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by kaiwen1 8y ago
Sam Harris recently released a meditation app for iPhone and Android. As the reviews attest, it is outstanding, the best thing I've seen for getting started on your own. https://wakingup.com/
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New ‘SLICE’ Tool Can Massively Expand Immune System’s Cancer-Fighting Repertoire(cell.com)
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by kaiwen1 8y ago
If the mind and body remain strong, I wonder if the atrophy of ambition is just due to a waning sense of purpose? At 96 my grandfather was still driving his van solo every summer from Michigan to the central highlands of Mexico to help my f
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by kaiwen1 9y ago
Counting increasingly larger numbers as I'm trying to fall asleep will sometimes make me feel anxious as I become aware that the numbers are getting large and I'm still awake. So now I just count "one" repeatedly. Works
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by kaiwen1 9y ago
I wonder how it relates to susceptibility to belief in religion?
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by kaiwen1 9y ago
> You can fondle the cube and it will not respond. And with bitcoin you can't even fondle the cube.
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by kaiwen1 9y ago
I have a policy of drinking alternate years. I tried alternate months first. Didn't work for me. I spent most of my off months longing for them to end so I could enjoy another on month. It was too much effort. So I switched to year
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Quatum computers pose imminent threat to Bitcoin security(technologyreview.com)
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by kaiwen1 9y ago
In _Road to Reality_, Roger Penrose has a diagram that illustrates the Platonic world of mathematics fully encompassing the physical world, and the physical world fully encompassing the mental world (since minds are physical), and the menta
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by kaiwen1 9y ago
Why would there be a preference for ham radio over satellite phones?
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by kaiwen1 10y ago
However, use of cryptocurrencies is opt in and thus caveat emptor. The constitution OTOH is not opt-in, nor for practical purposes opt-out. You're shackled to it at birth.
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Global warming has just reached the target set for 2100(slate.com)
1 points by kaiwen1 11y ago|0 comments
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by kaiwen1 11y ago
I hired Jose in 2007 when he was an unknown college student and have since watched his career unfold. José's productivity borders on the supernatural. On top of that, he's very humble, gracious and helpful. Betting Elixir is betti
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by kaiwen1 11y ago
Until it happens to you, it's impossible to appreciate how sudden, profound and unexpected this change is (for must people). It's not a thing you plan or attempt. It's hard wired into your genes. Baby arrives. New behaviors,
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Large Hadron Collider may confirm existence of parallel universes in a few days(express.co.uk)
4 points by kaiwen1 12y ago|0 comments
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by kaiwen1 12y ago
It is indeed glossing over the most intriguing consequence of the paper, which is evidence for parallel universes. David Deutsch's mesmerizing book, The Beginning of Infinity, describes the barely comprehensible nature of this reality
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Best way to grab a domain listed as EXPIRE-HOLD on NameKing?
1 points by kaiwen1 13y ago|0 comments
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by kaiwen1 13y ago
A Manual for Creating Atheists by Peter Boghossian. This book has completely changed the way I approach interactions with people of faith. It's an incredibly important, useful and practical book. http://www.amazon.com/
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by kaiwen1 13y ago
I think he (and others here) are being too hard on TED. TED is not a forum for research or a focused campaign for change. It's a forum for 15 min talks. It's an educated sort of entertainment where some interesting ideas get shar
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by kaiwen1 13y ago
I'm also in Dumaguete. gavhug at gmail com.
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by kaiwen1 13y ago
Agreed. This is one of the best ports of magazine feel while leveraging the web that I've seen.
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by kaiwen1 13y ago
The removal of the file system is anti-feature. Users with no knowledge, no interest, and no need of a file system metaphor may do fine, but as it turns many users do need this metaphor. They need to operate on files, and share them between
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by kaiwen1 14y ago
That's correct. I'm not advocating a tree-based file system. I'm advocating a shared file system. If that system improves on the tree, I'm all for it.
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Apple forces each iOS app to have its own independent system for managing files(plus.google.com)
39 points by kaiwen1 14y ago|51 comments
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by kaiwen1 14y ago
I've tried switching from Vim to Sublime Text. Can't do it. It's all frustration. Unless and until Sublime Text implements the majority of Vim-style movement and editing features, I'll be using Vim. Don't get me wrong. I think Sublime
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by kaiwen1 14y ago
I'm not sure I "hate" it. But every project I've used MongoDB on that grew the least bit of data complexity left me wishing for (and often converting to) Postgres. I'll still like MongoDB if I'm doing something very simple or rapid prot
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by kaiwen1 14y ago
This is probably the most insightful article on startups ever written. I was blind, and now I see. Thank you, Paul.
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by kaiwen1 14y ago
These programs I write, I curse them. So clean and faultless, so hideously optimized. My bugs, my passion, so close at hand, yet out of reach, squandered in the face of my boundless talent.
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by kaiwen1 15y ago
The problem is not Facebook per se. It is that the human condition is such that FB appeals to us in vast disproportion from its value. The collective time spent on FB is travesty to our species. It's not the only one to be sure, but to the
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by kaiwen1 15y ago
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