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by dav_Oz 3y ago
On October he did began to incorporate the Global Pass (3 months) which got him as far as Istanbul and Ankara and high up north as Kiruna in Sweden, Lapland.[0] Seems a very cautious guy, as he was booking a night train from Budapest to Buc
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
A very dark chapter of IBM - to me common knowledge - but only a few days ago I've touched this topic with a much younger person, provocatively stating: "Well, IBM provided the technology for the first heavily automated genocide
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
Not entirely sure if it applies to this two cases "Big Ring" and "Giant Arc", here, but other large "structures" have been found in the past and this paper "Seeing patterns in noise: gigaparsec-scale &qu
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
Searching for a short elaboration regarding "Yellow Springs" (地獄 - dìyù) [0] I ended up digging way too deep: > In this variation of Chinese mythology, there are 12,800 hells located under the earth – eight dark hells, eight co
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
> When Maglio pestered them to write a review, they did. He’d bought them dinner, cooked for them, collected them. That free hospitality makes it hard to write a bad one. Their review was positive. From a psychopathic view he got a real
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
What do you do if after successfully discovering and studying billions of stars, galaxies and galaxy clusters ... you are stuck with one object - the universe - with nothing to compare to? One way is to multi-verse out of it another is to r
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
In the near future we will ask ourselves how people back then were doing this virtuoso thing called "driving" and be deeply grateful for the autopilot technology which Tesla was pioneering.
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
Back in 1812 Napoleon overestimated the abilities of his army which was perfectly suited for fighting in Western & Central Europe (Grande Armée) but had virtually no experience in the middle of the East European plain [0] the horrific o
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
If you reduce the social organizational structure aka the government system of democracy to "mass voting" or "voters opinion" you pretty much end up in an incentive structure where being "irrational" i.e. doesn
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
The article is all over the place because "ghosting" is too broadly defined; "ghosting" online because you are creeped out by a guy you barely had contact with is a another whole category as leaving your house and saying
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
Before you get downvoted to oblivion. I think it is a fair question. Yes, Robert Malone could be seen as initiating the journey in 1987 [0] but there are a lot of landmark contributors who refined it to the mass-produced mRNA platform of to
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
If you have a hard time understanding what type of rigor thinking guided this; one on-the-fly "theory" from Freeman is offered by the wiki article on lobotomy[0]: Walter Freeman coined the term "surgically induced childhood&
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
Simply, unprocessed food and drinking plain water (not pure as in distilled but with sufficient electrolytes in it). But the greatest impact would be lifestyle changes in general. You cannot just diet your way out of a heart disease. Well,
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
I'm not saying that they are guilty. But the judge shouldn't be completely oblivious of Alphabet's past history and its role as a "key market player" and just taking the claims at face value. The argumentation doesn
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
> I am not anyone that understands the industry and the markets in the way that you do. And so I take seriously when companies are telling me that if this gets disclosed, it’s going to cause competitive harm. Wait. What? An "anti-t
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
Because of the lack of inner images (I thought everyone had this) in retrospect I was particularly drawn to exploring altered states of consciousness watching my mind in awe creating the utmost realistic scenes (lucid dreaming in REM sleep)
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
When 12ish I realized that my mental clarity was actually better throughout school when I skipped breakfast because I was too late; and initially I just thought this: it was due to sleeping longer. But I observed the same thing later in hig
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
Once the activation energy can be maintained (basic skill and consistency) the learning curve is the steepest at the beginning of any given field; the setbacks are still rare and surmountable (and just mostly add to the confidence). But the
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
My expectation: It's about the history, present and future capabilities of "robots"/"automation processes" specifically designed to neutralize enemy targets; one of the optimization being, of course: to kill as
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
The insights into the current Dollar hegemony from this article are excellent, but I fail to see the striking similarities. If one studies the price revolution [0] in Europe mainly taking place during the Spanish Golden century ("Siglo
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
While Japan is the most obvious "Guess culture" for Westerners. My favourite example of a "Guess culture" is that of Iranian taarof[0]: Another example occurs if a Western individual is not familiar with taarof in Irani
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
> Contrary to public popular myths, the team found that population size is not the prime driver of exceeding planetary boundaries such as climate change. Rather, it is extremely high material footprint levels among the world’s richest 10
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
I guess some theoretical chemistry basics omitted in the short article wouldn't hurt: In order to describe chemical reactions or atomic arrangements in terms of wave equations one normally treats the motion of the nuclei (slow/hea
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> [...]according to insights from trust research (Fetchenhauer & Dunning, 2010), when people endorse a cynical stance concerning others and consequently forgo trust, they usually do not even get a chance to learn whether their untrus
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
This romanticization of a single genius creating or arranging this work 2500 years ago never stuck with me. Obviously, this seems an anachronism of violently imposing the modern concept of authorship. I wouldn't go so far as to declare
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
A bit ironic that the same quote of Dijkstra appears on both comment sections. He is also infamous for: > [...] software engineering has accepted as its charter 'How to program if you cannot.'" [0] (1988) The context is t
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
This educational paper [0] titled "Expanding Confusion" (2003) is a classic on the general topic and well worth the read. Holding the two concepts of an accelerated (!) (in terms of objects [1]) expanding universe and the fixed fi
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
Modern life seems so paradoxically familiar that it obfuscates the environment we evolved 300.000 years ago. So, for starters: 1000 new chemicals [0] are synthesized each hour (!) with little to no environmental oversight over them. Our m
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
There is certainly a grey zone, here. I personally think a more long lasting enjoyment and satisfaction comes from the possibility of putting some work in e.g. modifying (self-expression)/modularity and not some highly polished "f
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
As a locus for philosophy i.e. asking questions with no possible final answer I find Spinoza a great starting point for (modern western) philosophy. A distinction needs to be made between his later reception (18th century to now) and his in

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