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by md224 8y ago
I'm trying to understand the NLUKY rules... I think I've almost got it, but one thing is throwing me off: if Conway's Game of Life is NLUKY 0,3,3,2,3, how does a cell's state get back to 0 from 1? Rule 3 means that when
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by md224 9y ago
Not sure what happened in this case, but I believe what you’re talking about is known as an Alford plea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alford_plea
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by md224 9y ago
The great thing about death is that you won’t experience it. You’ve never experienced non-existence before and you never will. Being dead is just not something you’ll ever have to deal with. This won’t be a popular view here, but lately I’v
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by md224 9y ago
When using Tor becomes illegal, then I'll know we're completely fucked. On a side note: it will be interesting to see if tighter government regulation has any impact on the popularity of the dark web.
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Super SloMo (2017)(people.cs.umass.edu)
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by md224 9y ago
Really curious how previous societies dealt with opioid misuse when opium and related products (e.g. laudanum) were far less regulated. I’m just confused why a substance that’s been a cornerstone of medicine for centuries (millennia?) is ca
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by md224 9y ago
I also have problems with falling into what I call “pleasure traps”... I like to envision my agency as movement along a landscape of discomfort, and I have a tendency to get sucked into steep local minima and have trouble getting out. I fin
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by md224 9y ago
That's true, but I intended my comment to apply more generally to products of any kind. I'll reword it.
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by md224 9y ago
But then what do they do? Cross their fingers and wait for some random researchers to take an interest in their product? Sure, if the product becomes popular then it might attract research, but what if barely anyone tries your product becau
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by md224 9y ago
I'm almost glad that the meth being sold is described as "pure"... I'm tired of hearing about deaths from heroin cut with fentanyl. Also: I would be interested to know if anyone has attempted to use a Desoxyn (pharmaceut
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by md224 9y ago
I have a different perspective: Twitter is a digital Public Sphere, and Public Spheres are always noisy. "Controversy" is just another name for clashes of opinions that have occurred since the beginning of humankind and will likel
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by md224 9y ago
The existence of true unconsciousness is clouded by a seemingly-impenetrable self-reporting problem: From the perspective of recall, unconsciousness is indistinguishable from a gap in memory. There is no way for a person to determine whet
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by md224 9y ago
It’s interesting that “fun” thoughts increased the delay while “sad” thoughts shortened it. This makes complete sense to me... the fun thoughts increased the momentary happiness of the participant, while the sad thoughts decreased it. The i
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by md224 9y ago
Umm... that’s a pretty remarkable finding... how is this the first time I’m hearing about this? Is their evidence considered too weak or speculative to challenge the currently accepted timeline? I thought we had this whole evolution thing (
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by md224 9y ago
I think we just have an unbridgeable gap of beliefs here: one of you believes that they are the ultimate author of their own words and actions, that their experience of making decisions should be taken as strong evidence that they are in
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by md224 9y ago
> I’ve been suicidal my whole life. That’s pretty intense. Have you tried medication or therapy? Or anything else?
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by md224 9y ago
My first thought was “What about including node_modules in your version control?” Downside is that the repo would be much larger, but if it’s going to expand to that size on the client after running “npm install”, maybe that’s not a big dea
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by md224 9y ago
I'm actually glad you posted this response, because it's a topic that needs to be addressed. I recently watched a video of a Columbine survivor giving a TED talk about emotional pain and addiction, and he said something along the
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by md224 9y ago
Over the last few years, due to personal events in my life, I've been thinking a lot about the relationship between drug addiction and emotional pain. Self-medication is a huge factor in drug use, and I hope everyone understands that.
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by md224 9y ago
Sounds kind of like ADD (or ADHD-PI, as it's now called)... do you find that coffee helps at all?
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by md224 9y ago
Just want to make a couple points: - I think everyone understands this, but it bears repeating: dopamine isn't the problem here, as it will be involved in any rewarding behavior. The real claim being made is that we have created techno
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by md224 9y ago
You really don't see why the example you gave above was marketing rather than engineering? All of the recommendations you gave were related to selling the product, not improving it. That's not a bad thing; it just means it was a m
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by md224 9y ago
Ugh, this is definitely a fear of mine. I'm 33, and the other day I realized that I'm one of the oldest employees of the startup I work at... older than my boss and possibly older than the founders themselves. It was a strange and
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by md224 9y ago
Reading this just reminded me how lucky we are to work in tech and have the ability to extract so much money out of the companies we serve. My girlfriend works as a copy editor at a major online news site (it's in the US top 100 on Ale
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by md224 9y ago
I think it's a really positive thing that people are able to leave reviews for drug purchases. In the absence of FDA regulation, a public reputation system incentivizes dealers to avoid harming their customers with dangerously-adultera
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by md224 9y ago
A general observation about online comments: when I read an article online and want to know what other people are saying about it, I have no easy & simple way to do so. If your blog has a comments section, that's great, but what ab
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by md224 9y ago
I'm 33 and I've definitely lost interest in drinking. I'll do it on occasion at social things, but I usually partake in very limited amounts. (My girlfriend is actually a little sad that she's never had a chance to see m
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by md224 9y ago
Curious what people think of Neutrino as a solution for Webpack's complexity: https://neutrino.js.org
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by md224 9y ago
It looks like they're purposefully grouping together front-end and back-end state management. Why do that when they often (if not always) serve different purposes?
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by md224 9y ago
Yet with a tweet, you can see all the reactions to a given fragment in one place.

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