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by mekoka 5y ago
I've had to take my shoes off in a few other places, including in Ethiopia and a few places in S.E. Asia. But I confirm that the US takes things to a level beyond anything anywhere I've been, with some airports being worst than ot
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One may embrace and become more dedicated to a note taking practice after realizing how much useful information would've been lost had they not jotted down some notes. It stems from a deeper acknowledgment of the limitations of the min
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by mekoka 5y ago
Your questions have no readily available answers. Don't be suckered in by the occasional HN fever, which in this instance may manifest itself in asserting knowledge about type-II level technological challenges, from our pre-type-I mech
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by mekoka 5y ago
Somewhat. At a higher level being a stoic, gets you closer to the Buddhist mindset. Buddhism tends to differ in its acknowledgment that the active practice of stoicism (as a discipline) is still a pursuit, and thus still a means to assert c
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by mekoka 5y ago
Warning: Buddhism redox and incomplete ahead. The purpose of what I write is to whet your appetite and maybe spark an interest for a personal journey. I strongly advise and even recommend a proper introduction. I suggest D T Suzuki and Alan
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It's a Zen game he's playing with you :). The point is to let go, but letting go can also become a pursuit, in which case you're not really letting go. You're right about the paradox, you're possibility wrong about
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Buddhism, like any philosophy, is meant to be studied. I wouldn't assign to it what belongs to (mis)interpretation of its teachings. Even within Buddhist societies it's understood differently by different people, with many (most
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Melatonin also works in low dose. You don't need the popular 3mg pills. After nearly 20 years as a night owl and struggling to retrain myself to sleep at night, I finally managed when I followed the advice from this article https:&#x2
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You should look up DNA barcoding. We don't have an 84% barcode match with pigs.
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Respectfully, GF quite explicitly also dismissed the claim that it is agave. Meanwhile the article states that there is established scientific evidence that it is (probably the Sesalana species), in the form of an 89% DNA match, but more
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by mekoka 5y ago
I'm not sure that I get the point of your analogy. To be clear, I'm saying that genetic match supersedes any list of superficial attributes to determine identity. If it's established that X and Y are an 89% DNA match, even th
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In 2010, after a long anatomical study, they performed DNA barcoding on a slice of the snack and found it to match that of agave’s by 89 percent [narrowed] down to Agave Sisalana. [...] Next, they chopped off its leaves and there it was: t
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Once you start punishing players for dropping the ball, the game becomes to not receive the pass.
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Complex synergistic systems are notoriously challenging to understand. They can have multiple moving parts, with various intertwined causes and effects. But with our limited tooling, we often have to isolate a part from the whole to get but
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Identifying a phenomenon and its causes doesn't necessarily mean that you know how to address it. It's a common fallacy. Questioning prognostical conclusions and recommendations made based on not a single data point (we don't
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I think climate change and the human factor are very easy to accept. Although, some years ago after listening to Freeman Dyson on the topic, I became aware that acknowledging the phenomenon doesn't imply that we necessarily also know w
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It sounds to me like a measure of conformity, because surely you now have to choose from a set of recommended handwriting styles that are considered "acceptable". By straying out of the standards, you're risking the subjectiv
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Again, the current issue with psychedelics is not a debate on Drugs with a capital D. It's rather about the mischaracterization of psychedelics. Because of their mind altering properties, psychedelics are continually conflated with oth
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It's akin to envisioning profit models for open source software. They're out there, just keep looking.
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The issue with psychedelic is not (so much) about personal responsibility. It's very much about the wrongful classification of the drugs themselves based on how they tend to alter cognition and behavior. I don't mean any offense,
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Again, it might be best not to conflate logic and physics. Having different universes with different laws of physics is very conceivable to the mind. Logic is pure philosophy. It's an exercise in reasoning. No physical observation is r
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Black hole, quantum. Physics i.e nature, not logic.
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You've mostly described physics i.e. nature, not logic.
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Logic refers to its philosophical branch of study. The dichotomy is apt. Math is pure logic, meaning that you can be locked in a bunker for generations and keep discovering new laws. You can't do the same with physics. A mathematical o
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Can you conceive of a universe where the abstract quantity 1 added to another abstract quantity 1 does not equal the abstract quantity 2? How would that work? Edit: added the word abstract to make it clear that the context of the qu
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Miles Davis could be unforgiving in his critics, but I like to think that his ability to change his mind allowed artists he ripped apart to not take it personally. Take for instance his comments on Dolphy, who was by then already considered
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Citations desperately needed. What do you hope to communicate with this tirade ? You're basically saying I spewed out a bunch of things, some of it is true. Figure out which.
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by mekoka 6y ago
IDE vs Text editor. OOP vs Functional. Logger vs debugger. The holy wars that shouldn't be. Why can't we all be friends and accept that Vim is better than emacs.
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I sometimes have to go through an SSH tunnel simply to access some YouTube contents.
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Your comment (like a few others) reads as though you've discarded the possibility of some in the HN crowd having first-hand experience with unions. > HN is very consistently anti-union. I'd say HN is more consistently anti-bull

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