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If you do it scientifically, meaning by experimentation, you've really only shown that in all observed cases water boils when you add enough heat. It's an inductive process, which …

Point taken - I may have ADHD or I may not, as I implied I don't really know, and the bad reaction to adderall obviously isn't universal. Though I'll also say the dosage wasn't unk…

Personal anecdote, since there are some comments here by people claiming an early ADHD diagnosis might have changed their life: I was "diagnosed" with ADHD about five years ago, at…

Interesting, and I'm glad to hear any counterarguments (no idea who downvoted you). I'll have to read the book and/or studies before I could give a good reply, but judging from the…

My problem with Caplan's arguments on education, which I've admittedly only read a few of, is that he seems to derive them largely from an elitist, Ayn Rand-ian sort of worldview w…

This is why I'm just throwing the idea out there (though, as you say, it's probably not even a very original one). It would take some thought to figure out a way to make it work as…

I had two ideas, not exactly sure how to get them to work though: 1) Replace the pointless hashing with some actually useful calculation or form of work. Trouble is, I'm not sure w…

Great - the HN title is no longer the above one, but now "We Aren't the World (2013)"... a non-descriptive one giving no idea of what the article is about, and furthermore assuming…

Yeah, I was already wondering how they were going to reconcile that particular speech with whatever nuances of the prize rules would be required to keep people from giving a speech…

I am actively working on starting stuff I consider important, but the main things holding me back are: 1. Compile-time/linking errors with every C++ serialization library I've trie…

Especially if you're using your monitors for gaming and such, in addition to work. I was a bit disappointed at first, having just upgraded to 3x 27" 1920x1080 monitors, thinking I …

This is just a guess, but I would suspect it's the fans. I remember seeing actual riots at my former school over a football (the American variety) game - the cars flipped, fires st…

This is highly anecdotal, but when I was younger (from ~5-15 years ago), I noticed I was far more likely to have people start fights* with me when I was in a good mood and enjoying…

The part of "Surely You're Joking" where he cracks the safe at Los Alamos makes me wonder more if he would have gone the way of Aaron Swartz, in today's world.

The mentality of the world as a competition between different groups of people, where either men win and women lose, or men lose and women win, doesn't seem particularly helpful ei…

It seems doubtful that the answer to social inequalities is to make special privileges for each group to match the special privileges already enjoyed by others, as opposed to worki…

Those are good suggestions, but I'd mention that it's much easier for me now to analyze my situation in retrospect, understand what happened and the mistakes I made, and turn it in…

I am indeed a huge proponent of the alternative routes method. My criticisms of higher education could go on for a long time, and I'm not even going to try and list them all here. …

they cannot afford to throw people out. Not always true. I flunked out of my last school due largely to depression issues and extreme isolation which led to heavy drinking and low …

I wanted to read it, and considered paying since it claimed to be a mere $1, then realized my main interest in reading it was simply that it confirmed my prejudices about the (non-…

I had already recently come up with a list of things to stop doing: - eating meat and dairy (mostly... I just don't want to contribute to the animal cruelty/factory farming epidemi…

Don't worry, I'm sure the next person you meet will bring you crashing back to reality. @OP.. it may not help much in your position, but that Man in the Arena quote seems relevant …

2nd best: reddit for pseudopseudo-intellectuals I disagree of course, but it did make me lol.

It's hard to take a "scientific study" seriously when the researchers claim the results to be some worthless platitude like "happiness is love." That is hardly an objective conclus…

These are kind of false comparisons. It's comparing man-years spent watching Gangnam Style against years spent building the Taj Mahal. There's a huge difference. Divide the number …