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by duncancarroll 3y ago
Reality is that which, even when you downvote it, doesn't go away. ;)
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by duncancarroll 3y ago
This is a decent article but the author unfortunately has no understanding of what is known as a "spiritual emergence", which PKD very clearly went through and is critical to understanding his life and legacy. One of the first ph
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by duncancarroll 4y ago
If you think your shower ideas are good, you should try meditation!
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by duncancarroll 4y ago
> "every cryptocurrency system is a fraud at its heart." I'm not sure I agree with you on that part. Fraud is defined as "wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain." Encrypt
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by duncancarroll 4y ago
I'm sorry. I got Omicron in January '22 despite being double vaxx'd, and I felt totally fine until 3-4 mo. later when I started to get recurrent dizzy spells, major fatigue, and bouts of anxiety, which are all very unusual fo
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by duncancarroll 4y ago
Wow these are great, thank you
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by duncancarroll 4y ago
This looks awesome! I recently did a 2x/mo metabolomics experiment ( https://smm-data.herokuapp.com/ ) and I've been wishing someone would do something like this ever since. Best of luck!
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by duncancarroll 4y ago
This is a valid point; just because something is naturally-derived, doesn't make it safe. For example, permethrin is approved for organic use but it's also a neurotoxin: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti
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by duncancarroll 4y ago
I want a VR game where you're a bumblebee who's goal is to collect pollen in a yard. Your opponent is a spider who's goal is to catch you. They get to set up webs around the flowers before you spawn in, and maybe they can a
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by duncancarroll 5y ago
Meditation works well for me. I have a cushion next to my desk and whenever I can't focus or don't know what to do next, I sit for ~5-10 min with eyes closed and usually the next best task becomes apparent. I then visualize it cl
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by duncancarroll 5y ago
It just seems arbitrary. I'd prefer we get rid of cows (14.5% global CO2) before we get rid of bitcoin. At least blockchains don't feel pain...
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by duncancarroll 5y ago
Right, I guess what I'm asking is, is that necessary? i.e. is proof of work accelerating the climate change timetable such that it's more of an existential threat than it already is? Otherwise it feels like just one guilty party
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by duncancarroll 5y ago
I'm not trying to incite a flame war, but is crypto really that bad for the planet? Ethereum is moving to Proof of Stake & it's not all ponzi schemes I don't think. I'm genuinely trying to understand if he's co
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by duncancarroll 5y ago
I still have yet to see a plausible, step-by-step example of how this hypothetical AI manages to grab the levers of real-world machinery, factories, industries, raw material excavation, etc, and causes mayhem.
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by duncancarroll 5y ago
This looks amazing but I can't seem to find any information about whether it's compatible with standard VR headsets (Oculus / Vive / etc)
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by duncancarroll 5y ago
I'm not sure what your standards are for indie games but this looks pretty great to me.
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by duncancarroll 6y ago
Very cool. Would love to see results with a night vision camera.
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by duncancarroll 6y ago
Meditation breaks work well for the "Thinking" part of this too. Works by the same principle as why you have aha moments in the shower or while washing dishes, i.e. no distractions and the focused activity diminishes random thoug
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What If Contact Tracing Apps Could Warn You Before You Were Exposed to Covid-19?(forbes.com)
2 points by duncancarroll 6y ago|0 comments
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by duncancarroll 6y ago
This is great! I've been looking for something like this everywhere; thank you for writing it and I look forward to reading the next installments.
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by duncancarroll 7y ago
Wow, that's pretty cool. Does P3D have native support for VR or are you hacking it in somehow?
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by duncancarroll 7y ago
Doesn't look like that's the same Rentech: https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/RTK "Owns and operates wood fibre and nitrogen fertilizer businesses"
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by duncancarroll 7y ago
I can understand that there are a limited number of people who can understand and apply the math necessary, but not that it could remain proprietary for 30 years. Usually if a company has secret sauce, someone will leave and spin off on the
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by duncancarroll 7y ago
There is a really well-done, faithful-to-the-original but still slightly expanded-upon open source Java clone of MOO1 called Remnants of the Precursors: https://www.reddit.com/r/rotp/comments/eew3hs/guide
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by duncancarroll 7y ago
Very cool! Looks very promising and something I'd use often if it were connected to IntelliJ. I'd been toying around with a similar idea of doing a similar "visual debugger" but within VR (not that it needs to be, but
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by duncancarroll 7y ago
For a minute I thought the helicopters on the ground were poorly-photoshopped impact marks...
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by duncancarroll 7y ago
Am I understanding the article correctly? They're guessing that because there was no solar wind which would normally trigger aurora, the Earth must have passed through a sort of rogue wave in the heliosphere, which also was strong eno
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Electrical Ground Current Event Detected in Norway(spaceweather.com)
316 points by duncancarroll 7y ago|98 comments
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by duncancarroll 7y ago
Why is this being downvoted? Has no one in this thread played Echo VR?
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by duncancarroll 7y ago
Humor me for a moment and just load up Echo VR and stand in the main menu looking at your arms. Where in that scenario would you say you are confused about the position of your elbow?

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