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Re:How to change emotions with a word: study (2018)
on Monday October 14, 2019 @10:30AM (#21248653)
This is a very interesting point, "removal" instead of "removing" but if you are only stringing nouns together you are speaking babyspeak. Country Protection President Military Borders -- what is this babble? It sounds like the researchers stumbled onto a different idea, which I don't have a name for, but it's the one where you try to avoid vocalizing what you don't want and only express what you do want. If you have to change verbs into nouns, you have to either remove the negation from the verb, or choose the opposite-meaning noun. Like "stop killing" would be "life saving" and then noun'ing that. But the operation of going from verb-> noun necessarily means you have to frame it in a positive way. Plus, how are you going to know what someone's associations with a particular word are? You might trigger them with the word ice or fed when you're just talking about lunch.
Re:Ask HN: How did your startup change after an exit?
on Sunday October 13, 2019 @11:57AM (#21241061)
Remember: Stocks that don't pay dividends are not an asset, they are a time capsule you hope is bigger by the time you unearth it.
Re:Google gets OK to siphon water for South Carolina plant
on Friday October 11, 2019 @12:01PM (#21225617)
How clouds are made! As my friend Tanya would say to keep me cheerful near those smokestacks.
Re:Google gets OK to siphon water for South Carolina plant
on Friday October 11, 2019 @11:59AM (#21225602)
Why are they using plain groundwater to cool servers? Maybe I'm being naive here by thinking there is something much cooler they could do.
Re:How selling citizenship is now big business
on Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:11PM (#21221222)
Incredible, I knew Vanuatu was used for some shady stuff, but this is pretty grand, free pass to walk around Europe for $150k