TylerJay

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by TylerJay 12y ago
Hey, sorry for the delay on this. That's not quite how natural selection works, but it's a very common line of thinking. When making an evolutionary argument, you can't make "top down" arguments. You have to look at
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by TylerJay 12y ago
I don't know why this made me laugh so hard. Just the idea of all these bulletproofers chugging their coffee with bag-clips on their noses. Thanks for that.
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by TylerJay 12y ago
What about when it is combined with duress? Like if you refused once and were told they would kill your family if you ever refused again or quit? I'm just curious. I agree with the spirit of the idea that following orders is not valid
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by TylerJay 12y ago
While I expect the death rate of psychedelics/hallucinogens to be much, much lower than that of alcohol, it should be noted that the analysis you presented here doesn't really provide solid evidence that it is so. Given that an
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by TylerJay 12y ago
One of the main objections to the pilot-wave theory of QM is that it brings us back to the idea of a "luminiferous aether" that was famously disproved by the null result of the Michaelson-Morley experiment. What would the substrat
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by TylerJay 12y ago
Yup. It's the same idea as Seth Roberts' "Shangri-la Diet" where you drink a tbsp of olive oil or something first thing in the morning which supposedly reduces hunger the rest of the day.
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by TylerJay 12y ago
Personally, I use glass, as much for the taste as for peace of mind about potential chemical leaching. Stainless steel is probably second best in terms of safety as long as you make sure that the inside is not lined with plastic or some oth
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by TylerJay 12y ago
I'm not buying the Demographic Theory of Senescence. > Aging is nature’s way of leveling out the death rate, assuring that we don’t all die at the same time. Aging puts our deaths on an individual schedule so we can die at differen
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by TylerJay 12y ago
Nice work overall. That was fun. Just a heads-up though: There are some typos and grammar mistakes in your explanations, so if you plan to share professionally, you might want to have someone proofread it. Also, your Facebook OAuth window t
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by TylerJay 12y ago
I'm confused too. Is this just bad reporting or am I missing something?
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by TylerJay 12y ago
That was my first thought too, but as long as your actual votes are somehow kept private, there's no more risk of vote-buying than in a representative democracy, is there?
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by TylerJay 12y ago
I agree with most of what you said, except for the part about doing the bare minimum not being motivating. I'm also a pretty experienced lifter (Been lifting for 9 years, can DL 3x my bodyweight, Squat 2.5x bodyweight, BP 1.6x) but I&#
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by TylerJay 12y ago
SS and StrongLifts serve similar purposes are are both effective. StrongLifts can be better for people starting from very low fitness levels, while SS remains effective up to a higher strength level. This (unofficial, but true-to-source) s
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by TylerJay 12y ago
It always worked pretty well for me. It just got annoying to have on all the time.
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by TylerJay 12y ago
I remember hearing that the nand2tetris people were going to do an edX course on it in the fall. Does anyone know anything about that?
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by TylerJay 12y ago
Getting the right answer in 20 questions actually relies on a rough implementation of binary search over a huge possible "thing space". A problem I can see with applying this to medicine is that medical conditions don't alwa
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by TylerJay 12y ago
I think it's important to note that "Ketogenic" might not be the right word for the necessary diet intervention to make it easier to fast for long periods. Ketosis is a state where you eat so little carbohydrate, that your bo
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by TylerJay 12y ago
I think pirate.watch is the best of them. Could either be a streaming site or a site monitoring piracy.
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by TylerJay 12y ago
As a counterpoint, I remember being taught in a Game Theory course that both the shooters and the goalies acted in accordance with the Nash Equilibrium which (IIRC) happens to be equal amounts to each option. You would think that if such a
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by TylerJay 13y ago
> Of course, the reason Wittgenstein ultimately rejected this picture, as in rejected describing the meaning of words by formal definition, is that it doesn't accurately describe the way language is used in practice, and leads us to