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by kranner 7y ago
> It is a kind of twisted reasoning that I've only seen in people who were high on strong narcotics and were carried away by waves of wishful thinking and delusions, or, again, extreme persecution complex I really don't see the
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by kranner 7y ago
> It would be better to adjust the environment. Adjusting the environment is much more difficult and, in many cases, simply impossible. To paraphrase an old folk tale, what is easier: making the entire land-surface of the Earth easier to
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by kranner 7y ago
Preprint PDF: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Johannes_Bohacek/public...
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by kranner 7y ago
You store it in a bucket and let it cool down and eschew the water jet in favour of a mug filled from the bucket. This is not just for, er, washing but also for a bucket bath. It may be a good idea to paint the outside of the rooftop water
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by kranner 7y ago
Beds with sheets and mattresses are unsuitable for that kind of weather. The traditional Indian Charpai ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charpai ) is much more suited. It's like a hammock, but flat and stable on the
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by kranner 7y ago
The honor system should extend to trusting employee's assessment of them being sick enough not to be able to work. No, we don't all get to choose who we are. People don't choose to have depression, or <<insert any chron
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by kranner 7y ago
From what I know, Kasina practice involves visualising certain simple shapes or objects such as candle flames and coloured disks. Tibetan Buddhist practices involve visualisation of fairly complex 'deities'; supernatural beings we
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by kranner 7y ago
FWIW Tibetan Buddhism has concentration exercises revolving around visualisation that might help develop this ability. Not sure if it would work for 'true' aphantasia.
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by kranner 7y ago
It would have read that way if the author list had simply said 'Neuralink'. He is definitely positioning himself as the leader here.
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by kranner 7y ago
> And he frequently gives credit to his team (and doesn't sit there patting himself on the back). Yes, the list of authors on the whitepaper they released is "Elon Musk & Neuralink". I guess his team should be thankful
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by kranner 7y ago
Doesn't seem they would've had time to test long-term use with their threads.
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by kranner 7y ago
I’m sure an extension like Reddit Enhancement Suite will add the option if reddit stops supporting old.reddit.com.
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by kranner 7y ago
GP seemed to say it doesn't matter whether they experience pain or not because the convenience of experimenting on them outweighs any suffering they may undergo. That's not specific to this experiment.
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by kranner 7y ago
It may be more complicated, but do we know the minimum complexity required of a nervous system to support 'suffering'? If not, surely we are obligated to give even the simplest nervous systems the benefit of the doubt.
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by kranner 7y ago
But we don't know that insects absolutely couldn't experience pain, in the same way that we're certain a brick couldn't (unless one is a panpsychist). At least they have a nervous system.
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by kranner 7y ago
Why are the moral implications 'the wrong part'? If we found a species of aliens that clearly suffered like us but bred as fast as insects and were as easy to manage, would the moral implications of experimenting on them still be
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by kranner 7y ago
Given the similarities between us and other animals, it should make more sense to have to disprove that they don't feel pain, rather than having to prove that they do, i.e., that they must feel pain should be the default assumption in
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by kranner 7y ago
Actually the Buddha was the son of the chief in a fair-sized republic who had every luxury available to him. He specifically left home and began to beg for his food for the social/political purposes I mentioned. It was a huge deal for
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by kranner 7y ago
Begging for alms was not just a way to obtain food. In the Buddha's time, it was a method to keep one's ego in check and also to dissolve caste and class boundaries.
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by kranner 7y ago
IMHO there are no really dead periods of time. We used to use that time to relax, to observe the clouds, to daydream, to wonder about problems or curiosities. It was a space for creativity and inspiration.
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by kranner 7y ago
You are mistaken about both pass and Bitwarden. pass is cross-platform (I personally have it running on Windows 10, macOS and Linux) and Bitwarden can be self-hosted on Windows, macOS and Linux. And yes, I know who Bruce Schneier is. Not su
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by kranner 7y ago
Or pass https://www.passwordstore.org/ Or Bitwarden https://bitwarden.com/
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by kranner 7y ago
This is true in general for digital nomads, whether they blog/podcast or even just freelance, a lot of whom continue to work a few months at a time in foreign locales on tourist visas. I've seen their blogs refer to visas as a gra
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by kranner 7y ago
> Your groceries will be 10 mins away. I doubt your groceries would be more than 10 minutes away even if no cars had been invented. Zoning practices would change to allow more shops distributed across residential areas. That would make m
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by kranner 7y ago
Even in day to day life, in my personal experience, being happy results in a creative, productive day full of happy curiosity in which I get a lot done and plan a lot of things to do in the future. Presumably that's the kind of day tha
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by kranner 7y ago
Is cancer a choice? What about other debilitating, chronic, expensive-to-treat illnesses?
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by kranner 7y ago
Wouldn't LISP style be (+ a b c) though?
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by kranner 7y ago
Exactly. Maybe a browser extension to pretty-print spaces to tabs, or sites like Github/SO can offer a built-in option.
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by kranner 7y ago
Hindi/Urdu native speaker here: "khaak" means dust, not soil exactly. I believe it is the same in Farsi as well. "Khaaki" would mean 'dust-coloured'.
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by kranner 7y ago
So his argument is that he charges rich urban people for their own good because they are too spoilt to attend the program in bare minimum conditions in rural settings and they only commit when they have to spend money. I suppose he thinks r

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