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by kranner 6y ago
How is Chinese venture money more evil than Ambani owning everything?
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by kranner 6y ago
Thanks, this is inspirational. Glad to see writing about "a niche in a niche" as you put it in one of your tweets can do so well for an individual author (provided they do it as intelligently as you did).
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by kranner 6y ago
MIT sued him for functional deficiencies in the Stata Center. > Apparently, the three-year-old Stata Center leaks, mold is growing on the exterior, snow and ice fall off the curved roof and projecting windows, and MIT had to spend $1.5 m
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by kranner 6y ago
Thanks. I similarly came up with a heuristic after reading Tor Nørretranders’ book The User Illusion. I remind myself that there is some part of my brain already paying attention constantly to the breath at the tip of the nose (or whatever
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by kranner 6y ago
> I started reading it largely to consider how I was keeping myself from entering into meditative jhana. Can you elaborate on this please? I've read The Inner Game of Tennis and I'm familiar with the (samatha) jhanas (and somew
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by kranner 6y ago
> I have intermittently also used cheap construction hearing protection and found those to be just as effective I use both (Bose QC35ii and 3M Peltor X5A) and I find the Bose is better in two ways: ear comfort and it doesn't trigger
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by kranner 6y ago
> People do other things with computers. Draw. Make music. Edit music and video. Play twitch games. Get them to understand and respond to speech. But these compute-intensive tasks are more often than not implemented in lower-level, highl
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by kranner 6y ago
" http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/koans.html" is a valid SEXP.
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by kranner 6y ago
Are you sure you understood the abstract/title correctly? The study says there seem to be no negative social/emotional effects of academic acceleration.
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Here in India we seem to have a large number of such ridiculously stupid people (perhaps a consequence of having a large number of people in general) but it also becomes a street-cred thing as someone in front of you beats the train at a ra
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by kranner 6y ago
Not true for non-interactive simulations, some of which e.g. as used in Systems Biology, choose the time-step to the next event from a probability distribution. That is a huge speed-up compared to a fixed time-step simulation in which you c
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by kranner 6y ago
> fair not to name a beautiful plot type after something so horrible. Wasn't it an association that surfaced subsequent to being named after the band? In that sense it would not be "named after" Nazi joy divisions, I think
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by kranner 6y ago
> This is the exact opposite of the Anthropic Principle, which says (correctly) that we cannot deduce anything about the probability of life originating from the fact of our own existence. Your definition of the Anthropic Principle seems
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by kranner 6y ago
It doesn't prove anything about Buddhism. I only meant Ashoka is constantly put up as an example of someone whose conduct improved after conversion to Buddhism, but that is a very selective reading.
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by kranner 6y ago
The same Ashoka continued to slaughter en masse people who seemed to disagree with him, even after his conversion to Buddhism and taking up ahimsa (nonviolence) as a governing principle [1]. Except after his conversion he restricted the gen
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by kranner 6y ago
> If you must do religion, why not Christianity or Islam? At least these two make a point of encouraging charity and kindness towards others. If we're only talking about what religions superficially encourage, Tibetan Buddhism also
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by kranner 6y ago
You're definitely thinking something, even if it is something banal made salient by the drugs.
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by kranner 6y ago
I'd argue it's better than Spritz because it preserves your privacy. I developed and sold a speed-reading app on iOS for a few years and users frequently wrote in to ask for Spritz support. Spritz had a patent (or patent applicati
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by kranner 6y ago
The other people back in your country of origin who didn’t make it because of physical or mental illness, lack of opportunities you may have had, bad turns of fate, etc —- would you not think of them as even less privileged than yourself?
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by kranner 6y ago
It's a privilege when it is relatively accessible to some and not to others. Given that it's much easier for a kid in the Western hemisphere to learn coding than for a poor kid in a remote village in Bangladesh, it is a privilege
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by kranner 6y ago
Undercounting of Covid-19 deaths in India is enough of a concern that ICMR (India's state organisation for biomedical research) is/was planning to undertake a massive survey on excess deaths to determine if people were dying outsi
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by kranner 6y ago
Isn't the money-back/satisfaction guarantee primarily a US thing? (OP is in Barcelona.)
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Yes, but it's not unrelated. We don't have to measure everything objectively all the time when it comes to human performance. Sometimes rituals help indirectly or in the long run.
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Doesn't seem that harmful, as it might increase their motivation to study a subject?
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by kranner 6y ago
Please have your strawman back as I said nothing about the feasibility of a one-time cure. I was backing up dTal's right to say that a one-time cure would be superior, without suffering a pointless ad-hominem rejoinder that why don&#x2
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by kranner 6y ago
It was one example to illustrate one of the potential problems. A much bigger issue is as pointed out by harimau777: prescriptions often don't get filled on time and sometimes not at all. Plenty of people run out of pills on holidays a
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by kranner 6y ago
Opioid-based painkillers for sure, sleeping pills, apparently even decongestants like Sudafed because they contain pseudoephedrine.
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> I doubt these are a real problem for people who have a modicum of conscientiousness. What does conscientiousness have to do with it? You might need to travel or transit through a country which prohibits carrying them. Now you have to c
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by kranner 6y ago
There are many techniques that work. They can all be clearly outlined as well, but that is more work than I'm willing to undertake here. The names I dropped (as you kindly put it) have done all that work and compiled their efforts into
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by kranner 6y ago
Others who have explained mindfulness of breathing in a modern way are Bhante Gunaratana, Bhikku Analayo, Culadasa, Larry Rosenberg, Bhikku Buddhadasa (though his take is unconventional), Michael Taft, etc. But as you have said there are ma

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