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by alecst 5y ago
Harsh comments for a pretty impressive page, in my opinion.
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I was building my first web app with SQLite and wondering why reducing database hits wasn’t doing all that much to improve performance. Thanks for the article.
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by alecst 5y ago
There’s one major distinction between humans and animals: language. Not like “me want banana” language like in apes but like fully “ideas within ideas within ideas” language, with recursion and case and noun classes and all that. It’s incre
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by alecst 5y ago
It’s not clear how (b) is relevant to the conversation. Regarding (a) I would have the exact same reply. Unless the word “equivalent” is playing a critical role for you, because it will be impossible to prove or disprove equivalence. My exp
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by alecst 5y ago
How come for you the starting point is that animals do not have feelings and emotions like us, and that we have to have evidence for it? Why isn’t the starting point that they do have feelings like us and we have to find evidence against it
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by alecst 5y ago
Or think about it in reverse. While you’re blindfolded the host opens 99/100 doors. While you’re still blindfolded he then gives you a door to choose from one of those 100. If you pick a different door than the one closed door, fine. I
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by alecst 5y ago
This is the only one I have of the exterior: https://imgur.com/a/q1Y4nlL
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by alecst 5y ago
I stayed at a farm in South Tyrol, Italy this fall. (South Tyrol is actually in northern Italy, near the Austrian border.) The oldest property record for the place dated it back to the year 1200. It's a large, normal looking house, and
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Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt'(merriam-webster.com)
147 points by alecst 5y ago|329 comments
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Ask HN: How do you stay off your devices?
2 points by alecst 5y ago|3 comments
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by alecst 5y ago
It's true. It wasn't mushrooms that almost killed me, but what I thought was a carrot. It was poison hemlock. You really can die out there. It depends on the intentions of the site. If the author is advertising it as a complete gu
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by alecst 5y ago
I know strong opinions tend to be popular online, but I hope comments like this don't discourage people from learning and going out there. The books and internet are more than enough to stay safe.
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by alecst 5y ago
Fair, it's good to have other perspectives.
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Arora's remarks can be applied to any new food, not just mushrooms. You could have an allergic reaction to anything. I'm sort of in the middle on the article. The chicken of the woods pictured is clearly old and woody -- you would
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Writemonkey 3(writemonkey.com)
1 points by alecst 5y ago|0 comments
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Help me by answering the following questions: what's your experience with meditation already? Are you looking exclusively for an online course? How often are you willing to meet, and how much time do you have to practice? These will he
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by alecst 5y ago
You inspired me to read the Wikipedia article, which paints a pretty damning picture. It is not that far off from what is presented by Harari. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction
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by alecst 5y ago
The slickness is part of the appeal. I agree that he gets some of the details slightly wrong: the part about serotonin and depression sticks out. But at the same time, I'd rather have a slightly wrong and profoundly enjoyable book than
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by alecst 5y ago
I find it hard to believe that it was the climate that killed all the large mammals worldwide in a span of tens of thousands of years. But I'm open to having my mind changed.
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I'm interested in anything that tears Sapiens apart, partly because I loved that book so much and need something to temper my enthusiasm.
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by alecst 5y ago
Yea and you'll hear the guys on TWiV saying it too. But it's not quite that simple. It works out that way in the short term if the virus kills you right away, but there is not quite as much evolutionary pressure if the virus sprea
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by alecst 5y ago
Just got the book [3], plus a few copies for my friends. Thanks. :-)
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by alecst 5y ago
I only skimmed the abstract but I wanted to start a conversation around this idea: > The platform theory holds that the brain enters a conscious operation mode, whenever mental representations of stimuli, associations, concepts, memories
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by alecst 5y ago
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I delayed for too long reading this thrilling book. It was like getting a brain massage. So many wonderful lessons in rational thinking packed into a truly enjoyable and memorable story. In respo
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by alecst 5y ago
Not that it makes me a genius or something, but it's not that hard for me to picture that cube folding. Or to imagine it folded and rotated. I did have to slow down a little to make sure I wasn't making a mistake about the orienta
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by alecst 5y ago
The magic comes from the fact that you can decompose a translation (as in your example) into a bunch of little ones. So you want an operator that has the property that F(a)g(x) = g(x+a) = F(a/N)^N g(x). Equating F(a) to F(a/N)^N
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by alecst 5y ago
Indoor is the key word.
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Snuck or Sneaked – Which Is Correct?(merriam-webster.com)
2 points by alecst 5y ago|1 comments
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You can download the code and run it on your computer, without internet. Or maybe you can’t, and I’m just part of the conspiracy. Only one way to find out!
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by alecst 5y ago
To be honest I'm not that into farming either, I just like being outside, doing meaningful projects, making friends, having lots of free time, traveling. The farming part is just incidental.

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