifically trying. And I assume that 10 cores of chip real estate could have gone to stuff like bigger caches that might actually make stuff feel faster on the one task I'm truly working on.
I've been on my own GABA influencer journey and wanted to mention an already easy to get substance, at least outside of Russia where it is a prescription only substance, that I'm 99% sure many people take already with great effect. And that it also focuses on the same GABA alpha receptors like they mention targeting in the paper, though the paper's substance is attempting to be selective about where they trigger things. Most GABA alpha items are used for anxiety, at least when given out by prescription. GABA itself is a relaxing/calming neurotransmitter.
Phenibut is pretty cheap, seemingly safe at high doses (yes people take WAY more than the typical prescription dose used in Russia for fun), and the way people talk about it I think it can have some of the same effects as the goal of this new substance when used in moderation. Phenibut doesn't only affect GABA, but seems to release a bit of Dopamine too...the reward chemical.
For a more global GABA increaser for the brain...Inositol. Taking GABA won't get into your brain because it doesn't pass through the blood brain barrier easily. Inositol definitely calms me initially, and makes me more ready for sleep. It was originally misclassified as a B vitamin, and is generally safe up to really huge doses. I've read 6-12g/day is a typical dose for anxiety. I can't seem to stomach more than a gram a day, and I'm getting lots of nausea and other side effects. So not my "magic bullet" solution. But it's another cheap, safe option for GABA manipulation/influence.
I'm not advocating anything here. Please research anything you put in your body. And yes, you can hurt yourself if you take too much phenibut. Or if you take too much for too long, your body will start to downregulate those receptors and you won't get the same effects. And stopping suddenly will be VERY uncomfortable from what I read.
But many people already use GABA beta substances daily (alcohol). The alpha vs. beta refer to a fast vs. slow change substance, as I've understood it. The alpha receptor is designed to react quickly to changing levels of triggers (agonists). The beta, much more slowly. Hence how large a dose of alcohol we need before we can feel it (comparatively), compared to a pill like typical benzodiazepines.
And one of the reasons healthy eating helps calm us is the probiotic organisms we'd be encouraging create GABA in our guts for us. Those eat fiber and other things, are killed off by alcohol, and generate GABA and many other helpful substances we cannot. This is one of the reasons that changes in gut flora is so scary/bad for many people.
For those curious to read more...Google it,:D. There are tons of articles and reddit posts on experiences, and safe places to order from. Below is a wikipedia article on the two GABA receptor types as I'm sure I'm not explaining it all well.
Would be interesting if this is the majority effect from micro dosing. That you're basically taking these sub threshold experiences/ideas, and making them act for longer in our consciousness. Long enough to actually notice them perhaps.
Or if this is just that our minds take longer to settle into "yep, noticed that" and this test is simply measuring all of that process.
I've heard the plaques are a defensive mechanism by the brain. Sort of, the brain coating itself in a protective layer when being damaged by environmental toxins or too much sugar exposure. In that case removing the plaques will hurt rather than help.
I've loved the internet for a while, but am frustrated by the current limits of many major text based services...including slashdot.
Why can't we focus our comments on a word, or section of words, to clarify where our comment is directed? Then people could say what their unhealthy comment s directed at.
Or link our comments to a direction of replies that seem similar? Instead of just "all replies"? Down is only one direction!
OK, another "million dollar idea" gone to waste as not implemented, but this seems so basic...
Who's different from whom? Which widespread applications had "OK to left of Cancel" prior to the 1984 introduction of Mac OS 1.0?
Or an example of someone not changing when they should. Just because you're first, doesn't mean you're right.
Do you honestly believe more people will choose to cancel an operation than perform it? And that finding an element in the middle of a horizontal line position is easier than the end?
Had to look in TFA to figure out what was special about this. Looks like this paragraph...
"But spintronic technology suffers from its own limitations. One of the biggest missing ingredients has been a way to easily and rapidly control the magnetic properties of a material electrically, by applying a voltage. Many research groups around the world have been pursuing that challenge."
Wish that'd been in the summary of the article. I'd heard of spintronics years ago, so that isn't such a useful buzz word...
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But then how do they get businesses to pay them for uselessly annoying both company's potential customers? "If all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail." All profits are advertising profits in Google land.
Wonder what would happen if someone tried to measure effectiveness of that money being spent? Of course to truly measure you'd need to factor in all the hate that forcing advertisements adds too, not just any additional sales.
I'll fully admit to being pissed at Waze for popping up ads when my car stops at a light or for traffic. Speed traps and red light cameras be damned. We the users give them the information that benefits their products by reporting events. And we get nada from that.
If the content you post says this can't be a genuine apology, then why is that in your title?
"The main thing I want to note is how NPM's statement is not an apology by [Isaac's] own standards. His blog post about apologies is very clear about the three things an apology must contain, and it seems to me that all three items were missing from that statement. It said nothing substantive. It went so far as to blame NPM's users for forcing them into the move."
So basically you say the numbers you're quoting are meaningless... So why quote them? Or build them in the first place?
To compare a more vulnerable language from another I'd look for vulnerabilities per lines of live code. Not perfect, but it feels closer to useful.
And perhaps number and severity of vulnerabilities per project for the same types of purpose. Web framework for web framework, etc. To highlight purpose differences and good preventative design practices.
Even better would be hours to find and fix too. But probably hard to measure, and assign time like that for open source projects.
What you're saying is that profit as a necessary goal is the issue, I agree. I'm not against the goal. Just that the most direct solution of removing personal property seems to have failed before, and that so many cultures seem to be against the possibility. Even to the point where discussions just get shut down.
I hope the "Universal Income" ideas get us somewhere useful. But personally I don't think we can get to a utopia for all until we have...
Society has as its goal, exposing all impediments to and helping with every person's well being, equally.
* Free access to solutions (changes to solutions need access by any who could help)
* Free access to data (measurements about the world only need to be gathered once)
* Fair access to property/capital
With the issues being definition of "every person's well being, equally" and "Fair access" above. I'd lean toward a minimum level of health that is far above the current expectation of "enough food/water so you don't die". And that who your parents are (inherited wealth/property), or where you were born shouldn't impact your chance at happiness.
Also the worry of motivation toward solutions (aka profit as payment)...but I don't see that as a true issue. If there is a need, people will work toward a goal. And if you care about others, you'll want to help for their goals even if you don't have that problem.
Then life becomes a capital allocation problem. And I can't see our world as better for our current methods. I think the old Communism systems were broken because humans were still in control, and they have non-pure motivations/needs. With the better solution being truly dispassionate, but still logical comparisons with enough information to inform those...by generalized strong AI, or provably dispassionate and effective humans (lack of emotional bias and with intelligence/wisdom).
With a today oriented solution being SPECT and/or FMRI brain scans (find low biological activity in emotional areas to stressful situations...like monks meditating) to otherwise worldly and informed people (aka "smart people"), give them as much information ahead of time as possible, and public measurement of both decisions and results. Choices made by the person, and all effects after their choices...both to others and the world, people and things, in general. Then select for future people based on results.
Differences between our current system being...
* Decision making by genetically and trained low emotion people, so rational solutions (not a popularity/money contest)
* Changes based on data, both pre and post decision (we seem to ignore the post, since new people are put in charge so often...and pre decision gathering is put on the same people benefiting from the decisions in the first place, with no penalty placed after the fact except being booted)
War/fighting should be stopped or prevented as they cause harm to others. The issue being, those that cause war getting enough power/control to break any other system. I'd fight that with a centralized enforcement agency initially, then enough visibility into possible tools and desires with a de-escalation of the enforcement agency after control was gained. The worry being, will those centralized people use their power to force the world in some other way? Hopefully people that don't want to be in charge (dislike application of force), but are still capable/effective, would be a good start. Again by measuring emotional activity as a start, then also by results. With all people being allowed to give input, and objective reputation measures scaling those inputs, rather than the current "buddy system" that's impossible to fight for anyone that's normal even.
Basically we need to include the goal in any automated decision making process, probably including result measurements after the fact (hopefully in a check/fix loop). And to do that we need to define the result we want.
The issue is when optimizing for one area makes another break in "interesting" ways. Like the old Chinese curse of "May you live in interesting times." Those only exist because of relationships we don't expect or measure through optimization.
I mean why would you measure the people you can't help? That list is long and boring right? Until it's not...like when you lack diversity (hiring only white, male, cis, etc).
In fact, I wonder if tools used for finding diversity issues could help pinpoint issues like this? Or are we stuck waiting for people to scream about something still? I have no idea...not my field.
But basically, "cost reduction" as a required goal makes this an unlikely result for anything created by private companies, in my opinion. See cases of "cheaper to pay off the hurt people than fix the problem" even after you realize there is a problem. And that's assuming we can even realize the issue.
Didn't Oculus claim gaze tracking was the next big step here after the last headset was released over a year ago? (having trouble finding any article now)
And my reaction is "Lame"...I've seen a competing device with these resolution specs (1440p) and built in gaze tracking. Out for over a couple years now already. I'd been waiting on higher FPS and maybe from a bigger company.
https://www.getfove.com/
I think the issue is putting power in few hands. I don't think changing the decision maker to an electronic system is the final solution. People feeding those machines will manipulate the incoming information just like they do for living people today.
You can frame (almost) any problem in a way to guide a decision toward what you want.
I think there is more logic here than the original post claims. One worry years back about hybrid cars is that you're simply shifting the environmental damage to the car creation stage instead of, or in addition to, during the vehicle's operation. I haven't looked deeply at numbers lately as I haven't planned to buy one, but I can only imagine all electric would magnify that effect. Lithium ion batteries have a set life span, that is honestly extended greatly through wonderful charge management in Prius vehicles. Last I heard it was about 1000 charges and 3-5 years was the expected lifespan of consumer li-ion batteries. I think Prius recommend battery replacements after 8-10 years.
Hybrid anything is attempting to get the benefit of both with fewer of the limitations of either. Hybrids can use electrical systems to regain braking energy, and to start immediately even when stopping a gas engine at a stop light (delays to start might make the car feel less responsive if used on a gas only car). And it can use the superior energy holding capacity of gasoline still. We've yet to get anything like gas level energy density in reusable electric batteries.
I don't think those words mean what you think they mean.
Wonder if we'll ever find a way to get long term support? I'm hoping Google's project "treble", I think it was called, will help. Think it was a tweak to the kernel that allowed plug and play kernel updates, versus the current custom compiled in drivers.
Maybe we need to make sure those "right to repair" legislations people are working on includes software, not just hardware. From the few details I'd read I thought one did (Massachusett?) but I really should investigate them better.
This (no requirement to always automatically trigger any system but for safety). If users want it then go build it and sell it or give it away.
The only time the government should block that is if they're like China ("dissention is evil"). Otherwise we should be able to call them out and build a system to fight it.
Otherwise it's just a monetary issue. Said company won't let you so go reimplement or figure out a public health reason to have the government regulate them into submission. If they won't then shame the government for said collusion.
Except the crap user experience of existing cert methods. Have you used them? I've only tried to add root certs using It directions and that didn't even work the first time. And they expire so you get to juggle them manually.
I assume FIDO2 is a mechanism for automatic certificate agreement and distribution. So yeah... That'd be a big boon over the existing system in my experience as an attempted consumer of said system.
Yeah because I like typing passwords!
I mean I assume that's your point as you have no issue to point at (nothing is being lost that you know of... Just a fear of change)
Why would you send a fingerprint? Wouldn't you use that to send a secure token? After unlocking the local method of building said token.
Think you guys need to go put on the tinfoil hats again. Smart people are on it for you. Or go help fix the broken specifications none of us have read.
Oh and go read that "New LG hand blood vessel security on G8" release from just a bit ago. It has a sensor that includes depth so scotch tape won't work (no 3D ridges). Yes people will find ways to break in eventually, and they'll add better ways of detecting. And combine multiple methods.
Thanks for that thought.
Yeah, I mean why offer valid, sustainable prices when you can change other rules to make that price invalid? Have your cake and sell it too.
Thanks. Nope, I actually have a pretty strong stomach normally (take tons of pills daily, empty stomach or not) so hadn't thought about taking it with food before.
I think simultaneous glutamine powder (just before bed) wasn't helping either (I've read muscles and our intestines can repair better with enough glutamine). Apparently we turn glutamine into glutamate, which is a stimulant in our brains...kept me awake a couple times much later than planned. Guessing it made me a little nauseous too.
Other way around. Roofies are an overdose of GABA triggering medicines to knock people out or make them happy/funny/compliant. Yes, too much of anything that normally makes you sleep seems like a bad idea. And again, I suggested being careful and researching anything you plan to ingest. Most sites I'd looked at said to start low/slow and see how you feel.
In the past GHB was one example of a "roofie". I actually wish I could find it legally/safely, as in safer/moderate doses it's more like "alcohol without calories". Apparently body builders would use it to relax instead of drinking and messing up their figures. Never tried it myself though to compare against actual alcohol with.
Many (all?) browsers aren't optimized for RAM usage. They'll eat as much as you make available. And aren't great about cutting things back if you like to have tons of tabs open. Think I heard Firefox was even shifting to the one process for each tab like Chrome has been doing (pretty sure that'll eat more RAM up than a pair of rendering processes for whatever you're looking at currently like it used to do).
But in general I agree...4GB isn't tons for a power-user oriented device (who I'd picture this being marketed to). Could be much worse too...
I can hardly use 4 cores fully on my desktop without specifically trying. And I assume that 10 cores of chip real estate could have gone to stuff like bigger caches that might actually make stuff feel faster on the one task I'm truly working on.
I've been on my own GABA influencer journey and wanted to mention an already easy to get substance, at least outside of Russia where it is a prescription only substance, that I'm 99% sure many people take already with great effect. And that it also focuses on the same GABA alpha receptors like they mention targeting in the paper, though the paper's substance is attempting to be selective about where they trigger things. Most GABA alpha items are used for anxiety, at least when given out by prescription. GABA itself is a relaxing/calming neurotransmitter.
Phenibut is pretty cheap, seemingly safe at high doses (yes people take WAY more than the typical prescription dose used in Russia for fun), and the way people talk about it I think it can have some of the same effects as the goal of this new substance when used in moderation. Phenibut doesn't only affect GABA, but seems to release a bit of Dopamine too...the reward chemical.
For a more global GABA increaser for the brain...Inositol. Taking GABA won't get into your brain because it doesn't pass through the blood brain barrier easily. Inositol definitely calms me initially, and makes me more ready for sleep. It was originally misclassified as a B vitamin, and is generally safe up to really huge doses. I've read 6-12g/day is a typical dose for anxiety. I can't seem to stomach more than a gram a day, and I'm getting lots of nausea and other side effects. So not my "magic bullet" solution. But it's another cheap, safe option for GABA manipulation/influence.
I'm not advocating anything here. Please research anything you put in your body. And yes, you can hurt yourself if you take too much phenibut. Or if you take too much for too long, your body will start to downregulate those receptors and you won't get the same effects. And stopping suddenly will be VERY uncomfortable from what I read.
But many people already use GABA beta substances daily (alcohol). The alpha vs. beta refer to a fast vs. slow change substance, as I've understood it. The alpha receptor is designed to react quickly to changing levels of triggers (agonists). The beta, much more slowly. Hence how large a dose of alcohol we need before we can feel it (comparatively), compared to a pill like typical benzodiazepines.
And one of the reasons healthy eating helps calm us is the probiotic organisms we'd be encouraging create GABA in our guts for us. Those eat fiber and other things, are killed off by alcohol, and generate GABA and many other helpful substances we cannot. This is one of the reasons that changes in gut flora is so scary/bad for many people.
For those curious to read more...Google it, :D. There are tons of articles and reddit posts on experiences, and safe places to order from. Below is a wikipedia article on the two GABA receptor types as I'm sure I'm not explaining it all well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Would be interesting if this is the majority effect from micro dosing. That you're basically taking these sub threshold experiences/ideas, and making them act for longer in our consciousness. Long enough to actually notice them perhaps.
Or if this is just that our minds take longer to settle into "yep, noticed that" and this test is simply measuring all of that process.
I've heard the plaques are a defensive mechanism by the brain. Sort of, the brain coating itself in a protective layer when being damaged by environmental toxins or too much sugar exposure. In that case removing the plaques will hurt rather than help.
Guess we'll see...
I've loved the internet for a while, but am frustrated by the current limits of many major text based services...including slashdot.
Why can't we focus our comments on a word, or section of words, to clarify where our comment is directed? Then people could say what their unhealthy comment s directed at.
Or link our comments to a direction of replies that seem similar? Instead of just "all replies"? Down is only one direction!
OK, another "million dollar idea" gone to waste as not implemented, but this seems so basic...
Who's different from whom? Which widespread applications had "OK to left of Cancel" prior to the 1984 introduction of Mac OS 1.0?
Or an example of someone not changing when they should. Just because you're first, doesn't mean you're right.
Do you honestly believe more people will choose to cancel an operation than perform it? And that finding an element in the middle of a horizontal line position is easier than the end?
Had to look in TFA to figure out what was special about this. Looks like this paragraph...
"But spintronic technology suffers from its own limitations. One of the biggest missing ingredients has been a way to easily and rapidly control the magnetic properties of a material electrically, by applying a voltage. Many research groups around the world have been pursuing that challenge."
Wish that'd been in the summary of the article. I'd heard of spintronics years ago, so that isn't such a useful buzz word...