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The last line of the article says, "The ultimate concern is a panopticon of a single federal database with everything that the government knows about every single person in this co…

Would you want to elaborate about the calculations/estimates and share any top readings you've found? In many cases, the purpose of education depends on socioeconomic class or what…

Test out what happens to you when you alter sleep habits. How much uninterrupted sleep do you prefer and when? What are the effects of naps during the day on metrics you care about…

Thanks for mentioning your site and have you seen http://scaleofuniverse.com/ ? I sometimes use that site as a lecture tool when a larger context of time and space is useful.

This is one reason it is not included. Cue up the John Taylor Gatto reading list.

Yes, deliberate abuse of the laws would be the main problem and nobody could be trusted to run such a lucrative fine program. It would just be another excuse to treat people like p…

Confirms what I expected - not new in the world, but new to many/most people.

There is definitely memory, but HN also has new members. If repeat topics move up to a top location, this probably reflects the number of people who hadn't yet seen the topic. "Not…

We know who gets to decide - the owners of the communications platform and those who influence them. If Apple wanted to be more inclusive in the decision making, they could choose …

It would be good to have pesticide and hazardous chemical amounts per serving listed along with the other ingredients. What an eye opener that would be. I wonder what it would take…

All is not lost, the story of Gravity Payments is an unfolding example and experiment of a company owner, Dan Price, taking positive actions for employees including large wage incr…

I like your method because it shares what you learn with others while helping you repeat and process the material. And what good is it to plow through book after book if we remembe…

All hail the 10-15 min toilet nap and locks on bathroom doors. Yes our country as a whole underestimates and stigmatizes healthy sleep patterns. People and companies which recogniz…

Iceland successfully identified, prosecuted, and jailed specific bankers for their roles during the 2008 financial crisis https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-03-31/welcome…

I see articles like these as useful reminders that human actions have consequences which need to be understood and mitigated if they are bad enough. We don't want to become numb to…

Great habit. Trash picking is excellent because people throw out such great stuff. Perfect working condition, sometimes perfect condition period, sometimes just good for materials.…

It is not criminal yet, but it is wrong enough that it could be. Cheating is in violation of university academic integrity policies and those aiding and abetting that cheating shar…

You are absolutely correct about the need for people to be making decisions. A small number of people have already averted what could have been global nuclear war ( https://www.the…

Yes, the problem of killing innocents via flawed algorithm is noted in this article https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-n...

The Retraction Watch website http://retractionwatch.com/ is one good method of highlighting retracted work. For researchers in any given field, keeping current on literature is har…

In addition to the other comments, what interested me about the findings mentioned in the 2016 quantamag article was the shared problem solving required to answer Joe Corbo's sense…

The number of hypothesis tests is problematic (alpha inflation / familywise error rate) and the authors simply mention, "Another limitation was that we did not correct for multiple…

Writing posts seems more like freeworking to me so the value of reading what others write gets balanced by the opportunity costs of contributing.

Storage is a fascinating issue, but I doubt the enteric nervous system would store or process any of the information we find in the central nervous system including personality or …

You are correct that course sizes matter to educational outcomes for a variety of reasons. If the groups are too small, it is possible that nobody has enough of what is needed for …