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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
Is HN also going to have a weekly anti-anti-vax post too? We're converting to Reddit format right? ..a place where we can all pretend we understand this stuff, suddenly manifesting degrees in medicine and/or a full understanding o
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
I read the entire comment, the initial point about the title being misleading irked me. There was nothing misleading about it, it accurately conveyed what happened. IMHO we're beyond the point where micro-debating the various ins and o
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
Very slightly misleading.. I doubt anybody actually thought they wanted to have a book burning. We're not quite there yet. - The 9 year old used his brain, his humanity and his creativity to make something nice for the community. - W
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
Humanity is a great thing. Laws are simplified ideas, that can be both helpful or oppressive. Small minded people are generally attracted to this kind of power, so we get far too much of the later.
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Lucid Dreamers Produce The Fastest Brainwave Frequencies Ever Recorded(themindunleashed.org)
4 points by hitchhiker999 12y ago|0 comments
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
as a long time proponent of BTC, this is the first time I'm truly worried. Not that I think GH will do anything 'dodgy', just that it's actually happened and that's not a good thing at all. GH just did a great job
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
No - I would not have posted that - you can go through my history if you like to get an idea of who I am. If they had disapproved it I would have 'mildly' curious as to why. That's an 'Ad hominem' argument, you&#x27
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
If you're OP: Dude stop posting, deleting, changing, and then re-deleting your comments. You are making valid points, there's no need to do this, even if I don't agree with you, these are valid points.
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
In reply to your original comment: Yes, I think it's a step in that direction. Am I wrong? Change my view please, I'd love this to be about a cool new way to survey the land from up above! ..or even an awesome network (eventually)
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
If you guys had any other type of government I'd be so excited for you right now. I'm obsessed with RC stuff, this tech is just amazing! However, seriously now - guys, come on... It's not going to end well for you. You must k
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
This whole conversation has been immensely helpful to me, certainly the comment: "respect the scale of what's at stake, have the temerity to express doubt, possess the common sense to consider their observations, and ask questions
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
My apologies. I conveyed the meaning as best as I could, those who 'felt' the concept where able to forgive the obvious inaccuracies inherent in any statement such as that. Also there is an average IQ (though a poor metric). The a
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
It's so refreshing to know that there are other people applying (what I previously assumed was ubiquitous) common sense rationale to these issues. What's frightening is how far and wide you need to search to find comments like you
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
Nope, I do not - because I'm not a scientist, I don't participate in large scale assessments of these products, and I'm not trained in the field. You are correct: My argument (as clearly stated) is based on lack of trust. Whi
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
Yes, I suppose you could. I stand by my point though. I used to agree with you, I thought the opposition was 'anti-science'. Now I think I was being a touch naive. The corporations you are believing (I assume you're not a sci
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
While I've got you here... My question: What makes you think the corporations (including the scientists) understand the complex systems they're interacting with well enough to warrant altering the path of many million years of nat
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This Rural Community Is Building Its Own Gigabit Internet Network(motherboard.vice.com)
67 points by hitchhiker999 12y ago|21 comments
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
No, it probably is. Until we have responsible people using the great work of scientists, it's like handing a kid a chain saw (useful tool) and expecting good things. Yes that bums a lot of people out, nobody wants to hear that - we&#x2
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
At no point did I scorn such "shortcuts" - read what I wrote without the assumption that I'm anti-drugs. I wanted to point out that you're playing with complex chemistry, and something as strong as sertraline chloride is
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
Hey, I posted this elsewhere http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/52-ways-to-have-lucid... Also: http://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming (cant believe i'm linking reddit) I started when I was youn
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
This thing completely failed. Total disappointment. I can't retrieve the tscript, but it went almost exactly like Colin's transcript too. At the end I told it we'd need to wait yet another 20 years for a useful AI. It replied
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
This was very nice to see written down. Thank you for that. No doubt as LD becomes more and more popular we're going to see a lot of questionable info on the subject. Some people are terrified of these experiences, perhaps with their o
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
Or you could practice any one of the many natural techniques which many of us use daily. The drugs and gamma waves are unnecessary. http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/52-ways-to-have-lucid... I know it's not a &#x2
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
We know very very little about what the mind is capable of, or which parts of it require the sleep process, or even how the sleep process is affected by a lucid dream state. We just don't know, my experience is completely different (th
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
I also practice LD (started at age 10-ish, now 38) but can't agree with your 'gut level' feeling. I feel it's what we are meant to be doing, rather than regular dreaming. I am more rested, and more awake the next day. It
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
There is indeed a tendency to go over board, and end up with the equally disgusting polar opposite. We're not there yet. For now, we probably just need to nip it all in the bud, at least until we've grown up enough to handle sex
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
Fair enough: It will ultimately depend on what the majority decide on. It's all just another perspective I guess.
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
O bugger... ok then, I give up :)
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
Yep, sorry guys - I know I'll get crap for this, but: The word is the clue as it implies 'invasive force'. Any other meaning is only going to be accepted when enough of you agree 'it is so'. The original meaning (an
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by hitchhiker999 12y ago
I hope you're wrong. But the 'rot' you describe does eventually overwhelm most of these communities.

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