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This is really cool, I gave it a try this morning at work. Unfortunately, as much as I like it, I can't see myself using this regularly precisely because it's a webapp. I'm sure th…

You might like the scifi novel of the same name by Peter Watts

Ah, the bottom right corner of the prisoner's dilemma rears it's ugly face again. The bane of capitalism.

Hard agree. I'm really trying to figure out how to inject this idea into my friends' heads effectively. The main struggle I'm facing is how to convey the danger behind it. Why can …

I don't think I see enough discussion about what this means for privacy. There was some protection in the fact that it was prohibitively expensive to get someone to listen to every…

Ah but then you'd have to explain how God started, and the problem is that whatever explanation you concoct here might as well be used to explain the very thing you invoked God to …

I disagree, and I think you should take a longer view. As automation approaches total replacement of labor, capitalism will cease to work at all. This view is best summarized in th…

I agree and really empathize with you on this. It's frustrating how hard it is to get people to care, I've even had someone throw McLuhan's tetrad at me, as if this is the equivale…

Heads up, it's failing to let me subscribe ('failed to send magic link email')

Hey look I'm really trying to engage earnestly here. I did provide specific examples, but they were in the wiki article I linked and you didn't look at them (which is fair, no one …

No. I'm just pointing out that the free-market isn't perfect. I think we should be open to improvement. Let me ask you something: do you think this is how we're going to run things…

That's my point. It doesn't necessarily mean it is in their best interest - the free market doesn't optimize for people's best interests, it optimizes for people's perception of th…

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO Naively, one might say "ah but that ended in 1971!" - but let me put it this way: if you spotted a cockroach in your house, you'd be a…

Note that customer satisfaction != customer well being (i.e. heroin)

So you're saying the only thing keeping the economy together is the fact that not too many people have decided to strike? Considering that strikes are acts of desperation, I guess …

metabolism is just a means to self-sustaining

>We don't even really have an agreed-upon definition of life, so the question is basically non-sensical. I disagree. The most common definition used by working astrobiologists goes…

Good point, I was only thinking of myself. Might end up picking this up for a friend :))

Yup, runs Anki. It does have a camera, fingerprint sensor, and SD card slot. It's a decently capable Android device: haven't ran into any stutter or lag. The only issue is the occa…

Honestly? I'm a fan of this company. It seems like they just make phones that break the universal "palm-sized glass rectangle" meta that's completely subsumed all designs. I rememb…

I played this game once at a friend's house and I've adopted it into a version I play with my chemistry students before I hand them an assignment about experiment design. It's very…

This is much easier to say if you're not living in any of its victim states, or under the boots of any of the vicious autocrats the US props up. Also, it's not like nuclear prolife…

Duolingo is very gamified yes, but really the main idea here is spaced repetition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition My friends that are in med school all use spaced-…