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by alecst 6y ago
Looks great for me on my old MacBook Air, 10.14. And you picked a great set of images. The svgasm of the lions really struck me, it was almost art in its own right -- how you might see the lions if you weren't looking at the details, b
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by alecst 6y ago
I know it's off topic but I'd love to learn more about how the modeling of COVID went wrong. You can pm me if you want to take the discussion elsewhere.
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by alecst 6y ago
> What/where are the results from those thousands years of mindfulness? If the practice has an impact surely we should be able to see some things at a society level, or at least in some individuals who are particularly good at it. O
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by alecst 6y ago
Man what makes you think we'll be social distancing for another two and a half years? And what is this 100% mental illness vs. 5% physical illness coming from? Do you really believe those numbers?
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by alecst 6y ago
I'll be honest, I have no idea what you're saying. Seems like you have some interesting points to make though.
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by alecst 6y ago
Cool. Do you have samples of your work? Like, ways you've improved websites in the past?
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by alecst 6y ago
I'd love to hear more, but I'm not sure what to ask. I guess I'll ask the easiest thing to ask, but the hardest to answer. How do you feel now compared to how you felt then?
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by alecst 6y ago
I agree with you. It definitely does not serve the user. I have two thoughts, as a nobody. 1. Ads/trackers/etc. need javascript 2. It's a way of flexing and saying "we have resources to put into this webpage which makes
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by alecst 7y ago
Rob I'm not disagreeing with your greater point but do you mind linking me to some of these taste tests with maple syrup? I could only find one in a cursory search online and it was between two people. Sorry to bug you!
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by alecst 7y ago
Well, I like honey because good honey tastes different from plain sugar. Traveling in Greece I tasted some honeys that were unlike anything I had ever tasted before, ranging from bitter, to floral, to earthy. It's the sweetness, sure,
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by alecst 7y ago
For those who are interested in buying, look for "noble Hawaiian kava," preferably certified. The quality standards are way higher and you're less likely to get hit with an unpleasant feeling after drinking it.
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by alecst 7y ago
From my college years I remember that vaccination was hard because the outer shell of the virus is capable of mutating so rapidly that it's hard to make antibodies specific to it.
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by alecst 7y ago
I'm an amateur mushroom hunter. I've eaten a lot of chicken of the woods on both coasts of the US. The mushroom peels easily apart just like a chicken breast does. (Younger mushroom fruits are the juiciest and most tender, and old
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by alecst 7y ago
Yea same, correcting my posture and doing some mind-body work has made my symptoms go away basically. I'm still improving to this day almost a year later.
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by alecst 7y ago
Yea. There a lot of flavors to anxiety, and the word itself is almost too generic to be meaningful. I experience it as a kind of "wiredness" or "on edge" feeling. The somatic experience tends to precede the mental one to
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by alecst 7y ago
I've had great success in treating my anxiety (and general health) with mind-body approaches (yoga, pranayama, qigong) but these take time and commitment that I expect most would not be willing to gamble with. I do think that in my cas
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by alecst 7y ago
True. The classic tuning fork test: hit the fork, hold it up in front of your ear. Can you hear it? Then gently press the end of the (still vibrating) fork against your skull. Can you hear it now? If no/yes, the loss is conductive. If
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by alecst 7y ago
Well, functionally speaking your range is set by the cells that you have that are alive, which die slowly over time, starting with the higher frequency ones which tend to be more fragile. If you could restore all the cells you had when you
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by alecst 7y ago
That's weird. I wonder what the physical reason could be, if (e.g.) it's the eardrum that's acting up on top of the damaged cochlea. (Could there be wax buildup?)
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by alecst 7y ago
Yes -- although there are lots of folks with hearing loss who don't have tinnitus. There must be more to the story than just the ghost ringing that you're talking about. But I do think that the hypothesis you quote makes intuitive
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by alecst 7y ago
Even though it wasn't mentioned in the article, a lot of researchers in this field believe that a cure for hearing loss will take care of tinnitus and hyperacusis too, at least for a patient subgroup. There's tinnitus caused by mu
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by alecst 7y ago
I try to keep up to date on this sort of thing as it affects me as well. There are a few companies that are doing clinical trials in humans using drugs that may restore hearing. They've done a good job of keeping the results under lock
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by alecst 7y ago
I'm not an expert here, but I feel like Bell's theorem has something to say about this. Do you have any comment about that?
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by alecst 7y ago
Speaking just about the UCs, I remember seeing in a powerpoint that the price of tuition remained roughly the same over the last few decades, but since the tax dollars per student were going down, students were left picking up the differenc
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by alecst 9y ago
I agree with this smart observation and just want to pick nits with this last part: > bakers do that to avoid a split when it bakes. I know from experience that slashing an under-proofed, or appropriately-proofed loaf allows it to rise m
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by alecst 9y ago
I think what the OPs mean is that in the classical case, the lone, noninteracting particle has a fixed, definite energy and not an average energy. There are no other configurations to consider, besides the set of points that the particle ma
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by alecst 9y ago
> If you replace running with equivalent amount of cycling then there are no ill effects. You can easily cycle at a recreational level for 8 hours a day and see no ill effects. Muscle structure will be quite similar to distance runners.
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by alecst 10y ago
Mine have not yet developed callouses and I suspect they never will. Indeed I haven't seen most of the changes in my feet that others say they have seen in theirs. My feet are mostly the same, but with soles that are just a little less
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by alecst 10y ago
I'm not particularly fit, and I never ran a lot. In fact I always hated running and remember making jokes to my friends about running being a sport for psychopaths. I really just didn't get it -- it was hard on my body (especially
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by alecst 10y ago
That's alright. I just want to know why you say that it's handwavey. As far as I knew there was almost no dispute that CO2 had huge and well-quantified warming potential. Nor was there a debate about the origin of the CO2 in the a

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