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Sunstein is usually considered a center-left or technocratic-left, and far from leftist. Believe it or not, Obama's not even very left, even in the USA!

I love that for the left-leaning Mianaai, what happened is framed as uncertainty, while for the right-leaning Mianaai, it's a literal schism. The question is what the proper resolution is, if any. Clearly eradicating the uncertainty (via literal eradication) to regain unified hierarchical certainty (the…

And if you think it isn't funny because the discovery of "black" hidden within "blacktop" is remarkably uninteresting, it must be because you're PC, not because it's inherently stupid.

I agree, a regular camera would not produce the same result. But nevertheless, using a mirror to shoot the image of a stabilized camera exaggerates the result, and is deceptive if the exaggerating effect of the mirror is covert, as it is here, in two ways: First, the fact that it is shooting itself in a mirror is not…

Ah, I see. But that still biases the results, inasmuch as the brain naturally assumes it is seeing a camera steady in space, rather than an effect in part due to the camera shooting itself in a mirror. Any camera would to some degree produce the same effect, inasmuch as small rotational or translational shifts would…

But the image has been fixed on the camera! The background shifts but the camera doesn't — that's cheating. I'm sure the camera is also very stable, but using video tricks like this makes me distrust the company.

So let me get this straight - Orson Scot Card being anti-gay is wrong?

Came down here to post much the same thing. All in all, we got pretty lucky with the timing of WWII; had Goddard been less reticent, it surely would have been much worse, especially for the UK, and possibly for the US as well. And had WWII happened a few years later, after the atomic bomb, it would have been much…

DIY: You can just buy NMN yourself from scientific suppliers and follow the protocol yourself.* Although alas, they gave the mice 500mg/KG injections for 7 days, and their supplier charges about $850 for 500 mg, so if you weigh around 70 KG, that's $60K per day — plus, at 35 grams before dilution, a pretty serious…

Wait until it's over, download the YouTube video, watch in VLC at 2x speed (beyond which audio is incomprehensible) — and even that is too slow. But with judicious use of the 30-second-skip button, you can actually plow away fairly entertainingly, with merely slow-moving robots, and then you can slow back down to 2x…

What's the deal with all the internal bit.ly links? Very annoying not to able to hover over a url to see where it leads, especially if it's in order to game Google or advertisers or users to somehow squeeze out another buck.

Hate language towards women is just as bad as hate language towards African Americans or other racial groups. You might as well go around defending the use of kike or chink. And saying it's only aimed at some women is like saying you're only against the uppity negroes.

Well, you may have noticed that Amazon has slowly been raising the minimum price that qualifies for free Prime shipping. They've branded it "add-on", but it used to be everything shipped for free; then things under about $4 were "add-on" (ie, only shipped for free with more than a $25 purchase, just like non-prime…

Here is their temp curve, right on the Kickstarter page

Pretty much anything where the units grow with a speed proportional to their existing size will follow a power law — the "rich get richer" phenomenon. Cities become more appealing to move to the larger they are, and thus the rich get richer. The same with literal wealth, or Twitter followers, and lots of other…

Would you all mind including a link back to the previous month's list? Often I'll mean to check out a few books, forget, and am reminded by the next month's list, but then I have to dig back to find the previous one to remind me what exactly it was I was interested in. A dedicated page with links to all the lists…

Comment 1: I'm usually a "serves you right" kind of guy, but this would totally suck. Death by radiation poisoning would be a perfectly just fate if they stole this to build a dirty bomb, but if they had no idea what was in the truck they stole the universe is being a little harsh on them.

Crazy that so many people here are calling for the death penalty for thieves. Goes to show that society is filled with psychos held in check only by the rule of law.

Every single person in America has never sped, never had an affair, never visited a prostitute or a sex store, never done anything at any point in their lives that they wouldn't want other people to know, and no one ever will — and that's why we have nothing to fear from this perfectly natural, totally unsurprising,…