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As long as it also applies to juice. It's usually the same amount of "bad sugar" but since it says "orange" on the bottle, people think it's healthy...

And what's your objection? Zork good Fortnite bad?

This seems... Unsustainable?

Really curious how shutting down every service works as a business model.

The MMPI-2 is the big reference right now. Legally you'll probably need a licensed psychologist to administer it (depending on your state/country), but that would be true of most u…

This was a few years ago, so things may have changed by now. But as they say, once bitten twice shy, and the wisdom of "just cron it" doesn't work with highly experimental tools li…

Hi, psychology student here. It's not very good in a psychometric sense, but its validity problems aren't really a concern when it comes to idiographic data ie: "helpful tools for …

Yeah "just" a cron job except the implementation changes several times a year. Somehow this automated process was more time-consuming than the previous, manual one.

For the life of me I can't parse that title.

Not a radio engineer, but it's the shape of the Faraday cage that matters I think, not the size. The required shape most likely depends on the wavelength, as the idea is to distort…

And Coke kills people (union leaders) in South America as a cost of doing business. So yeah.

Agreed. I remember thinking "what don't I get? Why do we need getters and setters?". After some years (and discovering Python), I realized there's nothing to get, it's just ridicul…

This is as useless as art, which is to say it appeals to a need not readily apparent to people not familiar with the culture.

I thought it was the Qualcomm Apple settlement? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19676499 Surely it can't be a coincidence. Though the weather thing might not be either, but if…

It's become irrelevant because technology is now the measure of all things. It's an outdated mindset to view science and the pursuit of knowledge as sacred things that must have an…

He's the poster child of epistemological relativism in science.... Whether he meant this or not I can't say, but his book doesn't seem overly concerned about history for its own sa…

> The gist of his thesis, if I recall correctly, is that scientists are indeed progressing towards a deeper understanding of the universe Interpreting Kuhn is an art unto itself, b…

Have some dude oncall? You probably don't need more than one per city. Or do you not expect the car to detect puke and/or a passed-out passenger? Seems like a trivial problem compa…

Because they can't be under anyone's jurisdiction if they haven't been contacted? It would be like aliens arresting us for breaking galactic laws when we didn't even know there wer…

Montreal. I'm not a therapist yet, and most people get rejected for the doctorate, but I figure worst case I'll have a bachelor's degree in psychology so with my programming experi…

Hey I'm doing the same thing! We have little else in common though, mainly I just figured I really want to help people and tech helps in such an abstract way it doesn't feel reward…

You literally said if he offends me I have issues or don't understand him. This disregards the notion that you can understand someone as a fellow scientist and be offended by their…

> If he offends you then you either have issues or don't understand him or both, but he would gladly engage with you either way. Hmmm no we can also think he uses mostly weak paper…

Holy crap, I don't remember hearing about this. Yeah I'd rather not have that. Reminds me of the Ubuntu hubris and their built-in ads. You just have to wonder what it is that makes…