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  1. Re:Baloney on Magical Thinking Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    how about you point out the actual passage that you are thinking about?

    I had nothing specific in mind, but you may for instance think 'blue'. Besides, some Wittgenstein might help to avoid delusions of a common reality, truth, proof outside of mathematics, and, yes, the idea of 'raw-iron-facts'.

    funny how some philosopher names are dropped almost everywhere

    Contrary to my reality which was constituted within 20 years of academia and both a decade of market-research and martial arts by now.

    fact-based decision(s)

    Which are embedded into a quasi-religious constraint system dictating what facts are allowed (schools of thought at best, politics at worst).

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  2. Who Would Have Thought? on Japan To Be Without Nuclear Power After May 5 · · Score: 2
    Or are they back into the dark ages now?

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  3. Re:Baloney on Magical Thinking Is Good For You · · Score: 4, Interesting

    fact-based

    Good luck evaluating all those 'objective' facts coming in via your senses.

    Recommended: Some WITTGENSTEIN.

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  4. Re:Motion sickness on Pentagon Orders Dual-Focus Contact Lens Prototypes · · Score: 2

    motion sickness

    Of course, there will also be long term effects, though only (a selected) few will realize. Think along the lines of disturbed sensory integration, motion sickness being a first symptom which goes away. An example is the effect that the distortion caused by the frame has on visual feedback regarding body motions, which in the end leads to body region patterns that never really move, in turn causing bad posture etc. .

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  5. Perfect Match on Company Designs "Big Brother Chip" · · Score: 1
    ... with cellphones and NSA databases.

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  6. Re:Taxes and trade are complicated on Amazon Pays No UK Income Tax, Under Investigation · · Score: 2

    ... as the bottom quintile

    ... as those below the bottom quintile FTFY

    Sigh, once upon a time, this was a geek site..

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  7. Re:Dual Purpose Device on Google Glasses Announced · · Score: 1

    Unless there is an app for it.

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  8. Re:Sanity vs. politically motivated scaremongering on NOAA Study: Radiation From Fukushima Very Dilluted, Seafood Safe · · Score: 1

    but we know exactly where it is

    And it is also easy to keep this knowledge for a couple of years (100.000+).

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  9. Re:The spending is very concentrated on Does Higher Health Care Spending Lead To Better Patient Outcomes? · · Score: 1

    what does that mean for the health care system?

    For me: That it should be prevention centered and decentralized (i.e. less pharma, more awareness).

    Will not happen anytime soon, because, if instantiated properly, would touch each and every layer of society that today causes ill health. Examples: Employment structures (overtime, stress), food (junk), clothing (shoes), sparetime industry (elimination of couch potato boredumbness) ... .

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  10. Re:The spending is very concentrated on Does Higher Health Care Spending Lead To Better Patient Outcomes? · · Score: 1

    At any given time, less people are sick than are healthy.

    Doubtful:

    More than one-third of U.S. adults (35.7%) are obese. (CDC)

    An Estimated 1 in 10 U.S. Adults Report Depression. (CDC)

    Being too lazy to carry on searching, just add heart deseases, other psychiatric conditions than depression, allergic conditions ... . I know there is overlap, but I am sure you get past (far beyond) the 50% mark.

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  11. Re:Oblig on Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity · · Score: 1

    is derived from German ...the word fuieken, which means to strike.

    Actually, the word is 'ficken'. I am a native speaker (German).

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  12. Re:Where are these people? on Parlez-vous Python? · · Score: 1

    Why would anybody other than professional devs look at code?

    Maybe after having been caught in a marketing trap?

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  13. Re:what bothered me about that article on Parlez-vous Python? · · Score: 1

    learning just enough HTML and PHP to be dangerous is not a good thing

    "Smattering", at least to my non-natively listening ears, somehow indicates the danger (think along the pictures of 'maluma' and 'takete').

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  14. Would You Expect ... on Microsoft Barring Certain Staff From Buying Macs, iPads? · · Score: 1
    Coca-Cola buying Pepsi-CSDs for the employees to drink?

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  15. Re:Good news everyone! on Killing Cancer With Engineered Viruses · · Score: 1

    although the trial was small, the success was remarkable

    We had two candidates, only one failed.

    We had two samples of 10 each. In the untreated one, 1 survived, a figure which remarkably doubled in the group with treatment.

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  16. Re:Free? on Free Apps Eat Your Smartphone Battery · · Score: 0

    operating system ... desktop environment ... browser

    This is all applications, not 'apps'.

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  17. Re:"Scottish intelligence study"? on Genes About a Quarter of the Secret To Staying Smart · · Score: 1
    At least, they beamed 20 people into another authorship.

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  18. Re:Part of a money conflict within the King family on A Copyright Nightmare · · Score: 2

    Back in 1963 not even Super 8 mm film was released yet.

    And, regarding regular 8mm film: "Common length film spools allowed filming of about 3 minutes to 4.5 minutes at 12, 15, 16 and 18 frames per second." (wpedia) Not to speak of lighting requirements (the material was not very sensitive).

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  19. Re:U.S. prison system is flawed on SCADA Vulnerabilities In Prisons Could Open Cell Doors · · Score: 1

    some new arbitrary contraband

    Probably not so arbitrary: general purpose computers, or more general, contraptions pertinent to disrupt order.

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  20. Re:U.S. prison system is flawed on SCADA Vulnerabilities In Prisons Could Open Cell Doors · · Score: 2

    addressing the real underlying issues

    Solving problems does not create revenue streams. Only if you install what I call an onion system (introducing ever new layers to fix problems) will you generate 'wealth' and 'growth'.

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  21. Re:Turn signals are a good thing on Ford System Will Warn, Correct Lane-Drifting Drivers · · Score: 1

    You haven't driven in the boston area, then. ... You are in a battle. It is as important to move forward as it is to survive.

    Somehow reminds me of Brussels (maybe things have changed there).

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  22. Re:Democracy. on Go Daddy Loses Over 21,000 Domains In One Day · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Eventually, the politicians should be accountable directly to the people.

    For a starter, any type of accountability would do.

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  23. Re:The real goal on IBM Tracks Pork Chops From Pig To Plate · · Score: 1

    I would like a more stylish ear tag when you start doing this on humans, please.

    The whole thing was already perceived as animal farm, so why care about the human aspects.

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  24. Re:I don't think Asimov was naive on Philosopher Patrick Lin On the Ethics of Military Robotics · · Score: 1

    I claim that any entity capable of understanding the Asimov Laws AND _interpreting_ them to apply them in complex and diverse scenarios would also be capable of choosing not to follow them.

    Seems like if the question is if it is possible to implement an AI with a restricted 'Free Will' while it is still not clear whether Humans have such thing.

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  25. More is not better (or worse) than less, ... on Why We Need More Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    ... , just different.
    – The paradigm paradox.

    from www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/VanRoyChapter.pdf (Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know)

    Probably worth considering before starting to discuss the issue. The conclusion then could be that a more general paradigm shift is needed.

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