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satellitecat | 11 years ago | on: Cause of global warming hiatus found deep in the Atlantic Ocean

If I throw a ball and suddenly it stops, contrary to what I expect, I don't go "oh, I guess the ball just stopped of its own accord, naturally," I go, why the hell did it stop?" and look for reasons. Who knows, maybe it really did just stop naturally, but maybe it was something else (wind.. hit something.. ball burst creating a backwards force..)

satellitecat | 12 years ago | on: Do Men Suck At Friendship?

Not so much in Canada. We'll call someone from the US an American, but we don't say America; we'll say the US, instead.. as I just did.

satellitecat | 12 years ago | on: This Machine Can Tell Whether You're Liberal or Conservative

I know, just that they behave similarly to the pictures shown. My point was just that I think the reason liberal-type people don't react to the image can be either that the images themselves are not dangerous, or that the images do not depict actual scary situations (the model with the spider on her head is not actually scared or in danger).

(Whereas a psychopath, lacking empathy, would not react much to even real images)

satellitecat | 12 years ago | on: This Machine Can Tell Whether You're Liberal or Conservative

On it being "worse" and liberals being unafraid in the way psychopaths are -- it could be that they are unafraid of things that can't hurt them, like the "scary" staged photo in the article. Maybe if they used realistic pictures, they'd get an actual response. And of course a picture of something scary and something actually scary is quite different.

Makes me remember when I found a video online of a guy getting attacked by a lionesss. At first I thought it was fake or that the guy would get away, but when I realized it was real and saw him getting more and more tired of fighting the lioness off, I started feeling sick.

So a different takeaway could be that conservative-types are scared of imagined or suggested dangers or that liberal-types are better at discriminating between real and fake dangers. So I think it's more about the way the imaginations of the people work.

satellitecat | 12 years ago | on: Hyperloop: Not so fast

Geez I remember my dad's Toyota Camry would start shaking at just 140 km/hr (87.5 mph.. holy crap maybe I was about to time travel). Many cars, and especially most drivers, just can't go that fast safely..

satellitecat | 12 years ago | on: Soylent reaches $1M in pre-orders

I think having just 1 final formula will be a mistake. Different people have different needs. I remember reading somewhere on his site that women testers complained of hunger, for example. Activity levels and age may cause different needs as well.

It's a bit of this TED talk about having alternative recipes because there's rarely one ultimate recipe that everyone likes. Some people like smooth peanut butter, others like crunchy, etc. http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce...

satellitecat | 12 years ago | on: Chuck Feeney: The Billionaire Who Is Trying To Go Broke

I'm not sure it actually is wasteful, though.

Social Security in the US is supposed to have minuscule overhead.

In Canada, even the government can't always be trusted to not give money to charity groups that are anti-gay -- individuals might find that a feature, not a bug, of the charity :P.

Knowing an accountant, I know that many charities put barely any of their income towards the actual charity (the legal minimum is 2%.. two percent!).

Breast cancer gets huge amounts of donations, while less glamourous, but more lethal cancers get much less.

I know that if I were to hit hard times, I'd rather have something not too personal, rather than feeling beholden to random people, nice and generous as they may be.

Plus, do we really want selfish people to keep the most money? :) Screw those people, give with the rest of us, with professionals deciding where the money goes, not random people's pet interests :P

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