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by cmehdy 6y ago
Anyone transported to the past would be faced with the knowledge of what they have in this current era being compared to past situations. The main thing about people in the 80s is that they knew that what they had in the 80s was all there w
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by cmehdy 6y ago
The paper is interesting, thanks for pointing it out. They make a curious reference to the US political elections in 2016 that could have probably been replaced by a less 2010s-US-centered topic. For those skeptical of the necessity to re
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Being skeptical of the claim that a certain qualia is not modelable in machine is just as valid as being skeptical of the exact opposite. This is exactly why I asked if there was anything beyond what the original poster said. Without it, a
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> CPUs as turing complete, programmable machine are a strict superset of what brains can do In what way can this be proven? It's very tempting in an era of tech-centered growth to think of computers as the solution to everything, bu
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Without getting into the details: kind of a combination of things, indeed :) I just think it's time we as a society accept and understand that having support and medication for things that relate to our mental health is fully part of t
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In the US alone, for TBI alone, there were almost 3 million TBI-related emergency department visits in 2014[0]. One in 4,000 babies born in the US have hypothyroidism[1]. At the lower bound, there is 0.25% of the US population subject to sc
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It's pretty useful for most day-to-day things, but (1) who you are can absolutely be changed by external circumstances - see TBIs and other long-lasting traumas, and (2) there are medical illnesses where you can be mostly robbed of you
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Even then, it is quite likely that people offer you a ton of leeway still. It's only in comparison to your previous style that you see the reduction. A friend of mine is considered white in the country he was born in (Guyana) and black
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That might be what creeps out people more so than the apparent inauthenticity: the realization that their own behaviour might be in no way different from what they perceive as constructed. This poses questions about self, "soul",
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Out of curiosity, what is the basis for the idea that girls have an ability to camouflage or hide their symptoms better than boys? While trying to find information about this, I came across this meta-analytic review of gender differences
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This is pretty interesting for research in multi-modal interfaces. There's a lot of stuff already done with visual, auditory and haptic feedbacks, but not so much with smells and taste because there is no equivalent to screens & sp
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It's always good to challenge assumptions but this looks like it will need quite a bit of replication and pairs of eyes to go beyond the stage of measurement/protocol anomalies, if I understand the linked articles correctly (more
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I'm sorry I missed that! I did read the rest but must have been so eager to share that fascinating talk that I overlooked this mistake. Thanks for the article!
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The hoodie is already used to typecast criminals, drug dealers in rough neighborhoods, etc. It's also a sign of relative youth (<40 years old). Dark places are an uninventive way to say they're doing something "bad".
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The author might like an illustrated summary of a talk given by Sir Ken Robinson about "Changing education paradigms"[0], which includes some of the essence of this article (particularly referring to studies about how many uses on
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Yesterday there was a Show HN about Obsidian[0] which you might be interested in. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324598
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The music in "rainmaker" is one of the most soothing loops I can think of.
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I can confirm that I tried it and found the max to be 140 times ﷽
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It works for everything up to 22, so you'd only encounter issues in the last 2 hours of the day really 22:00 - 2:00 = 20:00 => 0:00
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It's always appreciable to try to comprehend stuff through new ways and tools, but I fail to see the aim of the post. Isn't it a matter of properly defining the domain of application and associating a way to visualize it? Represen
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So one could write an interpreter for Whitespace along with Whitespace code to run in the interpreter, so that the interpreter interprets itself. Hard to do better at maximizing the usage of negative space!
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More important than viable, for some people it actually is vital. It is a very, very important note. For some people, psychiatric support is not a pill to alleviate some pain, it is more like a pacemaker: it's the difference between li
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by cmehdy 6y ago
Couchsurfing was fantastic in its early days, then came the era of using websites for just-a-little-bit-too-much-dating, then they went .com and tried to be "cool" with redesigns, eventually drowning the simplicity of their concep
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by cmehdy 6y ago
I bought that following your post, and absolutely loved it. Thanks!
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You might also enjoy YKK (Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou)[0][1], particularly the manga version, which was my introduction to the genre of slice-of-life years before the Aria seasons (which are absolutely lovely and with a great OST indeed) Also a
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by cmehdy 7y ago
I'm definitely not arguing about the advantages that docker-compose can bring (for me: readability & multiple containers easily connected), but aren't port mapping (-p) and env. variables (-e) and volumes (-v) simple with a do
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It also seems more practical to plug the signal "into the cables" than to try to pass information through the complexity of the eye. In which case I believe it is the thalamus[1] that we should aim to plug into. I can't imagi
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More products, ability to constantly check for optimal price without moving (using camelcamelcamel), great customer service when sending back something, and convenience (even living within Paris, it's hard to easily find things when th
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The Académie Française tries really hard to be prescriptive, and perhaps that works for the handful of elitist writers hanging out around Saint-Germain-des-Prés but it definitely can't keep up with the connected world, the language tha

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