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by digging 2y ago
A related pro-tip I learned from catering, which I now use often for leftovers, potlucks, gifts, etc. If you have things in the fridge you need to take with you when you leave your current location, put your keys in the fridge with them!
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Thank you for clarifying, it sounds like you probably did make a good decision.
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Please, don't take this as a personal judgment! I don't know you, I'm just judging what's written here. > kids activities have to go on a back burner ... I see no reason to place childrens non-needs above critical fam
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> Scarier in my opinion than the Roko's Basilisk theory that melted Yudkowsky's brain. Is that correct? I thought the Roko's Basilisk post was just seen as really stupid. Agreed that "Lena" is a great, chilling s
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I mean, it's still a poor title for HN.
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No, it's a decent analogy. How often do the pickles and lettuce fall out of your burger? Most people would never experience that behavior, and they'd keep buying burgers. People who had their hand slapped and their repairable burg
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I say no, but I'd also prefer laws that are more written for more specific application. If a human can make the call that "it's not right to apply this law here; doing so would lead to more lawlessness," so can a penal c
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Have you heard of American prisons?
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However, in the case where someone means "This interested me so much that I stopped what I was doing and looked up more information," peaked is almost more correct, depending on how one defines "interest" in this conte
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Why are you alive then? I hope you continue to stay alive, by the way, I'd just like you to examine your reasons for not having allowed your own death yet. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that your current lifespan is "natu
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> Energy has no feelings, no conscience, no self > Where did you get that idea? It is not an idea that one needs to have given to them. It is the simple conclusion of known physics. However, the claim that "energy has consciousne
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I find this comment incredibly difficult to read in a way that the book of scientology is, or a bottle of Dr Bronner's soap is. There are many assertions pretending that they logically support each other to build to a conclusion, but t
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> First off, you can discount "common stories" all you want, but even science operates on "common stories" These are different definitions of common, and that's on me for not being precise. "Common stories&q
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> Every major world religion asserts that it is evident that humans have an afterlife. There is abundant evidence of some kind of life after death. I'm sorry but I can't see how the first sentence supports the second in any mea
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A human has the ability to contact the PM and say, "This won't work, for $reason," or, "This is going to look really bad in $edgeCase, here are a couple options I've thought of." There's nothing about AI t
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> Adding a thin coating of gold would not necessarily change that structure My confusion is that I would normally expect a layer of gold not to permit any light to pass through. The underlying structure wouldn't be receiving any lig
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I see, thanks for filling that in.
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> Most surprisingly, Nxylon remains black even when coated with an alloy, such as the gold coating applied to the wood to make it electrically conductive enough to be viewed and studied using an electron microscope. This is because Nxylo
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But was he saying it based on evidence or was it just something he wanted to be true? (Genuine question, I know nothing of the person.) Often someone believes something strongly against available evidence and is then "proven correct&
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Well, they already bought Whole Foods. Which probably showed them the complexity of a grocery store; it's not just about supporting refrigerated shipments.
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This comes across as quite rude, FYI. You may want to clarify and be more specific.
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> Death is by design This betrays a deep misunderstanding of the mechanics of evolution. Design is literally not even part of the equation. I suspect you actually know that, but may have let an emotional response confuse your position. R
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All animals have different responses to toxins, pollutants, cancer growth, etc. We're kind of actually at a "sweet spot" for cancer rates, big enough to get a lot of cancer, not so big that we need extraordinary cancer resist
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Developing these skills will always be useful, but I agree it's not always ideal to focus on them.
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...Fair play.
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> The marshmallow test is not really testing hunger or self control. It tests how willing people are to align with authority/the bigger picture. I feel you're making the exact same mistake as the original researchers. The marsh
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Command line vs GUI. (Or, for most people, a combination) In my case I'm approximately typical but there are things I'm better or worse at visualizing. I've never successfully worked a mind palace, I find myself too distracte
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Not at all. Having taken it, despite also thinking that it looked absurdly simplistic, I was surprised my answers were different depending on the subject. Nor is the result a boolean "yes/no" at all, which should be obvious f
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Why don't squirrels live in cities then?
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Did you perform the marshmallow test on your friend as children? If not, I don't even know if you're really talking about the same thing, to be honest. The original study is such a weird and specific phenomenon to which a heroic e

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