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Re:What is it like to have never felt an emotion?
on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @08:52AM (#10345655)
The title refers to the inability of feeling emotions - which is the same as "being without emotions".
Re:In Some Cultures People with Schizophrenia Like the Voices They Hear
on Monday October 05, 2015 @12:31PM (#10332931)
> "The screaming, fighting ... [they say] jump in front of the train," one US participant said.
> The voices upset them because they violate their sense of personal control, the researchers said.
The voice is not just upsetting b/c they conflict with expectations of how the mind works but those expectations will directly affect what the voice will say and how b/c the voice is part of that person.
Personally, I always wondered why nobody wondered why those "voices" tend to be destructive (at least in our western hemisphere). Now my question is partly answered with the information that this observation is not globally valid.
Re:Chrisann Brennan on Steve Jobs
on Monday October 05, 2015 @10:28AM (#10332004)
A lot of people use those types of biographies to justify their own destructive behaviour.
Re:Carriers Are Making More from Mobile Ads Than Publishers Are
on Monday October 05, 2015 @10:21AM (#10331955)
> That’s an average of $22.92/Gb or $0.0224 per megabyte
That is surprisingly expensive:
I live in Germany and pay monthly 10 Euro per 1.5GB - that's 6.7 Euro per GB or about 7.5 USD per GB ...
And that's not even a contract but prepaid on monthly basis.
Actually I could get 5 GB for 15 Euro thats 3 Euro or 3.4 USD per GB.
Is mobile traffic really about 5 to 6 times more expensive in the US?
Re:Deaths Draw Attention to Wall Street’s Grueling Pace
on Monday October 05, 2015 @09:52AM (#10331786)
Live by greed, die by greed.
Re:Adblock Sold to Mystery Company
on Friday October 02, 2015 @09:58AM (#10318539)
"Adblock Plus to Allow Independent Board to Decide Which Ads Are `Acceptable’ -
Parent company Eyeo says it will no longer help decide which ads can pass through its filters"
http://www.wsj.com/articles/adblock-plus-to-allow-independen...
Re:Adblock Sold to Mystery Company
on Friday October 02, 2015 @09:57AM (#10318529)
https://acceptableads.org/
ABP is also supporting the independent acceptable ads manifesto.
Re:Adblock Plus to Allow Independent Board to Decide Which Ads Are `Ac...
on Friday October 02, 2015 @06:30AM (#10317676)
Re:The Cobra Effect
on Friday October 02, 2015 @05:13AM (#10317460)
NRA requesting to equip more people with weapons to prevent shootings.
Re:Curated list of speech and natural language processing resources
on Thursday October 01, 2015 @11:04AM (#10311615)
Those curated lists poppung up all over the place seem to indicate a need for pre-Google-style Altavista/Yahoo portals.
Re:Study: people who eat and exercise the same as people 20 years ago ...
on Thursday October 01, 2015 @09:00AM (#10310784)
no - (red) meat is not fine:
Re:Study: people who eat and exercise the same as people 20 years ago ...
on Thursday October 01, 2015 @06:38AM (#10310259)
The actual conclusion is hidden in the middle of the text:
eat less meat
First of all b/c its contribution to health is doubtable in general and at current times in particular.
Re:Why the Human Brain Project Went Wrong and How to Fix It
on Monday September 28, 2015 @12:13PM (#10291180)
some people (very young children or mentally handicapped humans) don't ask those questions either.
furthermore there is a reason why in Buddhism this intellectual thinking and questioning is considered unessential to being.
Re:Netflix Data Reveals When TV Shows Hook Viewers
on Thursday September 24, 2015 @09:20AM (#10271396)
I am absolutely not at all whatsoever impressed with Netflix' data science capabilities.
They waste one row for:
- watch it again ...
- they suggest stuff based on what I added to my list, but didn't watch yet
- they suggest movies based on what I started to watch but didn't finish - as if that wasn't an indicator for that I didn't like it
- ...
All those companies suggesting on varies channels how nifty and smart they work with their big data - and at the bottom line they just fail on actually improving something.
Re:Why we're leaving Heroku
on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @03:37AM (#10263771)
> Except for the German government, of course.
What do you mean?
Re:An annotated version of the Bitcoin paper
on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:57AM (#10257620)
If papers would be text formatted or if GitHub could render latex on the fly then this would exist already. It doesn't b/c PDF is how papers are dissemeniated - so it's great somebody took care of that gap!
Maybe a another good occasion to mention that coursera currently offers a Bitcoin MOOC run by some guys from Princeton - it's quite awesome.