dualogy

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by dualogy 10y ago
+1 the alarm system! It occurs to me that domestic animals are (certainly in a moderately-warmish climate) all that's required for a "fine", "humane", "quiet pleasant" human civilization. Not a highly indu
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by dualogy 10y ago
"Long ago"? Did the title read "when" instead of "how" at first? > because animals are awesome companions Now this is of course obvious to everyone here other than baby infants but domestic animals are &quot
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by dualogy 10y ago
> Affordable access to these resources for businesses and individuals will make the world a better (aesthetically speaking) place. Either that or it will turn "good typography" into the new "ComicSans". Already in the
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by dualogy 10y ago
Sure. Exactly. I just added a /s to my post.. ;)
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by dualogy 10y ago
> yes - we changed the government. Trying to change politics beforehand was not so successful after all East-German too, younger though. Yeah it's funny, all the time it seems impossible for "da people" to engender substan
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by dualogy 10y ago
> in the era of false news How did we get here? Many folks have surfed the web for 20 years, even more for 15, most for 10 --- now in 2016, surprise surprise, fake news abound! /s Almost as if coinciding with the calls for (or intro
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by dualogy 10y ago
> I think there needs to be a law that punishes false information > Thus sinks democracy. Fixed the order of statements for you..
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by dualogy 10y ago
From how I understanding "Russian state philosophy" (if there's such a thing) I'd even intuitively assume they're not necessarily primarily interested in gathering everything-about-everyone but in ensuring no othe
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by dualogy 10y ago
Sure. Same old story though, "the silos" are where "the masses" are. If you're doing Just Underground Thangs in "the more underground sections", "TPTB" will happily leave you alone because you&#x
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by dualogy 10y ago
> The next morning, almost without fail, I had an elegant solution in mind So many here (and I and folks I know) had this experience that it might be productive to schedule 1 or 2 naps into such long work days. Could very well enhance th
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by dualogy 10y ago
> You might also call them the seat of learning. Dopamine is very sensitive to errors in prediction, which is how learning is mediated. What they are not is the seat of reason. Dopamine in what way? Since so many things affect its levels
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by dualogy 10y ago
I guess the essential message to my upper comments' parent was that when the "center-left" become neocons-in-practice-when-at-the-helm with plenty of social-justice-facade distractions (gender/race/bla) from the rea
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by dualogy 10y ago
> Probably United We Dream And BLM and MoveOn and Femen and all those well-funded (mostly by the same "billionaire philantrophist" famed for regime change since the late 80s) "activist groups". Brilliant stuff, back a
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by dualogy 10y ago
> I hope they're charged as war criminals some day. Yeah, one must always Hope 4 Change
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by dualogy 10y ago
> Both social and traditional news media are structured to cash in on unique/improbable/dramatic events automatically. How so, politician? Anything by design? Or simply the human nature to consume more media in "watershed&
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by dualogy 10y ago
> Many old houses at the village are derelict Ooh, damn, that might require some time investment and manual labour! What is this, the 20th century? Dump this rotten crap! > If an olive grove is not tended for 5-10 years, it becomes un
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by dualogy 10y ago
In a similar vain, I don't regret "choosing" a non-elite uni (Oxford Brookes) which let me miss lectures and tutorials for 3 years, tinker with my own code all day, showing up only for exams and the final year project ("
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by dualogy 10y ago
> I feel like the video really really was based on faith that the future will just become more complex. Well as long as we keep churning out more coders and more code, it will! Automatically. Just by definition. We're buffering some
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by dualogy 10y ago
Streets? Where we came from, we needed no.. streets ;) I mean, didn't "streets" emerge really from commonly-travelled paths carved by feet and horse hooves and time, and really most non-paved paths are quite fine for most wh
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by dualogy 10y ago
> unless they've taken out an appropriate corresponding short position against the market Depending on how doomy they are, some pundits very plausibly suggest how "everything is in a bubble" as a side effect of a ~35-year-
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by dualogy 10y ago
Which "phytonutrients" do you believe we need for better, healthier longevity.. I reckon you're not thinking of the highly beneficial (yet considered by many vegan quacks as non-essential) "brain" nutrients such as
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by dualogy 10y ago
What exactly did it do to your liver (what's the diagnosis so to speak), did you have alcohol, what carbs did you have, and how do you treat the issue now?
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by dualogy 10y ago
> What we eat will be decided in Germany and China now Keeping your own flock of chickens and living off eggs and butter may come back in vogue..
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by dualogy 10y ago
> Modern meat is also unnnatural, engineered by the agriculture industry. Doesn't matter, because we digest and absorb plant matter only extremely inefficiently compared to all true herbivores and animal omnivores --- no matter how
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by dualogy 10y ago
> I think even meat is something like 80-90% water. For fresh (not processed like hams etc), ~50ish% is usually a safe bet.
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by dualogy 10y ago
> And mostly probably, it is acquired when one is a child. Most likely acquired when one is a suckling. Milk is kinda sweet and the first thing a mammalian baby tastes. All further taste preferences are then largely acculturation.
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by dualogy 10y ago
For 3 weeks straight would be unusual though and not explain the commonly occurring tongue coating.
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by dualogy 10y ago
Well it's pretty much for any mammal except type-1 diabetics --- plus folks taking medication for blood sugar / insulin regulation without informing themselves thoroughly beforehand and monitoring carefully.
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by dualogy 10y ago
> But, since most of us came from different places, took very different paths, there's huge cultural differences to overcome. See, in any other time up until say 1.5-2.5 decades ago (depending on your world location), this very fact
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by dualogy 10y ago
Yeah the entire 'trilogy' of his (this was the first part so to speak) on this matter is brilliant.

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