ZeroFries

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by ZeroFries 7y ago
You can't really dismiss abstractions anyways, because everything is an abstraction. SQL is most definitely an abstraction, even machine code and assembly are abstractions. Abstractions aren't reality (the map is not the territory
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
I'd argue it's easier to over-consume fats (in the context of a mixed diet). 30g of sugar is less calories than a tablespoon of oil.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
The vast majority of the population eats sugar and carbs, so it's not surprisingly the majority of diabetics consume them, too. Moreover, there are plenty of populations which consume very high carb diets who don't suffer from dia
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
It takes high doses of sugar for frutose to not get converted in the small intestine. https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/comments/S1550-4131(17)... Lustig is a highly biased source. I would be interested in summ
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
There's actually not that much evidence moderate sugar intake is bad for you, at all. All this talk about "sugar" swings is completely off base, IMO, especially considering most starches are much higher on the GI and II scale
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
No matter what we do as a collective society, the planet will change. Yes, our actions now are speeding it up. But they might also be speeding up the solutions. Borrowing against the future might be our best bet for preserving the future, i
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
Using "well the world sucks" is a very poor excuse to justify sucky behaviour.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
I don't think a commune was suggested at all, rather making the best of your situation by trying to help others. It's a very good suggestion. Those things happen in TV and movies but they also happen in real life.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
Many people can live in smog and not develop lung issues. That doesn't mean those responsible for smog shouldn't also be responsible for the people who do develop lung issues from it.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
There's a form of meditation where you try and just be aware of awareness itself, and it can do similarly weird things.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
Are you sure it's dehydration and not hypoglycemia?
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
Can I ask why you didn't go to hospital for fluids by day 2 or 3?
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
Neptune is my favourite snack.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
Sorry to be blunt, but that's not a very good response to the Hard Problem of Consciousness. Unfeeling matter becomes feeling when its changes are related to the future? How does that work?
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
You can reproduce any algorithm with a sufficient group of people. For example, using a person as a node in a feed-forward neural network doing digit recognition. Suppose each person called the next layer in the network with the results of
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
Even if you believe in panpsychism, there are good reasons to doubt a computer has anything beyond micro-experiences. You can't solve the binding-problem (for example, your left and right visual fields are unified as a coherent whole)
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
> Why would the inputs of audible sound compare to your brainwaves? Why wouldn't they affect brainwaves? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6130927/ > Given that light is also composed o
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
Music with harmonic frequencies is pleasing. The brain itself has frequencies which can be consonant/dissonant. As other commenters have mentioned, "happy" music is clashing/jarring (which is exactly what dissonance is l
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
I suppose that argument could be used to justify killing some hermit unbeknownst to them. Most people, however, are connected socially, and killing them would make others suffer.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
If the animal is free from suffering, including lacking awareness of what's happening during the killing, that's as free from cruelty as you can get. If lacking life is what's cruel, then vegetarianism doesn't really sol
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
According to (1) blood flow maximizes around 30% of max effort. So light contractions seem best. 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4591373/
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
Self-repairing roads would be amazing.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
No one owned the process by which the oil was produced. We don't need to bring in leaky concepts of rights here. It is a plain fact that the Earth has a resource which was formed before humanity even existed, is limited, and the price
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
The point of the parent post is that the price you pay for it is not reflective of its true value.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
> People don't have "freedom" to use or have access to things in the sense you are suggesting. Resources can unconstrain a person in the same way freedom can. They can enable one to do things not possible without them. &gt
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
Oil is way, way cheaper than its real value. If you had to produce oil from scratch, it would cost far more. If we use it willy-nilly, we're impinging on the freedom of future people. There has to be a balance, here.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
Buddhist monks won't purchase meat for themselves, but will happily accept an omnivorous meal as a gift.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
I'm genuinely curious about this: are vegans who are against animals suffering in any form universal anti-natalists? From my perspective, if you treat a pet well, or even live-stock well, their lives involve much less suffering than th
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
You should try replacing some of the artificial sweetener with glycine, a sweet amino acid, which also happens to be pretty healthy.
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by ZeroFries 7y ago
One tip is to not wait until you're ravenous to start eating. Another is to try and savour each bite, noting the flavours, letting the fat melt in your mouth, etc. And finally, counting the number of times you chew each bite is suppose

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