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The title refers to the inability of feeling emotions - which is the same as "being without emotions".

"The screaming, fighting ... [they say] jump in front of the train," one US participant said.

The voices upset them because they violate their sense of personal control, the researchers said.

The voice is not just upsetting b/c they conflict with expectations of how the mind works but those expectations will directly affect what the voice will say and how b/c the voice is part of that person.

Personally, I always wondered why nobody wondered why those "voices" tend to be destructive (at least in our western hemisphere). Now my question is partly answered with the information that this observation is not globally valid.

A lot of people use those types of biographies to justify their own destructive behaviour.

That’s an average of $22.92/Gb or $0.0224 per megabyte

That is surprisingly expensive:

I live in Germany and pay monthly 10 Euro per 1.5GB - that's 6.7 Euro per GB or about 7.5 USD per GB ...

And that's not even a contract but prepaid on monthly basis.

Actually I could get 5 GB for 15 Euro thats 3 Euro or 3.4 USD per GB.

Is mobile traffic really about 5 to 6 times more expensive in the US?

Live by greed, die by greed.

"Adblock Plus to Allow Independent Board to Decide Which Ads Are `Acceptable’ -

Parent company Eyeo says it will no longer help decide which ads can pass through its filters"

http://www.wsj.com/articles/adblock-plus-to-allow-independen...

https://acceptableads.org/

https://acceptableads.org/

ABP is also supporting the independent acceptable ads manifesto.

https://acceptableads.org/

NRA requesting to equip more people with weapons to prevent shootings.

Those curated lists poppung up all over the place seem to indicate a need for pre-Google-style Altavista/Yahoo portals.

no - (red) meat is not fine:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22red+meat%22+site%3Anature.com

The actual conclusion is hidden in the middle of the text:

eat less meat

First of all b/c its contribution to health is doubtable in general and at current times in particular.

some people (very young children or mentally handicapped humans) don't ask those questions either.

furthermore there is a reason why in Buddhism this intellectual thinking and questioning is considered unessential to being.

I am absolutely not at all whatsoever impressed with Netflix' data science capabilities.

They waste one row for:

- watch it again ...

- they suggest stuff based on what I added to my list, but didn't watch yet

- they suggest movies based on what I started to watch but didn't finish - as if that wasn't an indicator for that I didn't like it

- ...

All those companies suggesting on varies channels how nifty and smart they work with their big data - and at the bottom line they just fail on actually improving something.

Except for the German government, of course.

What do you mean?

If papers would be text formatted or if GitHub could render latex on the fly then this would exist already. It doesn't b/c PDF is how papers are dissemeniated - so it's great somebody took care of that gap!

Maybe a another good occasion to mention that coursera currently offers a Bitcoin MOOC run by some guys from Princeton - it's quite awesome.

https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech