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by Pimpus 8y ago
I was reading Kafka on the Shore and thinking that the frequent mention of crows must have some symbolic value. Then I visited Japan and I understood: Murakami was just being realistic. Crows are everywhere . It is quite ominous to walk th
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by Pimpus 8y ago
I agree with this post. Rationalizing based only on data can lead to flawed conclusions and bias. Obviously, quantification is useful in many domains, but when it comes to your health then the worst thing you can do is ignore your intuition
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by Pimpus 8y ago
Hah. Everything needs to be data or an algorithm these days. Sentiment analysis of journal entries, oh boy...
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by Pimpus 8y ago
> I believe you're reading this as much more negative and confrontative than it was meant to be. Absolutely not. I found your posts really interesting, it's a perspective I hadn't considered and you articulate it well. And
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> I don't want to get into a slug-fest over the work. That wasn't my intention at all. I just thought I'd share my first impression because, as a newcomer to your work, I probably see it much differently than you do. I rea
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by Pimpus 8y ago
> The quality of your work and the value of your work have nothing to do with anything. All those years that Google told us that if you wanted to be heard, just publish good content. It was bullshit. Humans don't work that way. We a
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by Pimpus 8y ago
Great advice. Hitting modifier keys with the thumb is how Emacs is meant to be used, in my opinion. It's the strongest finger, after all. > For Emacs users, common wisdom is to swap control and caps. This is terrible advice and it c
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by Pimpus 8y ago
Agreed. What's your point?
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by Pimpus 8y ago
Why is it the most unlikely event? We have no proof for any possible explanation of the universe... otherwise we'd have a proven explanation. > God can exist, I could be Superman. That doesn't sound like a rational argument t
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by Pimpus 8y ago
That's a strawman. It's not what I said. I'm saying that there being a creator is a serious possibility . It's certainly not the only one, but it doesn't deserve the flippant attitude or ridicule. And sure, God doe
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by Pimpus 8y ago
Glad I'm not the only one. Now, in the "confirm password" field, I always backspace the last couple of characters and type them in manually, to make sure they match with what was pasted.
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by Pimpus 8y ago
I guess because you have to do a ton of scrolling to go from one of the first tabs to the last. Of course, if you don't have scrolling tabs then the tabs get so small that it's basically impossible to find what you want. I solved
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by Pimpus 8y ago
Regarding pasting passwords, that reminds me: I signed up for one site, I think it was Paypal, which had a password limit of 20 characters. Okay, that's already pretty bad -- it's an arbitrary limit and not as secure as I'd l
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by Pimpus 8y ago
I do think the impact of emotions on our thinking is understated, but I also think that focusing on this aspect is going at it backwards. A value system is necessary for emotions, otherwise happy and sad mean nothing. I think this is what y
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by Pimpus 8y ago
Yeah, I've people compare belief in God to wagers or lotteries or invisible unicorns. I find arguments like this to be intellectually lazy. The universe had to be formed somehow, right? It's a mystery how. God is a possibility.
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by Pimpus 8y ago
> There is no reason to believe intentionally screwing with it's functioning would somehow increase it's ability to perceive the world truthfully. Right, my point is that psychedelics are great for exposing falsehood in your th
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by Pimpus 8y ago
> I've gone from someone who 100% believed in evolution and a material universe, to someone who deep down thinks there may be a God, and I may actually have to face some kind of hell for some kind of sins I may unknowingly commit in
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by Pimpus 8y ago
> I had a short time to reply and wanted to tell you the information you needed. I understand, thanks for taking the time to reply in the first place. I apologize if I was curt, but I found your posts here hard to understand. Reading you
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by Pimpus 8y ago
No offense, but this wasn't helpful to me. I feel like you're speaking in riddles now. Do you have any sources I could read up on?
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by Pimpus 8y ago
I'm finding your posts intriguing despite disagreeing with you. Do you have any sources for further reading? > Why do you think deteriorated forms of Buddhism nowadays have attached themselves to the term ego? Is it deterioration or
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by Pimpus 8y ago
> It sounds like high reward behaviors (ie: addictions), small hippocampus size, spatial awareness and time awareness could all be interconnected. Or maybe they're separate causes for the same phenomena. Yeah, I suspect these are al
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by Pimpus 8y ago
I don't understand, is the "ego" just an illusion? Not the one who downvoted you btw. I did read somewhere that Buddhism doesn't have the concept of ego, which genuinely confuses me as there seems to be a very real proce
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by Pimpus 8y ago
Interesting, have you ever had depression? Depression has been linked to low hippocampus size[0]. Would be interesting to see how the drug mentioned by the article affects spatial reasoning and sense of time. [0]: https://gizmodo
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by Pimpus 8y ago
I've developed an intuitive understanding of what people mean by this term after experiencing its absence and subsequent return. It's the judge, the classifier, the model-maker; it filters incoming information and tries to make se
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by Pimpus 8y ago
> “In older language, distances were typically given by time — the days it takes to go from one valley to another — since it was not distance but the number of sunsets that was easy to calculate.” This makes sense evolutionarily. I imagi
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by Pimpus 8y ago
That reminds me of a blog post[0] I once read by Casey. It does a great job of capturing my thoughts on the subject: in short, that premature abstraction is evil and a productivity killer. Many programmers fall into the trap because of how
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by Pimpus 8y ago
> It's worth emphasizing that for the first example, the answer was provided free of charge within an hour. It shows -- the quality of the answer is quite poor. > I don't think I agree with any assessment in which this is no
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by Pimpus 8y ago
> Then there is a single comment (not an answer) which says "you are not supposed to do that", which have received a single upvote. This comment should be deleted as it's blatantly off-topic and a waste of time. OK, let&#x
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by Pimpus 8y ago
It took two seconds to find an example in my stackoverflow browser history: [0] > Question: Hide Show content-list with only CSS, no javascript used > Comment: Behavior is supposed to only exist in the realm of JavaScript. But my favo