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by duncancarroll 10y ago
Ah yes, I would probably not call that a mystical experience per se then; more like a stroke of insight. Thanks for sharing the entire quote.
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by duncancarroll 10y ago
Sure; I think you may have read my comment wrong, I'm talking about people who, for example, think they're channelling the Archangel Gabriel or that they can materialize objects into existence, or make other totally unfounded clai
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by duncancarroll 10y ago
I know what you mean. I think there are a few problems here: 1. There's a fine line between open-minded and irrational, and unfortunately a lot of people end up crossing it. This becomes a negative feedback loop wherein more and more
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by duncancarroll 10y ago
Very well-written article. I had no idea Ernst Mach had a mystical experience that he based his theories on. Very interesting. “On a bright summer day in the open air, the world with my ego suddenly appeared to me as one coherent mass of
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by duncancarroll 10y ago
Now that is really bad for the eyes! It’s just so... black! You can hardly even make out its shape. Light just falls right into it. </obligatory>
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by duncancarroll 10y ago
Wow, that is amazing. This is a random question but do you happen to know the study the data on this graph comes from? Fascinating stuff! http://www.foreverlabs.co/uploads/4/9/3/9/4939113/5557
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by duncancarroll 10y ago
It's a great idea with a lot of utility, but my question is: How does dispute resolution work? I.e. How do you prevent bad actors from beating the original artist to the punch, and registering someone else's artwork as theirs on
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by duncancarroll 10y ago
My comments from yesterday's thread in /r/Neuropsychology: While I understand the frustration with the whole Kurzweil camp, this article reads like it was written by an angry high schooler. It also throws the baby out with th
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Experienced meditator's brains are physically 7 yrs younger than non-meditators(digest.bps.org.uk)
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by duncancarroll 11y ago
Link to fulltext (paywalled): http://mnrasl.oxfordjournals.org/content/455/1/L114.full
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by duncancarroll 11y ago
It's possible some crickets are less stinky than others. But man, that smell... Shrimp, etc don't stink like that.
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by duncancarroll 11y ago
Sure, but I honestly can't think of a seafood product, raw or cooked that smells quite as bad as crickets do. Even when cooked they somehow retain the smell (I accidentally tried a "grashopper" taco once--turned out it was a
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by duncancarroll 11y ago
As someone who once owned geckos and fed them with crickets, the memory of the smell alone is enough to deter me from ever eating any cricket-based product.
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by duncancarroll 11y ago
+1 for "Funky Star" hypothesis. This seems just as probable/improbable as any other speculation, including (meme joke) "Aliens."
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by duncancarroll 11y ago
I know, and I don't mean to single you out, it just gets tiresome when the top-voted HN comment always seems to be critical. I felt this post in particular deserved better. It was even more funny because while I was waiting for the co
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by duncancarroll 11y ago
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
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by duncancarroll 11y ago
No offense, but clearly no good deed goes unpunished on Hacker News =) Notwithstanding opinions on the merits or lack thereof of abstracting and visualizing concepts that may or may not help your syntactical understanding of algebra, I want
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by duncancarroll 11y ago
Small correction: It was the 10th man's duty to *disagree with the other 9 and prepare for that outcome.
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by duncancarroll 11y ago
Terrific work! Not presently having time to read the entire paper, I am curious: did you find much of interest in the metabolomic and/or genomic data? Or did MRI prove most fruitful. Also, did you obtain any MRS data?
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by duncancarroll 11y ago
Since it was not provided in the article, here are the relevant links: Paper: http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/16/11/26065 Lab: http://www.cellregeneration.org/
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by duncancarroll 11y ago
Arne Naess! Founder of deep ecology. Good to see him posted here, & good rules of thumb for debate. Also good is this chart: https://abagond.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/disagreement-hie...
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by duncancarroll 11y ago
Is there a list of grievances anywhere? So far, all I know is that this person fired an employee the community happened to like, and has removed hate-speech subs (why is that a bad thing?). Is there anything of substance that has been don
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by duncancarroll 11y ago
Anyone else learn this from scheduling trains / switches in A-Train? =)
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by duncancarroll 11y ago
Really interesting article; the videos + audio made it especially fun to read / watch. Impressive that all this came together in about a year and a half!
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by duncancarroll 12y ago
I actually really like this concept except for one important detail--the name. "Gilded" sounds elitist. Please don't make people hate me even more than they already will when someone I forgot to add to my VIP list starts ge
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by duncancarroll 12y ago
Has there been any pricing information released about the Watson API? I can't seem to find anything but my assumption is that it would not be inexpensive whenever they do start charging for it.
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by duncancarroll 12y ago
"Money only exists because two or more people believe that it does." Er.. I get the point he's trying to make here, but I think what he's not seeing is that currencies basically spontaneously emerge out of the necessity
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by duncancarroll 12y ago
This is so true! And GC is a brilliant metaphor. Typing this quickly since I'm on a deadline at work, but for those interested in getting started, I set up a quarterly "Meditation Challenge" online group to track progress an
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The 3rd Annual /r/meditation Meditation Challenge starts Jan. 1(meditationchallenge.co)
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by duncancarroll 12y ago
Oops, I got the Amazon link wrong; this is the right one: http://www.amazon.com/Gopi-Krishna/e/B00IPT2UYC/ref=ntt_athr...

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