Affric

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by Affric 3y ago
I am finding it hard to find the right words to express this so please forgive me if this comes off as insensitive. That was a very touching piece that gave me a sense of that unfathomability Lars wrote of.
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by Affric 3y ago
When your loved one is a continuing biological entity but you will never again experience them as they were… to me it was like all the magic left the world and consciousness/humanity was revealed to be just an illusion. And, as Lars ha
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by Affric 3y ago
Tryptophan/indole/serotonin... really you want to look at their effect on the digestive tract of fungivores. These compounds can act as inhibitors of digestive acid secretion in some species. I think the idea that they get snails
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by Affric 3y ago
Thinking about your comment further (and having read TFA and some of the comments) inline usage does seem to make more sense as it's only a few more characters. In that way it's transparent. Decreasing indirection (assuming that t
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by Affric 3y ago
> don’t actually look similar to each other I think this should be “more similar than other groups” rather than simply “similar”. Even then I think it’s possible that some groups have more loci with higher diversity for facial features.
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by Affric 3y ago
That's great and you have sent me down the rabbit hole. So, usage would be something like: CardPower ← {+⌿⍤2(∘.≤)⍤1⍨⍵} CardPower cardMatrix
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by Affric 3y ago
Could you explain the expression to us?
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This is a wonderful post. I cannot stop gazing at the mundane beauty.
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by Affric 3y ago
Re: 1 The “war on drugs” ends, the counterculture of the 60s will loom large over discussion of psychedelics. Society’s attitude towards drugs forces people who in some way identify with something linked to the Psychedelic experience to def
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by Affric 3y ago
Can passwords include spaces?
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by Affric 3y ago
Biology being my first love I think what really leads non-biology based scientists, engineers, designers, artists, and people generallyastray is that they can’t liberate their mind from their top down all seeing perspective. Teleological ma
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by Affric 3y ago
Everything about databases is terrible and there is no problem any of their restrictions solve. Everything about Rama’s model is revolutionary, dramatic, very this, extremely that. The hyperbolic nature of every claim combined with the very
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The article itself suggests hiding food.
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It does not.
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100% agreement. But I felt I had to think of a tech angle. If the price comes down enough you’d mostly see it in animal husbandry, large livestock, and breeding exotic large pets like pandas.
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This is wonderfully cute. I think the real money in brain implants is putting them in animals to make them do things like this.
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by Affric 3y ago
Good story. Apple sent me my iPod back with blades of Poaceae stuck inside between the back and front covers.
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by Affric 3y ago
I still think about it more than once a year almost 20 years later and I am still yet to come up with anything that doesn’t sound wildly implausible.
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by Affric 3y ago
Apple wants a slice of HEY’s pie. Is HEY’s app essentially a web view?
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Yeah, it will be interesting if they can deny a claim based on the above. I once received an iPod I sent to Apple with grass inside when it was returned to me and have never trusted them since.
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by Affric 3y ago
True, and obviously worms and humans aren’t closely related. With that said, this research is about how cells cooperate to form a multicellular animal. I think it would be interesting to use the results to design an experiment that could be
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by Affric 3y ago
Everyone can learn at least one language. I will say that I believe that it's not harder because of any innate fact but because people give up and go back to native. My speech pathologist/therapist friends hate me.
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100% We quickly learn how vulnerable we are without a local language or Lingua Franca. In my experience working class immigrants who have immigrated to places that have no large established language community in their new home are the best
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by Affric 3y ago
I found Duolingo to be incredibly helpful. The language I was learning had no tuition available for adults in my country and I practiced with native speakers when I could find them and consumed media from the community of the target languag
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The web respecting user agent rather than solely using it to spy on people. There’s a vision of a future passed.
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Going to have to go ahead and label your conception of paradise my hell on earth.
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As a Mac user this stuff hurts to read and as a Linux user it never gets old.
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Ah yes… thank him for ingeniously and tirelessly working around their dependency limit…
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I agree with this comment 100%. I stopped drinking and lost 20kg by changing my diet and taking up exercise. There is one caveat: You can make it easier by making better decisions sooner. I stopped buying shit food. I started making better
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I haven’t compared it with killing someone’s puppy. I just think that it would genuinely be helpful to explain a little bit of the rationale and any insight gained from the totally predictable but apparently “unforeseen issues” [1]. It’s th

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