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by armitron 7y ago
I call bullshit on that. Besides the rampant charlatanism that infects the "expert" meditator community, my own multi-decade experience with meditation tells me that anyone who compares it to LSD or other strong psychedelics doesn
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by armitron 7y ago
Correct and one should also point out that the field of yogis, spiritual teachers and holy men is full of fraudsters and charlatans. That people seem willing to give unwarranted credit to some famous guy's claims does not invalidate yo
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by armitron 7y ago
Why not use the openresty fork which looks to be properly maintained?
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by armitron 7y ago
Some comments: 5.1 with LuaJIT extras is arguably the superior language version so the vast majority of Lua devs do not see it as a downgrade. In fact I dare say that it is 5.3 and subsequent versions that are and will remain the oddities.
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by armitron 7y ago
Plenty of valuable things that fall out of the norm can be "hard to read" if one doesn't invest any time whatsoever (e.g. Lisp). The real question is what happens if one does invest the time. In the case of Forth, one needs t
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by armitron 7y ago
Don’t agree at all. Make is the standard and available everywhere, Bazel is not. Everyone can/should be able to debug Make. Bazel is yet another adhoc solution in a problem space full of adhoc solutions. Which is great if one needs the
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by armitron 7y ago
The disaster zone that's Python packaging aside, this has to be called out since it's a gaping security hole: curl -L dephell.org/install | python3 * Trying 185.154.12.127:80... * TCP_NODELAY set * Connected to dephell.org
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by armitron 7y ago
https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp
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by armitron 7y ago
The obvious answer is that the facts prove you wrong. The market reigns supreme in the USA compared to Northern Europe, and yet it is USA that looks like a third world country. Collapsing infrastructure, untold poverty and homelessness for
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by armitron 7y ago
Welcome to America.
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by armitron 7y ago
Let me ask if you've read Homer, Aeschylus and the rest of the classics, because assuming that is the case, you really should know the answer to your question. All the classic writers fundamentally write about the human condition. They
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by armitron 7y ago
Others have long been saying the same. Here is a really good takedown of the superhero mass-produced trash and the cultural pit we find ourselves in: https://jacobitemag.com/2019/05/14/capeshits-endgame/
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by armitron 7y ago
No real end game I'm afraid. Data-only attacks do exist (and are bound to become a lot more common).
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by armitron 7y ago
That hasn't been true in a very long time.
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by armitron 7y ago
Alchemy was never an academic field. It was a tradition veiled in secrecy, requiring years of private work and knowledge transmission through strict and very narrow (typically teacher-student) channels. Your point has been brought up before
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by armitron 7y ago
I don't see this succeeding. Silicon keyboard will be a pain to use. Case is too bulky to carry on person. LORA/GNSS seems like a solution looking for a problem. Screen is too small for dev work. This doesn't manage to sit co
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by armitron 7y ago
You seem to have a very blase understanding of scientific progress and genius. The fact that hundreds of world class scientists have been working in a field for decades does not at all mean that a genius can't come along and make groun
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by armitron 7y ago
Very true. Newton was an alchemist first and foremost and spent the vast majority of his time practicing alchemy rather than -what today one would call- science. One has to wonder what private reasons/results a genius of his magnitude
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by armitron 7y ago
"Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who beg
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by armitron 7y ago
He was very specific.
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by armitron 7y ago
You missed my point, which is not sandboxing. Webassembly through fine-grained sandboxing promotes software decoherence by amplifying the number of dependencies (since the major downside to working in this fashion is now advertised to be re
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by armitron 7y ago
It's not like what you propose hasn't been tried before. The main practical issue that I don't see this post address, is the combinatorial explosion that stems from fine-grained sandboxing of any complex application. There ar
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by armitron 7y ago
From Fabian Tassano: "Regarding the version of “genius” that is currently in retreat but still occasionally used: many people seem to have a simplistic idea of what it takes to be one. According to one popular model, all that is requir
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by armitron 7y ago
Think in terms of a layered system (subsumption architecture is useful [1]). Sure the substrate is the brain and is common to all layers, but the layers are functionally different. The self-model, "you" is a high-level circuit. Th
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by armitron 7y ago
You are mixing up definitions. You use "you" to mean "brain". Under that model, of course you can't disprove free will. But the model you are using is not at all useful, as you illustrate in your confusion. The idea
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by armitron 7y ago
Again, I have to caution everyone to ignore your advice. It is really really bad. Plenty of trainwrecks have started in exactly the way you recommend beginners do things. As marmadukester39 says, research - and there has been tons of it sin
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by armitron 7y ago
All breakthrough psychedelic experiences are serious psychotic events. Experienced psychonauts not only understand that psychosis can happen to anyone - regardless of history - but know how valuable it can be. Psychosis valuable? The differ
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by armitron 7y ago
Terrible advice on every possible level. You don’t need to “really get used” to psychedelics by abusing them at parties in order to use them effectively. You just need to learn proper technique. You won’t learn that at parties or funny movi
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by armitron 7y ago
Colorado, sorry for not being more specific.
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by armitron 7y ago
Airbnb destroyed my neighborhood (crime, noise and rent saw dramatic increases) and was a factor in me moving to Germany with my entire family. I am hoping more ppl get the message and ban them outright.

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