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Sorry for my late response. Not sure if you will ever see this. Not sure if it’s intellectual conflict [1]. I think it’s more of motivation. Do you care to keep exploring horizonta…

In terms of Avicenna's mentioned contingency argument for proof God, one way I think of it is a football analogy. You can’t have a series of backward passes into infinite, which is…

Seeing theory is good. https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/

couldn't see buttons so I had to make my screen smaller.

This is a great story. These are also the type of stories that should be shared to build bridges between different cultures and communities. The elderly are our nation's treasure.

inventory turnover also has to be taken into account

This is a great idea. Instead of settling in a retirement home, which always seemed so depressing to me, abandoned seniors (I know not ALL cases are the same) can at least enjoy tr…

there are better places than HN to get salary information. for example, glassdoor

Not being "in" or simply suggesting to follow twitter. It's just that when it comes to social mediums I blaze through things as fast as possible to get gists. And the vibe I got fr…

amazement. sorry for the ambiguity.

45 seconds is too long for me. I only listend to 6ish seconds. Vine is 6 seconds and that's also visual. Tweets are read in 10 seconds.

$8.24 billion for 7 miles of tunnel

"To keep the soft ground from collapsing, engineers snaked coils of coolant through the soil to form a protective arch of frozen earth. That let crews work safely while traffic rum…

Whenever I come across any post on Ayn Rand on Hacker News I think of Adam Curtis's "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace." I believe Rand's relationship with her lover, sp…

Journalists really like substituting 'correlated with' with 'predict'...

Yes, I do find it is interesting how much faith we have in something by it just being called scientific. But... About the example of split couples finding themselves 95% or even 10…

Summary: MOOCs have (1) really really low completion rates and (2) a user base that is already highly literate and educated. So MOOCs don't target the majority of students who actu…

maybe visit mom?

Only 10 applications? How many applications do y'all typically apply before accepting an offer? I've been told around 40.