kaffeemitsahne

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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
If there are, there must be at least equally many who are offended at "devil".
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
I'm pretty sure the NPC meme was there before and independently of the aphantasia hype, and it got tacked on a little while later.
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
So far it has been really difficult for me to see the distinction between on one side the "hearing voices" described in schizophrenia, and on the other side the internal monologue as e.g. described in some comments here.
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
It's hard to explain, it just feels like.. reading. All I can say is that my mental focus is on the text in front of me, and not on an aural narrator in my head or a movie-ish visualization. I would say it's non-verbal but not rea
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
Has there been a deflation of the word "gaslighting" recently? I used to understand it as "making person X or others believe person X is crazy (in order to discredit them)" but I see it used much more widely nowadays and
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
Called it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19620032
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
I use SumatraPDF on linux with wine. If you just want a good reader nothing comes close, sadly.
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
I can give an example from the New York Times relating to the Iraq War, I took it from wikipedia [1]: In the buildup to the 2003 war, the New York Times published a number of stories claiming to prove that Iraq possessed WMD. One story in
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
Imagine coming from mainland europe and having to drive on the other side of the road (thus also taking roundabouts the other way round), and then navigating this baby...
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
I would guess that this is near-universally accepted among neuroscientists, and people in the exact sciences in general. Although I don't see how it would make a difference to this question where in the brain the computational power ar
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
It almost seems like you would have to try really hard if you want a 0.0001 chance of hitting a person on deorbit.
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
The point of GDPR is to protect users' privacy. Clearly it is not in line with the goals of GDPR to allow small companies invade privacy anyway, just because they're small. Privacy is privacy.
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
Sure, facebook probably doesn't listen to your conversations directly, but I can believe some random free to play game does, and through various data brokers that data can end up with people who advertise on facebook.
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
For a few weeks now, the billboards (including video billboards...) at train stations in the Netherlands are blank, due to a legal issue[1]. I take the train multiple times a week and I think it's very pleasant. Unfortunately it won&#x
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The Euclidean algorithm generates traditional musical rhythms [pdf](cgm.cs.mcgill.ca)
3 points by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago|0 comments
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
In japanese garden design, often the shapes of the foreground (i.e. the garden itself) are chosen to mimic or extend the shapes in the background (the surrounding landscape). It might've been a similar principle applied here, deliberat
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
At least in the Netherlands, the word "loser" (in english) is used quite often.
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
I don't think you can really corner the market for songs, people can just make new songs. Also if you don't have a lot of media clout besides owning some pop songs IP there's nothing you can do to keep the popular taste align
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
I would really love to have lichess and sgt puzzles on an e-ink device.
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
> My sense of smell seems to vary with the amount of meditation I've recently done. Normally I have almost no ability to smell; but at breakfast one morning at the retreat I could almost taste the orange someone was eating two seats
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Schlieren Photography(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago|0 comments
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
It might seem like basic materialism, but a lot of philosophers suddenly loose their simple and clear-cut ontological stance as soon as the mind gets involved.
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SmoothLifeL [video](youtube.com)
1 points by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago|0 comments
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
Have you tried Ravenspiral's guide?
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
> I wonder if any of our current practices will be viewed as barbaric. Here we go again, everyone posts their pet not-actually-barbaric thing under the moral authority of people from the future.
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Topological Game(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago|0 comments
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
I still don't get from your description what the point or motive would be. Who is locking in whom, for what purpose?
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
This one is also interesting! illusionoftheyear.com/2019/12/bodiject-fingers/
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
Are you saying we can't be reasonably sure there weren't actually "part-human, part-animal hunters" at that place and time, or am I missing your point?
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by kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
The fact that crackpottish nonsense such as Manzotti's gets any mainstream attention at all shows that we're not even remotely there yet.

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