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by gdubs 4y ago
There’s actual science on this. Evolution wired our brains to place a VERY high value on novel information. Something out of the ordinary could mean you were about to get attacked by a lion. Or, could be something useful to your survival. T
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by gdubs 5y ago
The “Bloomberg” in the title made me initially think that Michael Bloomberg himself had become a booster for psychedelics.
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by gdubs 5y ago
I’ve said this many times before but keep in mind that people were strongly opposed to the 40hr workweek and it ultimately led to higher productivity. Less illness and injury, primarily. Source: The Rise and Fall of American Growth.
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by gdubs 5y ago
Very sexy setup for that era. As a kid I went to a computer faire near my hometown in the relative middle of nowhere and not only did I get to check out a Video Toaster, there were two guys there with an Onyx. As an SGI obsessed dork, I alm
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by gdubs 5y ago
Standard disclaimer that I’m not a doctor and this shouldn’t be taken as medical advice, but you might find cognitive Behavorial therapy interesting. The gist is that there’s a common set of cognitive distortions that we fall into. Things l
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by gdubs 5y ago
Leverage, as a principle, is so important. I always try to keep the 80/20 rule in mind. But perhaps most simply put, if you're working harder and harder and not seeing results, then you're probably focusing on the wrong thing
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by gdubs 5y ago
Not weighing in on whether one should be frightened or not, but just pointing out that what you said would have applied to the computer graphics industry about 30 years ago. The interesting thing about computers is they tend to get faster o
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by gdubs 5y ago
Our large west facing windows get way too hot so we had this 3M film installed that essentially tints the windows and blocks UV. I’m a HUGE fan of it — in many ways it actually improved the view out the window by reducing glare.
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by gdubs 5y ago
Modern is usually referring to mid-20th century in terms of style. Post-modern doesn’t include everything after that — it’s kind of a mess to describe but probably the simplest explanation is that post-modernism is a reaction to modernism.
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Forest Walk(sfu.ca)
2 points by gdubs 5y ago|1 comments
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by gdubs 5y ago
Meditation. Amazing how quickly even a few deep breaths can make you aware that there really only is “now” and that past and future are illusions.
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by gdubs 5y ago
I bought an old eroded farm with my wife and we’ve been restoring habitats, placing parts of it into conservation, and working towards regenerative farming practices. We also went pretty much entirely plant-based with our diets years back,
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by gdubs 5y ago
First read this in the early 2000s in college and honestly didn’t quite grasp it. Revisited it later, and still didn’t quite grasp it. Was only a few years back, when I looked at social media through the lens of the book that I finally got
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by gdubs 5y ago
My daughter (7) really enjoyed Scratch — so much so that she asks to do it often, and went and watched all the tutorials on her own. She internalized concepts like loops, user interaction, etc. It’s a nice environment and for me, it’s all a
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Tell HN: It’s Giving Season
1 points by gdubs 5y ago|0 comments
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Peter Jackson used AI to uncover The Beatles hidden conversations on Get Back(guitar.com)
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by gdubs 5y ago
Everyone is always seduced by the new — the new idea, the rewrite. But often what one finds is that as development goes deeper, the same bugs resurface, the same challenges. Our society is full of grand, ambitious, “let’s do it right from s
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by gdubs 5y ago
Right? Our worst problems here seem pretty mild compared with the expense of a meaningful human establishment on a far away rock. It would be massively cheaper to build settlements on the most hostile desert on earth. But more importantly,
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by gdubs 5y ago
3,5,7. They have an iPad they’re allowed to use to watch shows we’ve already approved. We let them try new shows / movies if they look OK, and we’re always around to make sure they’re not watching anything we’re not OK with. They disco
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by gdubs 5y ago
Everything about this is awesome, great work. Love the write up — the bits on safety in particular. The layout is also oddly aesthetically pleasing. Inspiring, though I’m so so far at the beginning of the road with hardware and electronics.
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by gdubs 5y ago
This is great. The original immediately brings me back to the mood of circa 2000 when I first heard Kid A in the dead of winter. Hard to believe that’s over two decades ago.
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by gdubs 5y ago
Are you saying that it’s the brain being conscious of the geometry of the light processing system? Kind of like the hidden layers of a neural network?
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by gdubs 5y ago
Maybe a tangent but in high school we procured some … not grocery store mushrooms, and whatever it did to my brain made me see the universe as a 3d hyperbolic honeycomb lattice. Though until today, I had no idea there was a name for that pa
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by gdubs 5y ago
One thing I don’t see mentioned is the fact that there’s a limited capacity of attentiveness in our brains. We get tired. So, while the implication here is that the inattentive drivers are at greater risk — something best measures with over
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by gdubs 5y ago
Technically true. But inflation as a function of monetary / fiscal policy is top of mind for many right now — and what most people picture when they hear the word — and so it’s helpful to draw a distinction.
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by gdubs 5y ago
Only skimmed, but do they address the fact that last year was more “working at home during a pandemic” than “remote work”? How much of the communications issues were due to the fact that people were juggling homeschooling, housekeeping, car
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by gdubs 5y ago
Sort of misleading to use the word “inflation” when this seems to be primarily driven by climate related factors: https://www.bakeryandsnacks.com/Article/2021/09/10/Out-of-co...
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Why Yale Owns a Forest(bloomberg.com)
3 points by gdubs 5y ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 5y ago
There’s a kind of parallel history of why people ended up taking ivermectin, which was The Dark Horse podcast with Brett Weinstein. On the show they talked extensively about their theory that ivermectin was an effective prophylactic against
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Food security and climate change: a critical warning for humanity [thread](twitter.com)
15 points by gdubs 5y ago|3 comments

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