jononomo

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by jononomo 3y ago
It sounds to me like you're starting with the assumption that empiricism must rule out the supernatural. That is what I mean by having a prior commitment to a metaphysic, and is therefore not a truly scientific approach. As for me, no
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by jononomo 3y ago
You read for 8-12 hours per day? I guess you get paid to read? What do you spend 8-12 hours per day reading?
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by jononomo 3y ago
Maybe most people will write more now that they have GPT available.
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by jononomo 3y ago
By "science" I just mean clear, rational thinking that is based on empiricism and does not have a prior commitment to a particular metaphysics or worldview.
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by jononomo 3y ago
oh, get over it and face the science!
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Ask HN: 1Password is backing out of the lifetime license I bought. Can I sue?
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by jononomo 3y ago
I'd recommend the book The Stairway to Life: An Origin-Of-Life Reality Check, if you're genuinely curious. https://amazon.com/Stairway-Life-Origin-Life-Reality/dp/1734...
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by jononomo 3y ago
Who said anything about any particular god?
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by jononomo 3y ago
I read Amusing Ourselves to Death about 20 years ago and remember it as one of the best and most insightful books I have ever read.
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by jononomo 3y ago
The existence of life is definitive proof of the existence of God. It is laughable that people think it is irrational to believe in the virgin birth of Jesus Christ but then blithely believe that life itself was birthed from nothing for no
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by jononomo 3y ago
GPT-4 is useful for telling you how to do stuff in Vim, I've found.
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by jononomo 3y ago
Well, you save money by not buying anything other than beef, and you save money by eliminating all chronic diseases from your life. Also, you save ridiculous amounts of time grocery shopping and cooking. You also spend about 80% less time
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by jononomo 3y ago
I have eliminated all plants from my diet, and it is indescribable how positively it affects your mental and physical health. It is like accessing an entirely new dimension of well-being. You can't even imagine how good it is possibl
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by jononomo 3y ago
Dr. Georgia Ede, a Harvard psychiatrist, has found that eliminating plants entirely from your diet leads to phenomenal mental health outcomes. Her findings jive well with the results reported in this paper. Her website is https:/&#x
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by jononomo 3y ago
"We found strong correlations between greater consumption of fat and protein to lower anxiety and depression while consuming higher percentages of carbohydrates was associated with increased stress, anxiety, and depression."
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by jononomo 3y ago
The interesting thing is that no one has any idea where life came from in the first place.
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by jononomo 3y ago
Why don't you spend a year traveling in Central and South America?
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by jononomo 4y ago
Shouldn't you be embarrassed, though? It's like tattooing "I'm an Elon fanboy" on your forehead.
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by jononomo 4y ago
The person was just using the term "hacker" to mean "any kind of engineer".
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by jononomo 4y ago
The settlement form tells me I can find my username at: "Account” > “Settings and Privacy” > “General Account Settings” > “Username.” But I don't see something called "General Account Settings" after I go to &qu
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by jononomo 4y ago
Suppose only 800,000 Facebook users end up claiming. How much would each person get then?
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by jononomo 4y ago
A hacker is an engineer.
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by jononomo 4y ago
wow, so cynical!
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by jononomo 4y ago
This ridiculously stupid approach to teaching kids to read was imported to the US from New Zealand.
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by jononomo 4y ago
It became fashionable in early childhood education circles to teach children to read by looking at the accompanying pictures in the book instead of by deciphering the letters and sounding out the word. This led to many parents thinking that
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by jononomo 4y ago
Just wait until you get to the part in the podcast where the teacher intentionally covers up a word with a post-it note and then asks the kids to read it. Apparently, they are supposed to figure out the word from the context.
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by jononomo 4y ago
I finally moved all my domains away from GoDaddy for similar reasons -- just using the site stressed me out.
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by jononomo 4y ago
The "Sold a Story" podcast, which is mentioned in the article, absolutely blew my mind. I listened to the entire series three times over because I just couldn't get over it. It is astonishing that people who get degrees in
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by jononomo 4y ago
Yes, but only in regard to chess -- as soon as you move on to sudoku you're back to square one.
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by jononomo 4y ago
"One Uber driver Dubal interviewed, Domingo, recalled being one ride of short of unlocking a $100 bonus one evening, but then said he experienced 45 minutes of "dead time" in a popular area before he was able to get another r

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