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Hawkins? You mean Hawking?

Eh? Markov chain? Just asking.

Serious question: why hasn't the idea been aggressively discredited then? That would be a good thing, wouldn't it?

Hmm. Interesting. So there is absolutely no basis to a reptilian brain component thingie?

Well a reptilian brain is what he means :) Aren't reptiles common ancestors?

People do present it or use it as a scientific fact.

How is it a widely-held theory? It hasn't stood up to scrutiny, at least any well documented tests.

It is sorta misleading, in fact, because a lot of good authors and speakers assume it as a well known fact and add their leaps of imagination to it. It is OK at best as a pop culture thing, maybe a poetic spin off.

Why does it have no place on Hacker ... oh, you know what, scratch that. No point entering that debate. Thanks.

You're not alone! The most upvoted answer on Quora did this too. http://www.quora.com/Procrastination/How-do-I-get-over-my-ba...

Credit to the author, he wrote an (equally well received) apology after he was corrected in this.

It would be hilarious if it wasn't sad.

So Larry Wall is a black metal artist in his spare time?

    kill them, dump qualms, shift moralities,
    values aside, each one;
    die sheep! die to reverse the system
    you accept (reject, respect);

Seconded. In fact, most if not all apps let you login upon sign-up instantly deferring the e-mail verification to anytime in the next 15 days.

Within the bounds of that article, the author's points are fairly valid. I mean he hasn't emphasized piggybacking as the one ring to rule them all.

For a new startup these are good lessons to learn from. Of course, there is always a danger in building your business atop a competitor platform but if your timing and execution is such that the parent platform can't outdo you right away you can do a decent amount of business.

Off topic, but did they get an engineer to write the content? "Thanks to its world-renowned, tri-core, wafer thin CPU with full chocolate coverage." If this is intentional sarcasm it is tasteless (pun intended)

The only reason people don't exercise is because they don't. I don't know of a genuine reason to not be able to spare 20 minutes a day. If you can do nothing else, run for 10 minutes and do 50 push ups, that's all it takes.

Besides the fact that the author is clearly an 'API-go-to-guy' (ex-Twilio, ex-IFTTT so I'm sure he knows his stuff!) I wonder if this is also because of the ecosystem which is OK with betting on the confidence of the founder.

Good stuff!

Good Sir! That's the fuckin' funniest thing I've read in a while.

This is just bad product experience. They're gonna have a nightmare marketing it the next time around.

Beautiful eulogy. Compels me to read more about the person.

... because it is fun to paint everything with the same brush?

... and why would they do that?

Also relevant, Cisco estimates this as a $14.4 trillion industry: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/the-possibilities-of-the-interne...

The author should have added a TL;DR "ignorance is bliss" at the top.

The title of the article is too generic - he is talking of static stretching before a workout which is largely useless for weight lifting or power lifting styled workouts. In those regards the author makes a fair point. Static stretching before lifting weights affects stability. Plus it does nothing to warm up the major muscles that are used when lifting the weight.

Quoting:

Wager adds that the part of the ACC examined in this study “is one of the most frequently activated areas in the human brain across all kinds of tasks and psychological states”. Low ACC activity could have a variety of causes — impulsivity, caffeine use, vascular health, low motivation or better neural efficiency — and not all of these are necessarily related to criminal behaviour.

Something tells me this will be completely ignored in any future reports.

Yeah. Litterary sounds like ... litter. That can't be good.

I have one (insignificant?) beef with the article, in that it positions critics of a scientific discipline as those who decide the validity of the 'status quo' - this is right, that is wrong - which is a rather bleak picture of what their role is for. Criticism is as intrinsic to the development of a theory/experiment as is the effort of the scientist.

In short, science critic != movie critic.

... and there is certainly no shortage in the supply of autocrats, I mean what?

I also recommend reading what Stephen Fry has to say: http://www.pgwodehousebooks.com/fry.htm

I can't argue with that number much, nor provide any real defense in India's favor, but do consider that the cost of living and labor in India is far far lesser than in the UK.

Returning to my earlier argument, this isn't about any sacrificial costs. There is enough budget for everything including infrastructure development and a space mission as far as the Indian budget is concerned. The problems at the grassroot are not due to lack of spending power but corruption and broken implementation practices.

It is not all Slumdog Millionaire you know. All countries have problems that they can't cope with. In the face of Katrina what happened for e.g. in the US was clear for the world to see.

Again, these are parallel lines of progress. Spending on a space mission does NOT affect other public expenditures in this country. Neither does resolving ALL public problems make us more or less morally qualified (I still don't understand the objection) to launch a rover to Mars.