matthewwiese

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by matthewwiese 8y ago
Thank you for the link to the Wikipedia page. Makes for good Sunday reading :) If am tracking everything right, then an (albeit simple) description of dependent origination is that we can't necessarily predict the unknown-unknowns of o
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
Very well put, and I agree with your general analysis. The question is: how exactly is this a "bad thing"?
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
Thank you for this information, this is going to be my next project.
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
Now that's something I'd love to read about! My only comparable experience was during my most recent co-op where I used an Asus C300 Chromebook running Gallium OS 2.1, and it served me quite well for the work I was doing. Althou
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
Didn't expect to see a PhilPapers link on HN! I liked your paper, definitely gave me something to chew on. I've never given much thought to attempting to falsify the simulation hypothesis in any meaningful way (on account of a gen
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
> This constitutes my life hack for decompression. Around 10-11 pm. Turn off everything. And focus your undivided attention on literature that has withstood the test of time. You will feel that anachronistic connection with others who ha
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
Journalist writes the obvious and gets credit for what the dissenters have known since the inception of "social media." Shocker. At least it's upvoted highly here on HN; gives me hope that more and more and catching on.
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
Even though the parent already replied to you, I'd like to clarify a mistake in your reading for others to learn from: "to fuck off" does not mean to slack or goof off. It refers to leaving some place (generally with an att
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
I adore the aesthetic! Absolutely smooth web design; top notch work Drew. Just registered and hope to familiarize myself with everything. This is one of the few "Show HN" projects I've felt compelled to actually try. Heck, I&
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
fair not faint as I hope most readers surmised -- for some reason I did not realize this error until it was too late to edit
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
What a bizarre comparison, albeit a novel rebuttal! I do think your argument rests too much on the typical assumptions/biases a human brings to the table given our experience in this specific time and place. See my reply to andrewflnr
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
Very faint point which I predicted the keen HN audience would be quick to contend. My reasoning to assume so is a wholly intuitive instinct that all ultra-high technology societies converge in their moral and ethical norms to a common limit
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
From a rational standpoint, I generally subscribe to the selection bias you (and Scriptor in a separate reply) raise as #1. However, for the sake of discussion, let's operate under the assumption these sightings are legitimate/not
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
Since we don't usually get UFO threads on Hacker News, I may as well brush the dust off my tinfoil hat... What's always puzzled me about UFO sightings is the preponderance of "bright lights" being what people report seei
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
And for another anecdote: Boston. The stops at Central and Kendall on the Red Line can be positively deafening at times. Almost as if my whole mind is shaking to its core and I'm about to be thrown into another reality. However, I&#x27
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
> penalyze I'm not usually one to point out spelling errors, but this mistake is so serendipitous given your usage of it. penalize + paralyze = penalyze? Somebody call up them Merriam-Webster folks!
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
My favorite of these types of bizarro QM communities is that of the "holographic fractal" universe. Nassim Haramein[1] being one of the popular figures of this movement. If you're willing to sift through the mysticism, the r&
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
One doesn't even need Snowden to know this. Given even a little reading of the IC's (intelligence community), and more specifically CIA's, history. What else do you think they do all day, if not for spying on other countries?
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
On the T here in Boston there is an ad that asks for donating your poop! After a simple Google search, I was able to find something indeed quite similar to what you thought up: https://www.openbiome.org/ -- a "stool&qu
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
A real-world example to support your comment that my civil engineer buddy recently told me: in Columbus, one of the main streets past Ohio State University into downtown is completely at sewage/rain water capacity. Decades ago when the
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
> I say no two words on Twitter can jail a man. What about "I confess"? :) Nevertheless, I think the spirit of your argument is mostly valid. Musk is doing the equivalent of Roosevelt's fireside chats. Granted, he should b
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
That reads more like a tautology than a genuine insight.
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
Here is a link to the PDF version of jarmitage's first link on fnins: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5021697/pdf/fni...
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
> Japan comes to mind as a hot spot for value I'd be interested in learning more about this, even if just for the sake of a hobbyist's fascination in stock markets outside of the U.S. Are there any resources you'd suggest
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
> Even at the time some part of me realized the absurdity of it. You've independently discovered a key diagnostic factor in OCD. :) What distinguishes OCD from, say, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, is that the sufferer of
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
You hit the hail on the head with your latter idea. At least in my case, it all comes down to the "feel" of the door being locked and shut; I yank the door around pretty violently some days if I'm especially stressed. At some
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
I'm appreciative of somebody who also has OCD writing an article like this detailing how the disorder isn't at all like the stereotype of a neat freak. What's funny is, I myself am actually a terribly messy person with books
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
I agree with you that it's uncharitable to call Christianity a cult when there are more obviously perverse religious/New Age groups that better align with the definition (at least for the sake of debate). However, I'm sure if
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
> Employee time and frustration they didn't come up short To add to this, back when I was a retail cashier in high school, there was also the threat of having too much money in the register . Either by negligence, due to miscountin
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
If you happen to remember, which of those Amiga books was the most useful to you? At the moment (well, for years really) I have been in a 6502 binge, but want to get into m68k programming as well (and the Amiga ecosystem specifically).

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