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Another way to see it is the Internet was supposed to make sharing what one understood as truth easier; instead, what it did was democratize Chomsky's propaganda model by making en…

Replace "the horse" with "black people" in the title and you will understand the wordplay.

In meat sports, if someone has a legitimate use for a stimulant then they are barred from competition nevertheless. In practice, this is better than someone getting the edge becaus…

So much for the lie that Trump would "end big gov". More like end having a sustainable budget.

Buzzword-heavy, dreamy-optimistic speculation on how the Internet might change. What's the author's interest in this pitch?

It's not a sonic attack (experts agree), but it's very likely not mass hysteria either (an unproved speculation from a medical doctor not involved in the investigation). More resea…

It's not "interesting" because the media industries have been doing this everyday for at least 2 centuries. Maybe more interesting is how people keep getting amnesiac about this. W…

Because what works in animal studies doesn't often work in humans. This is why you hear about a novel cure for cancer in the news every month -- it's always animal studies. If you …

Whenever you hear about amazing breakthroughs in medicine, look to see if it is an animal study. Those usually do not translate into results in humans. Do not get your hopes up jus…

Is Bitcoin a currency?

It's a calming, reassuring article about something that will destroy people's lives and societies in unpredictable ways and disrupt the balance of power for worse. At least there's…

None, or they would have used it, but that doesn't stop people on the Internet from gossiping.

Like Slashdot and Reddit, once Hacker News became influential enough it was taken over by political actors. It makes sense from a political actor's point of view to push their mess…

Two wrongs don't make a right. One can argue that both almonds and cannabis take a harmful share of water in drought-prone areas and that both will be controlled.

This story again? This is bananas!

All in all, from a certain perspective it's a nice list, but keep a critical mind while reading it because the author sometimes seeks to rewrite the terms used to advance his own v…

>Is it possible that people who learn or do something focussedly over a long stretch of time (practice music 4 hours a day) show larger development over those same areas than the a…

>Although this initial research, focused on intergroup comparison of brain structure, could not directly address the Sanskrit effect question (that requires detailed functional stu…

>How about creating a new aphorism [based on Hanlon's razor]? The whole enterprise is sabotaged by the simple fact that the logical foundation behind that aphorism can be bluntly, …

The keyword in the rule of thumb known as Occam's razor is neither that the explanations be simple or complex, but that they be adequate to a knowledgeable person, and that given t…

Ah, yes; the Russian defense. I know it well. How did it go? "The hard-coded backdoor that was found can't be a hard-coded backdoor, because Western Digital would never be so crass…

I am more aware than you might think, but not as worried about what can be stolen in a few hundred pages as what can be stolen in hundreds of thousands of documents. I'm also not e…

Or just use pen and paper. It's an easier tech for Joe Dilbert and easier for them to understand how to keep it secure.

Yes. Want my job?