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by dota_fanatic 8y ago
How hard is it to plant a tree? Especially if it's young and there is very clear guidance as to which native trees should be planted in which contexts you have available to you locally (account for full size growth and sunlight /
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by dota_fanatic 8y ago
Semantics methinks. Without minds, there is light, but no wavelengths. Wavelengths are the names we give to aspects of a _shared formalism_ which is applied to light. Do wavelengths _exist_, or are they an extremely convenient system of for
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by dota_fanatic 8y ago
Without intelligence, there is no red or blue. You can't begin to overlay a color framework on the world if there are no sentient beings to create it. Maybe universal morality does exist, we're just too simple minded to see it.
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by dota_fanatic 8y ago
Second this recommendation, here's a link for further reviews and breakdowns of why this textbook is so useful: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Illuminated-Meditation-Integrati... . I dabbled in meditation for years but it
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by dota_fanatic 8y ago
By that same logic, should consuming lots and lots of protein yield bigger, stronger muscles? Or perhaps in both cases, the body must experience stimulus such that the tissues "know" they need to get at the necessary supplies comi
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by dota_fanatic 8y ago
With money comes mobility, so people are free to move somewhere cheaper. Currently, those in the poverty cycle are trapped and chronically stressed, making it quite difficult to execute a plan that involves anything more than what's ri
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by dota_fanatic 8y ago
Slack is text, channels, images, video, sound, search, audio calls, video calls, screen share (and interface share), bots, myriad integrations, and more. Calling it just "send text from one computer to another" is wrong.
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by dota_fanatic 8y ago
Every single day is a unique and precious moment in time; spending that day sleep deprived has many disadvantages from a human's perspective. You might have caught a cold you otherwise wouldn't have, or been slightly less emotiona
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by dota_fanatic 8y ago
Degree matters, it often makes all the difference; as such, we have different adjectives to describe those different degrees. In my hypothetical, while technically true that both are "saving", it is more descriptive to use "h
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by dota_fanatic 8y ago
A person has 250 units of food sitting in a room, earns them at 2 units per day, and can consume them at 1 unit per day. They have saved 250 units such that if they stopped earning, they'll be alright. Another person has 2,500,000,000
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by dota_fanatic 9y ago
Unfortunately I don't have the references to back this up but it's my understanding that the latest understanding of sleep, and sleep in humans, is that we're naturally biphasic, one long period at night and one short period
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by dota_fanatic 9y ago
I don't have the studies handy but "Why We Sleep" goes into the myriad bad things that happen when you short sleep, all backed by studies. Those bad things aren't "undone" five days later; every night you short
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by dota_fanatic 9y ago
~8.5 hours. Most of my life I did the typical not getting enough sleep and then binging on the weekend, which doesn't work well at all. Since reading "Why We Sleep"[0] though, I've changed my lifestyle to prioritize gett
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by dota_fanatic 9y ago
Quoting from a recent post, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16023589 : > "Project Oxygen shocked everyone by concluding that, among the eight most important qualities of Google’s top employees, STEM expertise co
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by dota_fanatic 9y ago
Can you provide some evidence for this claim? Inequality has grown pretty systematically since the '70s, and though I don't have the link, there was a study recently demonstrating that it's harder to move up than it was for o
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by dota_fanatic 9y ago
What kind of drastic change should one take? Not having kids, OK, drastic but doable. Cutting out meat, driving less, etc, OK. But what about the rest of the production chain that assumes you're the same as everyone else (whom continue
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by dota_fanatic 9y ago
Because they are strongly tied; we are social animals. Are you saying for millions of years, our ancestors on average had lower quality of life than the developed world's poor? It turns out electricity, air con, motor vehicles, and the
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by dota_fanatic 9y ago
Poor people in the developed world do NOT live like kings of old. They have bosses. They struggle to find mates. They live in small, impermanent homes with no land of their own. They tend to be in debt, and don't even understand how pe
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by dota_fanatic 9y ago
> Why people run any systems on windows is beyond me games
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by dota_fanatic 9y ago
It sounded from the example like the code under discussion was quite simple, "ten lines of code". So it's plausible your "look at & investigate independently" is allowed to happen, and should take less than a fe
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by dota_fanatic 9y ago
What would you estimate his chance of death was in doing this climb? 1%? 5%? Most people would call someone who takes on that kind of deadly risk for nothing more than accomplishment and legacy, ie by choice, a daredevil. If free soloing is
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by dota_fanatic 10y ago
So (rich) people are living longer... does that mean they are as productive, longer? Just because they're alive longer doesn't mean they can work as well in their 70s as they used to. There's also the whole ageism thing to co
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by dota_fanatic 10y ago
How about one that can engage in plans as a collective that consider long-term consequences over short-term gains? This is something we use when considering how well along a child is in development. It appears humanity as a collective isn&#
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by dota_fanatic 10y ago
It's politically not an emergency because companies with vested interests in maintaining the status quo have invested heavily in disinformation campaigns, basically dominating less-educated citizens through information manipulation via
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by dota_fanatic 10y ago
Agreed! That's an ideal kind of setup. Total conjecture but the people who I have seen struggle with WFH are the same people who don't have a social group outside of work, so WFH ends up meaning no social life and they become very
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by dota_fanatic 10y ago
In what way would you improve "narrow"-ness of the text column and centered alignment? Are you suggesting the line length should be longer, or that there should be stuff in the gutters? How would that be an improvement?
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by dota_fanatic 10y ago
> You git rebase --interactive onto master, picking only commit C. So during an interactive rebase you drop one commit, and pick the other, then are upset at git for dropping your commit? It did exactly what you asked of it. This would
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by dota_fanatic 10y ago
I'm not sure I follow. I hit s on my file in the Magit buffer and it's staged instantly; what delay are you referring to?
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by dota_fanatic 10y ago
This order of operations is incorrect, though the grandparent set you up a bit by saying "released on iOS". In order to install the f.lux app you would first need to be jailbroken, ie able to run pirated apps.
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by dota_fanatic 10y ago
Something to aim for with rock-climbing is no thick calluses, and especially not torn ones. All this requires is more care when going for / leaving a hold, by using the exact right angle and applied force for friction as needed. Lettin

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