mellavora

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by mellavora 2y ago
Well, given the overwhelming emerging evidence of social attention and behavior in plants, and given that it makes evolutionary sense that "social attention" would provide a fitness advantage in any environment where there are oth
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by mellavora 2y ago
Yes, you just aren't as good at it as the octopus. Maybe if you practiced more?
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by mellavora 2y ago
It is hard to extend morality between species. The idea of parents sacrificing themselves for their children seems to resonate as highly moral, and is also a common pattern in biology. But how it plays out, from humans where the male can pr
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by mellavora 2y ago
except the mother has to care for her eggs until they hatch. So I guess we'd be fine only eating the males...
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by mellavora 2y ago
>Octopuses seem to have quite a bit of independent cognition in each of their arms, which are wrangled by the central brain. Yes, that's inherent in the design. All grey matter (optimized for local intercommunication), no white matt
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by mellavora 2y ago
Yes, but always remember the plural of applepus is apple pie
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by mellavora 2y ago
But not as cool as "Whales on Stilts"
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by mellavora 2y ago
with the exceptions that an intern is (hopefully) going to learn from their mistakes and improve
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by mellavora 2y ago
The promise of capitalism is to improve people's circumstances and thus make them happy. The promise of buddhism is to make people happy regardless of circumstances.
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by mellavora 2y ago
As someone who has lived both primarily outside and primarily inside, my preference for categories, for putting things in boxes, has a direct connection with my willingness to put myself in a box (i.e. a "room" in a "building
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by mellavora 2y ago
So there is some interesting research about brainwave syncing during effective communication, which certainly includes personalized instruction (tutoring) or small-class learning. I wonder how that works with computers, when we are only syn
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by mellavora 2y ago
Checksums! Bah, I used to have to code uphill both ways in the snow, and I liked it!
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The Costs of Housing Regulation: Evidence from Generative Regulatory Measurement(papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by mellavora 2y ago|1 comments
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by mellavora 3y ago
You mean "win the lottery" "twice"
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by mellavora 3y ago
> What I hate about Airbnb is all the hidden fees and ridiculous homework you have to do when leaving. Regulation could have gone to fix that but yeah here are some flying pigs! Airbnb could have gone to fix that. Why leave it to regulat
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by mellavora 3y ago
> there are people who own apartments in NY that couldn’t afford to live there if they weren’t able to earn some money from renting out their space on AirBnB. Yes, but also turning every apartment into a potential revenue source puts up
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by mellavora 3y ago
Don't know about NYC, but in the midwest there are hotels that specialized in providing construction workers a home away from home for 1-2 weeks. You get a bedroom and minimal kitchen for 125-150/night. It isn't luxury, but m
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by mellavora 3y ago
As a married guy, I see my wife's ring every day.
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by mellavora 3y ago
And I have a friend of a friend whose entire business is helping people sell wine for 20K a bottle and up. Emphasis on "and up" I also have a friendly relationship with a local wine shop, where I usually buy bottles for 10-15 buck
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by mellavora 3y ago
Cleansing the Doors of Perception by Hudson Smith.
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by mellavora 3y ago
Yes. I assume you mean the thoughtful person whose probing questions unlock and unblock everyone else. Lunchtime conversation is only one enabler of this. I suspect the person is Hamming, as he makes reference to this in his book The Art of
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by mellavora 3y ago
>New users wonder how to call functions. They form an intuition ("use parenthesis"), but it's unreliable. "Oh, parenthesis are optional--oh, parenthesis are only optional sometimes". print f"are you {sure} y
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by mellavora 3y ago
> So no matter how similar homeschooling will look to government-controlled schooling, people with power will never stop attacking it because of that crucial nuisance. Just like in Florida, where teachers now face felony charges for havi
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by mellavora 3y ago
Nothing gets past your professor. There, fixed it for ya
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by mellavora 3y ago
Nearly 3 Billion Birds Gone Since 1970 The first-ever comprehensive assessment of net population changes in the U.S. and Canada reveals across-the-board declines that scientists call “staggering.” All told, the North American bird populatio
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by mellavora 3y ago
I see how that works once your neighbors have your phone number, but what about that first introduction? > I've had neighbors come over to introduce themselves, some even with welcoming gifts when we bought the house and moved in.
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by mellavora 3y ago
Yes, the thing with Tolkien, is he was telling stories which are meant to be TOLD, as in oral, spoken out loud. To an audience which might be falling asleep, or minds drifting as they stare at the fire. That's part of his magic, and fe
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by mellavora 3y ago
Look, I'm at work and don't have time to dive deep into economic theory. If you read the source articles you'll see it has a 100 year plus history and is well grounded in basics of economics, in fact has more accurate base te
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by mellavora 3y ago
This is one more reason why we need to move to a single-tax system. No tax on labor, because we want more labor and you should keep what you make. No tax on capital, because we want more investment so that labor is more effective. Tax land.
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by mellavora 3y ago
Old schoolers lift metric. The bar is 20kg. The weights (pairs of each): 1.25 2.5 5 10 20 you might want some 25kg bumpers for deadlifts

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