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When I think of those three in the middle ages I think of Lithuanians being captured and castrated by Jews then sold into slavery to Muslims. So awesome.

>Therein lies the problem: addiction does not readily yield to teaching not to abuse the drug. In the US there has been an intensive 50 year campaign to educate people not to use tobacco, yet nicotine dependence remains a top public health problem.

Cigarette use among teens is half of what it used to be 20 years ago.

Harm Reduction absolutely makes a difference. Many people develop unhealthy habits with drugs for the same reasons people develop unhealthy habits with food. They don't know any better and draw norms from the environment around them. Most people quit drugs within a decade anyways. In a way it's a problem that solves itself if you manage the destructive social/health outcomes of drug use(most of which are a product of drugs being illegal).

>But don't take my word for any of it. Check out the scientific info sources for yourself, see: http://www.drugabuse.gov/

Which sources for which claims? Posting to the front page of a blog isn't a source.

Do you find it intellectually curious that Eastern European and Balkan women are still being trafficked by the thousands into the Middle East using many of the same traditions and rationalizations?

>Taking millions of Africans and even one million Europeans as slaves doesn't quite mesh with the popular perception of Arabs as poor, helpless victims of Western imperialism.

Even in the bbc article you posted they're being apologetic and trying to convince the reader that Islamic slavery was somehow exceptional. Great example of why Western narratives are essentially tone-deaf to Eastern Europeans. Can you imagine a respectable publication taking such a tone towards Southern slave owners and not getting into hot water for it?

Routinely spiking your insulin levels through excessive carb intake is what leads to insulin resistance.

>you're looking at covariates in a disease state

Insulin resistance as a discrete state is useful for experimental purposes but everyone has insulin resistance to some degree.

That's pretty extreme...

Insulin resistance is caused by leading a lifestyle where you are constantly spiking your insulin levels through diet, lifestyle, genetics, etc... Like any hormone or steroid your body develops a tolerance and you need to increase the dosage to have the same effect while also increasing the side effects. Everyone who eats carbs has some level of resistance not just "diseased already".

A typical Irish or Russian diet without meat is fine by current norms but not optimal. Eating a veggie burger with fries and milk is not a great diet though.

>Who told you that? Insulin does not produce inflammation.

These are just from the first page of google. The covariance between insulin, inflammation, and heart disease is well established at this point.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021915008...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704240/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16936531

>On anything resembling a normal cuisine the relative share of carbohydrate vs. saturated fat really doesn't matter much.

Vegetarian diet isn't a normal cuisine. Vegetarians tend to reduce protein intake and compensate with something else. The easiest substitute being carbs. If you aren't actually increasing your vegetable intake and eating quality food the vegetarian diet can be very unhealthy. A couple vegetarians I know are technically obese.

>I hate to break it to you but the Taubes shtick is laughable garbage.

I don't know who Taubes is. The guy who convinced me is Dr. Lustig from the "Fed Up" documentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Could also be excessive carb consumption. Spikes in insulin lead to artery inflammation and the conversion of saturated fat into cholesterol.

This has been going on for a thousand years in the region. The Ottoman empire was constantly capturing slaves from the Balkans and East Europe. It was a cornerstone of their civilization. Slavery was abolished in the 19th century but the market just moved underground.

>If we choose higher-level layers, which identify more sophisticated features in images, complex features or even whole objects tend to emerge. Again, we just start with an existing image and give it to our neural net. We ask the network: “Whatever you see there, I want more of it!” This creates a feedback loop: if a cloud looks a little bit like a bird, the network will make it look more like a bird. This in turn will make the network recognize the bird even more strongly on the next pass and so forth, until a highly detailed bird appears, seemingly out of nowhere.

I would say that's a pretty good description of how many psychedelic hallucinations unfold. They start off as noise in your vision which turn into loose forms which turn into geometric patterns which turn into etc...

How are the miners going to get users to switch over to their frontend? How are miners going to get companies like bitpay and coinbase to switch to their fork? It's up to the users to decide the value of the coins in each fork.

I've never read that particular Gould book but I have to agree his ideas on biology are pretty mind blowing and more relevant than ever.

>I don't think there's a need to put a tin foil hat and demand that all personally identifiable information collection be ceased. We instead just have to make sure this info is getting used properly (within the designated scope) with according security for each problem

Smart meters are a great example of what can go wrong. Before pot growers were busted based on how much energy they used. The new smart meters can pick up individual devices based on their usage patterns. It can tell how many lights you are running, what kind, when, etc... All of this information is already being analyzed and used to catch people.

I agree. That's just his take on the data.

>This is actually rather disturbing on multiple levels. Is there any actual basis for this science, or is the guy a crackpot? The article kinda seems vague on it, which makes me think the guy straddles that fine line between insanity and genius.

Here's what we do know: 1) It's a fact that pre-modern humans didn't just believe in deities but interpreted their world through them. If you were Ancient Greek and feeling love it was because Eros or Aphrodite was causing it. This is true across cultures. Judaism has a saying about how there is an "Angel" behind every blade of grass. The saying is implying that there is an anthropomorphic entity behind every object and action in the world.

2) You see this anthropomorphic interpretation of the world at the pre-operational stage of child development. Toddlers anthropomorphize the world in a similar way which suggests that this way of seeing the world is not socialized but a biological stage most of us go through.

With that said I don't know what a "Bicameral" mind is. People will have different ways to interpret these data points.

>If consciousness is a psychological development induced by specific linguistic features, then what are those features? Are people capable of consciousness if they can only speak an insufficiently advanced language?

Developmental psychology has alot to say on this topic. For one you need the linguistic structure of "I" and pronouns in general(I/We/It). Pronouns are a universal linguistic structure and represent the ability to shift between 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person perspective. A pretty amazing cognitive ability if you think about it.

>Mount data, logs, configuration, eventual extensions in the data container?

Many programs have their state represented as files that are stable across versions. If you have a cluster of the same image with different states it's more efficient to move volume containers across a network. Easier to backup/upgrade too.

pg is going to give you those problems whether you are using Docker or not.

That's why you keep everything with state in a separate volume container. Attach volume to built image and that's it.

RAID SSD has the same latency as a single SSD. This setup will help where the bottleneck is I/O throughput.

Give yourself an insulin injection and see how much your body composition fluctuates. That's just one factor of many.

If you've already decided you're going to be charitable you can be much more generous because of the deduction.

With that said Georgia Aquarium keeps killing their beluga whales.

>Actually, that was my biggest problem with the entire article.

For me it was the opposite. It was one of the only redeeming qualities of the article.

>It's a false dichotomy to assume that consciousness and intelligence aren't the same thing, if one cannot meaningfully articulate how they differ.

I think the difference can be articulated clearly. Intelligence is the capacity to create structures and processes that are isomorphic to the world "out there". It's the capacity to grasp the world. Consciousness is the phenomenological space of experience. It might turn out that it's a false dichotomy but it's a logically valid distinction. It's much easier to logically talk about the former than the latter. We can build logically consistent models of the former while only providing hand wavey explanations of the latter.

This isn't really a counter argument. The article is pretty weak but it does differentiate between consciousness and intelligence. Everything you describe is intelligence.

>Turing (and Ex Machina) argue that this is the only possible test, largely because arguments about consciousness dissolve into circular meaninglessness. Daniel Dennett dispenses with this best in his essay Quining Qualia: http://cogprints.org/254/1/quinqual.htm

True but for the same reason, models of consciousness dissolve into circular ontologies of subject and object. I agree with you on Spinoza. Seeing consciousness as a qualitative property of the universe avoids this problem and ties up alot of loose ends. That doesn't imply artificial consciousness is impossible. It implies on some level artificial consciousness will always be a blackbox system to us. One we can maybe replicate and improve on but still beyond full logical comprehension.

>Adria Richards' questionable actions do not make her any less a victim.

Yes they do. People are responsible for their actions. You're discussiong this as if it's some abstract ethical hypothetical. In the real world if you try to get ahead at other peoples expense then you should expect retaliation.

Exercise 15 hours a week? That must be a very liberal definition for "exercise".

This place sounds so pretentious and douchey that I'm not sure it's not satire.

I've owned many rodents throughout my childhood. Rats were by far the most interested in socially engaging and bonding with me. It was almost like having a dog.

>I don't understand this. In most stories, arn't protagonists primarily male? Arn't they typically courageous, or intelligent, or unyielding, or strong, or determined?

That is a common motif. Is it easy being expected to be unyielding/strong/determined/etc? You have lower social value when you aren't adhering to this role. When you are adhering to this role you are making yourself disposable to a "higher cause". In other words making yourself cannon fodder or getting black lung in some coal mine.

A formal standard that has undefined behavior and is apparently difficult to implement a compiler for. It seems C++ is popular for mission critical software despite its standards.