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Empiricism (especially in its behavioralist variety) is premised on the ability to collect data and draw inductive conclusions from the data.

Epistemology is the study of how things can be known, what can be known, or what the limits to knowability are. How can we justify a belief based on a collection of observations?

davak began with the assertion that testosterone is linked to a number of health problems.

mironathetin notes that studies of the negative health implications of testosterone were often performed on professional athletes, who are going to have high baseline levels of testosterone naturally, and who have in all likelihood supplemented with large doses of testosterone at various points in their career/training. But, mironathetin notes that positive lifestyle changes can increase your body's natural production of testosterone without the need for supplementation.

golemotron is skeptical that naturally increasing testosterone will lead to different health implications than the studies indicated. They posit that there is a direct relationship between testosterone levels and health risks.

vannevar responds that because the body is a system, non-linear and feedback effects are much more likely to control the health effects of testosterone than a simple linear relationship between testosterone and health risk.

kingmanaz agrees and calls golemotron's position reductionist, which means that golemotron implicitly believes that one can understand a phenomenon by understanding and measuring each of its component parts (empiricism). An epistemological critique of golemotron's position would begin with an assertion that the whole is different from the sum of the parts, because the parts interact with each other, producing non-linear effects. One must understand the gestalt, not just the parts. Induction straight from data will often miss things that holism might not.

For an accessible critique of data and inductivism, you might pick up a copy of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Fooled by Randomness. If you are interested in systemic non-linearity in political science, check out Robert Jervis's System Effects.
It's telling that only one of these studies is published in a journal where I can find the full text (with MIT journal access). Sadly, it's only really possible to judge the research in that article, which is questionable. They test the susceptibility of e. coli strains to various oils, at 8-12 uL/mL. I think the only observation one needs point out is that concentration in a person's blood would kill them too. I wish it were otherwise, but you can't believe all peer-reviewed science.
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I would suggest you to look also at high-priority free software projects: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects.
Have a look at the Matter & Interactions textbook by Chabay and Sherwood. It's a really cool concept for a first-year physics course, and it incorporates a lot of programming (and even just programming-inspired perspectives). (The authors use the "VPython" programming package for easy creation of 3D simulations.)
> "Goodenough in his lab at the University of Austin."

There is no University of Austin, it's the University of Texas at Austin, or "UT Austin" - same as there is no "University of Berkeley", but instead, "Cal". ;)
Thanks! I'm super excited!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/190166068/kanso-bed-king-size

Good luck with your ficus! We have them planted up and down my street, which means I have a giant one in the window behind my bed. It makes me smile every time I see that tree.
Some folks in my circle of friends have been raving about essential oils lately as home remedies for everything from general relaxation, to treating dandruff to avoiding cold/flu symptoms. I'm all about improving our understanding of microbiology and moving away from excessive antibiotics use, but honestly these folks are wellness product hype jumpers though, buying and selling from each other via stay-at-home-mom pyramid type businesses and it's hard not to dismiss it as another way to overcharge pseudo-sciencers
Indeed it does. The concept of Ambidex is you write your app as platform-agnostic JSX, and it will take care of rendering on the server when appropriate and on the client when appropriate.
I tried quite a lot of acid in my New England college days. I did have some curious times, but it just doesn't compare to DMT. I am the first to say that I do not think tripping is for everyone, and I have had some bad acid trips (which were probably even more informative than the good ones), but my times with DMT really made me rethink the silliness of "spirituality without religion". I think even in my hardest acid trips, somewhere in my grey matter I stayed aware that it was ultimately senses being toyed with. DMT felt like something was talking back, even though the five sense barely applied.

I heard an intelligent music reviewer say once how the greatest music is difficult to quickly describe in words. That's DMT in a nutshell.

All said, I hope you do "break through" someday. It is nothing but beautiful and inspiring, mindfuck or no mindfuck.
Ya. Thank you though. We just haven't had time today. We'll have it up in the morning. Sorry about that.
Did your treatment work?
If copyrights are "intellectual property" then they should be subject to property tax.

The vast majority of creative works (which automatically receive copyright protection) are worthless. There's no reason why they shouldn't quickly become part of the public domain.
I work adjunct to this field and see this kind of gimmicky stuff all the time, a research group wants a second paper from an already existing technology. The cassettes will cost more than the phone, not the mention the labor involved in pushing a redundant diagnostic tool. Both HIV and syphilis have very cheap tests with quick turn around times [1]

[1] http://www.medicinenet.com/hiv_testing/page3.htm

Results from rapid tests done in the doctor's office or at other points of care are usually available in 15-20 minutes.
That is probably not true -- there are a lot of things that we encrypted in 2005 that they still probably cannot decrypt today.

More to the point, the NSA definitely can't decrypt everything that was encrypted a decade ago. They may be able to decrypt certain things that have somehow caught their interest.

Generally, it still makes sense for all of us to encrypt by default. But OTOH a central feature of these photo services is 'easily share pics with anybody you want', so obviously they need the plaintext data to do that.

I agree with junto that I would like encryption options, but I use these services anyhow because my photos just really aren't as interesting as when I was young -- mainly 100s of nearly-identical shots of babies drooling.

In one sense, the NSA can have the photos of my toddler; who gives a shit.

OTOH, though, it will suck when the shitty face recognition algorithms they are datamining with in 5 years generate a partial match between my son eating a rag and Jihadi John, and the feds come kick in the door to my house in the middle of the night and shoot my dog before anybody realizes what's happening... so yeah, I would just rather have it all encrypted by default.
Here it is: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects. It seems not all of them have clear 'donate' buttons, but donating to fsf with a comment might work.
Some more details here[1].

[1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/supporting-...
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Agreed - fantastic book and very well written.

You can get a taster of it by watching his keynote at ElixirConf. [1]

[1] http://www.confreaks.com/videos/4119-elixirconf2014-opening-...
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How many fundamental constants does it take to describe our Universe?
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One thing to note is that the weaker the social safety net is the more reason companies have to pay their employees more. If a company can have part-time (or sometimes full-time) employees who also receive food-stamps and Medicaid from the government then they've effectively found a free subsidy. The government is keeping their employees healthy for them.

But if an employee directly depends on a company for their wellbeing and the wellbeing of their family then that company must take responsibility for those things if they want their employees to be happy and healthy long term.

A fix, probably not very efficient, is if a company's employees are receiving X dollars in aid from the government, then the first X dollars of profit go towards paying that back. I think it's good we have social safety nets and they should provide value to business in the form of healthy and able-bodied workers, but companies shouldn't be leeching value in perpetuity from them. If an employee of a company is on food stamps then that company is simply not taking care of them.

It bothers me that we have people who work full-time who still collect benefits because the companies they work for aren't taking care of them. We don't fix their machinery if they refuse to pay for the upkeep, but we do pick up the tab when they refuse to pay for the upkeep of their human capital.
Sure, that's a fair statement. I'm not saying that the lack of success so far is a knock against YC for hardware startups. Rather, the similar lack of success for software startups in YC at the same stage of development, and the subsequent success they did enjoy, is not a point in favour of YC's suitability for hardware startups.

Hardware and Software startups are sufficiently different in their needs and life cycles that it would be specious to use the success of a particular program for the one as indicative of its suitability for the other. Similarly, the sorts of b2c startups that YC typically funds are sufficiently different from b2g startups like Palantir that I don't think you could claim Palantir would have benefitted from YC based solely on the experiences of b2c startups.
If you like that you might consider Beaker Notebooks which have some more advanced UI elements and better polyglot support: http://BeakerNotebook.com

You can combine multiple languages in the same notebook, and they can communicate.
In the case of gold, I think it is useful to look at the types of demand - jewelry and electronics consumption vs. currency hedge and speculation. In this way you can learn a lot about gold from bitcoin and vice versa.
This a hundred times. Mr. Money Mustache - the patio11 of the finance blogosphere - has a great overview on why index funds are the best long term strategy: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/05/18/how-to-make-money-...
A week or two ago I went in there to get a cassette aux adapter for my car, and they wanted $20. It's sad, but I'm not surprised.
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I suspect they run the used asset (say worth $70k) through some sleight of hand with subsidiaries or leasing agents to avoid the depreciation recapture tax of selling it for its true worth. Voila, free tractor.
Is GPG complex?
I take it as a matter of practicality. Network intrusions are, as a rule:

a) much harder to attribute,

b) impossible to prosecute (Assume it is Russia or China, what is your recourse? the U.S. is already hacking them too, under slightly different rules, and any other response is just a needless international incident. If it is people in another country, not associated with their government, there is even less you can do), and

c) possible, at least in theory, to defend against robustly (compared to doors and locks which are always vulnerable to literal brute force, without the need to be particularly clever about it).

So, given that punishment is impossible and prevention is possible, focusing on the second is a good idea. Or, at least, in some combination of prevention and mitigation (including insurance, or say, ways of detecting and changing stolen SSNs or credit card numbers with minimal disruption). Now, I am not saying it's the fault of a single insurance company. Security is pretty hard to get right and we systematically under-prioritize it when developing the technologies and systems we use. But as a society, making our computer systems more secure is more cost effective than keeping pilling up cyber crime laws that are unenforceable unless you happen to get lucky enough that the hacker is among the 1/20th of the world population you have jurisdiction over, or getting into a harmful retaliatory mode under ideas like "cyber-warfare".

p.s. By "possible to defend against robustly", I mean when you trust the suppliers of your computing base to be non-malicious and you have ensured physical security (which you can enforce by law and national defense and whatever other age tested methods people/groups/nations have used to secure their property for millenia).
As far as I'm aware, fish are fairly land efficient.
I think what I would do, in that case, would be to come to the conclusion that it was not likely that the gold price was being artificially suppressed via fractional reserved lending.

So, let's get that audit going...
I don't think we know that. We know some notion of lexical scope is valuable, but function only vs block scope seems like an issue of familiarity/style.
> several people (not conspiracy theorists)

Nice, you choose to single out a section of people who've been reliably wrong, and excluded them from the people that have historically been correct. Good job, you tool.
Until one of the trucks opens a trapdoor and eats the drone! Techno-predation.
I mean in the same way you buy a Dell notebook and get two years of phone support, you would get the same with a Dell Ubuntu notebook but Canonical would provide it and Dell would pay them for it.
NOTE: There is nothing actually new available here at all, other than some new marketing copy.

The app is still "Coming this spring" and the extremely basic and clunky beta cloud service is the same as what has been available since last year.
considering that branded ones are $15, and you have to pay for the store upkeep and the service of getting it instantly instead of waiting for shipping (i.e. paying for a storefront), this really doesn't seem like an unreasonable price.

$40 for an HDMI cable though...
I love IPython Notebook too. I use it for most of my analysis work.
I really appreciate what the omniref guys are doing, but I find these "posts" (maybe not the right word?) incredibly difficult to follow. I can't tell if I'm supposed to read the left pane, the right pane, the bubble? Do I click the quote bubbles? Does the left pane "track" the right pane?
If batteries really are used in cars, they will be, by far, the largest source of bad batteries. And it's pretty tough to just throw away a 800-lb battery. It's the same reason that old car engines are recycled, not trashed.

Right now Nissan will replace the battery in your Leaf. But they _require_ the old one since its value is built into the cost of the replacement.
Do we know what's happening with the half of stores that are being sold?
As others have noted, the pre-order route is often the best go to market strategy for new hardware companies, even if they have already raised a round. The buzz, evangelist community they build, feedback they receive, and the social proof they gather is often of a more lasting benefit than the pure pre-sales revenue. As others have already noted, Tilt has powered many of the recent massive hardware product launches that are going live on their own sites. More examples on https://open.tilt.com/preorders
PR is absolutely essential for a major vulnerability. They are events that affect real people's lives.
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Verizon sells three-state territory including 1.6 million FiOS users
Nice job, I often find it frustrating to find new movies in the interfaces provided on streaming providers' websites.

That being said, one very minor critique. When filtering on release year where I only want to display the last 2 or 3 years, the slider interface is a bit awkward with overlapping year labels making it difficult to read what is selected.

Would also be nice to see more advanced filter options added, but great start!
I picked up the last 2 rolls of silver-bearing solder at my local Radio Shack last weekend. The manager told me he would be ordering more, and not to worry about bankruptcy because a chain with 4000+ stores would not disappear overnight. As if. Of course there are alternative suppliers, but having that one favored product got me in the store during all the dark years of their decline.
The beta is out for developers and it's pretty nice.
I have that "pay me to fix bugs" attitude, too. After all, my chosen profession is software developer and one of the things my employer pays me to do is fix bugs.
The "Hello World" example yields a 3500 LOC js file. I expected a high count but that still managed to shock me. Well, I'm still pretty excited about this announcement and looking forward to give it a try.
Another challenge I could see is the chicken and eggs cold start problem. Until there are enough people willing to rent their cars out, the supply would be minimal and no one would even consider this when flying. I can't see any easy way to bootstrap this marketplace. Uber could bootstrap their marketplace because there are a lot of repeated business in downtown, and even then it took a huge amount of capital to do that.

Maybe it's Thursday late afternoon blue, but I am seeing less and less start ups from YC that really make me go "wow, what a neat idea to solve a problem that's been bothering me". Now all I am seeing is a lot of solutions going around looking for a problem.
I before E except after C: Change recieve to receive.

How does the app access my account without giving my friends rights to my account and without me being logged in?
They may not be selling the underlying fiber infrastructure, as the latter supports LTE. LTE towers are connected by fiber, i believe.

This is like selling buildings, then leasing back; or selling towers, leasing them back, like AT&T did.
So why not hire the guy to work on this as a full time employee? Stripe / Facebook / Google or even Mozilla should have the money to hire him as full time and only work on GnuPG.
> it stands to reason that other natural plant extracts could have similar properties.

That's as old as time.

- Lemon skin for stomach flu (Salmonella)

- Garlic for ulcer (H. pylori).

- Onion for food intoxication (E. coli and S. aureus).

- Eucalyptus for general respiratory tract infections.

- Tamarind and cranberry for bladder infection.

- Coconut oil for intestinal parasites.

- Honey (any, not just manuka) as a general anti bactericide.
Yeah, you're right, I got caught up in the "operator" language, thought it meant more direct management. I couldn't find any place that did something like cumulative acreage by size that you see with income, i.e. top 5% of farms have half the land.
I completely agree that the services and companies that rely on those technologies should also contribute.

But as a software developer, I use openssh daily in my job. I use tmux, I use nginx, I use openssl and a lot more opensource projects and they allow me to make a living. So, it makes sense for me to contribute.
I think you're missing the point entirely. It's that marijuana will be sold recreationally, under recreational law, but with the guise of specific medical or "wellness" benefits as a competitive differentiator. Much like nutritional supplements are legal, but there are still doctors who make money promoting them because the endorsement stimulates demand for that particular product vs. its otherwise indistinguishable competitors.

And the reason that we're likely to see this for marijuana, is that there is now a well-established narrative that marijuana is chock-full of health benefits. So people (the sort who are wealthy and anxious enough to eat organic and "natural" and question "traditional medicine") are going to be likely to buy into that sort of doctor endorsement to make them feel better about their recreational drug habit. And the market will provide...

To reiterate my lead in a different way, this has nothing to do with doctors writing prescriptions for medical marijuana.
But then it becomes a shouting match and many critical bugs not backed by companies looking to profit from them go without notice.

Such as the ASLR/PIE bypass in the Linux kernel on Jan 9, 2015 which never had a brand name:

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-95...

Or the critical Firefox media plugin sandbox escape from Jan 13, 2015:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-0...

Not to mention the other countless flash exploits that come out each year allowing drive-bys to happen.

This seems to be a communication problem, for example most platforms don't have systems to automatically notify us based on which software we use. Relying on marketing/branding for bugs to reach us seem highly inefficient, considering we're in the business of software.
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Did you reply with the link?
From your link

> Results from rapid tests done in the doctor's office or at other points of care are usually available in 15-20 minutes. If the rapid test is positive, it is still necessary to send blood to a laboratory for a Western blot to be sure the rapid test result is correct. Home tests are mailed to a laboratory, and results return in one to two weeks. RNA testing results usually take a few days to a week, depending on the lab.

From the article:

> Sia estimates the dongle will have a manufacturing cost of $34, much lower than the $18,450 that typical [testing] equipment runs.

It's unclear from the article, but it appears that this avoids the need for the expensive re-testing? Would be good to have some clarification...
Full text here: http://goo.gl/i6ooUC

The lowest oil concentration they see synergy is 0.078% v/v. Assuming that's roughly the same as w/w%, that's 53 grams of oil that would have to be distributed throughout the body of a 68 kg person.
Few organization are better equipped to perform a good due diligence, not that surprising...
Yes, but is gold's value for the electronics industry anywhere near its market price? The demand seems a lot smaller than the offer (they use about 320 tons/year - http://www.bullionstreet.com/news/electronics-industry-uses-... and the metal is recyclable).
Universities consider blocking controversial app
any links for tools?
I remember reading cyberpunk novels when I was younger, Neuromancer and everything since, and thinking that all those stories about plucky hackers cracking governments and megacorps were hopelessly mired in the '80s. In the internet era, no group with millions of dollars to spend and a reputation on the line could possibly have such shoddy security.

It really seemed to make sense at the time.
Yes, respondents are almost certainly picturing military strike drones and thinking that people want them for home defense.
In this case, the "bubble" is the thing...but yeah, it's a little noisy. Perhaps if we fuzzed out the background a bit when the annotation viewer (the bubble) is open it would help?
If your board is that simple then why not use a perfboard or a breadboard!?

You can get two layer boards for $25-$40 depending on size in two three days, in US from many sources such as Pentalogix.