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Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades(pnas.org)
283 points by jbotz 5y ago|148 comments
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by jbotz 5y ago
Pre-print for the paywalled Nature article she links to here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13385
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by jbotz 5y ago
An excellent and very thoughtful review that touches on both the strengths and most important criticisms of Jaynes' work.
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by jbotz 5y ago
Some references for reinforest vines benefiting more from CO2 fertilization leading to reduced tree growth... - https://www.nature.com/articles/nature00926 - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epd
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by jbotz 5y ago
> A 30% bump in plant carbon sinking Plant growth by itself is not a carbon sink. It just adds to the "buffer size" for the short-term carbon cycle. For some of that carbon to be "sunk" it has to either be removed
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by jbotz 5y ago
> Chemicals like roundup where so effective they changed agriculture production in unforeseen ways And some of those changes were significant positives not only for agricultural productivity, but also for the environment. The biggest of
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by jbotz 5y ago
It's $75 for an RPi 4b with 8GB of RAM! And from my experience it's quite powerful enough for a lot of "serious things", including most casual desktop computing needs. And it's only $35 with 2GB of RAM, which is a
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by jbotz 5y ago
Unlikely. Remember that birds are dinosaurs... they spent a significant portion of their evolution at a time when there was a lot more CO2 in the atmosphere. Bird's lungs are much more efficient than mammalian lungs, which is why som
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by jbotz 5y ago
There are actually scientific methods for attributing specific events to global warming or not, probabilistically. I.e. although you can never say with perfect certainty "this heatwave was caused by global warming", you can say:
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by jbotz 5y ago
It stands to reason that meat is probably also becoming less nutritious, since the animals are being raised on those same less-nutritious plants. Especially with respect to micro-nutrients and trace minerals... being short on these causes
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by jbotz 5y ago
That's not what happens with actual good soil. It is what happens with high doses of nitrogen fertilizer (or NPK) on poor soil.
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by jbotz 5y ago
There is Ory Keto ( https://www.ory.sh/keto ).
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by jbotz 5y ago
One point for dishwashers I haven't seen mentioned is that they get the dishes a lot cleaner than you ever could by hand, because very hot water . Gets the oils off much better than any amount of soap. For what it's worth. Firs
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by jbotz 5y ago
Hypersensitive sense of smell and hearing, plus need for solitude, and you mentioned in another comment "hyperempathy" when listening to people... could be autistic spectrum. Often comes hand-in-hand with some ADHD symptoms as we
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by jbotz 5y ago
Of all the things that are different about processed foods that have been mentioned in this thread, this is probably the least important, but yes, there is still a difference... they don't "get liquified the same", because wh
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by jbotz 5y ago
Getting a 503 now.
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by jbotz 5y ago
That should probably be `curl cht.sh/tar`
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by jbotz 5y ago
And, ironically, other insects (for example, dragonflies) which are also killed by the fogging. What's more, the predatory insects usually have a much longer life-cycle, so after a fogging the mosquitos will come back long before thei
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by jbotz 5y ago
You have a link to that gif?
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by jbotz 5y ago
Any chance of a Thinkpad-style trackpoint at some point in the future?
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by jbotz 5y ago
OK, a very common use case. As for your second part, yes, that would make my puzzle obsolete, although it's still an interesting exercise in the different ways you can keep state in Python.
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by jbotz 5y ago
Here's a little "default dict puzzle" for you. A common use case for default dict is counting the number of occurrences of some string in an input file/stream by providing a default of zero and just incrementing the val
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The Autodidactic Universe(arxiv.org)
86 points by jbotz 5y ago|66 comments
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by jbotz 5y ago
It's not really grasslands. It's what in Brazil we call "cerrado", a semi-arid woodland. The soil is too mineral-poor to support the kind of grasslands you're thinking of.
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Observations in cluster El Gordo contradict ΛCDM (standard cosmology)(academic.oup.com)
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There is one thing that's absolutely guaranteed about paper money... you'll be able to pay your taxes with it. I'm not being flippant here, some people, like the MMT (modern monetary theory) crowd, are saying that's the
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by jbotz 5y ago
This has been studied quite extensively and at least semi-scientifically for Ayahuasca specifically and also "clinical" DMT experiences (DMT is the main psychoactive ingredient in Ayahuasca) and the upshot is that yes, the imagery
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by jbotz 5y ago
Maybe you could provide a link to the referenced paper... I'd rather not register on FT.com just to read this article.
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I think the same is true for the Rock64 from Pine64 and the Libre Computer Board ROC-RK3328-CC. And probably others based on the Rockchip SOCs.
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But I am also a primate, mammal, vertebrate, animal, terran life-form. And going the other direction I am homo sapiens as opposed to neanderthal, caucasian, German, member of my specific family. Why draw a sharp line specifically at &quot

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