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by grabbalacious 7y ago
It's simple. You contact the company that manufactures the product and ask they use BPA. If they reply 'no' then fine. If they don't reply then, yes, they use BPA.
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
1. It won't effect it. Considering that the entire current human population could fit into France or Germany at about the same density as some parts in SE Asia. Not saying this is desirable. But consider how many people could live in t
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
Excellent lecture on the Hammerklavier by Andras Schiff which includes an amusing discussion of tempo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR5f8yAnGik
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
And tea. And polo on the maidan . And camp entertainment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAL9HG2p98g#t=5s
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
There are no pure and totally reliable sources of information but suppose we could somehow 'debias' and purify an existing source. Suppose we then listened only to it and ignored all the other sources. We could still be led astr
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
>And another thing: Only geniuses (or cranks) head straight for the grandest and most fundamental problems. You should multiply the importance of the problem by the probability that you’ll solve it and maximize that product. A note her
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
What a contrast with Albert A. Michelson, speaking in 1894: > most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
One of the issues is that humans don't reason what the current situation is prior to emotional response and action. Rather their emotions about the situation are inputs into the reasoning process. e.g. The fear elicited upon perceivi
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
If you look at the historical record you'll find that most geniuses were awkward and eccentric people. They didn't send Christmas cards; they mostly just wanted to be left alone to do their unique, self-chosen work. The 'feat
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
Yes but of course the majority of smart people aren't creative geniuses. Their motivations are different. They apply their smarts to fitting in better, exploiting the social and work environment, etc. I don't think a genius need n
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
I'm not arguing from the meaning of the word. People with different opinions have a hard time getting along. (Which is why I'm being downvoted by people who advocate for niceness!) People in general are scared of being singled out
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
Hence (7) leave them alone!
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
It isn't nice, I know, but it comes down to: agreeable people tend to agree with other people. So they can't make significant original contributions.
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
When it comes to geniuses, the inability to hold down a job, eccentricity of style, rudeness, etc, are features , not bugs. The potential benefit to society far outweighs the very real inconvenience they cause to the people around them. So
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
I broadly agree with Ridley, Pinker, et al, that material conditions, education, crime reduction, and various other aspects of life have been improving lately. I would also agree that economic growth and energy usage aren't inherently
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
A pleasure!
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
>But on Mars, you don't have proper air and you don't have wild life for food. Good point. It would make sense to send robots in advance to manufacture huge stockpiles of air and food. Which is of course beyond present techno
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
Yes, there's no guarantee of finding a destination. That's one form of idiocy. Another, from today's point of view, is killing all the inhabitants (if any) upon arrival.
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
Yes. Not sure if you meant this, but I like to send a slightly random amount without informing the payee how much. Then ask them to verify the specific amount, e.g. £1.65 >Also usually the payment details are saved after the first payme
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
The problem is that critical thinking is essentially a negative activity. It's a means of defending oneself against potentially harmful ideas or ideas that one simply doesn't like. It's also rather abstract. One can't le
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
One can transfer a small token payment and ask the payee to confirm the amount received. If correct then transfer the remainder. It helps that my bank's site remembers the account details of recent payees.
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
I don't know about panexperientialism. My understanding of panpsychism is that it means that everything in the universe is at least a little bit conscious. Which I doubt for the reasons I gave. I don't see how the universe as a
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
If a computer program crashes would you investigate the problem by opening the case and testing the chips inside with a voltmeter? My motivation in labelling the problem as I did is to show where I think it truly lies and thus make it easie
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
I don't know but they taste like potatoes with some kind of added coating.
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
Thank you. Good examples. Yes, some substances cause more inflammation than others. The tar in cigarette smoke more so than vaping vapour. Vegetable oil more than lard or beef dripping. Yes, it gets worse with age. However, people don'
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
OK, but only in the sense that a car crash is a mechanical problem (there may be repairs to make). >lots of grains and refined foods i.e. rather tasty! I don't think we can escape from motives here: they select what type of diet w
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
Not much because it's quite nebulous. It does seem to make scientific sense that the body would reduce such defences to bare essentials like inflammation and blood clotting during crisis in order to save energy. These systems would nor
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
No, it's just the way it seems to me.
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
Chronic inflammation appears to be caused by persistent self-stimulation -- eating for comfort or pleasure, not getting enough sleep, chain-smoking, getting high, etc, without respite. So it's not really a biological problem. It's
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by grabbalacious 7y ago
Yes. The way I think about it, to be conscious, one has to be conscious of something. The only way to do that is to have a representation of that thing in memory. When the representation matches incoming sense data we then perceive the re

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