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Zaphod42 posted:Dunning-Kruger effect in action. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. A smart man would stop and think "maybe this has been done before?" but no! This man is a crazy genius and he needs our help to stop BIG SCIENCE from shutting him down with his genius ideas that nobody's ever had before, such as using heat to generate lift, or "gravitational wind" I would pledge money to a Kickstarter for a device that stopped anybody on the internet from ever citing Dunning-Kruger ever again. It's officially eclipsed "uncanny valley = I don't like how it looks" and "sociopath = a person who acts in a way I find unpleasant" in terms of things that have lost all their original meaning through over-use.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I would pledge money to a Kickstarter for a device that stopped anybody on the internet from ever citing Dunning-Kruger ever again. It's officially eclipsed "uncanny valley = I don't like how it looks" and "sociopath = a person who acts in a way I find unpleasant" in terms of things that have lost all their original meaning through over-use. Actually, I think it's one of the few things that is generally used more or less correctly. The title of the original paper was "incompetent and unaware of it" and the thesis was that people who are bad at something are generally also bad at recognising they (and other people) are bad at it. Their incompetence prevents them from making accurate judgements of their competence. I would say the anti gravity kickstarter is a prime example of it. Really the problem is that it's a psychological phenomenon that is very VERY common but which we never had a name for before, so now we have a name we apply it everywhere, because the effect actually is everywhere.
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This one's a killer. Vela Kurv: A Tween, seductive, science fiction tale/ book series, featuring a female stylized superhero who battles for the survival of Earth! I honsetly question if English is her first language. The description for the first two volumes is incredible. quote:Vela Kurv Legacy Series Part I - The Scintillate Seed to Vela Kurv There's more at the Vela Kurv website. You can also read some of the chapters here, it's a real treat. This self publishing thing needs to stop. Editors exist for a reason, and if you can't be arsed to grammar check your own work, you really, really shouldn't be an author. Oh, and did I mention that she poses barbie dolls as illustrations?  Yeah, she does. Evidently it's a tribute to some artist but  . Sadly, her KS failed with $286 of her $6500 goal.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I would pledge money to a Kickstarter for a device that stopped anybody on the internet from ever citing Dunning-Kruger ever again. It's officially eclipsed "uncanny valley = I don't like how it looks" and "sociopath = a person who acts in a way I find unpleasant" in terms of things that have lost all their original meaning through over-use.
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batphantom posted:Well, today's the last day for the scamfest known as Send My Rich 9 Year Old Girl To A lovely RPG Camp, now offically titled "9 Year Old Builds Her First RPG... TRUTH & TROLLS!" loving thing is up to $24K despite all the press about Mom's previous horseshit. And the game will be delivered in July 2013! Wow. And goddammit, she's actually created ANOTHER project based on this shitstorm. I looked at that page and noticed that the lovely RPG camp in question is about using RPG MAKER. I was able to work on an RPG with it with no programming skill whatsoever. People have officially combined to form $24,142 for a 9 year old's loving RPG Maker game. Like just..what? 
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batphantom posted:Well, today's the last day for the scamfest known as Send My Rich 9 Year Old Girl To A lovely RPG Camp, now offically titled "9 Year Old Builds Her First RPG... TRUTH & TROLLS!" loving thing is up to $24K despite all the press about Mom's previous horseshit. And the game will be delivered in July 2013! Wow. And goddammit, she's actually created ANOTHER project based on this shitstorm. Well there's 24 thousand dollars not going to charity.
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StabMasterArson posted:Well there's 24 thousand dollars not going to charity. HELP GIRLS IN TECH By sending my daughter away to make another shite FF6 clone.
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Hogo Fogo posted:Vela Kurev is Slovak for 'a lot of whores' I knew Frank Miller had pen names!
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UGH. Glad I stopped following that 9 Year Old Girl RPG Camp thing after the MRA's got a hold of it. That woman is still an awful human being, as are all of the shitholes tormenting her. They should just bomb them all off the map. Truly worthless humans all around.
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Ripped from YKS Have you ever thought to yourself, "my fork just isn't pulling it's weight towards the singularity"?  Do you have trouble keeping track of how fast you shovel food into your face hole?  Have you ever thought "I need less privacy on Twitter but tweeting my bowel movements is a little déclassé?"  KS posted:The HAPILABS online dashboard (screenshot below) allows you to see this information for each meal you use the HAPIfork. Well folks I have the solution for you, the Hapifork. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1273668931/hapifork-the-smart-fork-that-tracks-your-eating-ha-0  Best part is you can stick it in your rear end when it's done Alan Smithee has a new favorite as of 11:47 on Apr 20, 2013 |
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I can't tell if this pitch video has ironic poo poo acting or not. He needs to buy "three ISBN codes, bar codes, a separate business license and tax code for the publishing cost, and application and partnering fees with the printing company I am partnering with" Diggin his writing style ^^^ "batterie lithium-solymere", that's groundbreaking stuff, it also looks like one of those babby's secure safe no-spiky friendly plastic forks, which you can't ever really wash, 'cause they are made of, you know, plastic. ^^^ unpacked robinhood has a new favorite as of 11:51 on Apr 20, 2013 |
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unpacked robinhood posted:^^^ "batterie lithium-solymere", that's groundbreaking stuff, It's meaningless stuff. It should be "batterie lithium-polymere" - that's the French for a Li-ion battery.
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unpacked robinhood posted:He needs to buy "three ISBN codes, bar codes, a separate business license and tax code for the publishing cost, and application and partnering fees with the printing company I am partnering with" This is somewhat common with some vanity presses like Bubok or Lulu - they try to milk you for every penny you got. I should know, I have one book "published" on one of those.
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Ok most of the cynicism in this thread is justified but I'm having trouble seeing what is about this
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Between hospital bills, rehabilitation, and two prosthetic limbs, he's probably going to need all of that money and more.
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Edgar Death posted:Ok most of the cynicism in this thread is justified but I'm having trouble seeing what is Because as opposed to donating to an actual charity, or to the local police department who can actually use the money in a better way (or at least I hope so), or to the hospitals where 60-70 more people are being treated, people are focusing all their "charity" on a first-come-first-serve basis. The dude obviously needs money, but he doesn't need it any more than everyone else who does. Disproportionately donating money simply because someone is tech-savvy is lazy donating. The fact of medical expenses is the following: A lot of the victims are going to come out with a six digit figure in expenses. Then they're going to contact the patient care department at the hospital and they're going to get it cut by 90% if they know what they're doing/saying. In the mean time, the hospital will actually take a hit (an insignificant one, but one at that), and one human being who people paid attention to is coming out $1 million richer.
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sunsweet posted:Between hospital bills, rehabilitation, and two prosthetic limbs, he's probably going to need all of that money and more. I wonder how much it would cost to become a Canadian citizen. More or less than 350k?
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Ernutetnoiraud posted:Because as opposed to donating to an actual charity, or to the local police department who can actually use the money in a better way (or at least I hope so), or to the hospitals where 60-70 more people are being treated, people are focusing all their "charity" on a first-come-first-serve basis. The dude obviously needs money, but he doesn't need it any more than everyone else who does. Disproportionately donating money simply because someone is tech-savvy is lazy donating. Yeah it's frustratingly inefficient, but there are FAR worse things people can spend their money on, like $24,000 so a mother can humiliate her kids via the medium of badly made RPG maker games, or yet another useless iphone accessory.
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Fatkraken posted:Yeah it's frustratingly inefficient, but there are FAR worse things people can spend their money on, like $24,000 so a mother can humiliate her kids via the medium of badly made RPG maker games, or yet another useless iphone accessory. That guy would have gotten a lot more money if you could put your iPhone in his prosthetic limbs to charge it.
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Ernutetnoiraud posted:Because as opposed to donating to an actual charity, or to the local police department who can actually use the money in a better way (or at least I hope so), or to the hospitals where 60-70 more people are being treated, people are focusing all their "charity" on a first-come-first-serve basis. The dude obviously needs money, but he doesn't need it any more than everyone else who does. Disproportionately donating money simply because someone is tech-savvy is lazy donating. I mean yeah there are more efficient ways to make donations count and this is a case of people jumping on a single cause because of emotions but it's not like a guy that lost his legs and helped identify the perpetrator getting a huge show of support is a bad thing It's not necessarily a fact that every single one of those dollars could have gone to a more all encompassing charity if this wasn't as successful of a campaign Edgar Death has a new favorite as of 17:50 on Apr 20, 2013 |
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But isn't it strange to donate to that even though there are dozens of people equally deserving of charity who, by chance, didn't appear in photos on the front page?
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Ernutetnoiraud posted:Because as opposed to donating to an actual charity, or to the local police department who can actually use the money in a better way (or at least I hope so), or to the hospitals where 60-70 more people are being treated, people are focusing all their "charity" on a first-come-first-serve basis. The dude obviously needs money, but he doesn't need it any more than everyone else who does. Disproportionately donating money simply because someone is tech-savvy is lazy donating. You can keep following this train of thought until donating to anything other than the Stop Bad Things Everywhere For Everyone Fund is -worthy.
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Young Freud posted:Are you seriously badmouthing a dude who lost both his legs in a terrorist bombing? No, it's just frustration that one person out of dozens seems to be getting a disproportionate amount of donations. It's understandable but silly to get upset about, at least they're giving money to SOMEONE, and he'll probably need it with the amount of poo poo he'll have to pay for.
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Realtalk: most of the ones nominally for whole groups that spring up after these things tend to be pretty scammy. Something for one guy tends to lead to a lot less waste.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:You can keep following this train of thought until donating to anything other than the Stop Bad Things Everywhere For Everyone Fund is No, but it is pretty fair to argue that for every donation, a little research could possibly do a lot more good. Arguing that I'm on a slippery slope argument when all I've argued against is bandwagoning on 'popular' social causes is a little unfair. Young Freud posted:Are you seriously badmouthing a dude who lost both his legs in a terrorist bombing? I happen to think the guy is a great person, actually. But that's not inconsistent with saying that the people saying he deserves support for identifying the suspects, or for losing both legs, are misguided. I'm against the people donating indiscriminately, not the cause. Install Gentoo posted:Realtalk: most of the ones nominally for whole groups that spring up after these things tend to be pretty scammy. Something for one guy tends to lead to a lot less waste. I agree with this, and it's nice to have a name to the recipient, so at least the donors can see exactly how much bang for buck they're getting. I hope that any surplus he doesn't put to personal use goes into someone else's medical expenses.
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Ernutetnoiraud posted:I agree with this, and it's nice to have a name to the recipient, so at least the donors can see exactly how much bang for buck they're getting. I hope that any surplus he doesn't put to personal use goes into someone else's medical expenses. With American healthcare, I don't think he has to worry about a surplus.
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Jedit posted:It's meaningless stuff. It should be "batterie lithium-polymere" - that's the French for a Li-ion battery.
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Ernutetnoiraud posted:I agree with this, and it's nice to have a name to the recipient, so at least the donors can see exactly how much bang for buck they're getting. I hope that any surplus he doesn't put to personal use goes into someone else's medical expenses. How do you think it costs to recover from a double amputation in America?
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FORUMS USER 1135 posted:The best part is that its a company based in California, and all their base dimensions and captions were based on English units and language. So why there, of all places? Just to appear exotic? Because Silicon Valley is the land of magical technology. Where rear end.com can make millions from an IPO
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Alan Smithee posted:Ripped from YKS I love those moments in history where a bunch of "inventors" try to cram a new discovery into every facet of life:   Yeah, that is radium infused facial cream. anyway, more content: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/virtualopera/electronic-musical-of-the-future-libertaria-cast-a?ref=recently_launched Check the video, it's like digital outsider art. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lawduck/bitcoin-republic-reports-from-the-currency-frontie?ref=recently_launched This one may be interesting but I have a feeling it's going to end up a worthless Bitcoin praise book. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/555090316/americas-next-yoga-gura?ref=recently_launched Was it Patton Oswalt who said that if we keep making reality shows we're gonna run out of reality?
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Ernutetnoiraud posted:I agree with this, and it's nice to have a name to the recipient, so at least the donors can see exactly how much bang for buck they're getting. I hope that any surplus he doesn't put to personal use goes into someone else's medical expenses. Why shouldn't he use the "surplus" for personal expenses? Dude's probably not going to be able to work for a year at least, he's gonna need some money to pay his regular bills and keep himself fed.
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Mo Tzu posted:Why shouldn't he use the "surplus" for personal expenses? Dude's probably not going to be able to work for a year at least, he's gonna need some money to pay his regular bills and keep himself fed. That's not really surplus. People are talking about if his full rehab, lost earnings and all expenses incurred from losing his legs are less than he's got in donations, probably not terribly likely when you factor in the many years of rehab and the insane cost of private healthcare. $350k won't actually go all that far so it's kinda arguing the toss really.
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savi posted:THE GYM >Ideas not yet seen on Television Anyone else see the contradiction here? Also last I checked, super lame homosexual jokes are on a lot of television shows. 
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