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What was Campbell’s explanation if I may ask? Being a big fan of Aldous Huxley I was pretty astonished but none the less entertained by his apparent believe in the supernatural which might have been d…

IIRC it was simply called Reason at first but then the slightly more descriptive ML was added for better searchability. People call it both Reason and Reason ML now. That seems fine to me :) You are …

Wow: “A small piece of Cosmos 2251 satellite debris safely passed by the International Space Station at 2:38 a.m. EDT, Saturday, March 24, 2012. As a precaution, the six crew members on board the orbi…

It used to be the case that those “codes” were also written in the blood of the builders – as per the Code of Hammurabi.

Thanks for sharing – always those poor monkeys though... An even stronger data point to me would be the actual people of Okinawa who are (were?) among the healthiest and oldest in the world. In additi…

This is happening almost exactly three years after many of us came to the conclusion that “Apple has lost the functional high ground”. Relieving to learn that Apple tries to get back into shape again!…

OK so do we finally get proper lisp machines now?

A good friend killed himself after his doctors put him on meds. We will never know what really happened but it turns out that lots of psychiatric medications first become "effective" in the …

Hey there, I don’t know why you feel so compelled to make things look less worse than they are, lots of anecdotes... In addition to the cold statistics provided by the Vice story above, check out this…

I concur, dumb. In addition we also pave over more and more soil everywhere on this planet.

You are right, it's getting worse everywhere - it has been so for far too long. That said, I can't imagine a more unwelcoming tourist entry into a "western" country than the US at …

At the next conference you attend I encourage you to mainly focus on the people there, rather than the talks – more often than not, the topics of those talks will come up in even more interesting disc…

The real solution is to finally realise what these dynamics have slowly been amounting to for about 16 years now – a "death by a thousand cuts": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

“Don’t you really have no Facebook account, Sir?”

IIRC they had (non mandatory) questions about social media accounts already on the ESTA form last time I flew into NYC in January.

As much as I’ve always loved to come to the US and as fascinating as some US conferences are (e.g. StrangeLoop might be my personal fav) – no international attendee or speaker can be expected to put u…

Cue the "outrage dollar" but you could be right there... The most far-out sci-fi needs to be read anyhow – so many images today, so little imagination. "Be conservative in what you ch…

This is very “annoying” as I usually am able to dismiss most modern TV shows because of mediocre to bad writing. Each and every show I am able to skip is a huge win in life/time – most good old S…

It’s interesting to me, thanks for sharing!

I would actually say this is on-topic, as per HN FAQ: “If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” I’ve learned quite a bit …

> “I don't want you to clean the dishes. I want you to WANT to clean the dishes.” I can relate to where you are coming from here, but I ultimately arrived at: “I want you to care about me want…

I found this comic on the topic also insightful: “You should’ve asked” https://english.emmaclit.com/2017/05/20/you-shouldve-asked/ …