macawfish

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   by macawfish 11y ago

   Like it or not, 90% of the body's serotonin is produced by gut microbes... Dopamine, GABA and other lovely chemicals are also contributed by the endless sea of creatures within. :)
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   by macawfish 11y ago

   Instead of thinking about the illness being in your head, why not think of the decision being in your body?
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   by macawfish 11y ago

   Let me just remind everyone that "mind" and "body" are constructs. (I'm looking at you, "skeptics".) for example: http://news.wisc.edu/study-reveals-gene-expression-changes-w... If unspec
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   by macawfish 11y ago

   It's unfair to generalize about "these 'math wizards'" or "these parents" just based on the context of the article. On the topic of "math competitions" or rewarding kids for "being the best,
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   by macawfish 11y ago

   This is low key some of the most profound research I've ever seen. It flies in the face of cold war era paranoid politics but: "the meek shall inherit the earth."
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   by macawfish 11y ago

   Meanwhile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11037232
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   by macawfish 11y ago

   Reading these things makes me angry. There are people in the world who uphold economic wealth and ownership over life itself. Money is supposed to serve life, not the other way around. Ownership at its best is a way to uphold responsibil
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   by macawfish 11y ago

   Daily Mail science articles crack me up... especially when they use the word "boffins" (sadly they didn't in this particular article.)
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   by macawfish 11y ago

   Been feeling this way about hosting for a while now... I'm actually anticipating (wishing?) that "p2p web" (decentralized LAN applications) is going to start taking off soon. I think it's a matter of people building sof
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    by macawfish 11y ago

    I'm working on a little static site generator now for my own site. The PHP/SQL wordpress kind of option just annoys me and have held me back from publishing altogether (don't even get me started on publishing services and so
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    by macawfish 11y ago

    maybe that's cause the NSA has secret algorithms to factor large numbers with quantum computers 0_0 :p
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    by macawfish 11y ago

    I blocked it in /etc/hosts and also deleted my account permanently. After doing this my sense of life's possibilities became enhanced... The world stopped feeling overdetermined, even predetermined, by what was on facebook. F
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    by macawfish 11y ago

    Why didn't I think of that! JK I actually host my own git repos on my personal computer's hard drive every day ;)
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    by macawfish 11y ago

    Those men look like their bodies have been trying to die for a while now.
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    by macawfish 11y ago

    This one takes the cake for me: “It scares me what Facebook is doing with AI,” Hotz says. “They’re using machine-learning techniques to coax people into spending more time on Facebook.”
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    by macawfish 11y ago

    Recently, Facebook started showing a white overlay banner that says "Get updates from ____ on Facebook. Log in or sign up for Facebook today." which forces people to sign up or log in to facebook in order to access pages. As yo
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    by macawfish 11y ago

    I met these funny, talented French brothers on the internet about 12 years ago when I happened by chance on their internet radio broadcast/AIM channel. They have a quirky, clever sense of humor in their work... I'd love to see wh
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    A TV series where all the actors are real insects(indiegogo.com)

    1 points by macawfish 11y ago|1 comments