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by geye1234 2y ago
I mean, there are some insights and useful advice here, but did he really think the following?: > "Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events." Aside from the obvious self-contradiction here, counterexamp
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by geye1234 2y ago
HOAs could also create rules preventing their members from selling to large-scale investors. It's certainly in residents' interest.
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by geye1234 2y ago
The Inquisition operated in the Spanish Empire as well, but in any case, the point is moot. 12 people per year, on average, were executed by the Inquisition. It was not the bloodbath that anti-Catholic propaganda pretends it is. If Texas k
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by geye1234 2y ago
The Spanish Inquisition killed approximately the same number of people every year as the State of Texas. The Roman Inquisition killed far fewer. It was child's play compared to 20th-century regimes. Many more died at Hiroshima than ove
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by geye1234 2y ago
They really think it's true. People as diverse and mutually antagonistic as George Orwell, Noam Chomsky and C.S. Lewis said that the outer elites -- the exact kind of people that inhabit HN -- were far more thoroughly propagandized tha
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by geye1234 2y ago
Replying to my own comment, but it looks like there's at least one device on the market that measures BP without the wearer knowing it's being done, the Aktiia Optical Blood Pressure Monitor. Cost about $250-300. It's not ava
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by geye1234 2y ago
Trying to relax always makes me more anxious since it reinforces the idea that there's a danger to be avoided. Over time I've learned the techniques of ERP, which basically does the opposite.
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by geye1234 2y ago
> My current solution besides anti-depressants and therapy is just ignoring it and trust in the pills from the doctor. Look up ERP (exposure and response prevention) therapy, then apply it to your fear of BP. I did that, it helped a lot.
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by geye1234 2y ago
I don't disagree, but wouldn't the counterargument be that the 120/80 and 140/90 thresholds (or whatever they've redefined hypertension as) apply precisely to sitting rather than lying, and after only a minute'
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by geye1234 2y ago
Quite a few people here report getting anxious even when taking their BP themselves: https://www.innerhealthstudio.com/phobia-taking-blood-pressu... I'm one of them. I bought a device with memory and covered the screen
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by geye1234 2y ago
The deist/materialist position is that God, if He acts at all, must be just another cause working in the universe, in the same manner as gravity, heat, charge, or whatever. Once this assumption is established (though rarely voiced), th
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by geye1234 2y ago
The reverse is also true. If you're a nerdy type, physics' power of prediction can lead you to think the whole of reality could be explained in principle by physics. But there's of course no good reason for making this leap.
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by geye1234 2y ago
In each case they are alike in certain respect(s) and different in certain respect(s). For example, in the first example, the apples are instantiations or examples of the same thing. So they are alike in that regard. But they differ in othe
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by geye1234 2y ago
Well, they are and they aren't. The oak tree might grow by a few microns every day, and change in any number of other ways, but it remains an oak tree for all that. This isn't (just) a matter of words, but a matter of reality. OTO
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by geye1234 2y ago
It's both discovery and experiment (but not invention). Forms are real, but not in the way Plato thought. He thought they existed in some empyrean realm. In reality, they exist in objects themselves. We discover what a thing's for
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by geye1234 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverism
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by geye1234 2y ago
I've been trying to download various blogs, on blogspot.com and wordpress.com, as well as a couple now only on archive.org, using Linux CLI tools. I cannot make it work. Everything either seems to miss css, or jumps the wrong number of
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by geye1234 2y ago
If I am, then it follows that Bill Gates is the only hamster in the world.
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by geye1234 2y ago
If rationality is an illusion, then rationality is both an illusion and not an illusion, and all things are impermanent and permanent in the same respect, and Buddha both did and didn't have the breakthrough you describe, and you are b
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by geye1234 2y ago
Thought can't be reduced to a sequence of states, or functions acting on each other. I've tried to explain why in some other comments on HN. But let's grant that it can be so reduced for the sake of argument. I think even the
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by geye1234 2y ago
The trouble with this idea is that, if there is no unity to the thoughts whatsoever -- as some seem to say -- then any kind of rational thought is impossible. If there is no unity to the thoughts, then there is no single principle that unit
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by geye1234 2y ago
I don't disagree with the substance of your comment, but want to clarify something. Lesswrong promulgated a seriously misleading view of Aristole as some fussy logician who never observed reality and was unaware of probability, chance,
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by geye1234 2y ago
I'm responding a bit late to this, but anyway... Your definition of materialism is not what the term commonly means. Clearly we're made of matter and have material concerns; everybody is a materialist under that definition. Materi
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by geye1234 2y ago
He may well mean a mechanic qua mechanic is not capable or practising virtue -- not a mechanic qua human being. The ancients tended to predicate formally where we predicate materially. When they said 'a mechanic can't practise vir
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by geye1234 2y ago
A nuke can be good considered in itself (effective at leveling a city), and bad considered in relation the person who presses the button and thereby commits mass murder. It is the latter that makes nuking a city a bad deed.
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by geye1234 2y ago
Prudence is the virtue that allows us to see what to do in the infinite and unique situations that present themselves to us each day. This will always and everywhere mean sacrificing a lesser good for a greater one. This can be something
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by geye1234 2y ago
Should I disconnect my computer from the grid at this point? (I'm using a UPS with built-in power surge protection but I'd rather not test it in prod.)
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by geye1234 2y ago
Read this too quickly and thought I would be finding out the details of rifling, breech loading, etc.
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by geye1234 2y ago
Should I assume that this latest tilt at a windmill is going to cause IA to get decapitated by a blade, and start preparing for a world without the Wayback Machine and the other legally non-controversial bits of IA? Is it too late for them
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by geye1234 2y ago
Agree, these terms are bordering on meaningless. I think they suffer from reification, or something like it. What's worse is that people will assign a meaning to those terms, not bother to tell anyone that meaning, and yet use the term

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