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by geomark 7y ago
I think a big difference is that in sports, although you are aware of internal processes, a large amount of your attention is on external things, as it must be so you don't run off a cliff, for example. When meditating you turn your at
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by geomark 7y ago
DEET is an ingredient in a cocktail that has been popular with the brainless backpackers that crowd some of the islands in Thailand. They mix it with cough syrup, kratom and coke. If you get too much of it then you apparently you die [1]. [
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by geomark 7y ago
I watched Joe Rogan interview Bob Lazar [1] which seemed mind blowing if everything he said was true. But then I went and researched it and seems more likely he came up with some fantastic stories to keep himself out of prison after he got
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by geomark 7y ago
"It’s largely a wash ." I see what you did there.
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by geomark 7y ago
How much of a choice depends on if you have management that thinks it's the right thing to do to impose upon the childless. If you disagree you are labeled not a team player and suffer the consequences. So you get to hear about your co
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by geomark 7y ago
We all know it's like having 2 jobs. But having kids is a choice. Don't do it if you can't pay for it or you have to keep leaning on colleagues to cover for you. As for the prospects of other people's kids paying for my
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by geomark 7y ago
When you are young and childless you get the difficult shift/all nighter/extra travel because the other guys have families. Then when you get older and the kids are gone you get the same screwing over because the other guys have f
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by geomark 7y ago
When you want to " pull minerals from the underlying bedrock and transport it to the top layer", trees do that. Composting with tree leaves would seem to be beneficial, although perhaps a rather slow process. And of course you nee
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by geomark 7y ago
I noticed the striking difference between strawberries grown in Thailand (yes, it's true, during the cool season in the mountainous regions) which are small, non-uniform in shape and intensely flavored, compared to the huge, beautiful
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by geomark 7y ago
Is there no cost to administer whatever system is used to pay for the transportation system?
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by geomark 7y ago
To be fair you must balance it against the costs to administer paying for the "free" service, i.e. cost of collections via taxes or whatever, allocation of resources via some contingent of petty bureaucrats, disbursement via whate
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by geomark 7y ago
I was thinking in the short term, not on evolutionay time scales. Personally, when I moved to the tropics I sweat non-stop for about the first two years. But I seem to have adjusted and don't break much of a sweat until the temperature
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by geomark 7y ago
Same problem in Thailand. When mainland Chinese first started coming to Thailand in large numbers there was an outcry about their terrible behavior. After a while the tour operators arranged for them to mostly go places where they don'
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by geomark 7y ago
Standing room only at Maya Bay in Thailand. https://static.bangkokpost.com/media/content/20160707/c1_102... Same effect. Made famous by a Hollywood movie. Now everybody has to say they have been there. It is
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by geomark 7y ago
Would people be able to physically adapt to longer periods of higer temperatures? I mean, it is around 40 degrees every day for most of the two months of hot season where I live. And a lot of people don't have air conditioning. On the
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by geomark 7y ago
As discussed in another recent thread[1], malls contribute to myopia in young people. Actually, that study just says that not spending enough time outside in sunlight is the cause. But that's what happens when kids spend most of their
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by geomark 7y ago
Not only Japanese. I had a rude awakening as a younger backpacker walking through one of those underground sidewalks in Paris. The strongest and foulest smell of urine imaginable.
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by geomark 7y ago
Where I live, in the tropics, a mosquito killing bot that is highly effective and safe to use indoors would be a big seller if it was priced right. It would have to work better than the passive approaches like screens and traps, which are p
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by geomark 7y ago
If I understand this correctly, it isn't that they are uniquely encoding each syllable. It's that they are encoding the information in each syllable. Many syllables have very low information content and must be combined with other
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by geomark 7y ago
I beg to differ. At best, many people just don't really give it much thought. Many others think that when the government does something it is free, not understanding that the people pay for everything the government does. The thing tha
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by geomark 7y ago
As long as you put the word "free" in quotes then I am with you. Although...just to nit pick a little. If you mean less road damage then keep in mind that road damage is proportional to the 4th power of vehicle weight. So buses ca
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by geomark 7y ago
The people I am referring typically just think it is somehow free. They don't seem to understand that somebody is paying for it, and that it might even be them. And that it is being paid for in a round-about and grossly inefficient man
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by geomark 7y ago
Whenever I see someone talk about something like that being "free" my initial reaction is also that they must be trolling. Sadly, it usually turns out they are not.
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by geomark 7y ago
I am quite sure the email replies I received were from actual humans. It's been a while, about 10 years ago I think. If those were machine generated responses they were way more advanced than anything I thought existed at that time. I
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by geomark 7y ago
I think Google's sh*tty ways came to light long ago. And they are still doing it. I'm one of the many, many people that got screwed by Google in a similar way with their Adsense program. A long time ago it was. Back then there wer
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by geomark 7y ago
Brainwash them regularly by communicating how great your company is, how big its mission is, and how important their contribution is. It works even better in the world of classified programs because, due to compartmentalization of informa
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by geomark 7y ago
Consumers in some countries don't even know there is more than one type. Monoculture and mass distribution rule. Where I live now there are half-a-dozen varieties that are routinely eaten.
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by geomark 7y ago
I know the feeling. For much of my career I drank the koolaid of the military-industrial complex. Thankfully never worked directly on weapons programs. But still sad that it took me so long to acknowledge how evil it all was and leave it.
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by geomark 7y ago
Very similar to my experience, but different 3-letter agency. Two rounds. Lots of questions about drug use. I wasn't shy about it because I had had legal run-ins over it when I was young so I knew it was already out there. But examiner
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by geomark 7y ago
Sure, I can see that. But isn't it similar with language and other subjects? You just learn the basics, nothing deep, no turns of phrases, little expressiveness. Perhaps there is little correlation between those who excel at coding at

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