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by bachbach 8y ago
There's a case to be made for saving these oils for later or converting them into readily usable forms but few people understand it - I expect conflating it with other topics like CO2 emissions and alternative energy. It's like ho
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by bachbach 8y ago
Dear Sujan/Bemmu/Others I constantly fear the Japanese and other Asians may have invented cool things that I am unaware of. I have discovered Japanese sweets, Japanese hot water bottles (the metal tortoises) and Korean washlets. W
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by bachbach 8y ago
They'll never get me. I'll just become even weirder :)
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by bachbach 8y ago
This is meta but does anybody know the name of any disciplines where human history is studied through the perspective of evolution theory? This subject is a mite tricky to Google.
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by bachbach 8y ago
Yes, it's interesting. Not appreciating the mental scaffolding that takes you to the next point is a serious problem. Developmental economics and artificial intelligence - the scaffolding is neglected. In developmental economics we onl
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by bachbach 8y ago
That is not meaningful. In Germany a new edition of Mein Kampf was published - and it sold a lot of copies. Nearly all of those copies were to people who were already anti-Nazi. I read all sorts of stuff - doesn't mean I buy it.
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by bachbach 8y ago
The valley is in a bit of moral panic in my opinion.
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by bachbach 8y ago
Well, there is simple and correct and simple and wrong. The Copernican description of reality is simple and correct and threw away complex but incomplete models. I'm sure you've noticed that people frequently create complex models
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by bachbach 8y ago
Doreen, did you perform any manual labour jobs that helped you on your way off the street? As a cleaner myself I'd suggest him building up a small round anywhere there's retired folks. He'd need a small ladder, a stepladder,
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by bachbach 8y ago
I, and many other nerds sound like that to other people when we talk of X or Y - having ideas and the ability to communicate them effectively is hard - especially when it is not just an idea - but a shift in perspective. I feel strongly abo
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by bachbach 8y ago
I reiterate: the average millennial does not make a distinction between a website service and a protocol. If you make ban lists (the Silicon Valley companies are operating in near sync with each other) - then the public expectation won&#x27
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by bachbach 8y ago
There's nothing going wrong with Elon or his companies that can't be fixed - but for the good of mankind we need to hunt him down, kidnap him, and make him get a good night's rest for about two weeks with zero contact on elec
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by bachbach 8y ago
So as seems likely - suppose a schism opens up that pushes 'those people' off some platforms. The next step is to prevent DNS resolution working. I assume that like myself you would see that as a step too far. The problem is that
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by bachbach 8y ago
It is no good appealing to human rights - because human rights are the subject of great controversy and debate between Enlightenment scholars themselves. I am tired of people using 'human rights' as a flag for moral uprightness. T
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by bachbach 8y ago
I have a lot of experience with anti-semitism - I've followed many extreme forums over the years and it's one of the most consistent patterns - even in oppositional ideologies. Alex Jones is influential enough that he could, to us
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by bachbach 8y ago
I am not a fan of Alex Jones but he is not an anti-semite. In fact I suspect you have it backward. Jones will be intimately aware of (some of) the far left and (some of) far right anti-semite culture - it takes some character to see the big
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by bachbach 8y ago
>the absolute worst (for me)...touching the damn mic! It really is the worst.
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by bachbach 8y ago
Asmr videos are specific in the way books are. Few of the professional produced asmr works for me, only specific videos by specific asmr artists like Dr Latte's Cranial Nerve Exam. Just as with a book - you should be in a certain mood
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by bachbach 8y ago
The federal government should actually open a public forum for people to just talk. It would be interesting and cheap as experiments go. There are no true public forums anywhere on the web that I'm aware of.
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by bachbach 8y ago
1. US Websites with high international shipping costs. It appears to be common for the business to just put up a 'cover my ass' flat fee instead of doing the homework of discovering the cost of shipping for a different country. 2.
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by bachbach 8y ago
Personally I enjoy the Cranial Nerve Exams and some of the unintentional asmr videos such as Sequoya by Lucas Paakh, the infamous T.M Lewin suit fitting video and that video on the Alexander Technique. https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by bachbach 8y ago
Sorry to hear this. It's pathetic alright. Total prioritization failure. I'm convinced that if some objective 'progress bar' existed, constantly put in front of the public's mind by media or by government diktat - t
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by bachbach 8y ago
For near mythological geek cred you should use a Babylonian water level :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_level_%28device%29
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by bachbach 8y ago
One of those neglected sub-bullets is initial cleaning - the last stage. I'm an initial cleaner, a type of cleaning that takes place for new buildings. We use a host of specialized tools and techniques, here is one tip on glass. Typica
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by bachbach 8y ago
Self interest. A lot of power of any sort it creates a power imbalance which creates instability. Persons within the state or other state actors orchestrate a takeover because they are greedy or fearful and then their hold on power is also
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by bachbach 8y ago
It's not just you. I'm reminded of antisemitism in the conspiratorial way the descriptor is being used and how the Reality Distortion Field extends that that White Males/Jews are the cause of every problem. The fact is that m
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by bachbach 8y ago
I think using computers is causing me memory loss, I notice it more frequently now - it worries me so it pushes me to read more books. My speculation is that the light from monitors and other devices somehow makes me forgetful. I am certain
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by bachbach 8y ago
I understand where you're coming from lovich but our morally as a group appears mostly contingent on our prosperity. It's easy for us to cast moral judgement but when we're in a fix - values are frequently flung onto the pyre
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by bachbach 8y ago
Peter Thiel is really a kind of philosopher - the venture capitalism is more of an outgrowth of something else than his primary focus. This is a person who reads widely, has big ideas and is consistently ahead of everybody else - his reputa
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by bachbach 8y ago
The point though is that some people in SV think that a monoculture of liberals were/are behind everything and that is just not true. Technology is a full spectrum ideological bloodsport.

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