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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Moved to Amsterdam for the luxury of not having a car. After the 4th kid, my wife wanted a car for road trips. We never need it.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
This is amazing. Either some of it is wrong or my sense of scale needs a vast adjustment! Like, I’m a little surprised that smoking is more popular than YouTube, but that’s probably correct. But the numbers on meat relative to corn seem a l
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NYT Coverage of "MedBeds"(nytimes.com)
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Terpstra Keyboard(terpstrakeyboard.com)
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Graffiti evidence of Vikings in Athens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piraeus_Lion
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Aristoxenus (Pythagorean student of Aristotle) seemed to have developed a proto-equal temperament system. Written about by this guy (not peer reviewed, but has good presentation of the original Aristoxenus) https://siementerpstra
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Music used to be treated like a science… the pythagoreans, for instance, conducted the first hypothesis driven scientific experiment on a musical question (whether whole number ratios affected chords with bronze chimes). Descartes’ first bo
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Conditional formatting to indicate magnitude via color?
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
What’s the status on the Boring company? That seemed promising. But I recognize that, in America, the issue is not a lack of technology but rather the political will.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Scihub? Libgen? Why not name?
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
… with unlimited stamina, patience and capacity for negative feedback. If it was forever, you’d probably learn to take advantage of that resource!
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I don’t think many have read your link. It’s great. Some lines from King Lear: The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash; then must we look to receive from his age, not alone the imperfections of long-engraffed condition, but th
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Here’s my not-tongue-in-cheek Moonball deck. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16QpeWjf1Hbxp_15D5Vtx... And speaking of races on the moon: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/moon-walls
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
> the same representation space Platonic world of forms, perchance?
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There are lots of optimizations, I agree, but we know the mechanisms work because of all the natural experiments (volcanos). We definitely need the research—but no one thinks we don’t do this research because it is too expensive. It’s a thi
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Keep in mind that we can halt global warming any time we wish with about $5-10b worth of high altitude sulphur injections. That’s a per year price. EdwardTeller, inventor of the hydrogen bomb, introduced this idea. One classic argument agai
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Amazeballs. I love thinking about the counterfactual history.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Btw, thanks so much for your thoughtful and insightful replies on this.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
What does reasoning have to do with geometry? Is this like the idea that different concepts have inherent geometrical forms? A Platonic or noetic take on the geometries of reason? (I struggled to understand much of this paper…)
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Technically, are humans that use the internet a different species than humans that don’t, since they don’t interbreed?
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Brilliant. The spirit of the law!
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I think of computers as our exocortex, even more than our symbiont.
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“…also requires knowledge of genuine Nādi texts, most of which are unpublished, and the custodians do not allow others to see the manuscripts. The same is the case with Samhitā texts in north India, such as Bhrigu Samhitā or Rāvana Samhit
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
“Of the Union's 27 states, only three have an official state religion, these being Denmark (Church of Denmark), Greece (Church of Greece), and Malta (Catholic Church).” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Hidden in temple basements across India are manuscripts, undeciphered, some of which speak to this ancient era. Preserve them before they rot! Archaeological and historical preservation in India needs attention and resources.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Is that a joke? Because this is the most hackernews article ever
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I’ve heard that Ketamine is a psychedelic deepener more than a psychedelic on its own. Ie, a little ket addition is similar to taking a much higher dose of psychedelics (but short duration): high definition mental imagery and expanded exter
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Markets are not entirely efficient, or else there’d be no work to do
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Lava tubes on the moon are really important— they are plentiful and huge. Human settlements need radiation shielding and why build on the surface when you can just inflate a habitat underground? Cavemen on the moon! With their huge size, we
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
When singing, it often sounds bad to slide between notes. Why is that? Music is rather discrete, rather than continuous— we like notes. But maybe that’s just what we are used to?

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