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New comment by _Schizotypy in "Life is fractal, but markets are square"

_Schizotypy — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:25:21 +0000

It is apparent that we don't agree on what defines a group of humans to be a sort of 'nation-state'

At which exact point in history would you point to as the defining moment where 'nation-states' begin?

Do you judge all historical concepts purely by how they are in the current day?

Concepts develop over time, those societies are absolutely part of the beginning of current day nation-states no matter how diverse in culture they may have been (which is something we still see today)

New comment by _Schizotypy in "Life is fractal, but markets are square"

_Schizotypy — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 13:45:55 +0000

the top down organization of humans and labor, complete with warring states.

I'm rather unsure how this would NOT be considered similar to nation-state organization. Yes, a slightly smaller scale in some cases perhaps but there is still the over-arching governmental authority

edited to add: I love how people down-vote impulsively without context for argument

New comment by _Schizotypy in "Life is fractal, but markets are square"

_Schizotypy — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:21:04 +0000

Medieval Europe was a form of nation state....

New comment by _Schizotypy in "Introduction to Blockchain Technology"

_Schizotypy — Tue, 28 May 2019 13:24:52 +0000

I think you need a longer URL

New comment by _Schizotypy in "Ask HN: How do we “cure” cancer?"

_Schizotypy — Wed, 08 May 2019 16:30:04 +0000

Here's one of particular interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P53

New comment by _Schizotypy in "Childhood experience with Pokémon suggests eccentricity drives visual cortex"

_Schizotypy — Tue, 07 May 2019 18:55:09 +0000

From my experience reading research into articles relating to neuroscience, when omitting the term 'organization', 'driving' something implies a sort of 'this is what is powering the...' or 'this is what is stimulating the...' I agree that including the term 'pokemon' would drive some readers to the article, omitting 'organization' obfuscates what the article is really about

New comment by _Schizotypy in "Childhood experience with Pokémon suggests eccentricity drives visual cortex"

_Schizotypy — Tue, 07 May 2019 14:04:27 +0000

I think the term 'organization' is pretty important here, more-so than pokemon

'Experience with pokemon suggests eccentricity drives organization of visual cortex'?

'Childhood experience suggests eccentricity drives organization of visual cortex'?

New comment by _Schizotypy in "ACLU: Amazon Rekognition falsely matches Congress members against 25K mugshots"

_Schizotypy — Mon, 06 May 2019 18:22:49 +0000

upvoted 3 times with no real link or content? hmmmm

New comment by _Schizotypy in "Anti-surveillance dogma is costing lives"

_Schizotypy — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 13:07:24 +0000

Why do people cite breitbart like it's an actual source of trustworthy information

New comment by _Schizotypy in "What are some good Linux friendly laptops?"

_Schizotypy — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:44:36 +0000

none of those things have anything to do with Linux. If you're installing Linux, you probably aren't using the included Windows installation which is where all that crapware was installed

New comment by _Schizotypy in "Marijuana testing of job applicants is barred by NYC"

_Schizotypy — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:52:15 +0000

Cocaine has negligible withdrawal symptoms especially when compared to benzodiazepines or alcohol, so this is absolutely not the case. The literature that I have read does not say that any compounds are "hard" or "soft" The literature that I have read also has noted that the impact of alcohol and tobacco are worse than the drugs people always refer to as "hard" drugs.

New comment by _Schizotypy in "Man found guilty of using phone while driving even though device was dead"

_Schizotypy — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:04:45 +0000

Could the block of wood be considered a communication device if you write on it to communicate with your passengers?

New comment by _Schizotypy in "When Can Headphones and Earbuds Damage Your Hearing?"

_Schizotypy — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 12:33:20 +0000

Are you saying 85dB is "pleasurable"?

New comment by _Schizotypy in "Marijuana testing of job applicants is barred by NYC"

_Schizotypy — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:42:51 +0000

Can you explain what pharmacological properties of a substance makes a drug "hard"? This is defined nowhere in literature.

New comment by _Schizotypy in "Show HN: Weight Lifting Algorithm Based on 5M Workouts"

_Schizotypy — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:29:48 +0000

What's your evidence for this "outperforms human trainers" claim? I only see one single blog post and not much else on the website.

New comment by _Schizotypy in "[dead]"

_Schizotypy — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:23:32 +0000

In what way is this newsworthy?

New comment by _Schizotypy in "Foxconn is confusing the hell out of Wisconsin"

_Schizotypy — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 12:50:32 +0000

Wondering why they didn't throw "quantum" in there too

New comment by _Schizotypy in "EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content"

_Schizotypy — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 22:12:32 +0000

Russia banned drug information? What sort of information, like pharmacology?

New comment by _Schizotypy in "Book imagines what animals might look like if humans went extinct (2018)"

_Schizotypy — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:22:04 +0000

Is this supposed to link somewhere?

New comment by _Schizotypy in "Man found guilty of using phone while driving even though device was dead"

_Schizotypy — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:52:10 +0000

so if you hold a block of wood while driving, can you be ticketed for using a block of wood while driving? What if you plug headphones into a block of wood that is sitting in the seat next to you?