malloryerik

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by malloryerik 2y ago
Still, people age very differently. Some octogenarians are completing triathlons. Medicine also seems likely to increase longevity. Think of the many who through their 80s were cogent, even masterful. Examples include Warren Buffett, John S
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On Mac with a pdf I just select say a chapter and let it read. Footnotes can be a problem. I usually use iOS now and I wrote PDF before but realize I use .epub files mostly. You can set up iOS to read entire pages. I use the local iOS Books
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by malloryerik 2y ago
Funny, I've been using even primitive text-to-speech on PDFs for years and while nothing compares to an excellent human reader, I find TTS often better than a mediocre human reading. This is mainly because I don't get upset at (an
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by malloryerik 2y ago
Memories deceive; it happens to me and I'm guessing to everyone. Odd that Aristophanes would have written a comedy about this character whom Plato would only invent years later, and so also that Xenophon, a student of Socrates like Pla
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by malloryerik 2y ago
No paywall: https://archive.is/kp0tC
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Sam Altman Was Bending the World to His Will Long Before OpenAI(bloomberg.com)
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A People's Bid to Acquire TikTok(projectliberty.io)
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by malloryerik 2y ago
I’ve read of a credible person who says they use breathwork of some kind to help enter a state of flow. Does anyone here know if this sounds right? If so, how would one learn? Books? Courses? Coaches? Also, knowing nothing about it I’d assu
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by malloryerik 2y ago
I very much appreciate your comment, and at the same time am interested to challenge this idea of "the illusion of music". What about music is an illusion? Maybe this was just an unfortunate phrasing, and yet it might touch on the
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by malloryerik 3y ago
One of my favorite laptops ever was a later gen 11" MacBook Air. Fit into the smallest bags. Flipped open and working instantly anywhere. Sturdy, always on me, fantastic for writing and even coding. I just had to get good at switching
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Any thoughts on why that might be?
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Here's the report: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm A few highlights from the report itself (to clarify from spin): +353,000 in January, similar to revised December gain of 333,000. January monthly
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by malloryerik 3y ago
Another question, how will ships protect against incoming lasers?
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Many countries have postal savings systems, often very significant. The first was in the UK, 1861.[1] In the US, existed 1911 - 1967, started in the wake of the Panic of 1907.[2] The Japan Post Bank is among the largest savings institutions
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by malloryerik 3y ago
Ha, lovely joke, but indeed friends with benefits are clearly in the "pleasure" file. Ancient Greeks seem to have been expert at friends with benefits.
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The "highest order" in this case meaning of virtue. So three kinds of "friendship" (philia) : of pleasure, of utility, of virtue (moral goodness). When we think of "real friendship" we're thinking of the
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by malloryerik 3y ago
> How is a minimum age not ageism? Well you can't very well have four-year-olds voting, correct? It's unfortunate because they have a stake in election outcomes, but they can't understand that stake. I wish they could vote
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OK, so it's two forms of discrimination then, ageism and generationism.
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This is just ageism. According to this logic, why not put an upper limit on the voting age? Say, 77? There are great advantages to age, and people age differently.
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by malloryerik 3y ago
What do you think about the M2 compared to PC options? I'd like to buy a desktop for Windows-based apps, and have been considering a Mac Mini with Parallels. What are better alternatives?
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by malloryerik 3y ago
If plastic simply weren't an option it might work?
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by malloryerik 3y ago
You might try examining -- with an open mindset -- a few CFTC Commitments of Traders reports and then see if you feel the same way.
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Looks like Affinity?
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by malloryerik 3y ago
Thanks. I appreciate the info and your explanations.
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Fair enough; it may just be how it looks from my vantage point as a non-Israeli. I should also have said "major voice" instead of "leading figure" but that might also be wrong. That said I watched him (on YouTube) give w
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This is opinion by Yuval Harari, who has become a public intellectual worldwide and maybe something of a leading figure in the current protests in Israel. Most FT readers will already be somewhat familiar with the situation in Israel so it&
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Israeli democracy is fighting for its life – Yuval Harari(ft.com)
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The footer: > "Why does our website look like this? At TI we believe we can change the world by displacing fossil hydrocarbon production at global scale. Like our website, our machines are simple so we can build millions of them as
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The accent was part of the show. They demonstrated how to create an accent from scratch: sample a voice in the accent's original language (हिंदी, français) and then have that voice read text in the target language (English). Voilà, a
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by malloryerik 3y ago
A very quick reply. Yes, I've read Julian Jaynes also, and have thought like you are thinking now. However I'm not sure how one would translate noos -- head? thoughts? feelings? Consider also that French, for example, has no wor

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