Cro_on

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by Cro_on 6y ago
my sci-fi perspective is practically on the side of charitable, but in essence more like disinterest. in less than a century we went from heavier than air flight, to satellites, moon landings, mars probes, et al. and now we're talking
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by Cro_on 6y ago
sounds like some weird moral thing
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by Cro_on 6y ago
Go back to middle Chinese, of which, for example, the Shanghai based Wu dialect, or the Southern Teochew dialect, retain much of the features of, and you will really feel like you're studying the mother language.
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by Cro_on 6y ago
long hand on plain paper - then dictation onto the computer. it's a nice system combining the sound feel, including a first edit as you change the medium.
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by Cro_on 6y ago
i am a little saddened by your downvotes after deciding to actually check the definition of 'venery', without making more assumptions on top of your assumptions, to find that the first definition is in fact 'sexual indulgence
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by Cro_on 6y ago
afaict the bridges were only designed for the notes (or unbuilt designs were used because they had a certain european aesthetic), and then the designs were used to build real bridges in the netherlands. it's just a tourist spot, simila
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by Cro_on 6y ago
Person with Volume X (Moul-Ovum) of the second edition OED in front of them here.. a simple reply to this would be that in no dictionary 'pu' comes before 'po' :) granted, octopodes comes under the heading of octopus, as
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by Cro_on 6y ago
yes, they are almost the same the greek d was actually a hard th sound iirc, Δελτα being pronounced 'thelta' as opposed to 'delta'. hopefully that clarifies (and is actually accurate) how octopuses and octopodes are conn
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by Cro_on 6y ago
unfortunately and to shatter your dreams, as mine were, it is and has always been: octopuses* tis mixage of greik and latin eytymologies and wyll not bey allowed by the way is your dad thomas pynchon?
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by Cro_on 6y ago
Apologies in advance for my lacking content comment. I'd just like to point out the large quantity of greyed out comments on this thread...
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by Cro_on 6y ago
I'm guessing you believe that domestic abuse is primarily a physical act?
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by Cro_on 6y ago
AFAICT it is a mantra based meditation. All you have to do is hand over all your money to a guru and they will give you some arbitrary mantra with which you meditate with, repeating the single phrase under your breath. IANATMG but I think t
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by Cro_on 6y ago
i use the power button (which i wouldn't ordinarily use) so it's a single tap on the screen and done
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by Cro_on 6y ago
Better yet, ram into the back of them so they really get the message. I think the point is that you will do less to reinforce positive behaviour in others, than you will to amplify your own negative response conditioning. Though I would add
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by Cro_on 6y ago
It's not pessimism! I guess it wasn't worded clearly, but I meant that it's the only hope for a less wasteful economy. EDIT to add: In the short term! Right now the infrastructure is totally oil based, and consumerism relies
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by Cro_on 6y ago
I grew up on the farm, but have spent most of my adult life living in big cities. But I take a month or so home most years for a bit of farm work / harvest celebration. Corono got me good traveling SEA in February, and have been now li
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by Cro_on 6y ago
i think it would be premature to assume that it had universality in the same way as something like intermittent fasting. the possibly dangerous part is recommending that particular part of the book in response to a query asking for how lon
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by Cro_on 6y ago
woow, other comment recommending fifteen day fast is a) dangerous and b) doesn't answer your question?? i fast twice per week for ~30 hours and drink copious amounts of tea and coffee. but intermittent fasting also works, the really im
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by Cro_on 6y ago
understandably! it will no longer be thinking: human animal, could be dangerous.. but a tiger has evolved to be an apex predator, and not much else. our predatory speciality is more about leverage than brute force, or scavenging rather th
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by Cro_on 6y ago
i like to persuade people by having them imagine an isolated tiger who hasn't eaten anything in a week. by force of nature their sense of smell, hearing, etc. must all be heightened so as to ensure their survival.
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by Cro_on 6y ago
If there were ever a panacea, it would be fasting. The more tight and widespread the research becomes, the more that we prove what humanity has known anecdotally throughout civilisation. From being a Roman cure for epileptic seizures, throu
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by Cro_on 6y ago
I knew about the smaller 2x4s, but now I have a sudden irrational anger that the 2x2s are not also smaller... How 2x4s depreciate according to Twin Peaks: [0]. It appears in the US they start out at 2x4 and are trimmed down to make them loo
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by Cro_on 6y ago
The more intricate and symmetrical everything appears to me makes me increasingly sure(er) about the simulation. But don't talk about it too much, their end goal of the experiment could be to discover the point at which a conscious ent
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by Cro_on 6y ago
I wouldn't agree that that is their raison d’être – their, or their competitors, existence is by now as fundamental as public infrastructure.
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by Cro_on 6y ago
How about the carbon footprint of [insert arbitrary company]'s users while using their services? It is totally nonsense and doesn't help at all. Forgiving my own displeasure at google-everything, I think I can at least appreciate
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by Cro_on 6y ago
right here on hn is / has the potential to be an ideal recruiting ground for non technical entrepreneurs. i mean, what you're essentially looking for is the intellectual equivalent of a bar, or more conveniently, the halls of resi
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by Cro_on 6y ago
Just a quick way to say that I think a little exercise goes a long way :)
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by Cro_on 6y ago
>Reading/hearing/watching anything that's not very good is entirely a choice. Stimulating, contemporary, convenient. Pick two. It is as much of a choice as home made food over fast food is a choice. But it is not always
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by Cro_on 6y ago
Except that the universal adoption of sports would result in a net positive. The same cannot be said for pornography. Also it makes just as much sense like this: 'sports is to sex as pornography is to war.'

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